Another court order that Trump is now openly defying. Republicans in Congress assured us repeatedly that Trump would never defy a court order. It is obvious that he simply doesn’t care though after the Supreme Court gave him immunity.
Harvard rejects Trump administration’s demands with federal funding at risk.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.
https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It
Veterans are 6% of the adult population but 30% of the federal workforce (they get preference in hiring).
Which means Trump and Musk are already firing thousands of people who put their lives at risk for their country, many with disabilities they acquired in their service.
After the Trump Admin lobbies to get the alleged sex trafficking Tate brothers’ travel restrictions lifted to come to FL, Desantis is mad and says nobody notified him and his AG is looking at their legal options.
The US is a sanctuary for rapists/sex traffickers. After the Trump administration pressured Romania to lift travel restrictions, the Tate brothers have landed in Florida.
In other news, six states have proposed legislation to charge women who have abortions with homicide.
“At least Russia has elections”
Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999.
If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
A notecard with the prompt, "What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?" The handwritten statement below says, "My momma’s ashes were displayed on my table in my tent. I came back one day — and EVERYTHING was gone, including her ashes. They were clearly labled 'In loving memory — my mom, my best friend…' and her name. Her ashes were all that I had left of her. No one stored my stuff. I called tons of places and NO ONE knew anything. It is very difficult for me still, everyday. No warning, no remorse, nothing."
When cities clear homeless encampments, workers often take people’s belongings — including important documents, survival gear and irreplaceable mementos.
Over and over, people across the U.S. told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses: https://propub.li/3WScD3g
Don't confuse being a fast talker with being a deep thinker. Speaking quickly signals confidence, not complexity.
Don't mistake volume for expertise. Speaking loudly reflects conviction, not credibility.
Sometimes the best ideas come from the least assertive voice in the room.
RFK saying that “Blacks” have better immune systems and shouldn’t get the same vaccines as white people should be disqualifying. But we live in really dumb times.
In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪
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Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023
(above an image of the White House) WHAT IS THE OMB? (OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET) The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is responsible for putting together the president's budget and ensuring the federal government executes the White House's agenda.
(next to an image of Congress) WHAT DOES THE OMB DIRECTOR DO? The OMB director has immense power over federal agencies. In addition to serving as the president's watchdog for the entire Executive Branch and managing the implementation of federal regulations and executive orders, the OMB director also coordinates with Congress on the White House's budget priorities.
(next to an image of Russell Vought) WHO IS TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR OMB DIRECTOR? Russell Vought-Trump's OMB director for the last two years of his first term. After Trump's loss in 2020, Vought became the architect of Project 2025 - MAGA extremists' plan to transform the federal government into a tool of white Christian nationalism and political revenge. Vought supports nationwide abortion abolition and massive cuts to life-saving programs like Social Security and Medicare. He's also vowed to push unconstitutional spending schemes to get Trump's agenda
(above an image of an arm holding up a megaphone) WHAT CAN I DO? Vought still needs to be confirmed by at least 50 senators before he can become OMB director. The final vote for Vought's nomination is expected this week. Contact your senators and tell them to vote NO on Trump's dangerous pick for OMB director. INDIVISIBLE.ORG/OMB
You probably haven’t heard a lot about the OMB, but it has immense power over federal agencies — and Trump is trying to put the architect of Project 2025 in charge.
Must read for USG employees who received "fork in the road" email:
Why #Trump admin's "deferred resignation" offer for #federal employees is legally dubious.
By seasoned labor & employment attorney specializing in federal workforce issues Suzanne Summerlin.
www.justsecurity.org/107094/defer...
Jim showing "your neighborhood" before and after DEI, and the DEI neighhborhood is destroyed. Musk says "True"
Elon Musk showing very clearly how he feels about Black people, and what he really is aiming for: white only towns, and full on apartheid. He must miss his youth.
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. …Once a single faculty of your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to the same fate.” -Voltaire, 1765
President Trump's pause on foreign aid led to the suspension of flights for over 40,000 Afghans approved for special US visas and at risk of Taliban retribution reut.rs/4h9mUAs
Musk's support for AfD has helped what was once a fringe political party enter the mainstream, lifting it up in front of a global audience.
This. This is what overthrew the elite enslavers in the 1859s and the robber barons in the 1890s. We need these new papers everywhere.
President Trump on Wednesday revoked a 60-year-old executive order banning discrimination in hiring practices in the federal government, his latest action aimed at gutting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. nyti.ms/4hrnXeJ
Sometimes it's shoots. Sometimes it's ladders.
Why does #PriorAuth make us play games in order to get medications for our patients?
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
After a fairly fraught week I just want to take a moment to take a moment to say that IMO violence and the taking of a human life is almost always morally wrong. However, I think there is also a message that everyone should hear: 1/
A post about domestic partnerships being about one partner constantly bugging the other to urgently look at their pet despite having seen the pet 5 min prior
According to this new study, our paper is among the 1% of environmental psychology papers that engaged with the role of racism in the 55-year history of two of the large journals. Those journals published 4,500 papers in that time; only 45 mentioned racism. 1/n.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
