Blogroll for Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Be sure to drink plenty of water.
Authoritarian crackdown on speech
Middle East Studies programs targeted — Inside Higher Ed
With secret moves against international students, feds spread fear — Washington Post
Screening phones for “antisemitism” at the border — Bloomberg Law
The new McCarthyism was started by liberals — The Nation
Economic chaos as Trump goes back and forth on tariff policy
Trump pauses tariffs, goes to trade war with China — Rolling Stone
Elite Trump supporters rethinking it — Vox
Fake trade emergency — FrameLab
What the tariffs are all about — New York Times
Tech lords versus the rest of us
DOGE agreement offers insight into agency — Wired
The new robber barons — Times Literary Supplement
Plus:
Vote by mail under attack — Bolts Mag
ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: “Prime, but with human beings” — Michigan Advance
Media versus protests, once again — FAIR
Pete Hegseth senior adviser is pushing for Pentagon to cut ties with Scouting America — NBC News
Farm bailout on the horizon? — Bloomberg
The Dodgers love Trump — New Republic
Leaving Substack, making more — Digiday
Donald Trump has transformed the American story — The Guardian
Extremist Zionists going after left-wing Jews — The Forward
Decline of empire — Forever Wars
Supreme Court allows Trump to fire independent agency members — NBC News
Covering for Cuomo — FAIR
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University — Science
Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii — CNN
How New Age women turned right — New York Magazine
Drug tests in California prisons yielded false positives, affecting thousands of people — The Guardian