THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.

So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

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Louder for the ones in back.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

#RFK
#BRAINWORM
#RESIST

He works for Putin!!

probably worth remembering that most of Trump's executive orders will be symbolic, not-legally-enforceable bullshit and you should:

- follow non-sensationalist sources for analysis
- wait to panic until things shake out a bit