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Despite legal resident status and having been charged with no crime, our Georgetown colleague Badar Khan Suri has been designated a 'high risk' prisoner and for that reason gets only two hours of outdoor time PER WEEK. His traumatized son "cries all the time" and has ceased speaking.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

US based scientists are not ok.

This has been one of the most exciting research collaborations I've been part of! Our forthcoming article in Signs examines an emerging form of "feminism" that pursues gender equity through financial investment.

‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies | CNN A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies Tuesday, with some employees receiving early-morning emails saying their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when ...

CNN reporting that everyone who administers LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) has been terminated. The program provides about $4 billion to help millions of Americans with their heating and cooling bills.

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Bankers in the Ivory Tower Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America. Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while...

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Columbia’s Capitulation, and Wesleyan’s Pushback Today on TAP: Appeasing dictators only invites more of the same. More university presidents should know that.

Read this article comparing universities that cave to Trump, like Columbia, to universities that don't, like Wesleyan under the leadership of Michael Roth. Roth gets it.

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(The article is a week old, but I just saw it.)

Macedo and Lee's book "In COVID's Wake" has gotten the red-carpet treatment, mostly because it tells people what they want to hear: the pandemic wasn't so bad, we didn't need to respond in the way we did and the blame lies with the "experts." But in fact, this is agit-prop, not scholarship.

cannot stress how much the DOGE experience has proven this wildly true. coding and quant skills in a vacuum can be useful, but if you combine that with domain expertise you can really get stuff done.

without domain expertise you'll probably just fuck it up.

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Hospitals | KFF We explain the role of Medicaid for hospitals, including how much spending on hospital care comes from Medicaid, the share of births covered by the program, and how Medicaid expansion has impacted hos...

Federal cuts to #Medicaid could have implications for hospitals - check out new brief: www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

“People will die,” said Dr. @ckyobutungi.bsky.social, ED of @aphrc.bsky.social, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
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CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies More than 1 in 10 of the health agency's workers are being let go, including an entire new class of CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officers.

"In all, around 1,270 are being let go from the agency out of 2,800 probationary workers. The cuts amount to around 1 in 10 of the CDC's staff." www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-dis...

Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.

Surprised I haven’t gotten this already

Students are ❤️ing and ‼️ing my Outlook emails. Is this the new normal?

Jared Polis, my former student, challenges Democrats to support RFK Jr. on some policies (like drug prices), while opposing RFK Jr on vaccinations. Jared, here’s the problem: Under Trump, challenges to corporations are likely to die. Under RFK’s vaccination policies, people are going to die

Just hit my out of pocket maximum with a month to spare. About to commit a hideous amount of moral hazard.

Today is transgender day of remembrance. GLAAD defines this as "an annual observance on 11/20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence." Our transgender colleagues, friends, students, family members need us to stand up for them.