The report also covers how new loan limits limit access to graduate degrees, creating financing gaps for women and borrowers of color, who will also pay more in lifetime payments. Together, these changes will increase gender and racial wealth gaps. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Devil Is in the Details: Trump Student Loan Changes Raise Costs and Weaken Safety Net for Borrowers

The Trump administration’s wide-ranging new policies will raise costs for student loan borrowers, restrict access to graduate education, and increase racial and gender wealth gaps.

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Business Insider@businessinsider.com · 5d ago

Borrowers moving from the Biden-era SAVE plan to the new Repayment Assistance Plan could see student-loan bills rise by $2,163 annually on average, a new report says. https://bit.ly/4sfV2B9

CAP's report on the Trump administration's new policies: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Devil Is in the Details: Trump Student Loan Changes Raise Costs and Weaken Safety Net for Borrowers

The Trump administration’s wide-ranging new policies will raise costs for student loan borrowers, restrict access to graduate education, and increase racial and gender wealth gaps.

americanprogress.org

Business Insider@businessinsider.com · 5d ago

Borrowers moving from the Biden-era SAVE plan to the new Repayment Assistance Plan could see student-loan bills rise by $2,163 annually on average, a new report says. https://bit.ly/4sfV2B9

If you have student loans, your monthly bill might be about to spike—all thanks to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.

The 'Big Beautiful Bill' transformed student loans in ways that raise costs and eliminate protections for student loan borrowers. Read my latest on this: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Devil Is in the Details: Trump Student Loan Changes Raise Costs and Weaken Safety Net for Borrowers

The Trump administration’s wide-ranging new policies will raise costs for student loan borrowers, restrict access to graduate education, and increase racial and gender wealth gaps.

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Center for American Progress@americanprogress.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you have student loans, your monthly bill might be about to spike—all thanks to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.

Chaos and confusion on campuses as a result of the conflicting guidance given by the Trump admin to colleges about loan limits for students who are currently in school. For some students, it may mean they can't find the funds to complete their degrees. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Students and Colleges Grapple With New Loan Limits

Evolving guidance from the Education Department shut two students out of federal student loans. “It really feels like someone’s stabbing you,” one mom told Inside Higher Ed.

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Did the University of California system moving to test-blind admissions result in enrolled students being less prepared than previous cohorts, as some have claimed? A more comprehensive look at this problem indicates that it did NOT.

A Researcher Adds What’s Been Missing From the UC Testing Debate: Nuance

A new brief by a prominent scholar argues that some criticisms of the University of California’s test-free policy are predicated on assertions that simply aren’t true.

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When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:

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Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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There is little evidence that MAGA influencer Nick Adams’ nonprofit has provided the civics education it claims. A review of the organization's finances show that it has paid Adams and his mother more than half its recent annual revenue.

This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.

Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...

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Who else is hurt by Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"? K-12 students in public schools may lose access to free school meals as a result of the BBB's massive cuts to SNAP and Medicaid. This video explains how:

Center for American Progress@americanprogress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

American families are already facing an affordability crisis, yet Trump and congressional Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act could increase the financial pressure by putting students' free school meals at risk. Learn how many students could lose access to free meals: https://ampr.gs/3SJsqm4

🔔 NEW from @americanprogress.bsky.social: "The Trump Administration Moves To Tighten Grip on Colleges" This report shows how forthcoming regulations would weaken and politicize college accreditation. Read more here ⬇️ www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Trump Administration Moves To Tighten Grip on Colleges

New rules would gut key student protections on program quality and give the federal government leverage to exert ideological control over American higher education.

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As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

Climate.us 💥🌪️☀️❄️🌬️💦💧🌊🍀

Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.

New paper from me and @jaredb-econ.bsky.social on the debt and our fiscal outlook! Before we dig into the paper, I think we should be frank about how we got here. At the beginning of the century, debt was on track to be stable indefinitely. Then Congress enacted enormous tax cuts. Now it's not.

Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"

it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

In upsetting news you may have missed - ~40 detainees in a California concentration camp have been on a hunger strike since *mid-May* Their demands? Basic rights: access to clean food and water and adequate medical care This is happening in our country. We should all be ashamed.

Immigrant Rights Advocates are Fasting in Support of ICE Detainees on Hunger Strike - The San Fernando Valley Sun

Michelle Arkin has been fasting intermittently in support of immigrants on a hunger strike at two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers in San Bernardino County. This week, the […]

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Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

JACOBS: I have one last question for you. Who won the 2020 presidential election? MARCO RUBIO: I'm not here to answer about 2020 JACOBS: It seems like you have an issue admitting facts, just like you couldn't admit the shoes the president bought you were too big RUBIO: The florsheims fit fine

Trump is giving himself a free hundred plus million dollars by preventing the IRS from auditing him, according to the tax records we’ve seen.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 5mo ago

BREAKING: Blanche says the tax immunity for Trump and his family is STILL IN EFFECT. "I can't answer it yes or no. The ONLY document we're not moving forward with is the fund."

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...