An LAPD Officer surreptitiously recorded racist, sexist and homophobic conversations within the division responsible for vetting new candidates. Now, he faces 13 years in prison for it. Words by @acatwithnews.bsky.social latenfour.com/2026/07/31/h...

He Recorded Alleged Bigotry Inside LAPD. Now He’s Facing 16 Felony Charges

LOS ANGELES — After secretly recording conversations that he felt were racist, homophobic and sexist by fellow officers, an LAPD officer handed them over to the department’s Internal Affairs Divisi…

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"[O]ur new golden age... is going to be a golden age of taking money away from scientists and universities and giving it to companies like Scale AI." www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...

The "new science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

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Admirable clarity @science.org

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Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up.

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo ago

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, Tyler Austin Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them?

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

Reporting on OMB's sweeping politicization of federal grants tends to focus on science / health research. But as I note in this piece for @crisesnotes.bsky.social, the rule is a huge threat to *intergovernmental* grants and state/local fiscal stability. www.crisesnotes.com/russell-voug...

Russell Vought is Using the Plumbing of Fiscal Federalism to Create a New Patronage System

EDITORS NOTE: I (Nathan) have struggled whether to rush to comment on this proposed OMB rule. Being a recent Fiscal Year 2026 OMB memo, and knowing that the OMB will continue to create new forms of bu...

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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY

ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.

PLEASE SIGN to support Prof Tiffany Willoughby-Herard! 2 yrs ago Prof W-H stood up to protect students, rightly declaring “we cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy” while being violently arrested. Tell UCI to DROP all disciplinary charges against her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...

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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...

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"Abolishing the #NIH would not create a funding vacuum." A sparkling example of gaslighting of the masses by Scott Atlas of the conservative think tank Hoover Institution. If the NIH is abolished, pharma goes down with it or will invest $$ outside of the US. 🧵 WE ALL LOSE 🧪 archive.today/sJ0JV

Opinion | Abolish the NIH

A $48 billion government monopoly should give way to the market.

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What to the Colored Conventions was the Declaration of Independence? Normally we hear Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July. This year, we are trying something new. From now until Monday night, we are posting quotes every half hour from the Colored Conventions movement. coloredconventions.org

Russell Vought is bleeding science. Why isn’t this getting more attention? It’s like I’m surrounded by zombies. The green reflecting pool is getting all the news. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You

A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.

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NPR is calling the Mamdani-backed candidates “far left” which I guess is shorthand for “would like to give healthcare to their constituents somewhat”

Public health decisions will be a matter of politics, not saving lives. Clinical trials are heavily regulated. They test new treatments for safety & efficacy in humans. Currently, 5000 clinical trials (including 1000 NEW cancer treatments) face termination. Why? 🧵 🧪 archive.today/pSUAa

Proposed White House regulations could kill 5,000 clinical trials, analysis finds

The Trump administration is mulling new rules that would give political appointees final say on research grants

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The OMB proposed rule will impact more than just science...we are talking $1.5 TRILLION in federal funding including: Veterans benefits (e.g., VA, housing) WIC SNAP TSA Air traffic control Pell Grants Headstart Vocational training, to name a few. GO YELL: fight2win.standupforscience.net

Stand up for Science

Stand up for Science

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Hey folks. One of the reasons the US Attorneys' office in Chicago is getting raked over the coals and possibly sanctioned for misconduct is that the Broadview defendants like @katmabu.bsky.social have AMAZING lawyers and community support. We can do the same in Minnesota by donating.

Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 2mo ago

vouched fundraiser for the Minneapolis defendants chuffed.org/project/1865...

🧪⚛️ OMB is not being shy, at all, about wanting to cancel or deny grants based on political preferences. This is very very bad. www.politico.com/live-updates...

OMB nominee touts plan to give Trump appointees power to kill grants

The administration is expected to finalize the proposed changes as soon as this summer.

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OK. I am noticing a pattern... Today is the second "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture" to be given by Gary Taubes on "Energy Balance or Fuel Partitioning? A History Lesson in the Science of Obesity Pathogenesis, and Its Implications." 1/11

Competing Narratives of Discovery: “European explorers of Africa were essentially tourists using local infrastructure and pre-existing systems of knowledge.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-an...

African and European Explorers in the 19th century: Competing Narratives of “Discovery.”

In 1596, the Ethiopian monk Takla ’Alfā left his home near Lake Tana, at the source of the Blue Nile, and embarked on a pilgrimage that took him through the kingdom of Sennar (present-day Sudan) and E...

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This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Local law prof proudly proclaims: 1) his ideology dictates his legal analysis; and 2) he published his NYT op-ed before doing the scholarly legwork supporting it because it would have taken too much time to do the other way. Wow.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In which Professor Wurman candidly admits why he sees the history of the common law differently than anyone who has honestly studied it, and why rather than doing scholarship he just wrote and op-ed and a (terrible, demonstrably wrong) article about the common law that should have been rejected.

Good story from Stephanie Lee at the Chronicle of Higher Education on dealing with funding uncertainty with very highly rated grant proposals. www.chronicle.com/article/they... 1/2

They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.

The NIH’s spending on new medical research is significantly slower than in previous years, leaving confused scientists in the lurch.

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My author copies have arrived! To celebrate, I'm offering a free copy sent directly to your front door. This is your chance to bag what will surely be the beach read of the summer! Just share this post and in two weeks (28 May) I'll choose a name from a hat and pop it in the mail.

Morgan Golf-French@zenothankyou.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳 Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work. In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the... academic.oup.com/book/62547

Asking international organisations to “just follow the science” sounds great – not least in response to “anti-expert” pushback. But that defence fundamentally misrepresents how expertise and IOs relate. My new book asks: where does expert-centred international governance actually come from? 🧵1/7

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Anyone who wants to end birthright citizenship wants to bring back slavery. Those same people also claim non-citizens have no rights—not the right to protest against deportation, nor the right to not have police break down their doors, nor the right to defend themselves in a proceeding.

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.

ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.

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