These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Kelly: And there are a lot of people in D.C. who’ve forgotten what this symbol truly means.
So I promise you—we will remind you every day.
You say you stand with veterans—then how can you justify the cuts you’ve made at the VA?
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
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Booker telling the story of his father's experience with Parkinson's and using it to speak about the importance of funding research on science and health.
Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.
New California bill wld create CA Institute for Scientific Research to fund studies in key areas facing budget cuts by Trump & DOGE (e.g., biomedical research, climate change, & drug safety).
Nice idea (British Columbia has a nice example), but big caveat: Sig. budget crunch in CA. 🛟🧪 Health policy
I don't see enough people or reporters talking about the mass terminations of nih lgbtq+ grants that happened yesterday. How can we get the word out so communities understand the huge loss to science, safety, and economy this is??
#academicsky
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
We see a lot of short term strategy talk around persuading voters, but this is the much harder long-term problem. A population that lacks the most basic understanding of how our government works cannot rationally govern itself.
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
After 27 years on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip gets another day in court to prove his innocence. Today’s decision by the Supreme Court is right, just, and fair: edition.cnn.com/2025/02/25/p...
This is a picture of my son taken soon after he was born. I suffered from a very rare pregnancy complication. But thanks to physicians at the University of Michigan and a lot of US funded research, he was born healthy. Please post, who has Science Saved for you? #WhoScienceSaves #MedSky
Graph titled: As jail incarceration rates increase, so do county death rates
The health, social, and economic harms of incarceration extend far beyond the people behind bars to their children, families, and entire communities
New data shows that as jail incarceration rates increase, so do county death rates
Mass incarceration is a public health crisis
My essay, "How Much Do Students Have to Study to Learn a Concept?" for The Teaching Professor is now freely available on ResearchGate.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Shameka “Meek” Hayes serves as a neighborhood commissioner in Washington, D.C., representing fellow incarcerated people. It’s not easy.
A professional headshot of a woman in a navy suit with long black hair.
I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.
Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.
I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.
What an immense loss
Includes all police investigations.Trump is expected to negate the DOJ consent decrees with the Minneapolis PD after the killing of George Floyd, and the Louisville PD after the killing of Breonna Taylor.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
If you have a cool idea you’re working on, today’s the day to get productive.
There will be time to get mad later.
Also new on the UVA Teaching Hub today is a collection curated by Samantha Chang (U. Toronto) on universal design for learning (UDL) and the syllabus. How can you design a syllabus that reduces learner barriers and welcomes learner variability? teaching.virginia.edu/collections/...
January can be an excellent opportunity to reset, but many fitness resolutions — like sculpting a six-pack or losing a lot of weight — can be unrealistic or unsustainable. This year, consider a fitness resolution that has nothing to do with how you look. Here are five ideas to get you started.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on Friday arguing that the Bureau of Prisons is flouting the law by detaining prisoners deemed to be at low risk of committing crimes again beyond their calculated release dates.
Covid has weak-to-no seasonality. These are Australian data but Canada is similar. Wandering peaks, not even close to zero in the dips. Yet Public Health is lumping it into "Respiratory Virus Season", along with flu. It's not seasonal, nor any reason to believe it ever will be.
One bad commutation produces ten thousand times the outrage of thousands of unnecessary incarcerations.
If you are chiming in only now, ask yourself why you are demanding perfection here, but not on those we lock up in our sadistic prisons?
Why does mercy anger you but cruelty does not?
