#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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Time to write to these corporations and ask them why they are destroying our multi-religious history.
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
When students write "NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AT CORNELL" in chalk and Pres. Kotikoff deploys Cornell power washers within a couple of hours to eliminate any trace of this statement, this tells you everything you need to know about Mike Kotlikoff's "leadership style."
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Between murdering the Court, granting Trump blanket immunity to commit any crime, and ending the Voting Rights Act, it is difficult to identify any single individual who has done more to end the project that was American democracy than John Roberts.
White House as a money making machine.
There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter.
But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
EXCLUSIVE: Attorneys for Rep Jamie Raskin are asking appeals court to halt Trump Admin effort to vacate convictions of Jan 6 seditious conspiracy defendants
Raskin is trying to serve as firewall as Justice Dept & defense join forces to vacate the cases
The only president or major party candidate in half a century not to disclose his tax returns—who fought for years, at taxpayer expense, to keep them private, and lost—now wants the IRS to MORE THAN DOUBLE HIS NET WORTH at taxpayer expense as a part of the systematic pillaging he calls a presidency.
very interesting; this is something that folks have long suspected as a factor in the post-covid downturn in consumer sentiment and it is good to see the effect empirically documented
This is where the reports lack of discussion of recent history, as @fishkin.bsky.social pointed out in his superb thread, matters because it helps contextualize statistics like this.
The Trump administration continues its assault on federal science and scientists with its proposed FY27 budget, which would reduce the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget by 54%.
WE all know how stunningly & effectively (& DELIBERATELY) corrosive Citizens United has been to the American political & social landscape.
Most don’t.
I’m sure someone could BRIEFLY distill its effects; this is a COMPREHENSIVE distillation.
And it is UGLY.
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Because this kind of lunacy—pure lies to prop up the fossil-fuel system—started over a decade ago and elicited virtually no outrage from any mainstream media outlet (the opposite, in fact) it is clear that climate denial is what introduced disinformation into our political discourse.
This means…
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’
The political scientists Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch discuss Israel’s continued expansion into the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon.
open.spotify.com/episode/5GcZ...
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Text: ISA 2027 Research Workshop grants Submissions opening in May Image: blue box with text. Photo of a bookshelf. ISA logo
🌍 Coming soon: the call for ISA 2027 Research Workshop Grants. Submissions will open in May... more information to come! #ISA2027
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...
Mamdani came here with his family at the age of 7, legally. This kind of attitude is just vicious and un-American. It could easily be aimed at my family, or yours, if we dare to disobey our betters.
"Orbán's Hungary drove a top university campus into exile. JD Vance said it should be a model for the U.S." www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.
/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social
and neither can the private sector & private foundations
For social science: *63 percent* of all social and behavioral science research in the United States is funded by the NSF through the social, behavioral, and economic sciences directorate.
🚨New publication alert! 🚨 Social Science Quarterly: college students who receive a peer-led, short, in-class presentation about voting are 11 percentage points more likely to vote. Research done w grad and undergrad students at @scharschool.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”
A mother and her five children are hoping a federal judge releases them from immigration detention after being locked up for almost a year, an extraordinary length of time in custody for children.
A reminder— for most of the trump-vance era: vast majority of stuff you’ve read about or heard about re: the administration’s mass detention & mass deportation regime? The stuff that appalls you? Gotta keep in mind almost all of it you didn’t see live-streamed. The horrors go on behind closed doors…
