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ugly giant bag of mostly water
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Page One in Des Moines.

@jemsinger.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Check out the latest from me in ASQ! I draw on theorizing by Du Bois and Fanon to provide insight into how reactivity to being scored differs across racial groups.

You can also find replication files here: www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/pr...
May 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Openly defining the rule of law as whatever he says it is. Happening right in front of us.
Convicted felon, Donald Trump, says what?
February 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt.
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
🚨NEWS: Massive layoffs are about to hit the IRS -- around 10,000 employees -- potentially in the middle of filing season.

Of particular interest to the DOGE: Cutting IRS enforcement capabilities.

-- with @jeffstein.bsky.social + Hannah Natanson
Layoffs to hit IRS as DOGE targets tax collections
Several people briefed on the matter said cuts to the IRS cuts numbering in the thousands. One target is tax collections.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I'm not sure how to explain how financially devastating this will be for universities. This is, literally, catastrophic for universities and for science in the United States.
⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.

—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.

Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
First bluesky post (perhaps last?) ... I'm not sorry
been feeling a bit uninspired lately so I took a long romantic stroll through my slush pile and found this gem

it's muppets lotr time babey
September 7, 2023 at 3:25 PM