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This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.
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Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act
The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.
www.thenation.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Dartmouth says no.
October 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Dartmouth says no.
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Clarence Thomas announced that he doesn't care about precedent and is making it up as he goes along. He didn't say it *like that* of course, because then people would have noticed.
But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Clarence Thomas Admits That He’s Coming for Our Rights
In a little-covered speech, the Supreme Court justice explained how he thinks the court should reverse rulings conservatives don’t like.
www.thenation.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Clarence Thomas announced that he doesn't care about precedent and is making it up as he goes along. He didn't say it *like that* of course, because then people would have noticed.
But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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No sparrow falls in Larry Ellison's America without a MAGA commisar getting to see it.
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
No sparrow falls in Larry Ellison's America without a MAGA commisar getting to see it.
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I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration.
It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.
It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.
AAUP-UC-Trump Lawsuit -- Uploaded by Jaweed Kaleem of the Los Angeles Times
www.documentcloud.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration.
It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.
It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.
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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
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I wrote a substack article:
open.substack.com/pub/youngert...
open.substack.com/pub/youngert...
What Columbia Sacrificed In Its Deal With The Trump Administration
Ken Miller
open.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I wrote a substack article:
open.substack.com/pub/youngert...
open.substack.com/pub/youngert...
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Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling
The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.
www.thenation.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
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For 80 years, the United States led the world in science and engineering.
We could lose that position in a single year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
We could lose that position in a single year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
For 80 years, the United States led the world in science and engineering.
We could lose that position in a single year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
We could lose that position in a single year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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Medicaid gutted, SNAP slashed, student aid squeezed—Trump's new bill hits Black communities hardest. Bishop Reginald T. Jackson warns that waiting is not an option.
Black America can't afford to wait as Trump's budget wrecks our communities
Change might come with the next election, but the doors are closing for us now.
contrarian.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Medicaid gutted, SNAP slashed, student aid squeezed—Trump's new bill hits Black communities hardest. Bishop Reginald T. Jackson warns that waiting is not an option.
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The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding.
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
White House Launches Another Assault on Science Funding, Targeting NSF, EPA
The Trump administration is targeting still more federal science funding, this time more than $30 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and other agencies
zurl.co
June 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding.
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
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political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics
Should we deport people who have lived here for many years without committing any crimes? 61% no, 24% yes.
Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer?
Quickly: 19%
Minimize mistakes: 74%
Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer?
Quickly: 19%
Minimize mistakes: 74%
June 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics
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This is bad. Republicans have fixed the contempt provision in the billionaire bailout bill so bond has to cover the costs. It can’t be $1 anymore. This will neutralize the court’s ability to hold Trump in contempt, and only rich people will be able to file injunctions against the government.
As I just flagged, this has been replaced with something which is arguably worse; requiring that basically every plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction against the federal government pay millions or billions of dollars in "security" to pay for "costs" to the federal government if they later win.
June 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is bad. Republicans have fixed the contempt provision in the billionaire bailout bill so bond has to cover the costs. It can’t be $1 anymore. This will neutralize the court’s ability to hold Trump in contempt, and only rich people will be able to file injunctions against the government.
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“We should make no mistake about President Donald Trump’s strategy: He is trying to install himself as provost of our university. He seemingly wants to dictate who can be admitted, what classes can be taught and which professors should be fired.”
We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.
Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“We should make no mistake about President Donald Trump’s strategy: He is trying to install himself as provost of our university. He seemingly wants to dictate who can be admitted, what classes can be taught and which professors should be fired.”
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If you want elected Democrats to "fight" you best understand that it will be *Black* Democrats on those front lines. And so you best have their backs when they're unconstitutionally asked to suffer the consequences.
Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social
My latest in @thenation.com
Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social
My latest in @thenation.com
Progressives Need to Stand Up for LaMonica McIver
The charges against McIver are a form of political intimidation—one directed with particular force against Black politicians—but that intimidation will only work if the people don’t have McIver’s back...
www.thenation.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you want elected Democrats to "fight" you best understand that it will be *Black* Democrats on those front lines. And so you best have their backs when they're unconstitutionally asked to suffer the consequences.
Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social
My latest in @thenation.com
Defend Rep @replamonica.bsky.social
My latest in @thenation.com
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This is blistering, spectacular, and worth your time to read.
Most of my friends think I'm wasting my time and, I probably am. But I had to try.
Here is an open letter, and an honest plea, to Clarence Thomas, in hopes that he might do the right thing this decision season.
He hates me as much as I hate him. But I had to try.
Here is an open letter, and an honest plea, to Clarence Thomas, in hopes that he might do the right thing this decision season.
He hates me as much as I hate him. But I had to try.
An Open Letter to Clarence Thomas
As the Trump administration tries to remake society along apartheid lines, your vote to stop the assault, however unlikely, is absolutely essential.
www.thenation.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is blistering, spectacular, and worth your time to read.
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New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts.
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts.
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
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Columbia welcomes its newest faculty hires
May 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Columbia welcomes its newest faculty hires
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people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
May 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
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"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
The National Science Foundation was established 75 years ago this week, but as Professor Scott L. Greer writes in this commentary, it’s “been a bit of a rough birthday party.”
michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...
michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...
A troubled birthday for the National Science Foundation • Michigan Advance
Happy 75th birthday, National Science Foundation! On May 10, 1950, Congress established one of the world’s best value, highest impact, and, frankly, coolest science agencies. The NSF finances federal ...
michiganadvance.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."