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Michael M
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Political Theory PhD Student, UCLA
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Highly recommend diving into NRDC's study on car access, which @keawilson.bsky.social wrote about here: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/report-16-million-have-no-car-access-at-all

Where Nadir was killed, 14% of LA households are car-free. But the infrastructure does not match that reality
October 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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There’s no DOJ lawyer who would be free of the conflict at play in a decision about whether to pay the president—their boss—$230 million.

Unfortunately, AG Bondi fired the DOJ ethics official back in July, meaning the department is flying blind.
Attorney General drops top ethics watchdog as DOJ purge continues
The ethics director was fired on the same day that Bondi dismissed more than 20 employees at the DOJ.
www.axios.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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#science #defendhighered #research

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September 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Amazon is really bad for the book ecosystem. It undercuts profits for publishers by selling at a loss and when publishers make less on books, authors make less and get worse advances and that affects the kinds of books that get published and what’s available to read.
September 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Read the AAUP inquiry into Muhlenberg College here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
August 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Just offering that up since everyone says I’m too glib about the whole thing. It’s mid. It’s also absolutely a man-made ecological monster that will probably successfully hollow out our institutional capacities in exchange for more emails (and admittedly some sped up gene research).
August 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM