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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

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Maria Theresa Norn @mtnorn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Tænkte det gav sig selv 😂 Black no 1, 14 years (bedste GnR nr IMHO) og 5 mins alone. Men en stærk liste all the way. Sig til hvis du tager imod ønsker til næste års liste 😁

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Maria Theresa Norn @mtnorn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Fantastisk initiativ - og så med tre af mine yndlingsnumre ✨ Glædelig jul, og god julefrokost!

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

To quote @mcopelov.bsky.social, the case for more, not less liberal arts education has never been stronger

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Malinowski: A couple of years ago, Vance gave a speech.. The title was universities are the enemy. He said explicitly, we cannot achieve anything in this country as a conservative movement unless we aggressively go after the universities. That's what they're doing right now

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

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What DOGE gets wrong about tech and government

Lessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 16/05/2025

First they came after the law firms And I said nothing Then they came after universities And I said nothing Then they came after nonprofits And I said nothing. Then they disappeared students who they disagreed with And I said nothing Then they came after me.

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This is outrageous.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Very good on nuances of current trade policy

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

If you attack the Capitol to overturn election results and to overthrow democracy on behalf of a criminal, you’re a hero. If you attack a Tesla dealership, we’ll throw away the key.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/03/2025

Because of historic investments in foundational research, we have effective treatments for lethal conditions today. A retrenchment of American science could mean that people will suffer from the many illnesses for which we currently have little to offer.

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Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science

Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

3/8/15, NY USA: Musk/Trump Regime pull $400 million of funding from Columbia University to undermine free speech & university research (which US has dominated to their benefit since WW2). Undermining universities is standard authoritarian move to protect regime from hotbed of pro-democratic protest.

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Something interesting happened here around 2000. The GOP took a hard right turn and never looked back. www.ft.com/content/3046...

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

In 6 weeks Trump has effectively gutted the government, threatened the world order, threatened government workers, risked plunging us into a recession with all the personnel cuts and eliminated most of the regulations that kept the oligarchs in check. www.salon.com/2025/02/27/t...

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The king of his Cabinet: Trump’s display of White House power is an ominous sign for democracy

In less than six weeks, Donald Trump has forever changed the country

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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Leia BlueSkywalker @blueskye2025.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights are human rights

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science. Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.

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No, University Endowments Can’t Replace Federal Science Funding

How Endowments Actually Work

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Universities - but also journals, professional associations etc. Anytime you have a link to post on X you are encouraging people to use a site that systematically downgrades dissenting voices.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

Through our budgets, the Department of Defense will once again resource warfighting and cease unnecessary spending that set our military back under the previous administration, including through so-called "climate change" and other woke programs, as well as excessive bureaucracy. The time for preparation is over – we must act swiftly to deter current and impending threats and make the best use of taxpayers' dollars in doing so.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 16/02/2025

🇺🇦Zelenskyy pleads with Europeans to finally put aside the petty nationalism and unite to put themselves in charge of their own future. "Some in Europe might be frustrated with 🇪🇺Brussels. But let’s be clear: If not Brussels, then Moscow. It’s your decision. That’s geopolitics. That’s history."

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“If it's not Brussels, then it's Moscow": Zelenskyy's Statement at MSC 2025 | BR24

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started. It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians. Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This was always Trump’s plan. Art of the Steal.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I started talking about our life under competitive authoritarianism c.2017. Lots of folks on the Hellsite told me I was hysterically exaggerating. I’m appalled we’re here. But I’m glad to see the founding experts on competitive authoritarianism clearly explaining exactly where we are in 🇺🇸 in 2025.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Steve Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die "the U.S. is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... "A failure to resist... could pave the way for authoritarian entrenchment" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

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It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.
Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few.
But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong.
It is also contrary to the rule of law.
The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair.
We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New from me @thebulwark.bsky.social I explain why Trump's attack on university indirect rates is such a big deal, and how it represents one more example of an indifference to the rule of law. The "laws are just vibes" party is doing irreparable damage to America. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Under Trump, Laws Are Just Vibes

The administration’s dangerous attack on scientific funding is part of a pattern of illegality and abuse.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/02/2025

“So why would I go through the pretense of peer review if the process is ultimately outsourced to an algorithm? I do not care for the aesthetics of peer review. We are not children playing academics. We are supposed to be doing substantive, not performative work.”

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Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🧵 The Fight Has Come to Them: Science, Institutions & The Indirects Cut I want to take a moment to talk about the perspective behind these slides I put together. I’ve framed them to be as nonpartisan as possible—but in a moment this polarized, there are limits here. 1/

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

He is describing a dictatorship. One key difference between the US and Hungary has to do with that first bunch of Constitutional amendments.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 06/02/2025

The Trump administration has canceled $4 billion in US pledges to the world’s largest climate fund — gutting a UN initiative helping over 100 countries adapt to the rapidly changing world. 🔗 ow.ly/QaEN50UUC1F

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