Many thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social for the great shout out about the ITC red shirt project at the MN state fair!https://open.substack.com/pub/chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions/p/extra-extra-831?r=49mmk&utm_medium=ios
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Many thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social for the great shout out about the ITC red shirt project at the MN state fair!https://open.substack.com/pub/chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions/p/extra-extra-831?r=49mmk&utm_medium=ios
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On our lawn today. Channeling @mattyglesias.bsky.social, it is amazing that Republicans can keep getting away doing very unpopular things. (though not mysterious) #bluelawnsigns #blueboards
No kings car flags- based on our football team. Come get a free one or two at our weekly rally! 50th and France Mondays 4:30-5:30 PM. Still going this week after we go to other Labor day rallies. @sonnyboy-spoo.bsky.social @indivistwincities.bsky.social @mn50501.bsky.social
Thanks! Chalk lawn signs are not hard to do- can buy them online or at resto supply stores. Just need to take them in at night or they get swiped!
I will be participating in four protests this weekend to resist the ongoing destruction of science, healthcare, and democracy in this country. Please consider joining one of the many labor day rallies, you can find many of them here www.mobilize.us/mayday/ A few further thoughts in this thread...
On our lawn today. RFK jr must go! #bluelawnsigns #blueboards @cdelawalla.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
VSS needs to quit Florida! #VisionScience
37) We want to thank the NIH for providing federal funding for this work. And we note here that this grant was illegally terminated by the federal administration causing future studies on the manner in which these changes influence human disease risk and birth process to be ended.
Funny because it's true!
This is what integrity and dedication to public service looks like. CDC has now lost most of its leadership that was actually committed to the health of the American people. The CDC is nearly gone.
COVID vaccines were approved today but it's a Pyrrhic victory for vaccines. With the CDC stripped of leadership & capacity, we have no recourse for the outbreaks of preventable diseases that are coming. The CDC's death will kill people. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Powerful thread...
No hard to do! You can buy 'em online or at resto supply store...
On our lawn today. #blueboards #bluelawnsigns
Today, courageous FEMA staff members sent the Katrina Declaration to the FEMA "leadership" and others. Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us. www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina... @standupforscience.bsky.social
If you want to know what heroes look like (at least in drawing form)...
The motto from the Bethesda Declaration authors from a mug they sent me.
Why the actual everlasting fuck is no one discussing a general strike? Shut the motherfucker down. Yes, I've been radicalized by 45/47.
On our lawn today! #bluelawnsigns #blueboards
Sounds about right…
In a little over a month, Senate Dems will again have the choice of whether to vote to fund Trump's government or to shut it down. Here's one we can and must win: Shut down the government until the full Epstein files are released!
Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching @uoregon.bsky.social
So agree with all of this. What will it take to Newsomify congressional democrats! www.offmessage.net/p/gut-check-...
On our lawn today. One for the boomers! #bluelawnsigns #blueboards
i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
GAVIN "SILVER BEAR" NEWSOME HAS PERSONALLY ENDED 127 WARS, COUNTERED DONALD "PUTIN-EPSTEIN PROTECTOR" TRUMP'S GERRYMANDERING, KNOWS POLITICAL ASYLUM AND INSANE ASYLUMS ARE DIFFERENT, AND DOES NOT IRRATIONALLY HATE WINDMILLS. GAVIN, TYFYATTM!
🧵 Three more thoughts from yesterday's NIH SCOTUS catastrophe: 1️⃣ By casting the deciding vote to re-terminate "DEI" and trans health grants, Justice Barrett has found another way to attack trans folks. She's now authored multiple opinions subverting their rights. She really hates trans people.
On our lawn today. #bluelawnsigns #blueboards
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Where and what time?
Funny because it should be true! www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-frea...
Selassie condensed to a sign at our protest yesterday!
On our lawn today #blueboards #bluelawnsigns
BREAM: Trump talked about tough consequences on Putin. There's a package sitting in the Senate with more than 80 senators agreeing on a new sanctions package. You haven't signed onto that bill. Is it time for POTUS to use that lever? SCHMITT: We need to follow the commander in chief's lead here
400-500 people turn out at today’s Minnetonka Fight the Trump Takeover event. A dazzling response to short notice rally! @maddowblog.msnbc.com www.fightthetrumptakeover.com
Great turn out at rally in Minnetonka today! This shows only about half the crowd... @indivisiblemn03.org @indivistwincities.bsky.social
Our members and friends from @indivisiblemn03.org are showing up in Minnetonka for the Fight the Trump Takeover protest now. #FightTheTrumpTakeover
On our lawn today #blueboards #bluelawnsigns @sonnyboy-spoo.bsky.social
@harvard.edu #Harvard
Reply from Harvard after I emailed asking them not to cave and my response:
On our lawn today #bluelawnsign #blueboards
If you want to sign on to a letter asking Harvard to stand up! www.crimsoncourage.com
Funny because it's true! www.borowitzreport.com/p/dc-mayor-s...
C'mon NY Times! This update on Trump's blatantly illegal attempt to extort universities and ensure their future compliance is referred to as a "dispute," a "clash," and a "pressure campaign." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
Had to do this AGAIN! Just emailed Harvard Development Office (ads@harvard.edu) telling them that I will actively work to convince others >not< to donate if Harvard caves and gives the Trump Administration $ to end the legal action. Left phone message too (617) 495-1750
Monday protest in Edina keeps growing- 4:30-5:30 PM one block west of 50th and France! Some of our folks this week... @sonnyboy-spoo.bsky.social @indivistwincities.bsky.social
On our lawn today. Our friend next door is moving and selling their house- our signs might influence who buys? #bluelawnsigns #blueboards
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It's like Trump and Netanyahu are in some sort of horrible competition to see how can do the most norm-breaking damage to their countries. And at least in part, for both, to stay out of scandal.
Are you still talking about the BIGGEST political scandal of all-time EPSTEIN & how the president of the United States is connected to the most notorious child-sex-trafficker ever AND is covering up his own involvement???!!! Good. #RememberTheUnderageVICTIMS 💔
The world is watching, America.
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On our lawn today. #bluelawnsigns #blueboards
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On our lawn two months ago... #blueboards #bluelawnsigns
Sick fucking bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
If Trump’s goal is to hobble higher edication, he’s found a good way to go about it & feed his xenophobic base. www.nafsa.org/about/about-...
Dear all scientists and everyone who cares about #NIH and medical cures: This is very important! Please read the thread and blog post. The Supreme Court looks very likely to blow up NIH grants and create chaos. Decision could come any time. 🧪
Deadline for abstracts for Optica Fall Vision Meeting is Aug 8th (today, midnight). It's at the Uni. of Minnesota Oct 2-5 and includes lectures from Tillyer awardee Susana Marcos, Boynton Lecturer Austin Roorda and the 2024 Tillyer awardee Gordon Legge! #VisionScience www.osafallvisionmeeting.org
Next time for sure!
Cementing what had been clear all along- NIH "reform"'s only purpose is to allow political appointees to control who gets funding. Same as goal of tariffs is to allow Trump to control which industries live and die. Same goal for universities, law firms, FEMA aid... No kings!
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Easy to do- you can get them at resto supply store or online! Just have to bring them in at night else they get stolen...
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Conspiracy theorists are crazy, and as a Jew I know the evils of antisemitism first-hand. But, even broken clocks are right twice a day. Starvation in Gaza is indefensible, and the Epstein files are a giant scandal.
On our lawn today. #blueboards #bluelawnsigns #standupforscience #summerfightforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
The Trump regime has removed sections 9 and 10 of the constitution from its website, which include Habeas Corpus, congressional appropriations, and other states rifhts constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
Great turnout (~20 folks) for this week's corner rally! Mondays 4:30-5:30 PM, one block west of 50th and France in Edina Minnesota. Come join us! @indivistwincities.bsky.social @mn50501.bsky.social
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On our lawn today. #blueboards #bluelawnsigns
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1. On February 24, Extremity Care LLC, a company that sells very expensive bandages made from placentas, donated $5 MILLION TO TRUMP'S SUPER PAC Days later, Trump froze a pending rule that would BAR MEDICARE FROM COVERING EXTREMITY CARE'S PRODUCTS, which are overpriced & not backed by science.
With all the smoke from fires here in the upper midwest and all the horrifying Trump actions, it's hard not to feel like we are up against Mordor.
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I posted more of this story that I was really comfortable doing because it is so deeply reported. PLEASE CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING TO STAT. They are doing great work in this space and across the board. THIS HIGH QUALITY JOURNALISM IS NOT FREE BUT IT MAY HELP KEEP US ALL FREE.
Funny because its true!
and some bad news to balance the good- sigh.
More good news that will hopefully keep us fighting! Multi-year funding without a ton of guardrails would halve more more the number of new grants given out per year for the next few years.
We need widescale blowback against Columbia and Brown. Not just because they deserve it, but because we need to send a message to other universities about what reputational risk comes with caving to authoritarians.
Some good news. Still need to keep fighting of course!
Agree with @hcrichardson.bsky.social today that Republicans who know better not voting better is big part of the problem! This sign is on our lawn today. substack.com/home/post/p-...
I feel like a lot of people forgot that part where he used to walk into the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants while the children were changing and it should be brought up more often www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HARTFORD #visibilitybrigade this am! Rain won't stop us from getting the messages out! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @repjahanahayes.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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This goes for you @klobuchar.senate.gov Take a lead from @booker.senate.gov and dont vote to advance Trump bills that punish blue states not your own! @indivistwincities.bsky.social @mn50501.bsky.social
On our lawn today. #bluelawnsigns #blueboards
Unless action is taken, most NIH agencies are going to fund about half as many grants in coming years! scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/a-quiet-po...
On our lawn today. This is true, but maybe too far in the trenches? #blueboards #bluelawnsigns
Just emailed Harvard Development Office (ads@harvard.edu) telling them that as an alumn, I will actively work to convince others >not< to donate if Harvard caves and gives the Trump Administration $ to end the legal action. Left phone message too (617) 495-1750 Not bragging- just the opposite!
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On our lawn today. Trash day! #blueboards #bluelawnsigns
