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@markhisted.org

There are lessons from WaPo’s destruction for science too. Public funding (via NIH, NSF &c) built in the US a science superpower in large part b/c of democratic values: agencies are accountable to the public through Congress, not controlled by whims of a billionaire. Autocratic control…

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

4/2/26, 5:16 pm20 reposts66 likes

@professler.bsky.social

The "I don't care. Do you?" trio.

@markhisted.org

of institutions, whether by billionaires or an unchecked president focused on centralizing power, are terrible for journalism and they are terrible for science.

@markhisted.org

Major institutions of our civil society should be run in a majoritarian, public, transparent way through a parliamentary/legislative body, with rotating leaders who are committed to the mission and institutional goals. If we don’t do this we get personalist rule.

@markhisted.org

Bezos running WaPo and Trump running cancer research lead to the same outcome: destruction of what makes us great, as a society.

@markhisted.org

Putin, Orban, Stalin/Lysenko, Trump, Bezos, Musk— these are all lessons for us.