Rebuilding will be a slow process. Seasonal avatars for a while. she/her/Ms. Academic STEM librarian. Meningioma survivor, ~14h craniotomy @MGH. Opinions only.
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@labonnelab.bsky.social correctly links the battle for science and expertise with the battle for democracy, citing what happened in Hungary as a potent warning: š§Ŗ "The fight for science and universities is, at its core, a fight for democracy itself. Lose one, and you will lose the other."
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
So three cheers today for Congressional appropriators--but they need to do more. Right now, #Vought has assumed control over the NIH by #impoundment, illegal #terminations and by hacking the agency to death by #executiveorders and #bureaucratic shenanigans. 6/
Wowa! We printed 200+ āHow to Report Iceā zines & got them in 41 Little Free Libraries in Takoma, Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant, Capitol Hill, H St, & Trinidad! If you see any tag us & let us know! Print (in linktree above), fold, & get some in a little library near you š¤
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
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.
šØšØšØIf you live anywhere in the greater Chicago areaā¦ICE will start using Great Lakes Naval Station as a command center for their āenforcementā operations across Chicago on Sept 5. The base isnāt in the city or Cook County. Itās north, in Lake County. Expect raids across entire the metropolitan area.
2nd post in which he feels itās important to comment on her ānaturalā lips.
I fully fucking expect more studies like this but I can see how it does. Just ask any AI proponent how and why we need it to do so much. Itās like Listening to ded Donald talk about the release of the #Epstein files. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
Thank you on this labor day!!
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
Heck, the police need to check his computer if he genuinely couldnāt see anything wrong w/ that manās behavior. Also, what exactly is ānaturalā about red lipstick other than the faint chance a natural dye is an ingredient?
And Dumbf was 5yo, younger than RFK Jr, hereā¦see what they have in common? Itās the sadism, folks. www.wgbh.org/news/nationa...
Sadly it's a thing theweek.com/culture-life...
These are being circulated in LA and possibly around the state. Obv a RW op and recognized as such by many at this point but we have work to do. Just for your awareness, esp if you plan to help to pass the CA ballot measure.
Israel actually has to deal w/ nondomestic terrorism on a regular basis, & most Israelis serve a stint in the military as a civil obligation. ICE is a bunch of paid mercenaries who profit from kidnapping the āthreatsā of children, blue-collar laborers, & folk complying w/ immigration hearings.
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
If they go on, Trump tariffs will harm workers all over the world and spark political instability.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Wants to penetrate an womanās anus/rectum, hopes theyāre too naĆÆve to insist on safety & comfort measures, too damn cheap to pay a professional for the service.
He wants to be the penetrating person in anal intercourse & his inspirational source material dates back to the 1970s.
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenāt calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: theyāre all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
The Republican damage to science will take years to repair, perhaps a decadeāif we went back to 2024 science policy right now. That immediate switch cannot happen. All we can do now is fight to defend and rebuild.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his familyās lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
š Canadaās economy shrank 1.6% as Trumpās reckless tariffs squeezed exports r.pebmac.ca/https://www.... A U.S. appeals court just ruled many tariffs unlawful r.pebmac.ca/https://www.... Canadians are paying the price for Trumpās chaos. Without CBC, weād only hear the spin. Defend CBC.
When a kid is raised by graphic designer parents, even if he is a different sort of designer, he can still make his parents proud: (Also heās far from a kid now) #freeDC #releaseTheSandwich #sandwichPower
like all jokes aside, there's no legitimate reason that in 2025 we, as an informed public, don't have any real tangible ideas about the whereabouts of the leader of this country. it's unheard of and unacceptable. We must have answers.
This is a real and legitimate question: who is running this country right now. We know that it's not Trump, so who is it?
But it makes him a topic on social media, which matters more to the Narcissist in Chief. We should all switch to talking about the weather & posting pet photosāif a groundswell of disinterest in the NiC doesnāt loosen his tongue, *then* somethingās up. Meanwhileā¦where exactly is Vance?
Trump isnāt just axing the Constitution. Heās axing something we all love. Watch. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
Is this where the homeless people theyāve already removed are? What are the charges? Where are their pets? Have their families been notified?
Lt. Gen. HonorƩ: "If you don't have chaos, then it's not a fucking disaster; it's an inconvenience." Nat Geo lets people say fuck now! Also frankly I think I like that distinction he made.
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, retired Lt. Gen. Russel HonorƩ, who led recovery efforts as commander of Joint Task Force Katrina, urges people to be prepared for future disasters.
This is totally fine and normal
Please share so that she can be identified and arrested.
Canāt join a protest? Here are some alternatives to resist:
TOMORROW š Find your local #WorkersOverBillionaries event at MayDayStrong.org or FiftyFifty.one. WE are the resistance. #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #GoodTrouble #FuckTrump #Resist #FightFascism #WeAreTheResistance #RebelAlliance
Staff cuts have damaged Social Security, former commissioner says ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/25/s...
He prolly belongs to some particularly obnoxious evangelical or fundamentalist church (possibly online) that tells him itās his obligation to go out and tell sinners the correct way to live. This is what it was like attending college in the 80s except the babbling fools were in their late 20sā30s.
Good odds youāve never been preached at by some proselytizing ultra-Christian twerp. The dudeās cut from that cloth: stupid, annoying, bigotedā¦but only harmful to people who join his crusade.
A #Florida man colored the bottom of his shoes with chalk and walked across what had been the Pride crosswalk at the Pulse memorial before DOT painted it out. FHP arrested him, but a judge looked at the case & turned him loose. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/31/m... via @orlandosentinel.com
"Poor people have bad health because they choose to eat beans" has just been added to my "zombie CDC puppet" bingo card.
NEW: In the dead of night, the Trump admin ripped vulnerable kids from their beds, attempting to return them to danger in Guatemala. Weāre heartened the Court prevented this injustice. Weāll keep fighting to protect our plaintiffs & all class members until the effort is enjoined permanently.
UPDATE: Judge blocks mass transfer of estimated 600 immigrant children from US to Guatemala amid dispute over whether parents have sought their return. DOJ lawyer calls suit 'outrageous' interference, but judge suggests holiday timing of flights is suspicious www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you canāt do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and sheās had so many bad exs.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldnāt go along with the lie. (Seriously, thatās the answer)
During a phone call, Donald Trump hinted to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he should nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, as Pakistan had done. Modi sharply rejected the idea, stating that the ceasefire with Islamabad was achieved without U.S. involvement.
Having to go to NH or RI to get covid shots as if smuggling fireworks
Reminder to all fellow parents that we have two jobs: keep our kids safe and give them a future The climate crisis is a parenting crisis. Among other things. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A crew from Belly of the Beast captured images of 150 Cuban detainees stepping off a plane, deported from the US to Cuba. Then stories of family separation & cruelty emerged. One woman said she was forcibly separated from her US-born 2-yr-old daughter. A man said ICE had detained him 3 months ago.
So sad. Mark was the chronicler of the Presidencyā¦ if you wanted to know how many times GWB played golf, for example, or how many books Obama read aloud at the Easter Egg roll, you asked him. We never met but we had many exchanges on the Other Site and Iām glad he knew how much I valued his work.
š City department of law are directed to pursue every legal mechanism, to resist unconstitutional efforts & hold them accountable š Demands Trump stand down from deploying the military in Chicago š Chicago PD not to wear masks or collaborate with ICE on patrols, arrests, or immigration enforcement
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. šØ NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trumpās federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in š§µ
"The Newest MAGA Intellectual Hero Was Just Denounced as a Total Crackpot" www.esquire.com/news-politic... Not that people should not be prepared to refute his fauxguments
One of JD Vanceās political influencers argues that whites have a higher IQ than Blacks and has endorsed returning to slavery. His name is Curtis Yarvin. When Vance becomes POTUS (and he will), youāll hear the name more often.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpracticeāwhen you pray for something you have the power to change.
Does your state constitution ensure your right to a clean and healthy environment? If it doesnāt, such an amendment would be a fantastic lever for climate action. In the absence of federal leadership, we can make important headway on climate at the state level.
For obvious reasons havenāt made it through every reply but people are missing the obvious: unfortunately weāll need to use the military & all those misemployed ICE jerks to truly lock down the country so all the criminals & their abettors canāt flee before their arrests.
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Albertaās book ban is cultural vandalism. The Handmaidās Tale, The Color Purple, 1984 ā gone. This is the MAGA playbook in Canada: censor, control, erase. CBC exposed it. Without them, weād be in the dark. š Defend the right to read. šŗ Defend CBC. š r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
What was done to Gaza will come to us, if Palantir is doing what I think it's doing with our data. Whistleblowers have been on top of the situation the whole time too. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isnāt normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Jonathan Nez is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Arizona's 2nd Congressional District in the 2026 elections. Trumpers want to know if he's here illegally. He's Navajo.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors ā by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit ā helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
Russia holds hundreds of civilian Ukrainians captive against international law. Here are the testimonies of those who've been freed š š§µ 1/12
Yep
If you accept the premise that "illegal Migration" is a serious issue, then you are part of the problem. This is a moral panic and every time you affirm it as an issue you play into the signification spiral. Progressives/left must reject the issue itself not just the "solutions" of the right.
Live your life so that people donāt consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
Thatās the responsibility of the major egg producers, as theyāre generally located in red states. worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankin...
Health officials under JB Pritzker, who is showing how to take on Trump, are moving forward. They're exploring buying vaccines in bulk themselves. Mass. Gov Maura Healey is in talks with multiple other states about coordinating purchasing of pediatric vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump and Dr. Oz want AI to decide which Medicare patients get careāand they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong. Tell Congress to intervene NOW:
Well well, if it isn't Cosplay Barbie trying to chase damage control in the wake of the illuminating FEMA Katrina Letter. "I refuse to accept that FEMA red tape should stand between an American citizen suffering and the aid they desperately need." Psst - her red tape slowed Texas flood response.
Keep an eye on this. This is the overstep that Congress must fight in order to retain any semblance of continued relevancy.
New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest. Trump administration to end nearly all abortions even though third of female veterans are sexual assault survivors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program. We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful. The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs. www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...
Love to see the president repeatedly gut blue-collar industries and for the people in those industries to STILL blame anyone but Trump for losing their jobs.
David Cutler popping off, my goodness jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
This won't end all tariffs. This ruling applies to tariffs applied to entire countries (which is most of the tariff agenda). The industry-specific tariffs use a different legal authority, and will remain. The White House has other (more limited) tariff powers it'll dust off.
the right celebrating a guy who was not qualified to hold his title i am starting to notice a trend here
NEW ā I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:
This is particularly troublingā¦ www.politico.com/news/magazin...
New: @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into how Trump (and RFK Jr) is undermining mental health research at @motherjones.comāwhich could lead to fewer breakthroughs in early intervention strategies. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Them: āCities are all rotting hellscapes!ā Cities:
Oh my god please back this project, this is exactly what we artists need. LICENSING PLATFORM!
For those interested, here's the corrupt jackass responsible for the digging into Lisa Cook's mortgage. It's unbelievable. Well, I guess it's not with these freaking guys. No pay firewall. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Children with cancer are not waste, fraud, and abuse. Theyāre our loved ones who deserve care. This administration should be ashamed.
the united states navy has deployed warships to venezuelaās coast. the naval buildup isn't dominating the headlines right now (but should be). www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
Want to know more about these billionaires? Interested in finding billionaires in your area to protest? We compiled every billionaire in the state into a database so you don't have to: classsolidarity.org
Art depicting āSandwich Guyā now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
