Liars. "I am Senator Alex Padilla."

Mike Lee has been an appalling shit poster for quite a while now … but this is a whole other level of awful. He has no business being an elected official in a healthy democracy.

This is absolutely astounding. All five minutes of it.

I don’t use this platform much these days, but wanted to share some work I’ve been proud of since joining New America. I’ve been writing about homelessness among parenting college students, what the data reveals, and what we can do about it. 🧵

What happens when you disrupt a norm for too long. Devastating.

“Your complaints..about being too woke, about not having enough jobs for white people, about too many women in the academy—have found resonance with an authoritarian push to control our spaces,” Wesleyan University president Michael Roth said Tuesday" insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

With all of the foul things brewing on Capitol Hill, it is easy to miss the fascism across town. Trump is using student debt to punish people who oppose his cruelty and abuse. This is fascism.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost *14M* lives thru 2030. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

.Jordan Matsudaira and CJ Libassi explain what new graduate loan limits will mean, not only for borrowers in medical school but across the graduate education landscape. Check out this thread/follow Postsecondary Education& Economics Research Center for more!

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But some will read those books, and so it is our duty, our gift, to help them make discoveries through those works. That’s something to hold onto in these dark times

“Trump promised to trim the federal bureaucracy. In this case, he has instead defunded the police,” Kevin Carey writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Trump administration has justified dismantling parts of the federal government under the banner of cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse,” but gutting the Department of Education’s anti-fraud team is likely to have the opposite effect, Kevin Carey argues. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Trump administration has justified dismantling parts of the federal government under the banner of cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse,” but gutting the Department of Education’s anti-fraud team is likely to have the opposite effect, Kevin Carey argues. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Listen to Ted Mitchell from ACE "this isn’t policy. This is simple extortion and deal-making, which has no place in a democracy." Nick Anderson AAC&U American Association of University Professors FIRE Institute for Citizens & Scholars Brown University Wesleyan University Harvard University Columbia University nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/…

Scammers Are Coming for College Students - new from New America Ed's Kevin Carey: U.S. Department of Education used to employ people whose job was to stop waste, fraud, and abuse. Now almost all of their desks are empty. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau. For a full statement opposing this move, read: friendsofbls.org/updates/2025/8…

Step 1: Have DOGE lay off BLS staff so that it cannot collect as much jobs data. Step 2: Blame BLS when that means jobs estimates must be revised more often. Step 3: Fire BLS director and replace with a partisan hack to cook the jobs numbers. cnn.com/2025/06/05/eco…

This is complete lunacy. Cancelling vaccine research will cost lives, and using blatant misinformation to justify it is deplorable. x.com/SecKennedy/sta…