Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
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Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Together with the labor movement of Maine, together with Bernie Sanders — We will defeat the oligarchy, and we will defeat Susan Collins.
The #FindThatLizard scholarship has reached 66% of our $5000 goal! I started this scholarship because i wanted to support women and gender non conforming scientists, especially those of color, achieve their goals. Will you help us meet our goal? www.ecologikinstitute.org/fieldnotes/f...
From Bernie: More than 6,500 people turned out in Portland, ME tonight for a Labor Day rally to see the next senator and governor of the great state of Maine, Graham Platner and Troy Jackson. Great crowd. Great energy. Thank you, Maine!
Bernie: "We have to take on trump every way we can, every day of the week..." "The reason I want Graham Platner with me in the Senate is because he agrees with me to send no more money to Israel ... (for fighting/bombing in Gaza)." "Health care is a basic human right! We need Medicare for ALL!"
4,000 people die from unintentional drowning every year. It's the leading cause of death for toddlers and spiked 28% from 2019-2022 among children 1-4. It costs the U.S. economy more than $50 billion a year. Trump just disbanded the CDC team dedicated to preventing drownings.
Bernie rally streaming now www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOfE... @grahamformaine.bsky.social #Resist
Forgot to include my sign for the day #Resist #StandUpForScience
NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day. This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets! @50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings (🎥 10-97 News)
Calling all space artists! Submissions are open to the 2026 Art of Planetary Science show. This is a wonderful exhibit put on by grad student volunteers. The show is in Tucson, AZ but anyone can submit their work. It’s free! 🐡🔭 details: www.lpl.arizona.edu/art/
going to union station playing the game I call “tanks or no tanks” where I try to guess whether or not there are tanks today
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
Scenes from the Ellsworth, ME Labor Day #Protest @50501movement.bsky.social 1/2
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege
1 September 1924 | A Norwegian Jew Arne Kronik was born. In #Auschwitz from 1 December 1942. No. 79155 He perished in the camp in February 1943.
RFK jr is setting us backwards at staggering speeds. The number of preventable deaths he will cause just keeps on rising. @altcdc.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info @standupforscience.bsky.social @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info sign here to impeach: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
The party of “family values” is attacking our kids.
===================== MAINE RESISTANCE EVENTS AUG 29 - SEPT 4, 2025 ===================== #RESIST through #PEACEFULProtest #STOPtheCUTS-HEALtheWOUNDS #NONViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts REPOST & SHARE! Updated Aug 29, 7:20AM #Maine #MEPolitics pg 8/16
More foundations should do this: "Funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding rescinded due to federal administrative actions" www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
#BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny
The judge spurned the Trump administration's expedited removal policy, calling out their violation of immigrants' rights in a mad dash to carry out President Trump's mass deportation agenda. We celebrate this victory and we'll keep fighting to defend immigrants' fundamental right to due process.
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
My name is Graham Platner. I'm the oysterman and Marine veteran running against Susan Collins. In 10 days we raised $1 million and signed up 3,000 volunteers. Please share this. Spread the word. Help us build something strong enough to defeat the billionaire class.a
Want to help get rid of RFK Jr? Then sign this petition from @standupforscience.bsky.social: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... 13,000+ signatures so far!
Trump Officials Fire EPA Employees for Signing Dissent Letter www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
How is the president honoring Labor Day this year? By signing an executive order stripping union rights from thousands more federal employees under the pretense of "national security concerns"
From asfiston.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Why and how to set up a Bioinformatics Learning Lab (BILL) | #Bioinformatics #Education #OpenScience #OpenEducationalResources 🧬 🖥️ 🧪🔓CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Out at the Blue Hill Fair today getting some campaigning in between the rain storms. #Resist #GrahamForSenate www.grahamforsenate.com
Didn't think I had much to say about Graham Platner's intriguing campaign—but turns out I did! The race could set us up to replay 2016-style fights all over again. Or it could provide a template for ending the cycle of recriminations driving us off a fascist cliff. www.offmessage.net/p/graham-pla...
President Donald Trump has told House Speaker Mike Johnson that he won’t be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch. https://to.pbs.org/47QkgO2
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
It’s bad enough that the Centers for Medicare + Medicaid Services want to adopt the same review process used by private insurers to deny claims. Hiring companies to make those calls using AI? That’s a massive a slippery slope. We cannot allow Medicare to become a clone of profit-driven insurers.
AP Livestream - CDC coming out in force to support our ousted leaders.
The White House and the director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, were engaged in a tense standoff on Thursday after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to fire her and multiple high-ranking agency officials resigned. The dispute now appears to be in the hands of President Trump.
🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 28! YOU PICK TWO! 1. FLOOD THE FORMS 2. Sign and Share Katrina Declaration 3. Sign and Share RFK Jr Impeach and Remove 4. Send a Quack-o-Gram! 5. ATTEND VIRTUAL FEMA RALLY TONIGHT AT 8PM EST Linking all actions below!!
The chaos at the CDC should alarm everyone. One former staffer said it's become a “death cult.” They’re purging health experts, undermining public trust, and jeopardizing our preparedness for future pandemics. The damage they’re doing will cause immeasurable suffering. We can’t let that happen.
Hey are you looking for a postdoc focusing on microbial ecology/bioinformatics? Hit me up - it’s not my lab but trying to help someone else staff their lab. If you have a student about to defend, this could be a great chance to get a ton of papers.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Re-upping: if you work at EPA, NOAA, FEMA, NIH, CDC, USDA or other agencies that involve really any sort of science in their work, and you have something you want the public to know, I would always love to hear from you. Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous.
Six people in New York City have died this summer from Legionnaires’ disease, and more than 100 others have been sickened. Officials said the bacteria that cause the illness had been spread through the air starting in late July by mist from infected water towers.
I’m Graham Platner and I approve this message.
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
Add your name in support of the FEMA employees who spoke out @cdelawalla.bsky.social, #FEMA36, #31DaysOfAction #standupforscience , #SUFS@standupforscience.bsky.social www.standupforscience.net/katrina-decl...
Breaking News: FEMA suspended about 30 employees who had told Congress that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s emergency preparedness.
Graham Platner: "If we are going to build a political system that represents working people, we need to send up working people... When working people organize and fight together, they can build power, and they can use that to get the things that they deserve."
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
We've warned that those nor'easters are getting stronger! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Donald Trump already hiked up your energy bill — and he's about to make life even more expensive by ending clean energy tax breaks for electric vehicles and home energy efficiency upgrades. Claim these savings before Trump rips them away.
We have an exciting #InverteFest announcement! We're going to create an #InverteFest artist/writer collaboration anthology! Artists and writers will be paired together to create collaborated pieces which we'll collect into an anthology. All are welcome. Apply here: forms.gle/6zHzs7P8kzGF...
Trump just halted a nearly completed wind project that was set to power 350K homes at a stable rate for 20 years. Over 1,000 jobs—gone. Electric bills—up. All to protect Big Oil. This isn’t "national security." It’s political sabotage. They'd rather destroy our future than build a better one.
PR nightmare for Susan Collins but per @midcoastvillager.bsky.social the govt officials behind the ribbon cutting moved it indoors to help Collins manage the optics: "With as many as 200 people holding signs and chanting slogans, officials decided to relocate the ceremony indoors." #MEpolitics
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner tells the Prospect that voters want someone who will “fight for the working class.” Platner’s performance will be a bellwether for the future of the Democratic party as it attempts to take back the Senate. From Austin Ahlman: trib.al/R5t8EmP
DOGE, you may recall, secured access to our Social Security data thanks to an unsigned, unreasoned shadow docket order. The Roberts Court dropped it on a Friday afternoon and barely anyone noticed.
Senator Susan Collins got an earful from protesters at a ribbon cutting ceremony in Searsport today.
Join us for our Office Hours tomorrow (Wednesday)! 1-2 pm Eastern / 10-11 am Pacific Meet with FaceBase team members and ask questions about finding data, submitting data, citing data and more! We can also help you fill out your DMS plans! Click here to register: usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Elon's DOGE Muskjugend uploaded a dataset of every Social Security number to the god damn cloud www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
national geographic but with muppets: thread
26 August 1883 | Jewish man, Gustav Israël Abineri, was born in Vienna. He emigrated to Belgium. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 4 September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
It’s been decades since killer smog haunted our cities. With the EPA being dismantled it will come back. Fight for the EPA any way you can. For those in Cincinnati:
It's time for #InverteFest, BRING OUT YOUR BUGS! Go find bugs, draw bugs, have a seance with bugs but most importantly share bugs (all inverts). We'll have a special announcement soon as well. Plus, we've got this poster in multiple languages on our website! www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/
I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Graham in Ellsworth! Town Hall at Fogtown Brewing” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai... #Resist
NEW: The band is back together to chat legal news, including the shadow docket insanity on NIH research funding. Then Leah chats with Eli Savit, candidate for Michigan AG, about threats to marriage equality & Kate with Serena Mayeri on her book MARITAL PRIVILEGE crooked.com/podcast/trum...
🚨 It’s the 20th anniversary of Katrina + FEMA workers are warning us: cuts + censorship are gutting the agency meant to keep us safe. Delayed disaster response = lives at risk. Sign the Katrina Declaration + demand Congress protect FEMA. 👉 www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina-declaration
I walked around my community cleaning up and posting these notices. Science is for everyone! @standupforscience.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social @nicbennett.bsky.social @savehealthresearch.bsky.social
Update: * He’s been charged with a felony * Initial spreadsheet of recent arrests lists officer’s badge as 12345 * @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social will be requesting body cam footage
24 August 1903 | A Polish Jewish woman, Izabela Kaczmarek, was born in Bratislava. She lived in Bydgoszcz. In August 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz from #Litzmannstadt ghetto. She did not survive.
Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org
The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Cover a public event (farmers' market, etc) for Graham!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai... Hoping to help spread the word at the Blue Hill Fair!
Game on.
🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 23! MINDFUL MICROFLYERING! WE HAVE IMPEACH THE QUACK MICROFLYERS! Strategically place them as you go about your day…tuck into egg cartons at the grocery store or leave in a waiting room. www.standupforscience.net/microflyering #31Days
As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
"Raven snowfall" I don't often get a #Skyline in my flight shots, unless you count the sea. This shot of a raven flying in a snowstorm was taken in Vadsø, Varanger, N Norway. I like the feeling of silence, only broken by the raven's "croak". #BirdOfTheDay #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin
#BlueSkyArtShow #SkyLine
I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Phone Bank for Graham!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai... #Resist
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.
The number of kids who died from flu in the 2024-25 season is still rising. #CDC was informed of another 5 deaths, bringing the season total to 275 so far. Deaths occurred in Jan & May. The only time more peds deaths from flu were reported was in the 2009 pandemic. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
This seems like a good time to share a little about my experiences on the DC grand jury and maybe convince some of you that the grand jury is a tool that we may be able to use right to now to help some of our neighbors.
Really excellent. Since Wakefield's retracted study, 43 of some 70 studies found no vaccine-autism link For 26 reporting a link: 2/3s authored by David & Mark Geier. Their work's been criticized for "deceptive research techniques & flawed data." Of the 8 others: 4 retracted for data manipulation
Friday night #baking
Sharing this from Lincoln County Indivisible (Maine) in case you haven’t seen Trump says he’s sending the National Guard to Chicago next. We will be on the Wiscasset Bridge 4-5pm today because EVERY DAY IS NO KINGS DAY! Hope you join Cara who wanted this shared, nobody should stand alone!
natalie port-manholes: thread
Certain extramural investigators have received NOAs this week listing the indirects at 15%. What's happening at your institution?
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Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling means that HHS does not have to restore $783M in terminated NIH grants. I explore the misguided, implicit assumptions in the decision and the repercussions for America's science and research landscape in a new post. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/restoring-...
22 August 1897 | Pole Stanisław Tokarski was born in Krakow. Engineer of roads and bridges. In #Auschwitz from 19 September 1942. No. 64611 He was shot in the camp on 25 June 1943.
time is running out @samreich.bsky.social tick tock tick tock
Hearing that all 27 NIH institutes have been instructed to stop using "paylines" in funding decisions starting Oct 1. Order issued in the last 48 hours. Using paylines means scientific peer reviewers control funding decisions. Removing them allows more political interference. 🧪 1/
Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether. Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...
1/ Popping back in with another #fallvaccine update. 👇 In case you missed it, Friday (or soon after) the FDA is expected to license the Covid-19 vaccine. Word is that the label will be restricted to adults 65+ and people at high risk. But a few organizations have made different recommendations.
9/❓Will the Covid-19 vaccine formula be updated this fall? Yes, I have confirmed with Pfizer that it will be updated to match the most recent circulating Covid-19 strain. Keep in mind, if you get a vaccine now, the “older” vaccine formula will work very well in providing additional protection.
🐤Promise you this is one you'll want to say you were a part of... Help us get our 'ducks in a row' and IMPEACH AND REMOVE THAT DANG QUACK!!!! 📣🦆📣🦆📣🦆📣🦆 Link here: tinyurl.com/sufsci
What happens after CDC is the target of a terror attack inspired by RFK Jr? CDC staff are receiving calls from assholes who play audio of gun shots. We don’t know who these people are. But we know who inspires this behavior. It’s time to FIRE RFK Jr.
