much thanks to @jessgrose.bsky.social for highlighting scienceimpacts.org in her column, which documents the regional economic impacts that result from the deliberate defunding of American science, led by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and @asinclair.bsky.social

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research

Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

scienceimpacts.org

In which I ask Speaker Mike Johnson about why Republicans continue to let Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and Max Miller (R-Ohio) serve when they face investigations for domestic violence. "The the key word there is allegation. We have a process here. The House Ethics Committee works on those things."

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

what a fucking asshole

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

I wrote a long piece about America’s first A.I. focused public school, and what is lost when we look at all of education through the lens of tech. TLDR: 1st graders don’t need to learn the term user experience. Gift link, please read and share! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

Opinion | America’s First A.I. High School Is Great. But Not Because of A.I.

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"Maybe, instead of yelling at young men and women for making the wrong choices [about work, family, & childbearing], we should be listening to them talk about how they want to live, and try to figure out the kind of society that would best support them." @jessgrose.bsky.social gets it.

Opinion | Maybe Men Don’t Want to Be Boy Bosses Anymore

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Glad @jessgrose.bsky.social wrote this. Scott Galloway is very confidently wrong about parental leave messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

This was not the main point in this article about using AI in college admissions, but it stood out to me for so many reasons including the impulse to have the chatbot mediate all experiences including telling you what you do for fun. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/s...

Troublemaker is my middle name.

@jessgrose.bsky.social connects use of the RW outrage machine in the OU paper-grading case to the culture of student as consumer. In wealthier areas, this culture has long existed in K-12. Some of what's worsened it is also the result of RW crusades: "school choice" & "parents' rights." #GiftLink

Opinion | How One Student’s Failing Grade Became a Cause Célèbre on the Right

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Over 100 childcare programs in Indiana have closed after the state froze voucher enrollment and deeply cut reimbursement rates www.the74million.org/zero2eight/i...

Indiana Child Care Providers Struggle to Stay Open After State Slashes Rates

With a freeze on child care voucher applications and cuts to reimbursement rates, Indiana child care providers are left reeling.

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A shout-out to @jessgrose.bsky.social, who gave voice to these concerns early in this groundswell:

Opinion | Screens Are Everywhere in Schools. Do They Actually Help Kids Learn? (Published 2024)

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KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

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