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this sunday, come protest the anti-trans groups holding a fundraiser in Kendall Sq, Cambridge. 5pm, at 450 Kendall St. #CambridgeMA

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

🧪 I just saw a specific NSF grant termination letter and it is FUCKING WILD. The letter said "not subject to appeal", which is a blatant violation of NSF's own policies and broader cross-agency regulations (regulation below): www.ecfr.gov/current/titl... NSF just opened itself up to lawsuit.

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

submitted 41 days ago • 48 comments

Today’s news - Trump issues infinity percent tariff on Massachusetts somehow - White House releases revised upside-down graphs showing climate change is getting better - Scientists invent new universal supervaccine; RFK Jr eats the data and runs away - Something good happened wait no now it’s bad jk

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 41 days ago • 169 comments

you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”

submitted 45 days ago • 1688 comments

For real? This should be the only response when someone expresses regret or horror over stuff they supported. Don't dunk on then. Ever. Always reward the behavior you want to see more of. First amongst that is acknowledging that they fucked up, and want to do better.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

[They stab Caesar.]

submitted 67 days ago • 93 comments

For years I’ve contrasted the way that US science allocates cognitive effort from the bottom up via individual scientists responding to career incentives with the way things were done in the Soviet Union, from the top down, by the Party setting rear b priorities. I can’t do that anymore.

submitted 76 days ago • 8 comments

Maura Healey loves talking about what Congressional Democrats should do to fight Republican budget cuts. But why won't she commit to raising taxes on our state's largest corporations to fight her own budget cuts to mental health and recovery services? #mapoli

submitted 76 days ago • 6 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 77 days ago • 1289 comments

Union Square rally.

submitted 93 days ago • 489 comments

why am i awake? because i want to document a book burning

submitted 108 days ago • 5 comments

Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.

submitted 111 days ago • 757 comments

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

submitted 120 days ago • 84 comments

I'm not saying that the Republican Party has entered a dark pact with Moloch, laying the lives and souls of untold millions on the altar of sacrifice and offering up their lifeblood in return for electoral victory, but I am saying that if they DID do that, their policy approach would be identical.

submitted 117 days ago • 20 comments

LOL. The email address for snitching on DEI ideology has already been signed up for BoyfriendTV

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

submitted 121 days ago • 135 comments

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 121 days ago • 192 comments

URGENT: We've got maybe 6-8 months to organize real direct action to defend our neighbors before ICE has anything near the mass deportation capacity which they want us to believe will kick in next week. Read on for what that might look like & what YOU can do to get in the way

submitted 122 days ago • 3 comments

Dr Hussam Abu Safia, who has documented illegal acts by Israeli forces, has been detained by the IDF and sent to the Sde Teiman camp, notorious for abuse and torture. The UK government must call for his immediate release and an end to Israel’s brutality.

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

“Cold” has committed another war crime. If you’re curious the piece takes four paragraphs to mention Israel’s role, only vaguely alludes to it once, and makes zero mention of the mounds of evidence starvation and exposure are a deliberate part of Israel’s strategy www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/w...

submitted 142 days ago • 9 comments

It’s always helpful when the trash takes itself out. My piece on why three well-known atheists just resigned from the Freedom From Religion Foundation—and why they won’t be missed. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/three-prom...

submitted 142 days ago • 51 comments

(Me stepping out of the bathroom): I am relieved of my doodies

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment

Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

2025 is approaching so here's a fun math fact about that number: 2025=2024+1 #math #ITeachMath #EduSky

submitted 144 days ago • 7 comments

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed is living with his mother, father and little sister in a tent. His father has his leg amputated and he also was injured. His mother and sister both have medical conditions they need treatment for.

submitted 145 days ago • 6 comments

it's going to be essential in the coming years that we do a better job separating the billionaire brunchlords who have run the journalism industry into the ground from the hardworking journalists who are doing their best in an utterly broken system and are actively being targeted by fascists

submitted 155 days ago • 5 comments

absurd and ridiculous own goal if you’re looking for some counterweight to Trump, it’s a slam dunk to put one of your most charismatic and media-savvy members in charge of oversight Connolly isn’t even terrible as a rep but he’s 74, has fucking cancer, and nobody knows who he is

submitted 155 days ago • 25 comments

The Mount Vernon, New York, police department strip searched nearly everyone it arrested and performed illegal cavity searches, Justice Department says

submitted 157 days ago • 69 comments

Artist Rachel Kenaston shared an email with me saying UnitedHealth Group filed a DMCA claim to stop her from selling a merchandise with HER artwork of Luigi Mangione. There was no United logo on the design, just Luigi. How does that infringe on UnitedHealth IP or copyright at all?

submitted 156 days ago • 124 comments

a warning to you all

submitted 199 days ago • 76 comments

Shocked. Shocked! (This article doesn't say, but I've seen claims on some sites that Netanyahu said the plan is to double the number of Israelis in the Golan - truth of that should be known in an hour or so.) www.jpost.com/breaking-new...

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments

soon-shiong is pulling the elon musk strategy of fighting bias and standing up for “free speech” by censoring everything he doesn’t like and openly simping for donald trump

submitted 160 days ago • 187 comments

Amid this reckoning over the inhumanity and dysfunction of the American health care system keep in mind you're being asked to believe the same system is treating trans people too efficiently

submitted 160 days ago • 29 comments

🌹 it’s go time friends Want bsky to equally apply its own rules to Singal and stop giving him special treatment? It starts by signing this and sharing it time to have our voices heard on this dangerous extremist and get this rank transphobe OUT OF HERE chng.it/xHwtkPqQcQ

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Now we have scientific evidence to back up what trans women have been saying all along: we're at a disadvantage to all cis people, men or women. www.outsports.com/2024/4/12/24...

submitted 172 days ago • 40 comments