Marie-Louise Paulesc

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Give the man the Nobel Prize for peace already

The 12News I-Team looked into which zip codes are receiving the most school vouchers. Here's what the data showed. I-Team investigation: Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Accounts were supposed to level the educational playing field -- they have primarily only helped the rich.

“Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Accounts were supposed to level the educational playing field -- they have primarily only helped the rich.“

I’m getting dizzy. He’s saying basically that the future should be like the past while claiming this is a new thing? A backwards future?

DOJ announces plans to revoke critical protections for journalists “Strong protections for journalists serve the American public by safeguarding the free flow of information."

The US Justice Department today announced plans to revoke critical protections for journalists, releasing a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi that directs the agency to rescind the current version of the “news media guidelines” and publish a new policy.

Words to live by.

US Justice Department cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims The U.S. Justice Department has canceled hundreds of ongoing grants that funded everything from services for mental health care for police officers to support programs for victims of crime and sexual assault, according to internal records and four people familiar with the matter.

At least 365 DOJ OJP grants were abruptly canceled late on Tuesday. Experts say the cuts, some of which involve non-taxpayer funded grants, could literally leave domestic violence victims out on the streets.

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Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."

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Delighted to see the launch of this new @icahdq.bsky.social journal 🚀

A welcome addition to our journal landscape. Open access and open scholarship principles. And a stellar first editor in chief with @bowmanspartan.bsky.social.

Congratulations to ICA and the field #commsky #openaccess

NCA VLO: Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe. - National Communication Association Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe. Registration is required for this event. If you have not registered, please click here to do so. Title: Understanding Authoritarianism:...

Virtual learning opportunity featuring Ukrainian, European, North American, and Russian scholars who will examine how rhetorics of land, peace, and identity have been weaponized by Russia against Ukraine.
Friday, April 25, 2025 3-4:30 pm EST
More info and registration link here:

The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days

“19-year-old Jose Hermosillo … visiting Tucson from Albuquerque … was lost and walking near the Border Patrol headquarters when an agent arrested him for illegally entering the country.” Hermosillo was not carrying an ID.

U.S. citizens of color must carry ID - secondary citizens in Trump’s America.

Mis/disinformation research officially cancelled.

Understanding the creation, content, distribution, and susceptibility is one of today’s key scientific and societal challenges.

Researching this is not free speech infringement. Such a claim is intentionally misleading.

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Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: ckuck@immigration.net and dclaffey@immigration.net youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.

There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.

For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...

The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador.

An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador. Is the Trump Administration helping sweep away the case?

Oh, I remembered more: the plan was actually to rewatch the first 2 seasons before the third. Now you make me really curious and I’ll jump right in!

watching it will be my project for the weekend. It has been on my list for sometime but I kept postponing it because I want to be able to enjoy it and I am getting distracted by…well, everything around.

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

The Executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport, but with powers come restraints. If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?* And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive's obligation to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" would lose its meaning. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3; see also id. art. II, § 1, cl. 8. Today, both the United States and the El Salvadoran governments disclaim any authority and/or responsibility to return Abrego Garcia. See President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of El Salvador, WHITE HOUSE (Apr. 14, 2025). We are told that neither government has the power to act. The result will be to leave matters generally and Abrego Garcia specifically in an interminable limbo without recourse to law of any sort. The basic differences between the branches mandate a serious effort at mutual respect. The respect that courts must accord the Executive must be reciprocated by the Executive's respect for the courts. Too often today this has not been the case, as calls for impeachment of judges for decisions the Executive disfavors and exhortations to disregard court orders sadly illustrate. * See, e.g., Michelle Stoddart, 'Homegrowns

The opinion by Wilkinson—a Reagan appointee—is a scorcher.

“If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?”

Look, I love these sites & I get how politics works & why they're doing it, but every single one makes exactly the same error universities have been making for years:

Research DOES NOT JUST MEAN STEM.

Look around. If you think we also don't need social science & humanities research, look harder.

Thank you for doing this work, Marisa. At a very cursory Google search I could not find any other media story on this.

I came here to say the same.

Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating deportation order The move by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg marks an escalation in a battle between the judicial and executives branches of government over a president’s powers to carry out key White House…

A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador. buff.ly/IrgwaB8

Congratulations!

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

NEW 🧵

The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.

Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...