Here's a plan for the future: If Dems regain power, they shouldn’t just undo Trump’s EOs. They shld fix the structural weaknesses that let presidents dismantle federal programs, withhold approved funds, politicize the civil service, weaken watchdogs, & expand exec. power w/few immediate consequences

Yeah this is what I wanted. But now the Cook report wants to charge me for access to the PVI.....

Yeah but i want the polls and tehy want $100. What am I made of gold?

I really miss 538. Does anyone have a line on a free website that tracks senate polling? Everything I have found so far charges for access.

The last unicorn terrified me when I was a kid.

Done without Congressional approval and with no one in charge who is congressionally confirmed

The only reason that university finances aren’t in complete shambles are because of key court wins on grant cuts and immigration rules. But most universities couldn’t even be bothered join those suits or celebrate the results.

They’re making the same mistake journalists have. It’s not partisan to speak out and defend your institutions against threats, even if those threats are partisan in nature. If you’re in university leadership, doing so should be considered part of your job, not something to avoid.

Universities have been going for the “insiders strategy” of trying to lobby quietly without making public waves. Counterfactuals are hard, but I would say the strategy has been a complete failure.

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

the hardest thing for the politician-bureaucrats to understand -- but which NSF staff *absolutely do* understand and always have -- is that you actually make scientific progress by giving young people money and promising not to bother them

I pretend to teach; you pretend to learn; everyone gets an A.

People who keep saying science is broken sure do seem to use a lot of the outputs of science all day every day.