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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 06/04/2025

It is really shitty watching people you love die of cancer as the federal government cancels research money and tells the lot of you to go fuck yourselves

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party...with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions" www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office

A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a senten...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/03/2025

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

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Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · 20/03/2025

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI". And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Beginning March 31, people will no longer be able to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone. Those unable to verify their identity through the agency’s “my Social Security” online service will be required to visit a field office in person to complete the process.

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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/03/2025

Breaking news: A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking Elon Musk and the U.S. DOGE Service from taking any further actions to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and ordered that steps be taken to allow the agency to reoccupy its headquarters.

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Live updates: Trump and Putin agree to partial ceasefire in Ukraine, but plan still needs Kyiv’s approval

Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/03/2025

The C.F.P.B has recovered more than $300 million in damages to military personnel and veterans. Now the Trump Administration is trying to shut it down. “The impact of shutting down the C.F.P.B. on our servicemembers—it’s huge,” a military spouse said.

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Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog

A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I hear this a lot but I think it's actually vital for cis people to understand what's at stake for themselves in trans people's fight. We can pray for empathy with one hand and fight for shared interests with the other but guess which will get results

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

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She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...

WHAT WE FOUND

We found that the bureau does not have effective strategies to address staffing gaps and high vacancies in FR positions. Specifically, the bureau did not:

• Meet its staffing goals for ACS, CPS, and NCVS.
• Implement a process to track and assess vacancy information from the regions.

Without a workforce plan, the bureau lacks a comprehensive strategy to ensure it has the necessary FR staff to help accomplish its mission of providing high-quality data. Unaddressed FR staffing gaps increase the risks of lower response rates on surveys and higher attrition of other field staff, who bear the burden of increased workloads. Developing and implementing a workforce plan for FRs will help the bureau address the issues we identify in this report.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The "last updated" date on this National Survey of Children's Health page is a lie. I have a copy of the data and codebook from Oct 2024. The materials there today are missing at least one key measure: whether or not the child faced discrimination for their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Screenshot of https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/nsch/data/datasets.2023.html with highlighted text "Page Last Revised - September 17, 2024"

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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

There will be a separate vote on a Collins/Van Hollen bill that will enable DC to continue funding public education, public safety, & human services in the nation’s capital. We urge all Senators to vote for it!

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 14/03/2025

Seniors came to JD Vance's event to demand the Trump Administration stop cutting Social Security. JD's response: "Don't you all have jobs?"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

20% of kids now have a smartphone entering KINDERGARTEN Listen I'm a smartphone addict too but I need the nanny state has to do something. This has gone way too far and broken too many brains.

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 14/03/2025

I’m voting NO on the terrible GOP resolution.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 14/03/2025

The federal government is the single largest employer of veterans and North Carolina is no exception: 33,000 of fed workers living there are veterans, veteran spouses, or military spouses

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Don't take this as gospel. It's not official. It's a very knowledgable source's best understanding of the situation. This persons likely Yeses on cloture are. Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand.

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Neil Malhotra @nmalhotra.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We are hiring a pre-doc at Stanford to work on (among other things) a project called Public Pulse, which will provide reports on public opinion in the US, and potentially fill the void of things like 538. Please share with your undergrads. iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2025-...

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2025–26 Faculty Research Projects | Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

All of this is clearly immoral & illegal. But the criminal code is expansive. Authorities could find a “crime” on just about anyone. Authoritarian state actors seeking to target people whose speech they don’t like could find other “legal” justifications for their actions. We cannot accept this.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 12/03/2025

Can’t stop thinking about all the people who’ve lost their jobs. Losing your job in this country, it’s like annihilation—not least because it usually means losing health care, too. And for so many people, their entire sector has been eviscerated. I wouldn’t be able to feed my kids. It’s terrifying.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11/03/2025

I am telling you most people don't know it's happening.

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Youngmin yi @youngminyi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ok so not even vibes, “ish,” or “-esque” just straight up literal car salesman

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Republicans snuck a provision into the rule for the CR that would preemptively surrender congressional authority to block tariffs. When House Republicans vote for this rule today, they will also be voting to support Trump's tariffs and all the resulting damage to the US economy

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 11/03/2025

was your vaccine-related NIH grant terminated? please reach out: @katherinejwu.12 on Signal

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

JUST IN: A federal judge clarifies that his order barring enforcement of Trump EO on "DEI" funding applies to *all* federal agencies, not just those named in the lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NPR @npr.org · 10/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Here’s the reality: This government—despite what they’d have us believe—cannot simply do whatever it wants. The moment we accept that bullshit, we become complicit in this blatantly authoritarian move by the president and his administration. With a loud, collective voice, we must say: fuck this!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The way I reach young men is explaining how they've been underestimated. The Trumps, Musks, and Tates of the world think they can't be responsible, can't do emotional labor, can't look out for others, and can't care about people different from themselves. I believe they can be better than that.

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