Jeffrey Weiser

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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

This is absolutely right on every point and everyone who sits on a governing board or serves as president or provost or similar should please make the time to read it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

“Conservatives hope that Mr. Kirk’s death will help cement both conservative and conservative Christian values in American life for decades to come.” Gift article

Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government

😱😳 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

The authoritarian checklist It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy

New, from me:
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
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RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are canceling vaccine development for bird flu and other dangerous diseases - an action which puts us and our kids in danger.

Goodbye, Washington Post "A swirl of terrified excitement" for 18 years, 5 months and 16 days

Elegant resignation letter from @jonathancapehart.bsky.social.
Lots of departures, but his is one of the biggest blows to the Washington Post.

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I think the word "Nazi" is quite overused these days, but demanding a list of people who attended an event at which speech about and by people the Florida regime clearly considers undesirable is....some real Nazi-ass shit.

Robert Wilson estate announces his passing today.

A big one. RIP, Robert Wilson. Responsible for many hours of mine spent at BAM over the years. Even when unsatisfying dramatically, always stunning and haunting to watch. A truly unique aesthetic, one that will forever be instantly identified as only his.

Opinion | Juan Crow Is Back With a Vengeance

"The policies of this administration reinstate an era in which the rights conferred to all people in the United States by the Constitution are subject to a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race, ethnicity or assumed immigration status."

Call this fascism Juan Crow.

Madness. Sadness.

Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies.

The downsizing of the National Weather Service and the NOAA appears to be part of an effort to privatize the work of such agencies.

In several instances, the companies poised to step into the void have deep ties to people tapped by Trump to run weather-related agencies. apnews.com/article/trum...

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.

Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Opinion | Roll Back Legal Same-Sex Marriage? Republicans Are Getting It Wrong.

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Trump accelerates push to reward loyalty in federal workforce Many critics say the administration is scrapping a nonpartisan, merit-based civil service in favor of a biased, politicized system.

“The administration also unveiled a plan to require job applicants to write short essays describing how they plan to advance Trump’s priorities.” wapo.st/4l7nGiY

National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’

Outrageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/c...

YouTube video by CBS The 78th Annual Tony Awards® | Gypsy Performance | CBS

Wow youtube.com/watch?v=MZ1o...

Southern Baptists to Vote on Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage

Southern Baptists plan to vote this week on acting to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage 10 years ago this month. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Is This the Best the Democrats Can Do? Recent comments from Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries suggest that the party’s leaders are ill suited for the moment.

Is This the Best the Democrats Can Do? newrepublic.com/article/1961... via @newrepublic.com

YouTube video by Todd Lampe - PrecipiceProductions June is bustin' out all over - Leslie Uggams

Happy June! youtube.com/watch?v=9XsV...

Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine

“The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

Here was yesterday’s other highlight, doing physical therapy with a splayed-leg blue jay, helping him “walk” to build strength in his legs.

Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People

"For Mr. Trump, white people are the true victims; Black people and minorities have received an unfair advantage in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Trump and GOP’s tax bill would force cuts to Medicare, CBO says Some $500 billion in cuts to Medicare could be avoided if Congress instructs the White House budget office to disregard the reconciliation package’s debt impact.

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ mammoth tax and immigration bill would add so much to the national debt that it could force nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare beginning in 2026, Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper reported late Tuesday. wapo.st/4k5Gi2A

The Red Scare Still Haunts America newrepublic.com/article/1949...

The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial

"The American retreat from climate action has made the United States a global outlier. Nearly every other government has recognized that a hotter planet poses a profound threat to humans and ecosystems. Not the Trump administration…" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...