This post and podcast from the substack Eating in America is on the giant Food and Drug Administration loophole that allows the food industry to put toxic food on our plates without oversight or even our knowledge. Its really outrageous. substack.com/@ricbayly/no...

Eating in America is a great new substack on our food system and environment, from what is in the food we eat to what is being done to keep it safe and healthy. You can read Eating in America and subscribe at eatinginamerica.substack.com

Translation for non-scientists. The major funder for cancer research in the world is now only funding proposals that score in top 4 percent. They’re funding roughly 2/3 fewer proposals than they had in recent years. I suspect the funding line has actually never been this low.

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

Pope Francis was a good man. I had the honor to meet him at a Vatican conference on climate change. He led the way on two issues I care deeply about: support for migrants and addressing climate change. The world feels even heavier today without his leadership.

I also signed this brief. It is an excellent summary of the research on the benefits of birthright citizenship.

Our paper on the politics of Census Bureau technology argues that Clinton's radical downsizing of the federal workforce led to a loss of expertise that had taken decades to build, massive outsourcing to the private sector, and an explosion of costs. academic.oup.com/jah/article/...

Bernie Sanders: "If you do nothing, you sit back and say, 'it's gonna be terrible.' And that's right. A shutdown will be terrible. But our job is to put the onus on the Republican president, the Republican House, the Republican Senate, the people who control the govt"

📌 Please join us for the next Immigration Seminar Series event, on TU 3/18, 4:15-6:15pm EST, with Prof. Mary Waters, who will talk about "Climate Change and Migration: Challenges and Opportunities." You can attend the talk in person at the CUNY Graduate Center or online. Register: bit.ly/MaryWaters

One of my earliest memories is of being very sick with the measles when I was 5 years old in 1963. My mother told me it was right before the vaccine was available. In 2025 a child has died from measles and others are suffering because of ignorance and deliberate anti-science propaganda. Shameful.

Democrats: Empty libraries, gymnasiums, lecture halls, anywhere. Book the space and dare these pathetic House Republicans to show their faces. Share this if you agree.

Today, “Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and ‘will end badly.’” apnews.com/article/pope...

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love. I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

In a functioning democracy, a President who pardoned a mob that assaulted the Capitol while trying to overturn the election, and who then fired the prosecutors who put them behind bars, would be removed from power.

This guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace tells me faculty have been preparing for this their whole lives, especially training in faculty meetings. Some of the advice:

This is what standing up to ICE looks like

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

As we’ve seen repeatedly since 2015, the US media & political leadership are wholly incapable of adequately handling creeping authoritarianism. Normalizing at every turn, taking the “high” road, engaging in pathological bothsidesism. They continue believing it couldn’t happen here. It’s happening.

Just felt an earthquake in Cambridge MA. I havent felt anything like that since I lived in Berkeley CA

The brilliant Theda Skocpol on what to do next. newrepublic.com/article/1905...

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

My graduate student Saul Ramirez has been studying people who have been deported to Mexico. He has a terrific op ed in today's LA Times. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

I have a new article just published on climate migration in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. It is available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Turning this around, here are free speech problems with universities that Fire has ranked in its top 10 for free speech. Texas A&M: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-demise... Michigan Tech: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-survei... Florida State: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/an-assault...

I have been a professor at Harvard since 1986, through the presidencies of Derek Bok, Neil Rudenstine, Larry Summers, Derek Bok (again), Drew Faust, Larry Bacow, Claudine Gay, and Alan Garber. I knew them all. Only one of them was an asshole. Summers.

I have not seen posts from Harvard faculty weighing in on Claudine Gay so for what it is worth, here is one faculty opinion. I have been a professor here since 1986. She was, by far, the very best dean of Arts and Sciences we have ever had. She was fair, collaborative and yet decisive. 1/n

This is the best analysis of what is happening at Harvard. This is part of an orchestrated movement against higher education by operatives on the right.

The Pope's new encyclical on Climate Change is terrific. I hope it makes a difference. www.vatican.va/content/fran...