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With billionaires, educational institutions, and law firms bending the knee to Trump, Heather McGhee says the US is now a competitive autocracy.
April 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
With billionaires, educational institutions, and law firms bending the knee to Trump, Heather McGhee says the US is now a competitive autocracy.
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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February 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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“Breaking the law” is so much more accurate and way quicker to say!
President Trump has opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. Here are some examples of the administration’s defiance of statutes. nyti.ms/4aKnKRP
February 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“Breaking the law” is so much more accurate and way quicker to say!
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A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to curb birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors.
Federal judge in Maryland blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued the injunction at court hearing on a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups arguing that Trump’s order is unconstitutional.
wapo.st
February 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to curb birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors.
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"We're so wealthy but so unhappy": The US economy is performing better than any of its peers and pulling away from Europe and Japan. But the US fares less well in almost every other way, including health, happiness and social trust. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
A Wealthy and Unhappy Nation
What a new study found about America.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"We're so wealthy but so unhappy": The US economy is performing better than any of its peers and pulling away from Europe and Japan. But the US fares less well in almost every other way, including health, happiness and social trust. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
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I agree. We are witnessing the disintegration of the federal constitutional order.
It is past time to start consider - in concrete terms - what individuals, and entities including business enterprises, and blue states, can do to protect against/not facilitate tyranny.
A couple of (actually serious) thought-experiment questions on where we are and where we’re going:
If a bunch of sociopaths are destroying the federal government from within, why should we pay federal taxes?
And if they succeed, who’s going to make us pay those taxes?
If a bunch of sociopaths are destroying the federal government from within, why should we pay federal taxes?
And if they succeed, who’s going to make us pay those taxes?
February 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I agree. We are witnessing the disintegration of the federal constitutional order.
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And—in particular—don’t be silent for the sake of being polite. We’re not taking about politics in the ordinary sense anymore. This is about decency and morality and whether or not this country chooses to become a thoroughly criminalized state instead of an imperfect representative democracy.
You can't shame MAGA. It's impossible to shame shameless people. I go on and debate them, trust me. They will make excuses for and glorify Musk's Nazi salute and Trump pardoning violent insurrectionists. But remember there's a world out there - and the majority opposes it. Be loud. Don't be silent.
January 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And—in particular—don’t be silent for the sake of being polite. We’re not taking about politics in the ordinary sense anymore. This is about decency and morality and whether or not this country chooses to become a thoroughly criminalized state instead of an imperfect representative democracy.
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