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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · May 17

This is not real. It is true that China has sprinkle in support of Gaza but there is no evidence of China providing humanitarian aid to Gaza recently

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · May 6

Amazing book. I also love Trees!

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Apr 26

But only a little . . .

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Apr 23

Incisive analysis. History matters.

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 23

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

stanforddaily.com

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 23

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

stanforddaily.com

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Apr 1

"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-...

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Apr 1

Speak, friend!

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Mar 22

The destruction of the future of science

Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Mar 7

Read this 🧵

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Mar 7

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Mar 7

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.

www.nytimes.com

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · Mar 2

"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...

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over

The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

apnews.com

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · Mar 1

18F 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.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 28

That was shocking

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 28

I'm alive!

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 27

Shocking

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 27

And his post today about WaPo opinion section. Wow

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 26

Resveratrol

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 25

There is some great stuff in this volume and no paywall! Take a look!

Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · Feb 25

The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Criminology is online. Take a look at the table of contents arevie.ws/4hkO879 @mearest.bsky.social

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Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · Feb 25

The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Criminology is online. Take a look at the table of contents arevie.ws/4hkO879 @mearest.bsky.social

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 20

I get it!

Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 18

Another way the DOGE is not helping govt to work better

Zach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is how DOGE is making our government *less* efficient. Firing the people who conduct the benefit-cost analysis of transportation grants will cause worse decisions. It's penny wise, pound foolish. Their salaries are tiny compared to what they can do to deliver cost savings.

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Zach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is how DOGE is making our government *less* efficient. Firing the people who conduct the benefit-cost analysis of transportation grants will cause worse decisions. It's penny wise, pound foolish. Their salaries are tiny compared to what they can do to deliver cost savings.

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 16

Been thinking about this a great deal lately . . .

SpookyNeutrons @sleepyneutrons.bsky.social · Feb 15

Our military will soon be asked to make a very stark choice. There will be mass unrest in this country as these disastrous changes take effect. Trump will invoke the insurrection act at some point. You will be ordered to inflict violence on your fellow citizens. Think through this before it happens.

What Happens if the President Issues a Potentially Illegal Order to the Military?

Military.com spent several months trying to unearth what existing safeguards and policies are in place to protect what has long been considered a hallmark of the U.S. -- an apolitical military that us...

www.military.com

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 15

Thanks for the facts

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Feb 14

This Wall Street Journal video about the cost of military deportation flights is one of the wildest things I've seen in a while.

It cost $2.8 million—with 2 in-air refuelings!—to deport 104 people to India on February 4.

$27,000 per deported person.

www.wsj.com/video/analys...

Still from video: map of flight path with "$2.8 million"

SpookyNeutrons @sleepyneutrons.bsky.social · Feb 15

Our military will soon be asked to make a very stark choice. There will be mass unrest in this country as these disastrous changes take effect. Trump will invoke the insurrection act at some point. You will be ordered to inflict violence on your fellow citizens. Think through this before it happens.

What Happens if the President Issues a Potentially Illegal Order to the Military?

Military.com spent several months trying to unearth what existing safeguards and policies are in place to protect what has long been considered a hallmark of the U.S. -- an apolitical military that us...

www.military.com

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Feb 14

This Wall Street Journal video about the cost of military deportation flights is one of the wildest things I've seen in a while.

It cost $2.8 million—with 2 in-air refuelings!—to deport 104 people to India on February 4.

$27,000 per deported person.

www.wsj.com/video/analys...

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Tracey Meares @mearest.bsky.social · Feb 13

Eat real food

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 12

BREAKING

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.

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants

An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · Feb 12

Incredible: 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.social

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid

Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

www.motherjones.com

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