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Peter Treitler

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Rutgers Institute for Health @rutgersifh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📢 The Center for Health Services Research at Rutgers IFH is hiring! We’re seeking an exceptional health services researcher to join our multidisciplinary team. Apply now to advance impactful work in policy & health care delivery: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I spent some time at the site where protestors incinerated five Waymos—all lined up neatly in a row in downtown LA—and spoke to journalists, eyewitnesses and activists who were there. This is how protestors weaponized Waymos and Lime scooters, and turned them into icons of the anti-ICE uprising
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The weaponization of Waymo
How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
When the value of a corporation can fall $100 billion -- around 400x what Elon invested in Trump's election -- based on interpersonal relations between a CEO and the President, it does rather suggest that policy isn't really based on the best interests of the American people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2025
Imagine seeing this image four years ago. You would've wondered what tragedy befell our country where a scene like this could possibly happen.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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Alicia Mendez @alicitadelfina.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I recently partnered with Remarkably Us, a Latina led non-profit that centers Latina former foster youth. Together, we are conducting an oral history project of Latinx former foster youth who've experienced child sexual abuse. Please share this flyer as you see fit. bit.ly/3YlmHm7
yellow and purple recruitment flyer with flowers and information about a study for Latinx former foster youth.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students. tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...
A LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS
March 29, 2025
To our students:
We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities-because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment.
Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice."
The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders:
• single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment;
• threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service;
• relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and
• punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern.
While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described.
On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts,…
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
The biggest reason government officials aren't giving any specifics about the criteria by which these arrests and deportations are selected, is that the criteria is "pro-Israel think-tanks and advocacy organizations created lists of troublesome individuals and gave them to us."
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Peter Treitler @treitlerpeter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov for your leadership!
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 05/03/2025
Shame on Tom Homan for lying about the City of Boston.
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 05/03/2025
If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The biggest fraud being perpetrated on the American people is the GOP Tax Scam.
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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump promises tax cuts for everyone. The tax increases he imposed today would wipe out any tax cuts the bottom of 40% of Americans would receive. This doesn’t count additional import taxes he’s considering or the cuts to Medicaid and nutrition assistance.
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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Not taxing Social Security benefits would be yet another tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of the Social Security trust fund that pays all of our benefits. www.cbpp.org/blog/elimina...
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Eliminating Taxation of Social Security Benefits Would Be Unwise | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Social Security beneficiaries with higher incomes pay income tax on part of their benefits. Repealing the taxation of Social Security benefits, as President Trump has proposed, would be unwise...
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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PombeDoc @pombedoc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A statement from @sharonparrott.bsky.social on the passage of the House budget resolution, which calls for deep cuts in health coverage, food assistance, and college aid—all to pay for huge tax giveaways for wealthy households and businesses: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
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House Budget Would Increase Costs and Hardship for Many While Providing Huge Tax Breaks for a Wealthy Few | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The House Republican budget passed today calls for massive cuts in health coverage, food assistance, and help paying for college, among some other areas, to pay for huge tax giveaways for wealthy...
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.
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OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
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Alyssa Nicole @earthtoalyssa.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Love from Boston. ✊🏼
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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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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The House GOP's priorities for budget reconciliation in a nutshell: $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy vs. $880 billion in #Medicaid cuts and $230 billion in SNAP cuts
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
No one should comply with this order. It is censorship. #Trump is a tin-pot dictator and this is garbage. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
There's far more idealism in the civil service than people realize. But not for long paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-a-scam...
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It’s a Scam! It’s a Purge! It’s a Scam *and* a Purge
How to think about Trump’s plans for the federal workforce
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NEW: Over 60 German & Austrian universities have announced today they are quitting X/Twitter. The backlash against Musk is growing after he endorsed Germany’s Far Right. Germany’s Feberal Court of Justice has also quit the platform, as well as top German football clubs & labour unions.
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Dozens Of German Universities Turn Back On X Accounts
Dozens of German universities said on Friday they would no longer use social network X -- owned by the world's richest man, Elon Musk -- citing ethical concerns.
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John Arnold @johnarnoldfndtn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Private equity perfected the doc specialty roll-up that avoided reg scrutiny to increase prices. Anesthesia consolidators used stealth consolidation to create market power, enact anti-competitive practices, and raise prices 30%. 1/5
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead
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