Youngmin yi
@youngminyi.bsky.social
sociologist/demographer @Wellesley || studying family, race, and institutions of social control in US || yyiresearch.com
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It is really shitty watching people you love die of cancer as the federal government cancels research money and tells the lot of you to go fuck yourselves
April 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It is really shitty watching people you love die of cancer as the federal government cancels research money and tells the lot of you to go fuck yourselves
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"A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party...with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions"
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office
A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a senten...
www.france24.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party...with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions"
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI".
And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
March 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI".
And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.
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Beginning March 31, people will no longer be able to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone. Those unable to verify their identity through the agency’s “my Social Security” online service will be required to visit a field office in person to complete the process.
March 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Beginning March 31, people will no longer be able to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone. Those unable to verify their identity through the agency’s “my Social Security” online service will be required to visit a field office in person to complete the process.
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The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.
Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention | CNN Politics
Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the ...
www.cnn.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.
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just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
March 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
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Breaking news: A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking Elon Musk and the U.S. DOGE Service from taking any further actions to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and ordered that steps be taken to allow the agency to reoccupy its headquarters.
Live updates: Trump and Putin agree to partial ceasefire in Ukraine, but plan still needs Kyiv’s approval
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Breaking news: A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking Elon Musk and the U.S. DOGE Service from taking any further actions to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and ordered that steps be taken to allow the agency to reoccupy its headquarters.
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The C.F.P.B has recovered more than $300 million in damages to military personnel and veterans. Now the Trump Administration is trying to shut it down. “The impact of shutting down the C.F.P.B. on our servicemembers—it’s huge,” a military spouse said.
Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog
A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.
www.newyorker.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The C.F.P.B has recovered more than $300 million in damages to military personnel and veterans. Now the Trump Administration is trying to shut it down. “The impact of shutting down the C.F.P.B. on our servicemembers—it’s huge,” a military spouse said.
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Put another way
March 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Put another way
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I hear this a lot but I think it's actually vital for cis people to understand what's at stake for themselves in trans people's fight. We can pray for empathy with one hand and fight for shared interests with the other but guess which will get results
This feels rhetorically tricky. It's tempting to lean on how anti-trans policies also hurt cis people (harassment of cis girls & women who look non-conforming to random strangers) but that feels like saying our rights don't have any intrinsic importance.
March 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I hear this a lot but I think it's actually vital for cis people to understand what's at stake for themselves in trans people's fight. We can pray for empathy with one hand and fight for shared interests with the other but guess which will get results
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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March 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction.
Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.
Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.
Wow. DOJ is arguing that the President has authority outside the Alien Enemies Act in international waters "that would not be subject to either orders."
Boasberg seems skeptical, asking if the president's foreign power exists only once the plane crosses into international airspace?
Boasberg seems skeptical, asking if the president's foreign power exists only once the plane crosses into international airspace?
March 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction.
Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.
Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.
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The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
March 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
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They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.
www.providencejournal.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
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NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds
www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...
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March 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds
www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...
www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...
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The "last updated" date on this National Survey of Children's Health page is a lie.
I have a copy of the data and codebook from Oct 2024.
The materials there today are missing at least one key measure: whether or not the child faced discrimination for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
I have a copy of the data and codebook from Oct 2024.
The materials there today are missing at least one key measure: whether or not the child faced discrimination for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
March 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The "last updated" date on this National Survey of Children's Health page is a lie.
I have a copy of the data and codebook from Oct 2024.
The materials there today are missing at least one key measure: whether or not the child faced discrimination for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
I have a copy of the data and codebook from Oct 2024.
The materials there today are missing at least one key measure: whether or not the child faced discrimination for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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There will be a separate vote on a Collins/Van Hollen bill that will enable DC to continue funding public education, public safety, & human services in the nation’s capital.
We urge all Senators to vote for it!
We urge all Senators to vote for it!
March 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
There will be a separate vote on a Collins/Van Hollen bill that will enable DC to continue funding public education, public safety, & human services in the nation’s capital.
We urge all Senators to vote for it!
We urge all Senators to vote for it!