Elizabeth Andrade

U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:

700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start

Combined.

Posting this to remind everyone to make some noise about this shadow docket case. Also, follow @safa-science.bsky.social if you aren't already.

poll after poll shows that Trump's big bill is very unpopular

Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025

NEW: Senate bill would mean a $3.3 trillion deficit increase over a decade, per CBO estimate www.cbo.gov/publication/...

1,500+ at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.

Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up. Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.

Trump’s immigrant threat has played out like Bush’s WMD threat. Media played up the fear. Now he can’t find them (violent gang members) and is deporting children with cancer instead. People are slowly realizing they were lied to.

Republicans are racing to pass perhaps the most expensive bill in history, adding TRILLIONS to the debt, by trashing Senate rules.
 
Don’t EVER tell me we can’t afford to invest child care after we set trillions on fire to give tax breaks to billionaires who don’t need them.

They stand to benefit from the bill and they don’t have the balls to stand up to Trump because he’s a sick f.

Let’s be very clear: even if you are not a Medicaid recipient, cuts to the program will impact you.

Without Medicaid funds, rural hospitals, maternity wards, and nursing homes will be shuttered.

Having private health insurance won’t do you much good when there’s nowhere to go.

Opinion | Will America’s National Parks Survive Trump?

Will America’s National Parks Survive Trump? He plans to close 350 of our parks, monuments and historic sites
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WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget.

Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

Trump administration to prioritize ‘patriotic Americans’ for federal jobs Applicants for government jobs will be required to write essays explaining how they will advance President Donald Trump’s policy priorities.

Federal employees don't serve a single president and shouldn't have to pledge loyalty to an individual. We swear to defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The COUNTRY is where our loyalty resides.

The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students.
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Do international students crowd-out or cross-subsidize Americans in higher education? ighlights • Examines the impact of international students on domestic enrollment in U.S. graduate education • On average, exogenous inflows of international students increase domestic enrollment • Positive effects are due to cross-subsidization–high net tuition revenue from international students helps offset the costs of enrolling additional domestic students https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272717301676

People have actually studied whether international students cross subsidize domestic students. And they do! If 20% of your student body is paying full price, and many of domestic students are not, there is a cross-subsidy, one that allows the university to hire more faculty and open more spots.

Unbelievable!
Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware.
#OnYourSide

A photo of one of the devices used by ICE agents in South Park this afternoon. It is a palm-sized explosive device that emits a loud flash, a bang, and a cloud of smoke.

ICE was here in San Diego today and they flash banged a crowd of civilians on the street.

The American people did not vote to destroy US science and disease cure research.

If this were a parliamentary system, we’d be having snap elections now and Trump would be defeated. In the US system the only legal option for removal is impeachment.

“It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s [DOGE] henchmen stole all data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.”
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And again, the public doesn’t understand this, because no one is out in public explaining it:

The lawsuits are great to fight the illegal impoundment, but the second there's an actual federal budget passed through Congress that looks like this, it's all over for American higher education.

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at Politics and Prose in Washington DC for #ScienceUnderSiege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World on October 2 at 7pm politics-prose.com/mann-hotez #PublicAffairs #Hachette

We were learning how new technologies could improve mobility for communities. We were gaining insights on what transportation investments work best where. We were asking research questions that hadn't been asked before.

Wild to see it all reduced to "woke research."

Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it Remember the Governor of Maine.

When famously squaring off with President Donald Trump over education funding, Mills said she would see Trump in court. She did just that, and on Friday she won a settlement for her state, for the kids and for people everywhere who needed to see a certain asshole bully get punched right in the eye.

And So It Begins: Aetna/CVS pulling out of ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire via Bruce Japsen at Forbes, the first shoe has dropped: CVS Plans To Exit Obamacare In 2026, Affecting 1 Million Aetna Members CVS Health plans to exit the individual health insurance business also kn...

🚨🚨🚨 AND SO IT BEGINS:

Aetna/CVS pulling out of #ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire:

h/t @brucejapsen.bsky.social

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As recently as a decade ago, a majority of Republicans said they had “a great deal or quite a lot of confidence” in higher education, according to a Gallup poll. This share was down to 20 percent last year. Trust in higher education also declined among Democrats. This is a tragedy, because we need fact- and science-based policymaking for topics such as public health and climate change, artificial intelligence and economics.

graph showing collapsing support for higher education

"As recently as a decade ago, a majority of Republicans said they had “a great deal or quite a lot of confidence” in higher education." And that trust has collapsed. Very true. Now, either the behavior of faculty changed dramatically about a decade ago, or something changed in American politics. 🤔

Attacks on Judges Undermine Democracy, Warns Ketanji Brown Jackson Speaking to a judicial conference, the Supreme Court justice said attacks were designed to intimidate and influence.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."

RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’

One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

FDA chief says they're looking at whether to approve COVID shots for next winter FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said there is a "void of data" on the COVID booster shots.

More evidence that RFK Jr. and Makary are not going to permit the FDA to approve new COVID19 vaccines for the US this fall. This is unconscionable. People will die because of this. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-cov...

Fantastic work from @scott-delaney.bsky.social & @noamross.net to preserve a record of the science that has been stolen from the American people by our own President.