First the rumour was a 20% budget cut. Then, 50%. Now the president's NASA budget is out and it's a 68% cut to astrophysics ($1.5B to $487M).Even if this gets reversed in four years, we will *never* recover the missions, partners, people who will be gone.www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025…

— Dr. Jessie Christiansen (@aussiastronomer.bsky.social) 2025-04-11T14:54:11.962Z

We are living through the inversion of the Sputnik moment

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2025-04-11T14:55:35.784Z

Wondering what type of data the US government gathers on you, (and which the DOGE team now wants to link together)? @emmbadger.bsky.social and I took a look at all the databases the Trump Admin is trying to access: http://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u…

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T15:09:22.895Z

@sulliview.bsky.social writes that tamped down coverage of the nationwide demonstrations is a sign that the media "refs have been successfully worked," by a Trump administration that's painted a target on any outlet that doesn't toe the official line.margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/big-protes…

— Tim Karr (@timkarr.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T09:51:56.455Z

NYT changed this lackluster, wrongheaded dek…

— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T21:23:57.894Z

Also, there was a lot of lead story reporting on the protests, from NPR to the Anchorage Daily News, but coverage appears to be quite uneven with less reporting in many of the major city dailies like LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery?regi…

— Omar Wasow (@owasow.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T05:47:52.028Z

newrepublic.com/article/1936…If you went to a Hands Off rally last Saturday, you know that you have to dig to find media coverage. Guess a huge number of people peacefully protesting 47’s actions and policies isn’t “sensational” enough. Thankfully, Rachel Maddow covers what is happening.

— Diane (@pricklypear23.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T16:36:18.955Z

Fifty years ago, life expectancy in the U.S. and wealthy European countries was relatively similar.That began to change around 1980. As European life expectancy steadily increased, the U.S. struggled to keep pace — and its life expectancy even began declining in 2014.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-04-03T23:15:05Z

'Richest Americans have lower life expectancy than EuropeansThe wealthiest Americans had a lower life expectancy than the wealthiest Europeans, and did not exceed that of the poorest in some European countries such as Germany, France, and the Netherlands.'english.elpais.com/science-tech…

— Willem van Schaik (@wvschaik.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T12:15:16.094Z

Who cares about life expectancy?! Healthy life expectancy is what matters. Roughly speaking in richer countries you are healthy for longer. Costa Rica punches above its weight while the US ranks as a pathetic 71st. Great chart by @rubenbmathisen.

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T22:27:01.460Z

Why Life Expectancy Is Lower in the American South: The Legacy of Slavery and Inequality

In this video, we explore how America's South, shaped by slavery, fundamentalist religion.

— The Intellectualist (@theintellectualist.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T17:00:00.697Z

The average life expectancy in the U.S. has increased by 10 years since 1960 due to vaccines, and better disease prevention, diagnosis, and management. This increased lifespan would quite obviously carry with it a higher rate of chronic disease diagnosis.But RFK Jr. thinks it’s seed oils.

— Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T18:34:47.327Z

60% of Florida voters approved a $15 minimum wage initiative in 2020 — a bigger vote share than Trump ever got in the state. But the state GOP is now trying to gut the law by carving out exceptions for major categories of workers. "Party of the working class".

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-04-06T19:00:06.566473Z

Want to make less money? Florida GOP undermines voters with minimum wage scheme. | Opinion Source: USA TODAYshare.newsbreak.com/ccno7za3

— SherryRN @pissedoffnurse (@sherryll.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T12:22:18.418Z

🚨NEWS: After a supermajority of Florida voters passed a minimum wage ballot measure, Republican lawmakers are now trying to gut the measure in an attempt to let employers underpay subminimum-wage workers — including children. www.levernews.com/florida-repu…

— The Lever (@levernews.com) 2025-04-04T17:52:33.011Z

New from me: Florida drove immigrant workers away with hostile laws, we face worker shortages that are getting worse and pushing up prices, and therefore the legislature wants to gut child labor laws to put minors to work while also pushing a law allowing workers to be paid below the minimum wage.

— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn.bsky.social) 2025-04-02T17:45:52.752Z

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-04-06T22:09:11.255Z

Since President Donald Trump took office, the Park Service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2025-04-06T16:09:23.554Z

NetzfundIch hätte beinahe meinen Kaffee rausgeprustet vor Lachen 😂

— CoriSprotte (@corisprotte.bsky.social) 2025-04-04T23:41:40.614Z

More please. More.www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…

— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T22:00:59.973Z

More than 500 law firms rally behind embattled peers, declaring that Trump’s crackdown on the legal industry poses “a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself.” But none of the top 20 firms join. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b…

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) 2025-04-04T23:37:32.435Z

Kudos to the law firm Arnold & Porter. It is the largest law firm that is not either itself target by Trump or representing a firm targeted by Trump to sign the amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie. Put another way, A&P has no direct financial interest in the outcome of the case and yet signed.

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-04-04T19:17:48.508Z

OK patriots, "each fat-cat firm that caves in response to Trump’s demands makes next capitulation that much easier, & puts the whole industry more firmly under Trump’s thumb." Paul, Weiss and Skadden: Capitulating Cowards of the Legal Profession newrepublic.com/article/1935… via @newrepublic.com

— Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) 2025-04-03T16:39:55.489Z

Perkins Coie asked a federal judge in D.C. to reject President Trump’s executive order sanctioning it over its hiring practices and legal work for Democrat Hillary Clinton, calling the measure a threat to the firm and the legal profession more broadly reut.rs/4jdV5HA 1/5

— Reuters Legal (@legal.reuters.com) 2025-04-03T16:45:37.802Z

I’m proud that my own Cato Institute is among the groups signing a cross-ideological amicus brief in the Perkins Coie case. Our country’s liberty is in dire peril if a would-be strongman can destroy a law firm for having stood up to him personally or the federal government he heads.

— Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) 2025-04-03T02:55:50.749Z

I think I'm a realist.I didn't think I lived in a world where Kamala husband's biglaw firm and Katyal's biglaw firm both surrender to Trump in a single day.Golly.

— Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) 2025-04-02T18:38:41.642Z

Another Big Law firm shamefully capitulates to Trump. This time Milbank. It may make more money, but the stain of this shame will be a part of this firm forever. Every partner and associate now has a choice to make. History is watching.

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-04-02T18:50:57.541Z

The Rifkinds’ two-page letter, which was obtained by The New York Times, echoes reactions that have reverberated through the legal community in the wake of the firm’s deal with Mr. Trump. Critics have accused the firm of capitulating to intimidation, rather than fighting the order in court.

— Jennie Coughlin (@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social) 2025-04-02T16:08:08.002Z