Roberto Weber

This is the whole ball game, gang.

Maybe a good start is to have serious discussions about what one can do... I honestly don't know the answer. In normal circumstances, mobilizing to effect change via elections would be the most productive way. But I worry that the US is dangerously close to not being that kind of country anymore.

But unless you are "full MAGA," and willing to live in subservience to Trump and his cronies, ignore science and reality, and support the targeting of marginalized groups, then they will eventually find an excuse to come after you as well.

What scares me most is how many people and institutions seem to believe that if they keep their heads down and go along for now, they will be ok.

Anyone living in the US should be horrified by the administration's use of government power & threats to target people whose opinions they don't like. They may be going after comedians for now, but if you think you are safe in your academic, corporate, or journalistic job, you are fooling yourself.

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These are exactly the kinds of students we should be hoovering up and then convincing to stay and work/found their companies here.
Even Trump has said so. But this is what happens when you outsource your immigration policy to Stephen Miller, who hates immigrants more than he loves America.

A brave and powerful statement. More people need to speak up about what they are seeing, rather than keeping their heads down and hoping that the administration's ill-informed and spiteful destruction of American institutions will somehow stop when confronted only with silence.

How much does it cost to train National Guard members . . .? That's "government efficiency" at work.

It's pretty simple: dark skin/hair & foreign-sounding name = "gang-banger" & "terrorist"

Of course. The Federal Government will next take a 10,000-percent stake in the Trump Organization . . .

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The U.S. government is greatly expanding a militarized force to persecute immigrants and building prisons in which to detain them. But what happens once they have deported all the "illegals"? Do they just fire all the new ICE officers and close the new prisons? If not, who do they go after next?

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Wow . . . At what point do we not even need to see the Epstein files to have a good idea of Trump's involvement?

Congratulations, Maite!

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Congratulations to Simona, a great researcher doing excellent work!

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That is *exactly* why people need to turn out and protest . . .

MACO?

I think it is critical to get out and protest on June 14 (www.axios.com/2025/06/07/n...), as loudly and visibly as possible. That is the day Trump wants to be celebrated and to lord over "his" armed forces. Americans need to show that it is not that kind of country . . .

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I know it's just one graph and a single measure, but . . . wow . . .

Is expressing fear of "increasing transience" the new quiet way to say that you don't want non-white people in your neighborhood?

Any bets on how long until this happens under the Trump / Hegseth DOJ?

Congrats, Erin!

I think there is a comma missing from the NYT headline. It should read, “Justice Dept. to Use False Claims, Act to Pursue Institutions Over Diversity Efforts.”

It's a government by the con-men for the con-men . . . I'm sure it won't be the last pardoned criminal to be appointed to represent the US under Trump . . .