LaKisha Simmons

very excited to learn that the constitution allows the federal government to disappear people to foreign gulags beyond the reach of any judicial remedy

I suppose he’s never heard of the CHIPS Act or Inflation Reduction Act.

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

In times of political defeat and civic annihilation, Black history/feminism directs us to nonetheless make space for recognition, critical thought, and even celebration. We will do so next month in honor of Michele Mitchell’s scholarship at the University of Michigan. lsa.umich.edu/history/news...

They are literally doing what they said they would in project 2025. 😢

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Um no.