lol I'm not kidding. Governor Lisa Cook wrote about how racism shrinks our economy and why it's costly to allow bigotry to flourish.
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lol I'm not kidding. Governor Lisa Cook wrote about how racism shrinks our economy and why it's costly to allow bigotry to flourish.
My article on activism and coalition building is out now at Time! Shout out to the folks at Made by History. We need multiracial coalitions now more than ever! time.com/7307042/hist...
Breaking Silence, Former University President Claudine Gay Blasts Harvard’s ‘Compliance’ With White House Demands
"'The number of $500 million is completely arbitrary and it will solve nothing,' [Claudine] Gay said. 'There is no justification.'"
SAY IT AGAIN DEAN GAY. #Harvard
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Stephen Colbert, during last night’s show, invited The New Yorker’s editor to unveil the magazine’s next cover — a satirical illustration of Trump’s tiny hand hovering over the mute button of a remote control, a not-so-subtle jab at his obsession with silencing critics.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/46ILa9z
Here they are. Remember when you start losing family members to preventable diseases.
On NPR forum, where Mina Kim asked thee question: they’re governing as if they don’t expect the other side to win again…why?
Good, honest answer from Honig.
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
As a scholar of work and orgs who has a line of inquiry on professional associations, it’s not lost on me how TWO Black women scholars are in conversation to a FILLED ballroom with some standing AND sitting on the floor to listen and learn #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social
I appreciate the acknowledgment of the professional association staff on stage #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social
The gloves are OFF
Got here late and standing is worth it for so many reasons … and one of my favorite lines … “work towards personal excellence” #ASA2025 #BlackFeministThought #BlackWomenPresidents
GURL
With COBRA, you pay 102% of the full premium (ex: $714 for a $700 premium). And I find through my new analysis that there are pronounced racial, education & economic disparities not only in having heard of COBRA, but understanding health care costs will go up. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
that’s $150,000 per bed/year
The header of a newsletter reading Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab Institute for Advanced Study June 2025
Our latest newsletter focuses on the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab's work bridging academic research and policy. From contributing to global AI governance to empirical studies of technology's impacts, we examine how science and tech expand or limit civic life.
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In case you missed it: the Wisconsin Supreme Court just upheld a ban on conversion therapy. Huge win for LGBTQ rights.
newrepublic.com/post/197704/...
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He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
"A billionaire’s change of heart can destabilize vulnerable families or local government finances"
"'People can promise stuff all day long,' Brown [4th gen east palo alto resident] said, but 'if nothing is legally binding, they’re going to pull out, and we’re going to be left with the fallout'"
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported.
That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office.
On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!
"ED, on average, publishes almost 10 times as many tables of education statistics by June 1 as it has for the 2024 Digest (which is used to create the 2025 COE)—nearly 270 compared with this year’s 27."
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
This figure is wild:
Screenshot of policy brief that reads: This delay (or outright refusal) to compile a robust COE weakens our nation’s ability to accurately assess the current condition of education and the progress we have made. Policy actors such as the Congressional Research Service use Digest tables. Scholars leverage the COE to explain in policy briefs the effects of K-12 class-size reduction policies or whether an “enrollment cliff” actually looms for higher education. The press also uses this data to help the public understand issues like the rise in total cost of attendance at colleges and universities or challenges in the teacher labor market in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education.
Why does that matter? Well...
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
New York Times: ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing federal law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”
To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to *break* laws.
Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.
