Tracey Meares
@mearest.bsky.social
Law prof. Mom of J Crew. Julia's second favorite human. Trying this out
Incisive analysis. History matters.
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Incisive analysis. History matters.
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"committing to a strategy of aiming to satisfy the administration’s demands, even when unlawfully issued, the trustees have committed themselves to a strategic logic within which a Columbia president’s capacity to lead cannot be separated from" the whims of POTUS balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"committing to a strategy of aiming to satisfy the administration’s demands, even when unlawfully issued, the trustees have committed themselves to a strategic logic within which a Columbia president’s capacity to lead cannot be separated from" the whims of POTUS balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
The destruction of the future of science
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The destruction of the future of science
Read this 🧵
This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Read this 🧵
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"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...
$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over
The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.
apnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
There is some great stuff in this volume and no paywall! Take a look!
The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Criminology is online. Take a look at the table of contents arevie.ws/4hkO879 @mearest.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
There is some great stuff in this volume and no paywall! Take a look!
Another way the DOGE is not helping govt to work better
This is how DOGE is making our government *less* efficient. Firing the people who conduct the benefit-cost analysis of transportation grants will cause worse decisions. It's penny wise, pound foolish. Their salaries are tiny compared to what they can do to deliver cost savings.
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Another way the DOGE is not helping govt to work better
Been thinking about this a great deal lately . . .
Our military will soon be asked to make a very stark choice. There will be mass unrest in this country as these disastrous changes take effect. Trump will invoke the insurrection act at some point. You will be ordered to inflict violence on your fellow citizens. Think through this before it happens.
What Happens if the President Issues a Potentially Illegal Order to the Military?
Military.com spent several months trying to unearth what existing safeguards and policies are in place to protect what has long been considered a hallmark of the U.S. -- an apolitical military that us...
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February 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Been thinking about this a great deal lately . . .
Thanks for the facts
This Wall Street Journal video about the cost of military deportation flights is one of the wildest things I've seen in a while.
It cost $2.8 million—with 2 in-air refuelings!—to deport 104 people to India on February 4.
$27,000 per deported person.
www.wsj.com/video/analys...
It cost $2.8 million—with 2 in-air refuelings!—to deport 104 people to India on February 4.
$27,000 per deported person.
www.wsj.com/video/analys...
February 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Thanks for the facts
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BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
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Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
This is a critical argument. Limiting federal indirects to 15% will devastate science in the United States
Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices.
My latest post:
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My latest post:
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Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices
By Samuel Bagenstos A strong democracy requires a robust independent sector. Organizations and associations that stand apart from the governing state regime...
buttondown.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is a critical argument. Limiting federal indirects to 15% will devastate science in the United States
Am aware of grad student who are no unable to complete dissertations because the youth risk behavior survey is down. These decision are compromising science today and into the future
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
February 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Am aware of grad student who are no unable to complete dissertations because the youth risk behavior survey is down. These decision are compromising science today and into the future
I follow this site and the news about bird flu is terrifying. It's everywhere and growing
BREAKING: Minnesota Turkey Farm in Dakota County Devastated by H5N1 Outbreak, 79,000 Birds Destroyed due to Avian Flu
A commercial turkey farm in Dakota County, Minnesota, has been hit by H5N1, leading to the culling of 79,000 birds amid efforts to contain the outbreak.
A commercial turkey farm in Dakota County, Minnesota, has been hit by H5N1, leading to the culling of 79,000 birds amid efforts to contain the outbreak.
February 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I follow this site and the news about bird flu is terrifying. It's everywhere and growing
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
My fellow academics won't believe this, but I heard a version of these words several times at my faculty mtg today
The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”
Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.
The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.
Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.
The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.
January 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My fellow academics won't believe this, but I heard a version of these words several times at my faculty mtg today
A clip from the San Antonio Times grabbed from IG. Try to explain this one away
January 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A clip from the San Antonio Times grabbed from IG. Try to explain this one away
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
November 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
Wish the media would talk more about this reality
A reminder, from the January 21, 2009, that headline-grabbing Inauguration-day executive orders do not always work out. Some announced changes are quickly realized, some are slow and grinding, and some are never realized.
January 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Wish the media would talk more about this reality
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I don't read the NYT anymore, but this is worth reposting
The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.
Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I don't read the NYT anymore, but this is worth reposting
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Please don’t forget this. It’s why civil rights groups took so seriously the proliferation of hate speech on the platform in 2018 & 2019. And he would sit in our meetings wide-eyed like the Rohingya had not been massacred, and Muslims in India set upon after posts inciting violence on his platform.
A reminder that when the cynical and now MAGA-friendly Mark Zuckerberg makes claims about alleged Biden administration pressure on FB over Covid misinformation, and screams 'Censorship!', he's also the guy who admitted his *uncensored* company played a big role in inciting a *literal genocide*:
Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (Published 2018)
The company, citing a human rights report it commissioned, said it was moving to prevent further abuses of its platform in Myanmar. Critics said they were unconvinced.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Please don’t forget this. It’s why civil rights groups took so seriously the proliferation of hate speech on the platform in 2018 & 2019. And he would sit in our meetings wide-eyed like the Rohingya had not been massacred, and Muslims in India set upon after posts inciting violence on his platform.