Heidi Kitrosser

This reminds me of the old Crazy Eddie commercials. “At Crazy Donnie’s we pay YOU to fill your prescriptions. Crazy Donnie’s .. Our prices are INSANE!”

Hopefully the start of a national anti-authoritarian coalition.

It’s so pretty!

In some ways, it was a perfect encapsulation of the ADL's new tack. The group was founded on the idea that Jewish rights and safety were inextricably linked to the rights of others. Once the ADL's primary focus became stopping anti-Zionism, its calculus changed. Its new version of Jewish defense was zero sum and dependent on a conception of a singular Jewish viewpoint. "New plan," Greenblatt said in his address to national leadership last year, repeating a phrase that had recently been taken up by other Jewish organizations: "Put on your own oxygen mask first."

Sad to see what’s happened to the ADL under Greenblatt. Very well reported story here by @noahshachtman.bsky.social . As for the quote, I don’t think the analogy works unless the idea is that one should put on their own mask whilst throwing others’ out of reach. nymag.com/intelligence...

It's incredibly easy to look at a situation and identify some tiny, marginal group who can be made to wait or experience just a little suffering while the rest of us try and keep the ship steady. The enemy knows so. That's why they make the bargain to begin with. While eyeing up *your* neck.

This thread of infamy is long and updated to present.

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Gift link. This is so important. A brutal, corrupt and lawless administration wants to keep you in the dark about its brutality, corruption and lawlessness.

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

This is a very good (but also very disturbing) survey from @peterbakernyt.bsky.social of the Trump admin policies that are intended to deprive the public of accurate info about government. I might have also included the expulsions from the White House press pool.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren't experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA's 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.

They’re eating the lists They’re eating the files

Downtown LA, August 2nd, 2025.

Ah yes, firing the data expert after bad news on jobs, just the kind of commitment to research excellence we like to see in governments that are asserting control over…academic research.

If someone says "believe it or not" and your brain responds "I'm walking on air", your senior prescription is ready for pickup at the pharmacy.

I’m very pro-education, but this thread is correct. Many Trump voters got civic education in school, probably better than today’s.
The issue is not lack of understanding, where if someone just explained how US Constitutional democracy works, they’d support. They reject it, and chose to tear it down.

Has Mamdani disavowed earthquakes?

So not surprised to hear that!

A bit embarrassing but I always cry in Legally Blonde when her professor says, “you’re not the girl I thought you were.” If I ever met Holland Taylor in person I’d probably burst out crying reflexively!

To make matters worse, his office (Office of Special Counsel) is the office charged with protecting whistleblowers. I’m sure that anyone who reveals Trump administration wrongdoing will get a very fair shake from this guy.

Paul Ingrassia—a 30-year-old former right-wing blogger and newly minted lawyer who was admitted to the bar in 2024—is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia has called Jack Smith a “disgusting man,” accused him of “election interference,” and said he should be jailed.

“Let’s use the Jews to destroy the American university system” is some real varsity level Jew-hating stuff, for real.

Person in a party hat giving a presentation and it says The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out

;)

An Open Letter From Arne Duncan The former secretary of education weighs in on Trump’s attacks.

Arne Duncan's open letter in the Chronicle asks everyone in higher education to do exactly what we've created Stand Together for Higher Ed to do: "stand up, stand together, and resist." www.chronicle.com/article/an-o... PLEASE JOIN! Sign-up form on homepage standtogetherhighered.org #academicsky

People on Trump’s team have targeted all the ways universities keep themselves afloat financially, not just by making deals but by changing the law, by using the discretion that they have over other programs universities rely on (like student visas) and by using their regulatory enforcement and prosecutorial power (especially through enforcement of anti-discrimination law) to leverage what universities do. Trump’s policies will hit every university eventually—though in different ways depending on how any particular university gets its funding. The only way that universities can push back against this juggernaut of funding threats is to organize to present a united front. If the Trump strategy pits universities with large research grant portfolios against those who are most affected by the endowment tax against those who are dependent on student loans against those who fund themselves with foreign student tuition, then it will have succeeded in dividing and conquering. Universities like Columbia who decide to go it alone and strike a bespoke deal weaken collective solidarity, which is the only way that universities can become too big to bully.

Important, sobering piece by @kimlanelaw.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

4/ The claim agencies are "just starting to look into vaccine injury" is ridiculous. We've had surveillance for decades: VAERS (1990), VSD (1990s), compensation programs. COVID myocarditis was detected & acted on within MONTHS in 2021. That's exactly how pharmacovigilance should work.

When the FDA Commissioner goes on TV to elevate an unverified anecdote about a "friend's parent" dying from a COVID vaccine—while ignoring safety data from 1M+ people published 48 hours earlier—we have an institutional problem. This misleading rhetoric is deeply irresponsible. 🧵

I would love if her estate sued Trump for allowing sex trafficking to happen.

It may be what he's trying to cover up.

Chancellor Julio Frenk is the child of German refugees who fled to Mexico from Nazi Germany. He has not been shy about addressing bias where it exists.

Meanwhile, using the pretext of antisemitism to take money away from my employer is the most antisemitic thing ever to have affected me personally.

That’s great, but words are wind. Are they going to caucus with Democrats now? Are they going to vote for impeachment? Will they stop confirming his nominees? Will they do something - anything - to rein in the Mad King and restore the rule of law? Or are they just “concerned” again?

Wow. Confirming what Allison Gill (@muellershewrote.com) posted early this afternoon at
bsky.app/profile/muel...