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State of anxiety in UCLA labs amid massive funding cuts | KCRW 89.9-FM
UCLA’s neurology department lost $23 million as part of a $584 million grant suspension by the Trump administration last month, after the Department of Justice found that the university violated the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students during pro-Palestinian protests on campus last year. While a federal judge ordered the administration to restore all funding that came from the National Science Foundation — about one-third of the cuts — that doesn’t include any of the support for the neurology department, which all came from the National Institutes of Health. (UCLA’s Dr. Jeffery Saver, Dr. Stanley Thomas Carmichael and Daniel Toker were quoted.)
2.8 million in the U.S. now identify as transgender | The Hill
Roughly 2.8 million Americans aged 13 and older identify as transgender, accounting for approximately 1 percent of the U.S. population in that age group, according to a new estimate from the Williams Institute [at the UCLA School of Law], a research organization focused on sexual orientation and gender identity issues … “Younger generations are more likely to identify as transgender, and we expect that trend to continue,” said Jody Herman, the report’s lead author and a senior scholar at the Williams Institute. (Also: The Guardian.)
Redistricting shuffles more GOP voters into district 42 | Spectrum News 1
“To try to create more Democratic opportunities, you have to unpack some of those districts that we have here, especially in southern California, that are in some cases 70 or 80% Democratic voters,” said Matt Barreto, the faculty director for the University of California, Los Angeles, Voting Rights Project. “They don’t need to be that high from the governor’s perspective — he wants to spread those out and put more Democrats in some of those competitive districts.”
Redistricting sets course for partisan arms race | United Press International
“Trump’s pressure on Texas is likely to set up a redistricting war, where states including California seek to counteract Texas and Trump tries to pressure more states like Missouri to draw more Republican districts,” Richard Hasen, professor of political science and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law, told United Press International.
Gerrymandering has captured the nation’s attention | Los Angeles Times
The UCLA Voting Rights Project released a study this week that found the new Texas maps may violate federal law that protects minority voters from being pushed into districts where their favored candidate has no chance of winning.
Gavin Newsom’s latest role: social media troll | New York Times
Newsom’s posts are perhaps grabbing so much attention because they stand out from the rest of the Democratic Party’s ineffective approach of playing it safe and proceeding as if it’s business as usual, said Sarah Roberts, the director of the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Experts: immigration enforcement used for political intimidation | LAist
Kelly Lytle Hernández, a professor of history at UCLA, said she is concerned about what she sees as an escalation by federal agents in recent months, but she said the politicization of immigration enforcement isn’t new. “There’s always this very political edge to immigration control of trying to suppress speech or ideas that are unpopular in the United States,” Lytle Hernández said, “and certainly we have seen that in the last six months here in the country as well.”
Trump can end deportation protections for 60,000 immigrants | Reuters
Ahilan Arulanantham of the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, one of the groups that filed the lawsuit, criticized the court for not providing reasoning and said the decision “simply sanctions the government’s power grab.”
The complicated politics of Jerry Garcia | KCRW 89.9-FM’s “Press Play”
Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead were counterculture icons. But according to author Jim Newton, Garcia himself wasn’t particularly political. At least not publicly, or even in ways we might traditionally think. (UCLA’s Newton was interviewed.)
7 ways to soothe your nighttime anxiety | Time
“The most basic and common reason why we get more anxious at night is because of the decrease in the amount of distraction and activity we have going on,” says Michael Wetter, a clinical psychologist and director of psychology in the division of adolescent and young adult medicine at [Ronald Reagan] UCLA Medical Center. “Our mind goes off road, and there’s nothing to guide us and keep us on track and focused and feeling productive.”
Tensions flare over gender pronouns | USA Today
Researchers at the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute estimate that 2.1 million Americans are trans adults — whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth — a third of whom are trans nonbinary people … Brad Sears, founding executive director at the Williams Institute, said transgender and nonbinary people are especially vulnerable and marginalized groups in the workplace.
Gender-affirming care lawsuit will test new NC law | Charlotte Observer
A study by the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute found that more than 30 states “have restricted access to gender-affirming care or have considered laws that would do so” in recent years, meaning “an estimated 144,500 transgender youth and young adults ages 13 and older in the U.S. are at risk of being denied” treatment.
