As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 aaup.org/news/against-a…

Elon now bragging about destroying an $800 million/year agency that has returned $21 billion to consumers who've been screwed by banks, credit card companies, and payday lenders, and other scammers. Get ready for the return of credit card late fees, overdraft penalties, and all

Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

Everyone needs to look at the NIH impact in their state. These cuts will have damaging effects on research, jobs, and health across the nation.

We're going to need to use this one a lot.

This is 1984 in real time.

reddit.com/r/fednews/comm… People supporting this don't want clean water to drink, functioning roads, fire fighting, kids with disabilities to learn, crime survivors to be supported, or any medical or scientific advances. . . These people did things for us.

So you can't teach about systemic or structural racism. 3/5th of a person was what? NOT embedded in a document that structured how our country worked? Slavery was NOT a system? Jim Crow? Redlining? 1984. Every. Day.

I love all the hurt you’re causing but can you make one exception?

In the days before Social Security, elderly people would commit suicide or live on the streets when they lost their jobs or became physically unable to work in their twilight years. President FDR saved lives. Elon Musk is taking them.

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: right-wing has narrative dominance. My org (Media Matters) did this study and been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

Mississippi ranks at the bottom in terms of health outcomes, economic growth, and infrastructure. And isn't that great for education either. This is going to turn out well. . .

And this is why we have to continue in the fight. Why would the Administration rewrite the narrative of the Underground Railroad in the National Parks? #Handsoff our history. #harriettubman #HandsOff2025

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

Just saw a post saying Sinners has no trauma. And I don’t know what movie you were watching and what you consider trauma. The trauma is baked in something you were OK with digesting — horror vs historical drama. Please let this term go. It’s useless, at this point.

"Historian Elizabeth Blum said that for the Black women of Love Canal, the fight wasn’t just about health, but about getting the same treatment as their peers." 19thnews.org/2025/05/black-…

Never forget. npr.org/2019/01/31/690…

It would be nice if the press and pundits on social media reminded everyone of the history of the U.S. interfering in Iran's governance. How'd that go?

Yes. This bill is grounded in eugenics.

A small fraction of research that will not happen because of cancelled grants. nature.com/articles/d4158…