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Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 5d

US government to mint $1 coins as legal tender in praise of #USdictatorInTheMaking with his face and words on both faces, allegedly in celebration of US 250th anniversary. That was declared illegal in a 1866 law, which enshrined an unbroken tradition
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Opinion | What It Takes for a Working-Class Kid to Get a College Education

Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 6d

What it takes for a working-class kid to get a college education— Sense of hopelessness is a primary driver of partisan hatred and inequality. For the past 40 years, US dropped higher education as a public good and privatized: $1.7 trillion in student debt
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 6d

US government blackmails universities to get research funds, urging them to pledge support for Trump’s policies: to cap enrollment of international students, commit to strict definitions of gender, prohibit anything that would “belittle conservative ideas"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

You’re Comparing Trump to the Wrong Fascist Dictator

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 9d

US government tackles science

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 11d

Trump, Hitler comparisons, and Francisco Franco — The “Is Trump the next Hitler?” debate misses his sinister parallels to another 20th-century European tyrant: Generalissimo Franco, the blood-soaked Spain's dictator for 40 years
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The “Is Trump Hitler?” debate misses his sinister parallels to another 20th-century European tyrant.

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 11d

Give in or fight back? US universities are torn on how to respond to US government — The University of California, one of the government's biggest targets so far, is in an uproar over how to respond to the attacks. So is the rest of higher education
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.

Trump authorizes troops for Portland, escalating use of military inside U.S.

Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 11d

#USdictatorInTheMaking sends troops to Portland, Oregon, and to immigration detention facilities around the country, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary” and escalating a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The president authorized the use of “Full force, if necessary,” in a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent.

Opinion | No President Should Have This Kind of Power

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 14d

US has become a country where the president can order the indefinite imprisonment or the unilateral killing of people merely because he has deemed them to be criminals
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 16d

Judith Butler is being targeted by US government after the University of California, Berkeley, gave them a list of 160 names of faculty, staff, students, in a inquiry into “alleged antisemitic incidents," including one of the most famous Jewish intellectuals
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 17d

For only the 2nd time in 2025, Democrats have actual leverage to block Trump and his party. This time, they plan to use it: government shutdown starting Oct. 1, a tricky path that will require discipline and focus if it is to prevail in winning concessions
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Why Democrats are holding firm on conditions ahead of shutdown

Democrats are using their limited leverage ahead of a potential government shutdown, hoping to convince Americans that GOP spending priorities are the real danger.

Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 17d

US government cancels the annual Household Food Security reports, which were introduced in the 1990s to help state and federal officials decide on food assistance programs. The latest report found some 18 million US households were food insecure in 2023
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The Trump administration is ending a decades-long report on U.S. hunger, calling it “politicized.” Last year, the USDA report warned of rising food insecurity.

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 18d

Censorship in US—Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research, stop publishing their studies. The decision to reevaluate all studies was made by MAGA political appointees
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 18d

US government's proposal to UCLA — $1.2-billion fine; drastic overhaul on hiring, admissions, sports, scholarships, discrimination, gender; sweeping detail of how the university must enforce Trump's far-right policies; public declarations of support to those policies
www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.

www.latimes.com

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 18d

US universities are incentivized to attract international students, charging them heftier tuitions. But US government crackdown on foreigners is projected to reduce this year’s international arrivals by at least 30%
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Great Student Swap

For years, public universities have aggressively recruited out-of-state and international students, charging them higher tuition. But those pipelines may be drying up.

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 20d

#USdictatorInTheMaking orders federal regulators to revoke broadcast licenses over late-night hosts who speak overly negatively about him

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 20d

"The good people...,” Richmond wrote, “will not much care whether America is lost or not, till they feel the effects in their purses or their bellies.” Only when defeat stared them in the face would they rally against the government
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Opinion | Britain’s second front: The war for public opinion

Before all-out war with the colonies, a battle for British public opinion.

We must not let the shooting of Charlie Kirk become Trump’s Reichstag fire | David Van Reybrouck

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 21d

“Anyone who stands in our way will be cut down"— Kirk as pretext for tightening Trump's grip, silencing dissent, concentrating power: full state control. The repression of academics, lawyers, journalists, civil servants, military officers, judges will intensify
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Take heed from European history: this could be the pretext for the repression of the US president’s political opponents, says Belgian author and philosopher David Van Reybrouck

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A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature

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Steven Phelps @evolbrain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow. Reward and planning everywhere.

Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 first time ever full brain-wide map of the activity of single neurons during decision-making.

600k+ neurons covering 279 brain areas, which together represent 95% of the mouse brain volume!

Exciting times ahead! 🐭🧠🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 22d

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: The activity of single neurons during decision-making — A resource for understanding how computations distributed across and within brain areas drive behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature

The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

www.nature.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Sep 8

Whether it's Obama wearing a tan suit or Trump declaring "Chipocalypse Now" and pledging to unleash "the Department of WAR" on America's third largest city, leaders of both parties have shown disregard for presidential norms.

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 22d

From Erdogan's Turkey to Trump's USA

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Alfons López Tena @alfonslopeztena.bsky.social · 23d

US government has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in cancer-related research grants and contracts, suspended payments for hundreds of millions more — The National Cancer Institute has lost $2.7 billion of funding, its lowest budget in more than 30 years
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer