🧵 (1/7) What a great think piece on the conservative obsession with suffering and conflict — especially in light of the “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” logic behind the new tariffs.

NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...

the present shortcoming is not that people protesting are cringe it's that there isn't presently a mass commitment to the kind of action that would force regime change. that isn't a criticism, just an observation. these things take time. and with time all things are possible.

New horrific footage shows that Israel lied through its teeth about its massacre of paramedics and rescue workers. But still Western media outlets will keep treating Israeli lies as credible. Accessories to genocide 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lie...

When you realize you aren't alone and lots of people are mad, it makes it easier to speak up! Also sometimes you get new ideas.

CHICAGO…

Good call.

discussing the reality of Trump is hard because despite everything that has happened, if you talk about the reality of what geopolitical order and American politics look like, no one actually believes it

www.nature.com/naturecareer... UBC LSI Job!!

In a move that *should* be precedent-setting for other scholarly organizations, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) announces that this year’s conference will be held concurrently at sites in the US and Canada and online due to the dangerous US political climate.

Regular, non-expert people can maybe be forgiven for thinking we'd get a redux of the first administration. But nobody who fancies themselves a thought leader should have expected that. This was a consistent theme during the election: no guardrails this time.

Other fact-based ways to frame these attacks are: a) part of an ongoing GOP war against higher ed because they view it as a hostile institution b) an authoritarian breaking any venues of dissent. Going with the Trump framing is a choice to support the war and give credence to the authoritarian.

wokeness was keeping the economy afloat. wokeness kept planes in the air. wokeness kept us all safe

True. Also true that a lot of Americans burned things the last five years. Our militarized police attacked them and I believe there are credible accounts of assassinations.

Excellent critique of childhood development interventions: "The privileged of Global North & South can find solace in the idea they have little responsibility for inequality. If bad childcare & poor brain development are major contributing factors to poverty, then it's parents’ job to overcome it"

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.

Don't know about other cities but in Seattle, this is the first winter since 2020 that fewer people have died of COVID than the flu (it's been a really nasty flu season!) kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/...

resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/living-wit... Highly recommend this essay and the 1964 Hannah Arendt lecture it references, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

Started/Going. Two infants died of pertussis in Louisiana, where last month the state’s surgeon general banned health department staff from encouraging vaccination.

When traveling, or otherwise expecting potential encounters with law enforcement: Locking your phone with a long, strong pin code, turning off biometrics like Face ID is a strong contender for the one change the average person can make to vastly improve their personal digital security situation.

imagine having enough money to where you could part with and donate this much money to sway the entire political ecosystem. pure evil

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

There is this really interesting phenomenon that happens in science communication where the updating of ideas is see as breaking the trust in science rather than a commitment to being accurate

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

"While much of the discourse surrounding college campuses has revolved around Ivy League colleges, virtually all the cases Zeteo reviewed occurred at state schools across the country."

"SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge" “Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students. @premthakker.bsky.social latest shocking exclusive for Zeteo:

*taps mic* please for the love of all that is holy and good in the world, stop announcing to everyone that "NO ONE IS PRO ABORTION." YOU'RE WRONG. I AM. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE. ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. I'M PRO HEALTH CARE. I'M PRO CHEMO. I'M PRO BUTTERFLY STITCHES. STOP SPREADING STIGMA.

The Trump regime will round you up off the street and arrest you because you spoke your mind. And federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it. It's fascism. Call it what it is.

An article that makes you sick to your stomach.

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

"Everyone is fair game." More than 300 students have apparently had their visas revoked in the 'Catch and Revoke' program for their solidarity with the right of Palestinians to exist. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...

"Grants are getting killed “without any scientific input anywhere. It is purely political,” said a member of a senior NIH leadership team. “The science in this country is going to be destroyed if you can change what the priorities are going to be every four years. You can’t do science that way.”"

Nutrition Funding Cuts Could Claim 369K Young Lives This Year www.forbes.com/sites/daphne...

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

This is straight Nazi shit

Reminder for Louisiana voters: there is an election on March 29. It’s got some shady-ass state constitutional amendments. Vote NO on ALL, y’all. I can drag up some citations & explainers if ya want. But GO VOTE against the shit Landry et al are trying to slide into a historically low-turnout time.

it is VERY important that anyone who lives in wisconsin votes for crawford for wisconsin supreme court on april 1st. wisconsin is only just starting to recover from the damage of the scott walker era and this would help solidify a new era in the state

"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'" Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...

Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*." Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.

We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...

🚨CALL FOR POSTERS🚨 Last days for you to apply, and attend, the 12th EconBio Workshop on “Sex Differences in Human Life History Evolution”! Just send your CV+abstract+cover letter before March 31 to [email protected] More info in www.iast.fr/conferences/... @ehbea.bsky.social

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

📈GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability Read this OA study on WBT & b/feeding patterns in relation to maternal work - at the intersection of climate change and maternal & child health @bioanthmags.bsky.social @kstark8.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...