Reposted by Tracey MearesAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"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-...balkin.blogspot.com 14414
Reposted by Tracey Meareswhet moser @whetmoser.com · 02/03/2025"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...apnews.com$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's overThe U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees. 126107932783
Reposted by Tracey MearesAlt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/202518F 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.org18f.orgWe're not done yet | 18F 697187396805
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 25/02/2025There is some great stuff in this volume and no paywall! Take a look! 021
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Another way the DOGE is not helping govt to work better 100
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Been thinking about this a great deal lately . . . 010
Reposted by Tracey MearesJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025BREAKING 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.popular.infoBREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grantsAn internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information. 361261027730
Reposted by Tracey MearesMark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Incredible: 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.socialmotherjones.comProject 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kidIts architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking. 56867983142
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 08/02/2025This is a critical argument. Limiting federal indirects to 15% will devastate science in the United States 083
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Am 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 031
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I follow this site and the news about bird flu is terrifying. It's everywhere and growing 010
Reposted by Tracey MearesGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps. 34539890331614
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 29/01/2025My fellow academics won't believe this, but I heard a version of these words several times at my faculty mtg today 010
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 25/01/2025A clip from the San Antonio Times grabbed from IG. Try to explain this one away 011
Reposted by Tracey MearesKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025Devastating 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. 791242147821
Reposted by Tracey MearesMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget 1027269356040
Reposted by Tracey MearesNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/m... Join us @contrariannews.bsky.social !cnn.comJen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering ‘authoritarian threat’ | CNN BusinessVeteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list of Washington Post figures to leave the troubled institution. 704173524343
Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I don't read the NYT anymore, but this is worth reposting 010
Reposted by Tracey MearesSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Please 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. 91395545
