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From our friends at Stand Up for Science!
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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
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May 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
From our friends at Stand Up for Science!
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I don’t remember when I told you all about this and I’m not going to go looking through my timeline to see because it fucking Friday. God my scoops are good. Sooooooo good www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
CDC to cut one employee for each it is recalling from layoffs
The agency returned around 300 staff and plans to soon cut an additional 300 in response.
www.govexec.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I don’t remember when I told you all about this and I’m not going to go looking through my timeline to see because it fucking Friday. God my scoops are good. Sooooooo good www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
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🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Former January 6th case prosecutor: It’s been a privilege to serve my country as a prosecutor, including by prosecuting these rioters. The riot was a mass crime of historic proportions.
“It is incumbent on all of us not to forget what happened that day.”
“It is incumbent on all of us not to forget what happened that day.”
April 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Former January 6th case prosecutor: It’s been a privilege to serve my country as a prosecutor, including by prosecuting these rioters. The riot was a mass crime of historic proportions.
“It is incumbent on all of us not to forget what happened that day.”
“It is incumbent on all of us not to forget what happened that day.”
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Trump’s first 100 days have been terrifying, but we cannot lose hope and give up the fight.
Where would we be if our ancestors and elders lost hope and hid rather than doubled down and fought for freedom? We must continue the fight: hrc.im/InYourArea
Where would we be if our ancestors and elders lost hope and hid rather than doubled down and fought for freedom? We must continue the fight: hrc.im/InYourArea
April 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Trump’s first 100 days have been terrifying, but we cannot lose hope and give up the fight.
Where would we be if our ancestors and elders lost hope and hid rather than doubled down and fought for freedom? We must continue the fight: hrc.im/InYourArea
Where would we be if our ancestors and elders lost hope and hid rather than doubled down and fought for freedom? We must continue the fight: hrc.im/InYourArea
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🚨TAKE ACTION: Tell AZ lawmakers it’s time to rein in ESA vouchers for the rich and (FINALLY) invest in our public schools. A budget without #VoucherReform fails Arizona’s kids.
📧 Email your AZ legislators TODAY using our one-click tool bit.ly/FundAZSchools
📧 Email your AZ legislators TODAY using our one-click tool bit.ly/FundAZSchools
May 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
🚨TAKE ACTION: Tell AZ lawmakers it’s time to rein in ESA vouchers for the rich and (FINALLY) invest in our public schools. A budget without #VoucherReform fails Arizona’s kids.
📧 Email your AZ legislators TODAY using our one-click tool bit.ly/FundAZSchools
📧 Email your AZ legislators TODAY using our one-click tool bit.ly/FundAZSchools
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Phoenix’s segregation was deliberately designed, reinforced through policy and sustained by inequality. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/commentary-phoenix-still-has-a-big-segregation-problem-21636205
Modern-day Jim Crow: Phoenix still has a segregation problem
Phoenix’s segregation was deliberately designed, reinforced through policy and sustained by inequality.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Phoenix’s segregation was deliberately designed, reinforced through policy and sustained by inequality. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/commentary-phoenix-still-has-a-big-segregation-problem-21636205
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"Do America and the world really need more grotesque creative interpretations of Trump and his visage? The best art can do now is to activate in us the emotional and social muscles we’ve let atrophy in our public life."
Trump, Fascism, and What Artists Can Do
There is tension between wanting art to transcend and wanting it to reflect reality back to us. Plus: Are Dems finally ready to retire the purity tests?
www.thebulwark.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Do America and the world really need more grotesque creative interpretations of Trump and his visage? The best art can do now is to activate in us the emotional and social muscles we’ve let atrophy in our public life."
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Travelling to the US soon? CBP has broad authority to search your devices.
Whether you're an American citizen or a visitor, here's a guide on how to protect yourself from phone searches at the US border.
Whether you're an American citizen or a visitor, here's a guide on how to protect yourself from phone searches at the US border.
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Travelling to the US soon? CBP has broad authority to search your devices.
Whether you're an American citizen or a visitor, here's a guide on how to protect yourself from phone searches at the US border.
Whether you're an American citizen or a visitor, here's a guide on how to protect yourself from phone searches at the US border.
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Bill Withers releases “Lean On Me” today in ‘72 — a song about his native West Virginia, where folks “would help you out, even across racial lines.”
“.. It sounds idealized if you’re from an environment where it's not practical to do that. I'm from an environment where it WAS practical to do that.”
“.. It sounds idealized if you’re from an environment where it's not practical to do that. I'm from an environment where it WAS practical to do that.”
April 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Bill Withers releases “Lean On Me” today in ‘72 — a song about his native West Virginia, where folks “would help you out, even across racial lines.”
“.. It sounds idealized if you’re from an environment where it's not practical to do that. I'm from an environment where it WAS practical to do that.”
“.. It sounds idealized if you’re from an environment where it's not practical to do that. I'm from an environment where it WAS practical to do that.”
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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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1/2: We have reason to believe that events on 4/19 and/or the 50501 Movement may be misrepresented by the Trump admin in an attempt to justify the use of military force.
Let us be clear: our movement is pro-democracy and firmly grounded in non-violence.
Let us be clear: our movement is pro-democracy and firmly grounded in non-violence.
April 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
1/2: We have reason to believe that events on 4/19 and/or the 50501 Movement may be misrepresented by the Trump admin in an attempt to justify the use of military force.
Let us be clear: our movement is pro-democracy and firmly grounded in non-violence.
Let us be clear: our movement is pro-democracy and firmly grounded in non-violence.
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting. www.wired.com/story/ice-pa...
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
www.wired.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting. www.wired.com/story/ice-pa...
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Three refugee families living in Millcreek got a shocking and upsetting letter telling them: "It's time for you to leave the United States … your parole will terminate in seven days."
'It's time for you to leave': Government letters to legal-status refugee families say
Three refugee families living in Millcreek got a shocking and upsetting letter telling them:
www.ksl.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Three refugee families living in Millcreek got a shocking and upsetting letter telling them: "It's time for you to leave the United States … your parole will terminate in seven days."
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Extreme heat killed 602 people in Maricopa County alone last year. In Arizona, AC isn’t a luxury—it’s survival.
These cuts are dangerous.
These cuts are dangerous.
April 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Extreme heat killed 602 people in Maricopa County alone last year. In Arizona, AC isn’t a luxury—it’s survival.
These cuts are dangerous.
These cuts are dangerous.
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Leading scientists at the US National Institutes of Health were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz. Among them is Dr. Richard Youle, known for his groundbreaking research identifying mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease.
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
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April 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Leading scientists at the US National Institutes of Health were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz. Among them is Dr. Richard Youle, known for his groundbreaking research identifying mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease.
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AZ voucher lobbyist Jenny Clark lied to Congress in DC, claiming “Not a single public school has closed in AZ in the 12 years we have had [vouchers] in our state.”
FACT: Since 2022’s universal voucher expansion, 20 public schools closed or will be closed across AZ.
www.12news.com/video/news/l...
FACT: Since 2022’s universal voucher expansion, 20 public schools closed or will be closed across AZ.
www.12news.com/video/news/l...
ESA advocate tells congress no public schools have closed in Arizona since program began
Since 2022, 20 public schools have closed or are scheduled to close in six districts in the Phoenix area.
www.12news.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
AZ voucher lobbyist Jenny Clark lied to Congress in DC, claiming “Not a single public school has closed in AZ in the 12 years we have had [vouchers] in our state.”
FACT: Since 2022’s universal voucher expansion, 20 public schools closed or will be closed across AZ.
www.12news.com/video/news/l...
FACT: Since 2022’s universal voucher expansion, 20 public schools closed or will be closed across AZ.
www.12news.com/video/news/l...
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firsttheycamefor.com is being updated to list all of the people being illegally detained or deported by the Trump administration in one place
#signalboost #resist #freeRumeysa #freeMahmoud #freepalestine #abolishICE
#signalboost #resist #freeRumeysa #freeMahmoud #freepalestine #abolishICE
First They Came For
A website dedicated to cataloging the people who are being kidnapped by the Trump administration.
firsttheycamefor.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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JUST IN: Federal health agencies have to slash their spending by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts.
On top of layoffs, HHS ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts
Federal health agencies have to slash their spending by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts.
www.npr.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
JUST IN: Federal health agencies have to slash their spending by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts.
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I don't recall any voters (even MAGA) saying, "Research into medical advancements is a waste of money." These are not minor setbacks, it will set us YRS behind. Our lives/wellbeing are at stake, and for what in return? @altcdc.altgov.info @standupforscience.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I don't recall any voters (even MAGA) saying, "Research into medical advancements is a waste of money." These are not minor setbacks, it will set us YRS behind. Our lives/wellbeing are at stake, and for what in return? @altcdc.altgov.info @standupforscience.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social