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3 weeks from today! After that disgraceful, appalling speech at the commencement at West Point, it's becoming more and more obvious that we need to 86 47! Please join us across the nation on June 14th, the same day another debacle is to occur, to let the world know we have No Kings in America!

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

submitted 16 hours ago • 99 comments

Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt

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Couched in all those sciencey sounding words is that the people who believe the Earth is 6k years old will be appointing officers at each agency to evaluate if research is “Gold Standard Science” or not. They will have the power to call anything fraud. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.

submitted 1 day ago • 232 comments

This is gonna be fun, Seattle! Come down to meet @dashdog.bsky.social and learn about all the ways you can make good trouble with @troublemakers.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, the state AI moratorium was included in the big budget bill the House passed this morning and yes, it's still largely unchanged. But it faces big hurdles in the Senate. w/ @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/us-house-pas...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I despise legislative fights but I've unfortunately had to be part of many of them at the state level over the years. And what I can tell you is that NOTHING happens to stop bad bills unless PUBLIC PRESSURE IS RAMPED UP TO 1000%. That pressure can only build if the public is INFORMED.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Finally what's EXTREMELY important right now is for each of us to immediate educate ourselves and our direct communities about what is in this bill. There will be some analyses of the bill coming soon and I will make sure to uplift those. You should too. But we all need to become educators now.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 79 comments

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

submitted 4 days ago • 1236 comments

Check out this interview @laceyleavittgray.bsky.social & I did with @knkx.org about #teslaregretsyndrome, which aired last night during All Things Considered. 📻 @troublemakers.bsky.social @alexwinter.com

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What I love about this whole thing is that is shows exactly how people are actually using LLMs versus how the pro-AI weirdos say it's being used. No matter how much this guy says he double checks genAI content, it's obvious he doesn't. www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

WHEN is his mental acuity going to become a topic for mainstream media?

submitted 5 days ago • 422 comments

I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver. This is a political stunt—point blank.

submitted 5 days ago • 643 comments

My statement on the charges filed against me:

submitted 5 days ago • 1184 comments

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s... 🧪

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

submitted 88 days ago • 59 comments

🚨 The Bukele regime has arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a prominent human rights defender and the head of the anti-corruption and justice unit at Cristosal, a leading Salvadoran human rights organization. Cristosal has denounced her detention as an enforced disappearance.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

If you are seeking a space where you can reflect individually and with others on your ongoing activism and organizing, feel free to join me on the last Sunday of every month through December on Zoom from 4 to 6 pm ET - Next session is 5/15 - www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo... - Space is limited

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It’s wild watching every advanced agency developed during my lifetime be destroyed on purpose, by people who want to profit from it and cheered on by those who will be hurt the most because they don't understand how things work.

submitted 52 days ago • 69 comments

Some fantastic information here. If your teacher, if you’re a scientist or if you’re just interested in saving democracy and our health.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Tens of thousands of people in the Hague protesting the Dutch government’s failure to respond meaningfully to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Dressed in red to mark the ‘red line’ that has been crossed. (📸 ANP) nos.nl/l/2567762

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Literally, all the early career funding opportunities are going away or being drastically reduced, and people are still saying “apply for more grants” to those whose grants were terminated 🤷🏾‍♀️

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Because I have opened a BlueSky window and am procrastinating on reading final papers, let me also share what this spring has been like from my corner of the academic world.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Last week the Calstate Northridge Faculty Senate passed a resolution I led, objecting to the CSU's adoption of ChatGPT Edu as undermining our educational goals and misusing scarce funds, calling for the CSU to drop the $16.9 million subscription live-csu-northridge.pantheonsite.io/sites/defaul...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 8 days ago • 251 comments

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Republicans just failed to pass their own budget bill out of committee. They couldn’t agree on how many people to take health care away from in order to give billionaires a tax cut. Embarrassing. We’ll keep fighting to protect Medicaid and the American people.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

for those with NSF grant terminations: upcoming office hours (today and next week) + info on drawdown costs + appeal letter template, from @fabbs.org

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

submitted 10 days ago • 421 comments

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 116 comments

Republicans wanted you to be sleeping while we talked about what a bad deal their bill is for the people. Here's what you missed ⬇️

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

“Sonoma county raised us, science gave us a way forward.” Here’s a piece I co-authored with another young scientist & friend from our small town in Geyserville CA. Thanks for the inspo @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social bohemian.com/saving-scien...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Inspired by Vietnam-era activism, Stand Up For Science is hosting a series of teach-ins around the USA this summer, focusing on the importance of science and science funding. I’m doing one May 30th in Silver Spring. Many of you should consider doing one too, and I’m happy to help you plan it 🦑🧪🌎

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a lot of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided. From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives. We need everyone in this fight. The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in? The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

This report from @sanders.senate.gov didn't get enough attention yesterday. It tracks how much funding from science Trump has killed. www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments