The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map. Here’s why. Earlier this year, President Trump began urging Texas to redraw its U.S. House map to create five additional Republican seats. Lawmakers reportedly met that request to redistrict on purely partisan grounds with apprehension. When the Governor announced his intent to call a special legislative session, he didn’t even place redistricting on the legislative agenda. But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board. On July 7, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), sent a letter (“the DOJ Letter”) to the Governor and Attorney General of Texas making the legally incorrect assertion that four congressional districts in Texas were “unconstitutional” because they were “coalition districts”—majority-non-White districts in which no single racial group constituted a 50% majority. In the letter, DOJ threatened legal action if Texas didn’t immediately dismantle and redraw these districts—a threat based entirely on their racial makeup. Notably, the DOJ Letter targeted only majority-non-White districts. Any mention of majorityWhite Democrat districts—which DOJ presumably would have also targeted if its aims were partisan rather than racial—was conspicuously absent.

Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Sitting in the Amsterdam airport waiting for my flight to Berlin for the NeuPSIG conference. First time to Germany, first time to NeuPSIG. Exciting week!

Chicago keeping art alive:

He had to have loved this

Oh.

Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

A very well-written piece. I hope Miller reads it, and remembers his history and respects his family.

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Asked if she expected the Trump administration to continue making similar threats, Mills responded, “I can’t tell what he’s going to do from one day to the next. Can you?”

Really inspiring Ted. Thanks for a wonderful talk. I agree that USASP is wonderful and the community benefits greatly from your leadership.

Had a wonderful time at the USASP meeting in Chicago. Thanks to all that stopped by the poster and the highly engaging conversations!

King Nothing. No, One. No, King Nothing. No... can't make up my mind. Sanatorium!

Also, a micrometer above so many others.

Maybe if he was still inpatient they could control it but he also needs to be moving around and starting recovery but he cannot do that without acute pain control. We need better meds for every aspect of pain control.

We did this, y'all! #DayofActionforHigherEd

Cannabis terpenes offer potential new way to treat fibromyalgia pain A recently completed study found that certain terpenes in Cannabis sativa are effective at relieving post-surgical and fibromyalgia pain in preclinical models.

A recent study led by @UAZCCPA member John Streicher, PhD, found that cannabis terpenes may be effective at relieving post-surgical and fibromyalgia pain. The research was published in Pharmacological Reports. More: bit.ly/3DPxQEV

Stand up for Science rally in Boston

✊Massive turnout for STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in Boston #StandUpForScience

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Some good-ish news from NIH

“Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again”

As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.