Marianne Cooper

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

The Trump Administration Appears to Have Another College President in Its Crosshairs Similarities to recent events at another public university in the state are hard to ignore.

You may have missed it, because the authoritarian assault is relentless, but the Trump administration is trying to purge another university president. There is no doubt about what is happening in higher ed. The only question is whether we stand up to it or not. www.chronicle.com/article/an-i...

Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age - 2025 M06 Results

I've seen very little mention in the media of the big jump in unemployment for Black workers to 6.8 percent, the highest since January of 2022. www.bls.gov/news.release... Is everyone worried Trump will sue them for talking about it?

Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody? Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.

But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...

YouTube video by PBS America’s Caregiving Crisis | Full Documentary | PBS

PBS has made a new documentary on caregiving, and I’m in it! They used some of my footage from when I was in NY in spring 2020. Sharing in case it might be of interest to anyone!

"This Isn’t Negotiation. It’s Authoritarian Extortion."
Why, no institution, especially Harvard, should "negotiate" in any manner with the Trump administration.
with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Kennedy Withdraws Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

US planning to pull support from Gavi, which provides vaccines to children in poor countries. And effectively it’s what’s happening here at home. Mandate changes will create barriers to access and affordability.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

A running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency Here is a running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency recently.

Updated: The running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency

www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/f...

You know, I don't have a problem with sexual harassment being something that permanently disqualifies someone from holding public office.

1/ The assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on Saturday underscores the dangers that women in public office and their family members face.

Efforts to track data on political violence are inconsistent, and data on women specifically is more limited. 🧵

Here are the things I know are true:
✔️ Today is June 14, 2025
✔️ The earth is round
✔️ Vaccines work
✔️ There's no appeasing fascism...there's only fighting it
#NoKingsDay

I’m not trying to brag, but today is the last day of 8th grade for my youngest so we are officially DONE WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL. I have a lot of personal and professional opinions about middle school. All I will say here is: peace out to whatever tf that was.

Violence against political opposition is a sure sign of democratic collapse. We are in very dangerous waters. Everyone must resist now.

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

After I watched those people storm the capitol on January 6, I vowed to never again be shocked on behalf of this country.

It’s a struggle to hold that line as I watch L.A.

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:

1-877-447-4487

Can't emphasize enough how important a free and responsible press is right now. The regime is lying about an invasion, looting, and rioting to justify an authoritarian crackdown.

The press must call bullshit and give civil society the information it needs to save our democracy.

Trump wants to eliminate a 105-year-old office that supports women Staffers see the proposal as part of an effort to fundamentally reshape America's workforce.

ICYMI, for your Sunday night reading (dis)pleasure: a couple scoops from me this week for @motherjones.com on how Trump’s budget takes aim at women

First: It proposes eliminating the century-old, congressionally-mandated Women’s Bureau at the Labor Dept ⤵️
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Every official who now decides Cuomo's harassment of multiple women is fine sends a message to victims and abusers alike that no one cares

Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk’s Government Contracts as Feud Escalates

Super surprising development: "Their unlikely alliance dissolved into open acrimony, with the two men hurling personal attacks at each other over matters both significant and petty."
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

CDC official overseeing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations resigns The resignation follows an order by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to change the agency's guidance.

"My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role.” www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-off...

Are you an NIH or FDA staffer? I want to hear what you think about your new leadership.

My signal is in bio.

Record Number of Americans Apply for British Citizenship

A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.

My oldest recently got her driver's license. She just left with my younger son to go do the grocery shopping. What nirvana is this!?!

The first of many papers from the Memory and Forgiveness project is now out at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Led by the indefatigable Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray, and Leonard Faul, we systematically explored differences (1/n)

What do tax cuts for the rich do?

They increase inequality.

They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment.

"Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

Have the economists run the model yet to see what happens to productivity under fascism?

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab.

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.
www.epi.org/blog/america...