More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

WSJ - Federal economists and researchers responsible for measuring hunger in America are placed on indefinite paid leave. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/usda-puts-food-researchers-on-leave-ef287cd7

being ignorant of a thing, doesn't mean that thing doesn't exist.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Ansari and Stanton - both relatively liberal Democrats who represent two of the most solidly blue districts in Arizona - voted for this resolution.

It's so far from their reality to imagine a person could 1) have political views and 2) put aside their political preferences to do a job with professional integrity

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

I found a phrase that is resonating with my Intro Geosci and lab students this semester: It’s not about “right answers” in our labs, it’s about “reasonable answers” based on evidence. They’re taking a lot more chances and seem to be even more engaged than usual.

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

The wildest part of watching the hearings this week is seeing exactly how unbelievably professional and calm former CDC Director Monarez is in comparison to these joker men (Patel & RFK jr) who are angry, irrational, and demonstrably unqualified for their positions.

Not only was the murderer not "radicalized" by a university, American universities and their commitment to free speech regularly gave Kirk a huge platform & accommodated throngs of his MAGA followers

The GOP was never against federal overreach, activist judges, or big government. They were against anything they perceived as liberal govn’t. They are totally fine with activist judges & federal government limiting state & individual rights when it’s in service to a right wing agenda. We’re cooked.

It's hard to imagine why a university (or any organization for that matter) would agree to this. In addition to undercutting their entire mission and autonomy, if Trump's administration gets this now, what will they ask for next?

New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

How does one prove they are a US citizen at a stop? We don't have national IDs, 55% of Americans don't have passports (those who do aren't carrying them around) & even fewer have a valid copy of a birth certificate on hand.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

If you're in Arizona, it's available. Register online, tick "high risk" box. Make appointment. Once on site, pharmacist will tell you an Rx is required. Don't go to the pharmacy, go to the "CVS Minute Clinic" (not the pharmacist, the clinician). With insurance, it's free as of today.

The fact that Heritage is not willing to take an official position on the question of gender IQ differences tells us exactly what their position is!

meanwhile he's destroying any attempt to take sunshine and wind and turn it into electricity to empower Americans!

Cruz, Abbott, and DeSantis are fully committed to destroying any pubic program that protects or helps ALL children learn, be healthy, and prosper. How does one wake up every morning so full of hatred - and then decide to act upon that hatred?

SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?” RFK JR.: “Absolutely.” SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.” RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻‍♂️

The whole piece is terrific but the concluding paragraphs really nail it

Raskin: "When private comments made by federal employees are scrutinized for anti-Trump bias and they can lose their jobs because of it, then we've entered the realm not just of Vladimir Putin but Joseph Stalin."

This is their goal. Project 2025 isn’t about a smaller administrative state, it’s about making the administrative state an arm of a political party - an increasingly white Christian nationalist conservative party.

Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future:

Vaccines have been the foremost breakthrough in medical history Not of this year Not this decade Not this century Vaccines are the foremost medical breakthrough in history

AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

My heart goes out to these feds at the CDC. How are they supposed to continue to serve the public when their boss wants the public dead? When they aren't protected from physical violence in their workplace? Public health should be the solution to health misinformation, not the cause

Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying

With the worst of hurricane season still ahead, Trump and his cronies’ dismantling of FEMA has gutted the agency’s ability to respond to disasters and keep people safe. These brave FEMA employees tried to sound the alarm, so naturally Trump is punishing them. Beyond shameful.

📌We are now 24 hours into learning Trump's DOGE potentially put 300 MILLION people's private information at risk -- or worse, made this information available to bad actors, for profit. 📌Why -- WHY GODDAMMIT -- isn't this getting the attention it deserves? 📌WE ARE AT RISK FROM OUR GOVERNMENT.

Who needs to govern, when we can spend all our resources on responding to fictional urban threats, vacation planning for the VP, renovating the White House, and designing websites?

They treated the Provisional ATO like a blank check. DOGE is now "holding a copy of the American public's social security data in a potentially unsecured cloud environment." This is illegal under a federal law called FISMA. Everyone I know in government takes this law very seriously, except DOGE.

Same experience that me and my colleagues at 18F had with Musk's people. Like the SSA staff, we warned DOGE that the things they were trying to do violated FISMA and the Privacy Act. They weren't "innovative ideas," they were crimes. DOGE went ahead and did the crimes.

Can’t begin to describe how relevant my Intellectual Foundations of Public Administration course feels right now. I’m teaching about bureaucracy, governance, civil service, expertise, public value, democracy & ‘government in action’ harder than I’ve ever taught before.

The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.

Rather than lecture students on why we shouldn't use AI for our assignments, I'll be opening our PhD seminar today with an in-class reading. But first, I'll feed this into ChatGPT for a short summary!

Wait till he learns about catalytic converters!

With a mere a fraction of the estimated $3.4 billion in profit Trump and his family are making off the American people & the executive office, he could easily address homelessness in DC

It's possible to simultaneously 1. Support Newsom's attacks on Trump 2. Not want Newsom as a presidential candidate in 3yrs There are loads of folks I don't want for POTUS, but I definitely want them ALL defending our democracy & actively attacking the current regime NOW

My deepest hope is that after redistricting, the TX GOP loses seats because voters are suffer under GOP policies - abysmal women's healthcare, unjustly deported workers, border chaos, loss of medicare/medicaid, ⬆️ housing costs, ⬆️ inflation, ⬆️ consumer costs b/c of tariffs + anger about Epstein files

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

As someone who grew up surrounded by oil derricks & refineries and now lives in a place with open pit mines, when these folks complain about solar panels & wind turbines being ugly I want reporters to ask them to describe the beauty of their preferred energy source

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.