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📺️ In this @MsMagazine op-ed, @StephHerold (@ANSIRH) draws on her research to argue that television may be the best hope for spreading accurate information about abortion, and one that too often gets it wrong.

🔗 Read: https://t.co/kSNUUdNQE6

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In this @NewsandRecord op-ed, Jeffrey Warren (@NCCUSOE) argues that as budget cuts threaten school counselor layoffs, North Carolina district leaders and school administrators should be investing in these roles, not cutting them.

Learn more: https://t.co/6dj1whuCn4

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📰 In @fulcrum_us: Brian Adams (@SDSU) draws on his new book, "Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy," to explore a central question: will activism improve democracy or will it exacerbate existing problems?

Learn more: https://t.co/SeGL0qPScw

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In this @GlobeOpinion piece, @IAmRichBenjamin (@NYIHatNYPL) writes that Trump's Task Force 250 is a syllabus of amnesia, and reflects on three generations of his own family's history to show how they've learned to fight forgetting the past.

🔗 Read: https://t.co/0CqTkd8Dza

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In this @GOVERNING op-ed, @KerriJMalloy (@SJSU) warns that AI systems can use Native records without tribal consent, and calls on policymakers to recognize tribal nations' authority to govern how their data is used.

🔗 Read the piece: https://t.co/khUxvE5LrL

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"When wealth is unlimited for everyone but the athletes, it’s not a coincidence. It’s deliberate," writes @ezinneofoegbu in this @TheEDULedger op-ed on how the Protect College Sports Act fails the people most essential to college sports: Black athletes.
https://t.co/tB2faWOYOI

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We are thrilled to welcome Kaustav Shah (@PennMedicine) to the network! Shah is an internist at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia and a fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at UPenn.

Learn more from Shah's member profile: https://t.co/C7KORRR3HK

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In this @medpagetoday op-ed, Gabriela Alvarado (@UWyoCHS) argues that rising vitamin K shot refusals aren't a misinformation problem but a trust problem, one that cannot be solved with fact sheets. 🔗 Learn more. ⤵️ https://t.co/rovltobhgp

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In this @TheHillOpinion op-ed, @DarrellLovell (@wtamu) argues that the Protect College Sports Act should add athlete representation in its provisions. He warns this bill will give the NCAA protection from antitrust laws while dismissing student concerns.

https://t.co/5ugGmXwNol

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That's a wrap on the 2026 SSN National Leadership Convening! For two days in D.C., 150+ scholars, journalists, policymakers, and civic leaders came together to explore the role researchers can play in informing public debate and policy. Thank you to all who joined us!

[Senator Jennifer Boysko @JenniferBoysko]

Today, I joined scholars & researchers from across the U.S. at 2026 National Leadership Convening hosted by Scholars Strategy Network. State-level data driven policies can make a real difference when federal policies leave hard working families behind.
@SSNScholars
#SSNConvening

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In this @BulwarkOnline piece, @bdtamas (Valdosta State) argues third parties matter not because they win elections but because they can force major parties to change course, and that the Libertarian Party can play that role against today's GOP.

🔗Read:
https://t.co/aSQXP43uvy

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In this @TheHillOpinion piece, Eric Scarffe (@FIU) argues that Justice Samuel Alito's most important legacy may not be the end of Roe v. Wade, but the transformation of doubt into a constitutional weapon.

🔗 Read the Scarffe's op-ed: https://t.co/nu16HZad1u

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"Compliance ceases to be a fixed legal threshold and becomes an ever-narrowing set of assumptions about political risk," write Jackie Pedota, Liliana M. Garces, and Eliza Morse Bentley Epstein in their @insidehighered on the impact of anti-DEI laws: https://t.co/R4yhsjOJDG

[Kerri J. Malloy @KerriJMalloy]

New in @Governing: I write about #AI and why #IndigenousDataSovereignty must be central to public-sector technology policy from the start.
https://t.co/wfAX7tQKLb
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In this @LatinoNewsNet_ op-ed, @EfrenPoliPsy (@REPS_Lab) argues that an anti-Black racial hierarchy is driving the cruelty targeting Latinos and calls on the Latino community to begin dismantling it.

🔗 Read the piece: https://t.co/4z985VDluE

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On this @futur_hindsight, host @milaatmos speaks with Brian Adams (@SDSU) about the balance of influence between activists and majority rule in local politics. Adams offers practical advice on taking civic action locally.

🎙️ Listen to the episode: https://t.co/lD5IUWbDdg

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We are thrilled to welcome @Dcollier74 to the network! Collier is a nationally recognized expert on student loan debt and repayment, tuition-free policy, and student basic needs.

Learn more from his SSN member profile: https://t.co/Uv0OwZj2me

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"Rather than extend America’s harmful approach to child support enforcement, our gov't should consider individual circumstances & invest in human potential." - @BraswellKenneth (@Fathersincorp) & @DrTovaWalsh (@UWMadSocialWork)

In @TheHillOpinion:
https://t.co/ld88X11zWS

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Whatever one makes of Trump and Xi’s summit, its most durable legacy will likely be structural: new forums for managing the world’s most consequential economic relationship," writes @arkellogg (@NDU_EDU) in this
@notusperspect expert forum. ⤵️
https://t.co/Hb8KPKSo2v