Laura Marks

I've pitched versions of this idea to a number of NIH scientists, as well as university researchers over the last six weeks or so. So I decided to put it together into a post.

American Foreign Policy Is Being Run by the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive The fuckwittery on display right now by Trump's foreign policy team boggles the mind.

I guess I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Fuck decorum. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-f...

Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will.

The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

There is No Progress Without Sacrilege The problem with the leaders of the Democratic Party is not what you think it is

Trump and the GOP understand many Americans are fed up with the status quo. The problem with many Dem leaders is that they are addicted to it. Progress requires change...which requires not just courage but imagination and the willingness to ask hard questions. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

“Somebody must have been telling lies about K, because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he woke up to find himself under arrest.”
- Kafka, The Trial

EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Musk killed these people.

The Trump Administration's Humpty Dumpty Foreign Policy On begging for forgiveness versus asking for permission.

On the end of USAID. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

the canada-USA bilat is getting pretty wild

(can we elect angus?)

And for as cynical as many have become about #SCOTUS, if *I* were trying to get the constitutionality of the Impoundment Control Act before this Supreme Court, the absolute *last* way I would do it is through an across-the-board, wholesale freeze accomplished via a thinly reasoned 2-page memorandum.

Kudos to the team!