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I see a lot of people talking about how "we just need to explain science more to the public". The state Space Grant programs (one issued in each state) does incredible deep and wide outreach work - supporting education at every age and stage, nurturing science interest.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Yall wanna keep looking for young white saviors, erasing Black queers, avoiding hard convos I am a mean cuss and I’m not making it easy and of course I could “do more” But I don’t want to it’s unfair and dawg it doesn’t fix things So we are ALL here now

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Happy 30th anniversary to Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. In 2021, I interviewed women of color about why it connects with them, the racial nuances of female rage in the '90s and why as some of the album's biggest fans they're left out of discussions about it www.huffpost.com/entry/jagged...

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

submitted 22 hours ago • 36 comments

It's easy to lose the thread in the chaos of the moment, but what we are seeing rn is a regime that criminalizes dissent by 1) arresting opposition lawmakers & 2) deploying the military for use against protesters. Think of these as trial balloons, consider where they lead, & respond accordingly.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

In the name of "fighting antisemitism," the US government is deporting two Palestinian peace activists whose visas were being sponsored by... an American synagogue. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Treasury is developing new rules that would strip the tax-exempt status of colleges that are deemed to be using race in any way, aligning with the administration's executive orders. This flew under the radar yesterday with everything going on.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

I want to talk about how the media is going to be responsible for increasing levels of violence. Here's the thing: the protests have been peaceful.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

So-called «AI» as developed and marketed by Big Tech isn't a mere tool. It's a political and ideological project—a system of extraction, exploitation and surveillance that concentrates power in the hands of the few. Willingly accepting this as inevitable progress means submitting to brute force 1/

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 1 day ago • 697 comments

Here, have some genuinely great news: In a unanimous decision, SCOTUS rules in favour of disability protections, and a reasonably low standard of proof for disability-based discrimination.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

Oh you mean money laundering and tax evasion.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The thing I need non-New Yorkers to understand about why we always have shit mayors, is that the majority of our population is in the outer boroughs, and more than 1.5 miles from Manhattan is basically Trump town: North Bronx, Eastern Queens, South Brooklyn, all of Staten Island.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Imagine being active on Twitter, the site that is a festering cesspool of racism, far-right ideology, misogyny, etc. & where opinions running counter to the owner are deboosted, and arguing that Bluesky is super toxic because some leftists get feisty. Really demonstrates how Twitter cooks your brain

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

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Something that I think weighs on many is that everyone knows that if ever the Democrats were fully in power at the Federal level again, they will not immediately move to reverse what has been destroyed and build something new. This reality just sits out there like an anchor.

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I've focused a lot of energy on grant & job losses within academia lately. Glad that the @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social has launched a nonprofit job loss tracker, including a form to contribute your own data www.philanthropy.com/article/10-0... (h/t @paulacroxson.bsky.social(

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NYT: Placing a reporter with protesters or migrant families would be biased. So we embedded one with ICE.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I keep coming back to this: a lot of people out here demanding more foresight and self-restraint from people facing down armed agents of the state than they demand of themselves in between their work email and Pornhub browser tabs

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Historian here this is the Trump regime’s attack on not just historical knowledge but all knowledge. Lincoln said it best when it comes to this I would rather live in Russia where despotism can be taken pure and unadulterated without the base alloy of hypocrisy www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 5 days ago • 894 comments

and Musk made clear that, for example, abusers and harassers would not be punished. As demonstrated by the fact that YESTERDAY he personally quote-tweeted the guy who doxed me. “Why don’t they stay on the platform where we can ruin their lives?” Why don’t you shut the fuck up?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Media platform for Nazis: Free exchange of ideas Media platform for non-Nazis: Bubble

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Why unemployment for Black women is rising axios.com/2025/06/09/f... #axiosmarkets

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Black Immigrants are 5% of the immigrant population but targeted at 20% for removals, with Black countries the majority of ones whose TPS representation has ended . And Haitians OVERWHELMINGLY targeted in public baji.org/wp-content/u...

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“Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic, would have final say on who would get to fill these positions, if the contract terminations are not reversed.” 🛟

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Adv. Hadeel Abu Salih (Adalah Legal Center) told +972 Magazine and @mekomit that the whereabouts of the activists from the Madleen flotilla, as well as the next steps the Israeli authorities are planning, are currently unknown.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

submitted 4 days ago • 363 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 5 days ago • 310 comments

For decades marginalized communities warned about the militarization of law enforcement too. Is the literal military being deployed on protestors bad? Yes. But the police have tanks, y’all.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This is a cool AI “hallucinations” incident database that tracks court cases detailing jurisdiction, type of tool used, nature of “hallucination”, outcome, etc www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Solnit - « Behind these stories [blaming sexual assault victims, blaming Ukraine for Russia’s invasion, blaming liberals for the misdeeds of the Trump regime] is the assumption that some people matter more than other people, and that we who matter less have to pander to those who matter more. »

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It is impossible not to commit violence when the state has ultimately the power to define everything you do as violence.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Hey. An obvious FYI that I feel compelled to offer. Never trust the people who run senior care facilities. They often mean well. But they’re understaffed & people/loved ones can fall between the cracks. ALWAYS stay in close contact w/these places re: your loved one. Don’t ask me how I know.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

I understand the urge but... immigrants are not only valuable because of contributions to the economy. This is damaging coz: 1. Contributes to commodification of immigrants 2. Makes migrants disposable & deportable when labour is no longer needed (esp periods of high unemployment & austerity)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment