Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Immigrants make up only 4% of the world’s population but they are more than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners.

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NCSU Soc/Ant is hiring! crime, law, social control: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...

No mozzarella sticks at The French Laundry zero stars

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Prof. Jacob Bor, commented, “if the US simply performed at the average of our peers, one out of every two US deaths under 65 years is likely avoidable. Our failure to address this is a national scandal.”

This is not the most pressing UNC problem but I am once again obliged to share the state of things in a humanities building. Can we get some Belichik bathrooms over in Dey Hall

correspondent for The Economist

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

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"Because of changes that are starting to roll out from Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill... about 2.4 million people could lose access to the food stamps per month...

"Millions more will see their monthly benefit amounts shrink because of changes mandated by the law...

www.cbsnews.com/news/food-st...

Now kids are graduating with 12+ AP classes. They think they need this to get into college. And it is part of tracking (bc you can’t take them until you’ve met the pre-reqs, which are tied to tracking). But there are also huge differences (even within our county) in how many APs a school can offer.

I wonder how the obsession with AP classes (which IMO is totally out of control and is so far beyond what it was in the 1990s) exacerbates — or doesn’t— the tracking and within-school inequality issue.

My children and 14 and 12 and they are definitely getting a better education than I did — they are at a good but huge and not particularly well-funded county school system in the South. I went to school in a small town that everyone moved to for the “good” schools.

This is what is happening when the cameras are running

Wait, it gets worse. The team of economists and researchers responsible for the USDA survey that measures food insecurity and hunger were put on indefinite paid leave today.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The federal government is canceling the leading national survey of household food insecurity and hunger in the United States, @wsj.com reported today. The Dec 2025 survey will be canceled, while the Oct 2025 report based on Dec 2024 data will be released as usual. (1/4)

I shouldn’t be, but I’m shocked by this. We’ve been measuring food insecurity for 30 years. We have the most comprehensive data in the world. And they’re just cancelling it… so we can’t see that food insecurity continues to rise amidst all the cuts to food assistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.

When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.

I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Kimmel was fired for criticizing the president. That milk toast white man said nothing about Charlie Kirk.

This is just authoritarianism 101.

I've lived it. I know.

Wake the fuck up America.

NIH has already lost almost 20% of its staff. Just as it looks like starting to catch up—more staff cuts. And to be clear, they’ve caught up on spending but are funding far fewer proposals—in part because they’re budgeting grants differently www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/n...