Alexandra Mathieu

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.

The media is hiding what's happening here.

Stanford is hiring: tenure-track, assistant professor position in Sustainable Food Systems. Please share! #academia

this makes me want to make every student write their papers in notepad.............

sighhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHH

if folks knew the absolute state of LLM explainability / interpretability science, they might think twice about running headlong into rapid adoption

I know there are folks currently vibrating with excitement at these letters being publicly posted to analyze.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

How Broadcast Media Covered Zohran Mamdani's Win A new analysis of over 25,000 broadcast mentions shows how mainstream media led with Israel over rent, child care, and transit.

What's striking about this data is how similar MSNBC's approach was to CNN and how neither was that different from Fox. waleedshahid.substack.com/p/how-broadc...

This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States.

It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.

It’s fascism.

Abrego Garcia says he was severely beaten in Salvadoran prison Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. in March, says he was brutally beaten and subjected to psychological torture while held in one of El Salvador's most notorious prisons.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. in March, says he was brutally beaten and subjected to psychological torture while held in one of El Salvador's most notorious prisons.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The GOP passed a budget that will eviscerate health care in rural areas. They delayed much of the impact for after the midterms, hoping the public will think any discussion of the impending collapse is hyperbolic.

Local reporters have a chance to do service journalism that'll make a splash too.

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature

At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.

Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”

the president just opened a concentration camp

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This administration is pursuing a white supremacist project—attacking birthright citizenship, gutting DEI, welcoming white S. Africans under the guise of “white genocide,” and brutalizing brown folks who’ve contributed to this country for decades.

We must fight this project relentlessly.

The idea that your guaranteed constitutional rights only exist if you have the personal resources to have a lawyer enforce them is terrifying.

Mamdani support was highest in areas with most millennials 100% Mamdani share of two-way vote 75% 50% Largest ethnic group • Asian — Black — Hispanic White 25% 0% 0% 20% 40% Aged 25-39 60% Owen Winter, Sources: NYC Board of Elections, Census

Black voters are incredibly polarized by age within the Democratic Party. This happens in every Dem primary since 2016.

You might not know this because the punditry does such a bad job on Black politics, either ignorant or treating Black people as a monolith in service of some other narrative

I said win or lose, but it certainly feels better that it was a win!

win or lose, it's been insanely surreal to see someone you personally know/knew become a national figure overnight

......idk how you can even say this as if we didn't all just watch Columbia try the "make nice with the authoritarian w/ a chip on his shoulder determined to make an example out of you" approach and be met with a crowbar to the knees. Repeatedly.

Figure 2: Pre- and Post-Treatment Trends showing Citizens United's impact on state democratic performance. Graph shows average State Democracy Index from 2001-2018. Two lines: "Treatment" (blue, states with former spending bans) and "No Treatment" (gray, states without bans). Before 2010, treated states had higher democracy scores. After Citizens United in 2010, treated states' scores dropped sharply while control states declined gradually. By 2018, treated states scored significantly lower than control states, demonstrating Citizens United's negative impact on democracy.

NYC's mayoral race just broke records with $25M in SuperPAC cash backing Cuomo—a poster child for corruption. Bad for democracy and the Dem brand.

@rfunkfordham.bsky.social's study shows how corrosive big $ is—states forced to allow unlimited money saw democracy scores plummet post-Citizens United.