jennyperlin.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Oh no. Sad to hear about Mark Klein's passing. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Love Signal. Recently got my mom on it as well.

submitted 13 hours ago • 118 comments

did anyone else get a text message from the National Archives Foundation today?

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

In the early hours of March 14th, 2025, a total lunar eclipse will be visible across the entire continent.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 23 hours ago • 134 comments

A lot of people (self included!) have been deeply trained to not "cause a fuss," to not "act out." To avoid speaking up or taking action. But you can unlearn this. Every time you take action, it strengthens your resistance muscles. Make a call. Send an email. Put up a flyer. Keep standing up.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

I can (and do) explain the "law" behind Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful abduction and rendition to a for-profit concentration camp. But if you're waiting for the law to stop this, you've got it wrong. Dictators always make their crimes "legal" My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 20 hours ago • 52 comments

"Greenland’s most pro-American party, Qulleq, didn’t gain enough votes for a seat in the parliament." www.politico.eu/article/gree...

submitted 20 hours ago • 31 comments

Education Department to Fire 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Add R25s to that list. Our NIH funding got straight up cancelled today for the two R25s that my team runs at Columbia for post-bacs and high-school students. I fear for our young scholars, who love learning about the brain and now are losing opportunities to be tomorrow's neuroscientists. 🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It starts.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Release from the Department says nearly 50% of staff will be placed on administrative leave beginning next Friday, Mar. 21.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If only someone had warned them www.wsj.com/business/dea...

submitted 30 days ago • 82 comments

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 2 days ago • 622 comments

The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

DHS just tore up a settled, signed union contract with TSA employees, which is straightforwardly, unambiguously illegal. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State!

submitted 3 days ago • 611 comments

Here’s a catalogue of upcoming spring concerts, "many of which sound not only seasonal but irresistible," writes WBUR arts critic Lloyd Schwartz. And don’t forget the numerous free upcoming concerts at our local parks, schools, conservatories and churches.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

Armed government agents went to the home of a lawful resident of the United States without a warrant and arrested him over the content of his speech. This is a five-alarm fire for civil liberties.

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

At the end of each day, make sure that every used letter is collected for recycling. BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.135r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Yep they - the Harris campaign - totally wasted and boxed in Walz. Madness.

submitted 4 days ago • 252 comments

Attempt #2 to get a shingles vaccine is going great

submitted 4 days ago • 377 comments

May the enemies of women's liberation everywhere be crushed, in my world and yours. 💚

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I created this public radio starter pack since more and more of us are joining Bluesky. Comment or DM if you want me to add you or someone else go.bsky.app/MWHaGo5

submitted 122 days ago • 88 comments

Breaking: DOGE got access to the child-support database Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

Utter madness. I am speechless. The USA itself, its people and economy, will suffer the most from this deranged war on science. But there will also be global consequences.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Deplorable

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

FRIGGIN' WILD: In email obtained by TPM, White House claims that the Appointments Clause of the US constitution conflicts with Trump's "inherent authority" ... EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

submitted 5 days ago • 341 comments

NEW: The NIH is canceling grants for research about trans people, saying that work "based on gender identity is often unscientific." At least a half-dozen grants have been canceled, according to letters I reviewed. "It hurts my heart," one scientist told me. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

A straight white women is going to win her "reverse racism" case at the Supreme Court, but don't worry, it can always get incredibly worse. My latest on Contraband Camp: www.contrabandcamp.com/p/a-straight...

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

The road to authoritarianism is paved with this trope—the dire pending calamity that only the strongman has seen, and which only he can solve.

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

Breaking news: President Donald Trump has decided to pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in an extraordinary move aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the negotiating table with Russia.

submitted 9 days ago • 740 comments

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

submitted 9 days ago • 748 comments

Boston Globe reports antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Vermont/Quebec library that sits on Canada-U.S. border. She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada.

submitted 9 days ago • 1038 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 18 days ago • 255 comments

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

submitted 9 days ago • 251 comments

"We call on the world to stop the injustice & stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people," says Oscar winner Basel Adra to applause from the audience. 'No Other Land' just won the Best Documentary Oscar. Also a fantastic speech from fellow winner Yuval Abraham on "ethnic supremacy".

submitted 10 days ago • 76 comments

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

submitted 10 days ago • 253 comments

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

submitted 10 days ago • 683 comments

Triumphant re-opening of Other Cinema programming last night, Jeremy Rourke doing a new live animation musical. The neighborhood #microcinema is thriving

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It should be noted that the strength of a liberal democracy is defined by how it protects the rights of its minorities, especially its most marginalized.

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 10 days ago • 160 comments

Humanitarian aid must get into #Gaza, regardless of any ceasefire. International humanitarian law & ICJ rulings are crystal clear. Israel keeps violating both, with impunity. Starving 2 million people is not a negotiation tactic. It’s a war crime.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments