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I second this most heartily. @thecontinent.org is where it's at. I personally get my newsletter by email, so if you're an old in the northern hemisphere that is also possible.

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I've decided to turn any hate towards this into a positive. Every time I get flipped off or thumbs down for this flag I'm gonna make a 3$ donation to www.thetrevorproject.org at the end of the month. #Pride #QueerTrucker #TheTrevorProject #LGBTQ

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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I have some mild, nonconfrontational opinions about AI, which I'm willing to discuss in a calm, reasonable manner with anyone.

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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

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At their core, the 18 quality assurance criteria for nuclear power plants of 10 CFR 50 Appendix B are just good engineering practice. 🏆

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By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social A series of executive orders aims to promote new kinds of nuclear reactors while restructuring the body in charge of nuclear safety.

submitted 20 days ago • 62 comments

International students deserve to pursue their education without harassment from the government.

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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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What a heart-rending, beautiful, enraging piece by #KseniiaPetrova as told to #AlexEllerbeck at the @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

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"None of these cuts can be credibly construed as reducing fraud."

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SCOOP: NPR has learned that the Trump Administration has tightened its control over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. NRC rules on reactor safety are now subject to White House review before they can be finalized. www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

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Great job everyone

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do read this excellent work by @annabower.bsky.social

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This literally life-saving advance weather warning program is under attack because it's part of NOAA. When you're calling and writing to your reps, please consider putting a word in for it too. inside.nssl.noaa.gov/nsslnews/202...

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FWIW, we've been studying the nationalist pronatalism push for several years now. And it's powerfully driven by what you'd expect: patriarchal gender ideology, perceptions that Whites & Christians are under threat, & Christian nationalism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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This site is used by countless students, researchers and professors, but it's now scheduled to run out of money on Wednesday. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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🚨 New initiative alert! We're launching a $10.2M collaborative fund to reduce nuclear dangers. Learn more about the consortium, grant opportunity, and why now is the time for #philanthropy to step up. carnegie.io/3GmKDj2

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Why isn't VT on this list? @vtliberalarts.bsky.social @virginiatech.bsky.social

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My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

submitted 52 days ago • 45 comments

This bears a lot of repeating. The US government post WWII wanted more money spent on R&D. They chose to run this through the country's higher education system (via grants from major governmental agencies), rather than primarily setting up national labs (though they did some of that too).

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We’ve documented over 1,300 cases of the government revoking international students’ visas. Here’s our latest data. Blue bubbles are private colleges, gray bubbles are public. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... #highered #academicsky

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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 55 days ago • 91 comments

“The federal government still has not explained the reasons behind these terminations.”

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

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Looking for a short, authoritative, readable history of the Presidential Emergency Satchel, better known as the “Football”? William Burr and Arms Control Today have got you covered (from the March 2025 issue). www.armscontrol.org/act/2025-03/...

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

I will never forget the courageous things my Maryland representatives have done these past few months, especially Senator Van Hollen and Congressman Raskin

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Nikki created this reformatted version of "Some Actions that Are Not Protesting or Voting" and it looks great. Feel free to share. Thanks Nikki. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 64 days ago • 29 comments

Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"

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“Stanford learned today that four students and two recent graduates have had their student visas revoked. The University learned of the revocations during a routine check of the SEVIS database. Stanford notified the students of the revocations and made external legal assistance available to them."

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Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

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What a surprise!

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Stable geniuses at work...

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🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

submitted 70 days ago • 232 comments

“…The viral outrage disseminated on social media actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.”

submitted 73 days ago • 15 comments

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance newrepublic.com/article/1931... via @newrepublic.com

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This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

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