I think one of the problems is that media has conditioned people to believe that fascism comes along with dark skies and ominous music.

People don’t recognize authoritarianism when they see their neighbors walking the dog on a sunny day with chirping birds.

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
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Eliminating the Department of Education will lead to gutting funds from special education to financial aid for college.

They are literally stealing from children to pay for tax cuts for Donald Trump’s friends.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

He nails it.

“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.”

Congratulations America,
He spent $15 million of YOUR money to take a nap at the Super Bowl and leave before halftime…

All, on your dime.

From early education, to universal school meals, CTE training and HVAC investments, much of what we know works in education policy comes from the kind of research under attack tonight at USED/IES.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

At the newsletter right now:

The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.

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