Liza Dawson

Jamie Raskin with the "We shall fight on the beaches..." energy that smart Dems are taking into the second 100 days.

Whole (short!) statement is here, and worth reading:
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documen...

A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a…

Two of the companies that DOGE staffer Gavin Kliger is invested in — Apple and Tesla — are on the CFPB’s list of prohibited holdings.

The other two aren’t on the list but are nevertheless barred under agency guidance.

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

I’m honestly feeling a little broken and unmoored by all these new developments 🫤.

In lieu of a web story from NOAA about annual atmospheric CO2 trends, please enjoy and share this post from my esteemed former NOAA colleague @tdiliberto.bsky.social !

Further politicization of NIH...

I received this email from numerous folks from within NIH with new appointments (some of which are actually a month or more old)

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Yet another horrible, wasteful decision…

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

Exclusive | Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

Breaking: The FDA's top vaccine official was pushed out and resigned today from the agency, @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social reports

Resist List Noncooperation Database DELVE DEEPER WITH MOVEMENT RESEARCHERS’ DATABASES AND COMPILATIONS OF ACTION Researcher Jeremy Pressman is writing semi-regular reports about...

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Joint Statement from Thirteen State Attorneys General: State and Local Law Enforcement Cannot Be Commandeered for Federal Immigration Enforcement OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with the attorneys general of New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Ve...

Here we go! Let's see this every day from state and local authorities, please.

Doctor Seuss??

Thanks Jeremy!

From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns Students protesters against Israel’s was on Gaza say the “Palestine exception” means they are being treated more harshly than other groups.

“They don’t treat any other club this way. We see very clearly the ‘Palestine exception’ being applied here.”

Thinking about 2026

Or how to leave traces of DNA behind if you are taken hostage

It’s the fourth floor. Mysteriously.

Anyone got a bioethics starter pack on BSKY?

From the Maggie Phair Institute

Rashida Tlaib Calls on Blinken to Resign for Violating U.S. Laws on Aid and Arms Trade Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, has called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign after he refused to hold Israel accountable for failing to allow U.S. aid…

The only Palestinian American member of Congress has called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign after he refused to hold Israel accountable for failing to allow U.S. aid into Gaza.

Agree. Great meme.