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If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

US friends! If you/an org you're part of think the Trump admin's EOs on gender are bad: The 30-day public comment period for US passport apps, passport renewal, and name change/data corrections are open! These are three (3) separate items due mid-March, all linked below. Please share and write in!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.

submitted 15 hours ago • 19 comments

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

They blink a lot. They lose in court too. They are even feeling some pressure from within the party. Things are bad, but not hopeless.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

It's a national day of protest at every city hall and every state capital in America. The start of American Spring. #FiftyFiftyOne #50501 #NoKingsDay. @50501movement.bsky.social www.fiftyfifty.one

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 8 days ago • 274 comments

"An administrative coup refers to the illegal overthrow of a government achieved primarily without overt violence, relying instead on claiming powers, intimidation, bullying, extortion, and threats to media, thereby seizing all powers." open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

FYI for #Boston area: the big protest on Monday has an official start time of 11am apparently, unlike earlier messaging and other state capitols. 11am, Monday, Not A Dictator Day, MA State House and Boston Common. #BuildTheResistance #50501Protest www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

BOSTON - this Monday! If you can, please come out. Our voices need to be heard. #50501 #nationaldayofprotest

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

one of the reasons i wrote this piece is to get away from the gauzy mythology of the civil rights movement "spontaneous mass resistance" "rosa parks was just tired". no. the movement remains a masterclass in the tactics--and the strategy--of resistance.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 547 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 239 comments

Reminder that the RFK vote is LOOMING. Please call your reps, especially if they are Rs. It matters. "Hi, I'm [full name + spelling] calling from [Zip Code], and I'm [Name's] constituent. I am demanding that [NAME] votes no on RFK. He is dangerous, anti-science, and anti-vaccine. He will do harm."

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

UPMC, the largest healthcare system in Pennsylvania (and our largest employer) is reinstating a masking mandate beginning on Wednesday in response to the levels of COVID, RSV and influenza. Take that as a sign. If you have stopped masking, there's no reason not to start again.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.

submitted 13 days ago • 434 comments

There's never a bad time to execute your ideas & to move from theory to action. This is a particularly good time for this. If you think that you know how to do a thing, do that thing. No permission needed. Try it out.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 15 days ago • 131 comments

Really glad to see a Tesla picket project launching. I hope that the corporate responsibility folks are also preparing something that people can do to directly pressure its shareholders. That's needed too.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

#TeslaTakeover If Musk thinks he can speed run through DC downloading personal data, we can certainly bang some pots and pans on the sidewalks infront of Tesla dealerships. Bring your friends and make a little noise. Organize locally, act globally. www.tesla.com/findus/list/...

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

This is helpful from Scot: open.substack.com/pub/antiauth... - I'm emailing this to family members.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks to Jessica Craven who is offering daily action round ups and also has state specific ones too. open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

First training call TONIGHT: Fight deportations - The Solidarity Pledge is offering this tonight. Registration here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Can't make it tonight there are two other opportunities: Wednesday, Feb 12th at 5PM ET Saturday, Feb 15th at 12PM ET

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

just another vote in favor of quitting with the warnings about a possible future Constitutional crisis and using the present tense instead www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: The Trump administration is not backing down in its effort to slash spending and reshape the federal government, despite multiple court orders explicitly restraining the president’s sweeping actions. By Jake Pearson and @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 114 comments

This is very literally a coup. This is the administration acting as an authoritarian/fascist regime.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 13 days ago • 207 comments

Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans can’t pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. We’re calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.

submitted 13 days ago • 82 comments

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

One of my best friends since middle school is an oncology nurse and mom of 3. She's been setting her alarm daily at the same time as a reminder to call her Republican representatives. I love her of course and she's a reminder of how disciplined small actions are possible.

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

submitted 16 days ago • 313 comments

Right now one of the things people need to be preparing for ie readying mass protests and nationwide pushback is when Trump and the republicans stop following what the courts say. The White House is eventually going to make a decision between any pretense of rule of law and outright autocracy.

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 16 days ago • 105 comments

“People have to know their rights and demonstrate,” Zamantakis said. “We have to hold Trump accountable. If we don’t, after they come for the immigrants, they will come for the rest of us. We have got to keep coming.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/h...

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

submitted 16 days ago • 197 comments

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating

submitted 16 days ago • 43 comments

This is an incredible thread about community and disaster relief and logistics and resilience

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Boston folks, I just found out about a Stop the Coup rally happening next week, on Valentine's Day: Stop the Coup: Our Love is Resistance Rally and march Valentine's Day Friday, February 14th, 12 pm Meet at the bandstand, Boston Common www.instagram.com/p/DFyahyARJII/

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Before trying to get a bunch of scientists to leave their jobs voluntarily, one should consider that many of us completed our advanced degrees PURELY OUT OF SPITE.

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

Got a Dem Senator? They can do more than just vote. -Oppose Nominees -Reject Unanimous Consent -Vote NO on Cloture -Request Quorum Calls This is a constitutional crisis. They should act like it. Send an email to your Dem senators here: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...

submitted 26 days ago • 60 comments