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Nico Halecky

@nehalecky.bsky.social
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Engineering and AI leader. I build people teams to do amazing things. Bike gravel, plant wildflowers and love trees and bees on our pale blue dot 🌏. Always learning partner and father.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Carl warned us
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 04/05/2026
This checks..
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Sail A drop-in Apache Spark replacement written in Rust, unifying batch processing, stream processing, and compute-intensive AI workloads. github.com/lakehq/sail
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
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Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost
“The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/12/2025
Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Launched today at WIRED’s The Big Interview event, this manifesto (of which I'm a founding signatory) pushes for a positive framework for thinking about building hyper-personalized AI-powered software...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 21/11/2025
Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.
King tide wave crashes on the rocks on Monterey Bay coastline
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Posit @posit.co · 20/10/2025
Announcing Plotnine 0.15.0: The Python package for Grammar of Graphics gets a massive upgrade! A new feature is Native Plot Composition: combine multiple independent plots into one figure, no more layout managers for multi-panel #Python graphs! Read the post: posit.co/blog/plotnin...
Four-panel chart grid: a) scatter plot of mpg vs. wt; b) box plot of mpg vs. cyl; c) line plot of mpg vs. disp; and d) bar chart of carb count.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 11/10/2025
This is a wildly creative set of customizations for Claude Code, using the new plugin system they just released. There are SO many fascinating ideas in this! Strongly recommend reading it and then spending some time exploring the accompanying repo github.com/obra/superpo...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A friend at Cato just did some great work quantifying this and his main point was to underscore how relatively rare it still is, to throw a bit of a cold water on the panic. But he also found, as any serious methodology inevitably does, right-wing outnumbered left-wing several times over.
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Politically Motivated Violence Is Rare in the United States
The government can and should vigorously pursue justice for Kirk and all the others murdered by politically motivated terrorists, but it can and should do so without new political witch hunts, expande...
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Where’s the economic productivity in America?
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
On vacation this week, reading “Orwell’s roses” by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, and so appreciate the reminder that we need to seek & celebrate joy, even in times of pain, struggle & devastation. We have to keep reminding ourselves of what we are fighting for, not just what we are fighting against.
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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 13/08/2025
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pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta
pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
My oped in the NYT today, as we mark the 80th anniversary of the Manhattan Project and the end of the World War II, Trump is undoing the model of innovation that powered US prosperity ever since. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project
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avi bagla @avibagla.com · 06/08/2025
Can Bluesky say every word in the dictionary? I dunno but I plan to find out! I made a website that tracks every single word said on bluesky (as of yesterday).
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The f*cked part is that this is a totally rational thing to do in an autocracy. Businesses know His Royal Majesty can make doing business inordinately difficult, so they lavish him with gifts and praise his greatness and etc etc I passionately hate that we're here
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
PBS was for everyone
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/08/2025
if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I swear to fucking god knock this dumb bullshit off and stand against fascism and offer some actual solutions to make peoples lives better or get the hell out of the way for people who will. Just painfully embarassing and infuriating.
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting. Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
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Science and Democracy Under Siege
Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Sadly the people who most need to watch this whole thing won’t. But we sure will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W... (Mehdi is not the one you want to bring the weak sauce to)
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
US scientists describe the effects of Trump's cuts. “If you cut the funding to the people who are doing the work right now, you don’t know what they would have innovated in 10 years or 15 years or 32 years like Rosalind Yalow. We don’t know what we’re losing.” 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts
President’s assault on science –particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com
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Nico Halecky @nehalecky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The fascists seek versification of art and entertainment to create a populace with no north, reduced to soundbite ad-hominem attacks divorced from reality. AI/social media/TikTok are our versificators. h/t @simonwillison.net for reminding us of Orwell's prescience 🙌 simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/n...
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A quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four
There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except ...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Superman has been firmly anti-shitbird for a long time.
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Stoic @stoic1.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” -John Muir
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 26/06/2025
When Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first ever block on the Bitcoin blockchain, he inscribed it with a news headline from that day: "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
Bitcoin block O (the genesis block). It's inscribed with the text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.”

On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use.

On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm.

On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 12/06/2025
The biggest scandal in AI energy right now deserves to be xAI's data center running 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother? simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/...
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‘How come I can’t breathe?’: Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The biggest environmental scandal in AI right now should be the xAI data center in Memphis, which has been running for nearly a year on 35 methane gas turbines under …
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/06/2025
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
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It matters. I care.
It matters. I care.0:00/295.5529711× Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. “Who cares? It d...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/06/2025
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
In the latest NSF budget, they're proposing a 75% cut to the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which funded the project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
 quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads:

“If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.”
The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Many of us who read Project 2025 have been saying from the start that The Regime has a unifying goal of destroying US scientific infrastructure and causing the collapse of Universities. We were called “hysterical”. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 16/05/2025
I understand the narrative around losing to someone using AI, but that's not the game I want to play. I'm working to be me; there is no competition.
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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Definitely read this interview with @naomiaklein.bsky.social.
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Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
There are a bunch of articles like this, which argue that Trump is going after institutions because of their failures. The reality is Trump is going after institutions - bureaucracy, military, judges, lawyers, media - because he is an authoritarian who wants control. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation
Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.
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