Lauren Dula

Screenshot of the article that reads: It’s not just children. In addition to bolstering underfunded K-12 schools and protecting the rights of kids with disabilities, the department also manages the federal financial aid process for college students. “I am not certain whether or not students will be able to get financial aid next year,” Dominique Baker, a professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, told Vox.

Screenshot of the article that reads: While students and families are the most directly impacted by changes at the Education Department, those changes have also inspired a broader concern. Some of the programs terminated by DOGE are congressionally mandated, and if the president or Musk can simply stop them, “that means that Congress no longer actually functions,” Baker said. “There are no longer checks and balances for the executive branch,” Baker said. “A significant part of this goes beyond education and speaks to a constitutional crisis that shapes the future of our country.”

Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis

www.vox.com/policy/40233...

Vile language and weaponization of gender norms are deeply unethical.

Doctors swear an oath to do no harm. A doctor who doesn’t want to provide gender-affirming care can find another specialty. It’s that simple.

If you can’t bear to use a patient’s pronouns, you need to reflect on why that is.

This is just unacceptable. They get tax exemption for helping the public and the trade off is that their electioneering is limited. And THIS only allows religious orgs to do so. What about the 1.8 million other nonprofit organizations? Afraid food banks are not going to go Republican?

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

So everyone brown goes first, but they’re already laying the foundations for the elderly and disabled. The poor are an obvious target, but trans people and the rest of the rainbow will be sandwiched somewhere in there. My family needs to decide when to get out. Protect yourselves.

God, is EVERYONE CAVING TO THIS MONSTER? This is heartbreaking. Just abusing trans people to humor their hate.

CV Dazzle CV Dazzle is a computer vision camouflage strategy developed in 2010. Unlike disruptive-pattern material, CV Dazzle is bright and bold, and evades detection by breaking weaknesses in automated pattern...

Anti-facial recognition make-up and how it works

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Silence will not save us. SPEAK. UP. Loudly.

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

To trust the polling, the trends are perhaps more distressing among those still too young to have even dipped their toes into the work force. According to the data analyst David Waldron’s assessment of the world-class Monitoring the Future Survey, run by the University of Michigan, in 2018, 84 percent of eighth- and 10th-grade boys said they agreed either “completely” or “mostly” that women should have the same job opportunities as men. Five years later, the number had fallen to 72 percent. The share who agreed “at all” that men and women should be paid the same money for the same work had fallen from 87 percent to 79 percent. The share who said they agreed “completely” with equal pay for equal work had fallen from 72 percent to 57 percent — just over half.

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked.

But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

Just WOW.

I’ve had two miscarriages: one while living in NC, one in IN. I would have been arrested given my circumstances.

Nonprofit Killer Provision Quietly Disappears From Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” The infamous “nonprofit killer” provision quietly disappeared from Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" as it winds its way through Congress.

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Shoutout to the pundits who insisted Trump wouldn’t actually jail his political opponents, when less than six months in he’s now arrested a sitting judge, the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, and a member of Congress.

In an experiment, Pew Research Center demonstrated that opt-in and probability-based surveys produced very different results about young adults' views of the Holocaust and abortion.

If you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask:
1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll?
2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents?

Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Insurance denies man life-saving lung transplant as he was preparing for procedure at Northwestern A California man battling stage 4 lung cancer was preparing to fly across the country to Chicago for a life-changing double-lung transplant when his insurance company denied him coverage.

@cignahealthcare.bsky.social - do the right thing!
Please cover this man's lung transplant and medical treatment.
Reverse your decision.
Do not deny his coverage.
This is life or death!

#HealthcareIsAHumanRight
#HealthcareForAll

abc7chicago.com/post/cigna-l...

I want to remind you that yesterday, Trump's Secretary of Transportation went on Fox to say he can't get in touch with Trump's Pentagon to prevent plane crashes.

Ever wonder about how much power philanthropic foundations have? Check out my new integrative literature written with Dr. Laurie Paarlberg and Imoleayo Adeyeri on just that. There is hope in modern philanthropy! #NVSQ #nonprofitsky doi.org/10.1177/0899...

What to know about checkout charity Candid insights | Learn about checkout charity, including how this form of impulse giving works, which donors give most often to checkout charity campaigns, and how nonprofits can benefit from over ha...

It's always a pleasure to work with my friend and colleague @laurendula.bsky.social - so when @candiddotorg.bsky.social invited us to write about how impulse giving at the checkout - aka checkout charity - can help support #nonprofits we jumped at the idea! blog.candid.org/post/what-is...

IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...

Not sure they can do this—Congress grants tax emotion through law. They decide the terms. The IRS just enforces and manages applications and fiscal paperwork. Just seems like something they can just do without grounds.

Cody Balmer told cops he planned to beat Ben Shapiro with a hammer. Same weapon used on Paul Pelosi—remember how Trump and MAGA crowds laughed at that? Now Trump’s “monitoring” Balmer’s case,possibly weighing a pardon. Violence isn’t a glitch in MAGA—it’s the core feature. #TrumpWatch #MAGAterrorism

This is a horrible precedent. There’s no good reason to stop adult care.

I love her. No strings attached funding. The YWCA that I sit on the board of received a million dollars a few years ago and we expanded programming, hired a new program director, and fixed necessary infrastructure in our homeless housing. It was game changing.