Incisive analysis. History matters.

"committing to a strategy of aiming to satisfy the administration’s demands, even when unlawfully issued, the trustees have committed themselves to a strategic logic within which a Columbia president’s capacity to lead cannot be separated from" the whims of POTUS balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

The destruction of the future of science

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"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

There is some great stuff in this volume and no paywall! Take a look!

Another way the DOGE is not helping govt to work better

Been thinking about this a great deal lately . . .

Thanks for the facts

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

This is a critical argument. Limiting federal indirects to 15% will devastate science in the United States

Am aware of grad student who are no unable to complete dissertations because the youth risk behavior survey is down. These decision are compromising science today and into the future

I follow this site and the news about bird flu is terrifying. It's everywhere and growing

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

My fellow academics won't believe this, but I heard a version of these words several times at my faculty mtg today

A clip from the San Antonio Times grabbed from IG. Try to explain this one away

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Wish the media would talk more about this reality

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I don't read the NYT anymore, but this is worth reposting

Please don’t forget this. It’s why civil rights groups took so seriously the proliferation of hate speech on the platform in 2018 & 2019. And he would sit in our meetings wide-eyed like the Rohingya had not been massacred, and Muslims in India set upon after posts inciting violence on his platform.