Jon Husted looked this mother in the eye, and promised he wouldn't vote to cut her daughter's health care. One week later, that's exactly what he did.
Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
@prasad.bsky.social
Prof & Lab Head in NYC. 100% research: cell division, genome integrity, cancer. Curious to a fault. Also πολύτροπος. Talking here for me alone. I listen to the finest worksong. Like/repost = bookmark/news, not agreement/endorsement.
It's cool that this is just how things are now. Very healthy that this is just happening constantly with no repurcussions.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h agoIt's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
We're post-scarcity on glassware (the glass often costs less than the drink in it) and its cool to see exactly why.
brennan@brennan.computer · 7h agothey're doing this to me tomorrow
as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h agoReuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be unlikely to risk transit without paying."
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Universities “are increasingly acting like other employers, finding “complicated and sometimes pretextual reasons” to fire employees, even those with tenure. “What we’re seeing at the New School is emblematic of the rising pressures on higher education as a labor market and as an industry”
He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.
The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.
nytimes.com
I’m on the warpath when it comes to remembering who served when American lives were on the line, right here at home
Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS@thanh-neville.bsky.social · 19h agoI am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
Jocelyn Benson, who has cultivated a national profile during two terms as Michigan’s secretary of state, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, The Associated Press said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
The CDC has linked six additional states to a large outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with iceberg lettuce, according to a CDC official familiar with the investigation.
C.D.C. Expands Cyclospora Outbreak to More States
Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina are now among the states linked to the outbreak associated with iceberg lettuce.
nyti.ms
$81 million would fund 50 cancer research labs (or infectious disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, regenerative medicine, etc.) for the next five years as it stands, many of those unfunded labs are closing I can’t applaud a system that spends so much to achieve so little
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 14h agoUnfathomable
Jay Bhattacharya somehow both claims to have “cured” the NIH of DEI while simultaneously building a DEI program to favor underfunded universities. And honestly the mental gymnastics boggles the mind. 🤸 open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...
Ensuring NIH funding reaches all regions of the United States, Fact Check Part 8
Bhattacharya claims he’s directing funding to underfunded states, but his policies have the opposite effect
open.substack.com
THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
no cojones, ovaries, or other symbolic sources of fortitude
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
The founders are calling. They suggest you read the damn Constitution.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
IRAN HAS SIGNALED IT IS WILLING TO REOPEN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ BUT IS DEMANDING THE RIGHT TO COLLECT TRANSIT FEES, SECURITY GUARANTEES AGAINST FUTURE ATTACKS, AN END TO THE U.S. NAVAL BLOCKADE AND RELIEF FROM U.S. OIL SANCTIONS. - WSJ
Bowen Yang, the “Saturday Night Live” alum and co-host of the “Las Culturistas” podcast, will make his Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh, Mary!” starting on Sept. 15.
Bowen Yang will star in ‘Oh, Mary!’ on Broadway starting in September
His turn as Mary Todd Lincoln follows stints by Maya Rudolph and Jane Krakowski.
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Very interesting graf near bottom of latest NYT story on MAGA efforts to bend universities to its will, as if they were GOP Senators or the SCOTUS Six. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u... Reminder number five zillion: Except for GOP Senators thinking of a lobbying future, appeasement never pays off.
Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/
Loebolus
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FYI Science Policy News: More U.S.-trained physicists are leaving the country, an exodus that adds to fears of a U.S. "brain drain" www.aip.org/fyi/physics-... a near-doubling of non-US citizens left the US after receiving their PhD, around 29%, in 2025 @aip.bsky.social
Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate
The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.
aip.org
Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
Let’s unpack this post by NIH and CDC Director and self-made victim Jay Bhattacharya. 1. This was not misreporting. This is what RFK Jr. said in his interview. 2. Free speech was not “suspended”. If it had been no one would know who Bhattacharya is.
I really wish Apple sold a standalone TouchID button. I know there's that crazy hack where you can rip apart a keyboard and just use the TouchID button, but that's nuts. Just give us the button so we can use TouchID with our own mechanical keyboards!
The reliance on AAU and the Yale/Vanderbilt reports shows that the administration (or at least McMahon) still cares about the imprimatur of academic support for policies most academics oppose. They are also pushing this now because they know such policies won't be tenable in 2028.
David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d agothe department of education today issued a 'national call to action' - which, in plain english, is a call for capitulation to trump administration's assault on higher ed. www.ed.gov/media/docume... note how this doc deploys recent yale & vanderbilt reports
Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...
bloomberg.com
so much freedom of thought on campus
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now
The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.
hellgatenyc.com
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