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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1689 comments

Just a reminder that the neither the U.S. Digital Service (which has been converted into DOGE) nor OPM has any legal authority to direct every single federal government employee to give them a job summary. Literally no such authority at all.

submitted 7 hours ago • 14 comments

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

Take time to listen to this interview with my extraordinary friend @edyong209.bsky.social. We use the word humanitarian too loosely. But Ed is truly this—one who reminds us about our inextricable connection to everyone and everything around us, with hope and outrage. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 243 comments

"These kinds of shocks are going to lead to a mass exodus … for minorities in particular.” For my latest @science.org story, I spoke with early career researchers who have been affected by the federal upheaval and are concerned about what it means for their future. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

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Imagining a future where every presentation of a time series has an asterisk, dotted line or gap to represent the missing data from the coming “war years.”

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Deeply honored to receive the 2025 NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award. The fight for rights, opportunity, and equity in AI and tech is critical. AI's promise isn't inevitable - it must be actively stewarded to build a digital future that is just and sustainable. naacp.org/articles/naa...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

This week in the news: A new report examines the promises & pitfalls of AI in 2024's global elections, Alondra Nelson's influential Elysée Palace speech rejects the notion that AI should prioritize efficiency over democratic values, and more. Read here: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/news-th...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 2 days ago • 2874 comments

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’ Story by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...

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This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social #bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

When asked to explain why Google had not detected segments with descriptions such as “Individuals likely to have a Cardiovascular condition,” or “Parents of children likely to have a respiratory disease, like Asthma,” it did not respond.

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Millions of Dead People on Social Security? FALSE www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

While I'm at it and it's early, I'll also say that FAFO discourse doesn't feel good to me at all. I think that the people who will find out the most are the same people who are always finding out: the most marginalized. I also think that it destroys potential solidarity and solidarity is needed now.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Which law professor(s) will write an op-ed arguing that Trump really is king?

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Mostly preaching to the choir here, but a group of us moderators over on Reddit's AskScience put together kind of an explainer for the implications of some of the attacks on science funding and infrastructure in the US if it's useful for anyone else to share:

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Like, .. 85% less. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

As Europe reckons with the new transatlantic reality, its leaders should start treating the Silicon Valley giants cheering Trump on as adversarial powers ↘️ on.ft.com/3X8hv4D

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

"...the Trump Administration seems to understand something that few others do: Technical infrastructure is the infrastructure of everything. It can accelerate or obstruct policy goals."

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

ATTENTION!!!! We're still accepting applications for a postdoc (1 year or multiyear) here at Ohio State! It’s not too late to apply!!! The application link is here: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

To all those receiving layoff notices from the Trump-Musk Admin, know that we stand with you and are working with our legal partners and in Congress to fight back and right these wrongs. If you want to report what you're seeing or experiencing, you can share your story here:

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

BREAKING — USDA says it accidentally fired officials working to combat bird flu and says it’s trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... by @allansmith.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 194 comments

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 4 days ago • 167 comments

"The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening." www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Destroying public goods is much easier to think about in terms of concrete examples than abstracted process questions. The example of hollowing out of public education in @rachelmcohen.bsky.social's piece is exactly how to make sense of DOGE www.vox.com/donald-trump...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

My latest is up. No practical “to-dos” in this one. But an urgent demand that we pay attention to the other constitutional crisis unfolding in plain view. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-other-...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Hold up.

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“They’re running the ‘Twitter Files’ playbook against the entire US government. The claims are a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories built around idiotic misinterpretations & intentional mischaracterizations of bits of data & out-of-context communications” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Can we build a better world than the one we have? What does the critique of neoliberalism tell us about where we might go next? @gregggonsalves.bsky.social and I have thoughts, just out in @daedalus.bsky.social: www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments