This is what it looks like when FTC staff has full freedom to stop fraudsters and monopolists. When there are no free passes for the powerful. When the word of a consumer or a worker or a small business owner is just as important as that of any billionaire. Remember this.

This is the most concise "Know Your Rights" resource I've seen so far for dealing with ICE.

Immediately after withdrawing from the WHO, Trump stops CDC, FDA & NIH from giving public health updates. “The CDC was scheduled to publish several MMWR reports this week, including 3 about H5N1 outbreak, according to federal health official who spoke on condition of anonymity”

Just received notice that my NIH study section next week has been cancelled. It has nothing to do with DEI and will have a negative impact on critical cancer research.

In 1953, Columbia University wanted to take over 116th St. NYC agreed—so long as Columbia gave access to the public. But for the past 9 months after the NYPD's raids on pro-Palestine protesters, Columbia has shut the public out. Erin Durkin reports: hellgatenyc.com/columbia-campu…

Abortion providers say that Instagram and Facebook have been taking down accounts and censoring posts, particularly in the days following Donald Trump’s inauguration. “Once again, ‘freedom of speech’ doesn’t actually mean free speech.” truthout.org/articles/insta…

Fun fact Despite new FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson shutting down public comments on surveillance pricing (companies exploiting your web browsing, or which phone you use, or your search history to overcharge you) a few initial comments got preserved online So, who is he ignoring? 🧵

SCOOP: I got the full list of 89 programs that DOGE has canceled at the Education Department -- and the talking points DOGE gave staffers on how to argue the changes are really a good thing. Thread 🧵

DOGE has cut nearly $1 billion from the Education Department, decimating its research arm, the Institute for Educational Sciences. Confirmed cuts include PISA/TIMMS data collection/analysis; studies of disability supports; and a data report on school safety. 👇

Last night my brilliant friend with 20 years of expertise in Neuroscience including a decade at NIDA was fired because she was recently promoted for her outstanding performance and it triggered the probation period. This is not making NIH more efficient, this is not making us

Let’s be extremely clear about what is happening at USAID: The President is letting the wealthiest individual on the planet tear apart an organization that provides MEDICINE and FOOD to the poorest children on Earth.

New paper published Journal of Extension, "Promoting Digital Ag Adoption in Community-Based Ag Organizations." Results of pilot study implementing wireless soil sensors on a community farm in the Upper Peninsula. Of interest to folks in food systems & digital ag - open.clemson.edu/joe/vol63/iss1…

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

Update to this story: #FAA employees fired included one who spoke to me on the record who was partnered with the Department of Defense 🇺🇸 on a classified, urgent need for an upgraded radar system for Hawaii to detect cruise missile threats. Their phone was wiped, institutional knowledge

In the wake of 'we will deport random people with tattoos', actual Venezuelan journalists who study Tren de Aragua say that the gang doesn't have identifying tattoos at all. It's literally just something Americans made up.

just days after Trump declared himself the "fertilization president" the entire team focused on Assisted Reproductive Technology (which includes treatments like IVF) was laid off at the CDC

Last year we sued the 3 largest pharmacy benefit managers for illegal tactics that inflate the cost of insulin & other drugs. FTC has now indefinitely paused the case. This follows the White House's unlawful attempt to fire Commissioners Bedoya & Slaughter. A gift to the PBMs.

We're hiring! The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati is pleased to announce a search for a 2025–27 Taft Postdoctoral Fellow. See link for more details! jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati…