Elliot Friedman
@efried.bsky.social
Professor of Human Development and Family Science; psychological well-being, health, biological function and aging; tenor; father of twins and wrangler of Siberian Huskies; music and theater lover.
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This is a good essay. It takes everyone in good faith and its conclusions feel right to me.
I especially like the reminder that we are not pundits and seeing ourselves as people with grand answers is not necessarily, and not necessarily even helpful, in guiding us toward helpful resistance.
I especially like the reminder that we are not pundits and seeing ourselves as people with grand answers is not necessarily, and not necessarily even helpful, in guiding us toward helpful resistance.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is a good essay. It takes everyone in good faith and its conclusions feel right to me.
I especially like the reminder that we are not pundits and seeing ourselves as people with grand answers is not necessarily, and not necessarily even helpful, in guiding us toward helpful resistance.
I especially like the reminder that we are not pundits and seeing ourselves as people with grand answers is not necessarily, and not necessarily even helpful, in guiding us toward helpful resistance.
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We all deserve better than RFK Jr.
Great piece from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Great piece from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
RFK Jr., American Psycho
He needs to go. Now.
www.thenation.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
We all deserve better than RFK Jr.
Great piece from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Great piece from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Chilling example of the abuse of government power
A MAGA Warrior Is Rifling Through Your Mortgage Paperwork talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
A MAGA Warrior Is Rifling Through Your Mortgage Paperwork talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
A MAGA Warrior Is Rifling Through Your Mortgage Paperwork
I’m by no means the first one to note this. But it’s...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Chilling example of the abuse of government power
A MAGA Warrior Is Rifling Through Your Mortgage Paperwork talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
A MAGA Warrior Is Rifling Through Your Mortgage Paperwork talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
It's hard to overstate how bad this is for the entire US scientific enterprise. Replacing expertise with ideology.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants
Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It's hard to overstate how bad this is for the entire US scientific enterprise. Replacing expertise with ideology.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
August 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
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Editorial: Indiana University, Ball State and Purdue are gutted without logic or thought
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
Editorial: Indiana University, Ball State and Purdue are gutted without logic or thought
Taking an axe to degree programs at Indiana University makes no sense.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Editorial: Indiana University, Ball State and Purdue are gutted without logic or thought
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
Essential reading for anyone who cares about higher education and the media’s role in its dismantling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Essential reading for anyone who cares about higher education and the media’s role in its dismantling.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I can usually see at least a tenuous connection to what I actually do, but this journal solicitation has me genuinely stumped.
“Air, Soil and Water Research is interested in your work”
“Air, Soil and Water Research is interested in your work”
May 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I can usually see at least a tenuous connection to what I actually do, but this journal solicitation has me genuinely stumped.
“Air, Soil and Water Research is interested in your work”
“Air, Soil and Water Research is interested in your work”
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🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
March 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
I weep for my Alma Mater. And I fully expect this will not protect them from future coercion.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Columbia Makes Concessions to Trump Amid Bid to Reclaim Federal Funds (Gift Article)
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I weep for my Alma Mater. And I fully expect this will not protect them from future coercion.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
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A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed.
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
March 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed.
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
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The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
Bit confused… Not sure how tariffs are supposed to generate massive national wealth if we keep, ya know, not applying them.
March 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Bit confused… Not sure how tariffs are supposed to generate massive national wealth if we keep, ya know, not applying them.
Kevin Drum, a blogger I've been following for more than 20 years, died on Friday. I counted on his thoughtful perspectives and level-headed skepticism, always firmly grounded in data. I'll miss him tremendously.
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Health Update - Kevin Drum
With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that after a long battle with cancer my husband Kevin Drum passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025. No public memorial services are planned. In lieu of flowers, ple...
jabberwocking.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Kevin Drum, a blogger I've been following for more than 20 years, died on Friday. I counted on his thoughtful perspectives and level-headed skepticism, always firmly grounded in data. I'll miss him tremendously.
jabberwocking.com/health-updat...
jabberwocking.com/health-updat...
Whatever Trump and Musk are doing, it's not about improving efficiency. It's about destroying government in order to privatize its functions and garner more wealth. Don't let the GOP claim otherwise.
Requiem for 18F open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Requiem for 18F open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Requiem for 18F
A small government unit did what DOGE is pretending to do
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Whatever Trump and Musk are doing, it's not about improving efficiency. It's about destroying government in order to privatize its functions and garner more wealth. Don't let the GOP claim otherwise.
Requiem for 18F open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Requiem for 18F open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Just re-watched "The King's Speech - what a great movie - and was struck by this passage from the actual 1939 speech:
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March 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Just re-watched "The King's Speech - what a great movie - and was struck by this passage from the actual 1939 speech:
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Wow. @cbsnews.com Sunday Morning's "analysis" of Friday's Oval Office meeting was one interview with a conservative author? That's it?!!
www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-...
www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-...
Trump and Zelenskyy at a crossroads over Russia
In the wake of Friday's unprecedented, seemingly made-for-TV Oval Office exchange among President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy, America's alliance ...
www.cbsnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wow. @cbsnews.com Sunday Morning's "analysis" of Friday's Oval Office meeting was one interview with a conservative author? That's it?!!
www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-...
www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-...
No Republican in Congress should be allowed the claim to be “pro-life” ever again. This is a disgrace.
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CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
No Republican in Congress should be allowed the claim to be “pro-life” ever again. This is a disgrace.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...
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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
February 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
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So, this is the administration's Title IX playbook: use whatever willing federal agency gives substantial research funding to sue the university. They're making Janet Mills an example. I hope this turns out to be a costly mistake for USDA. #academicsky www.pressherald.com/2025/02/22/u...
USDA announces Title IX investigation into UMaine
The announcement comes a day after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation into the Maine Department of Education and a Maine school district.
www.pressherald.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So, this is the administration's Title IX playbook: use whatever willing federal agency gives substantial research funding to sue the university. They're making Janet Mills an example. I hope this turns out to be a costly mistake for USDA. #academicsky www.pressherald.com/2025/02/22/u...
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it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.