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UC Provost Katherine Newman asks @governor.ca.gov and the Legislature to forgo all cuts to the University of California's budget. Read her op ed via Sacramento Bee bit.ly/3TjfobM Take action by urging your senator to fund UC! bit.ly/45auJCO

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Armed National Guard troops mobilized by President Trump accompanied federal immigration enforcement officers on raids in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a move that the state of California has called unlawful and inflammatory.

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Protesters by the thousands marched through Chicago on Tuesday, stopping traffic in the downtown Loop and chanting anti-Trump slogans as they denounced immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities.

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Really fantastic coverage of science reform and the executive order by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

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Cathleen O'Grady coming in with an incendiary title. Featuring @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and myself among others. What we do next still matters even tho we cannot do anything to change the government's course or undo their actions. We can always course-correct ourselves.

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Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say.

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If you are interested in supporting NASA science and exploration, and saving it from capricious budget cuts, here's one thing you can do: sign this petition being sent to Senate and House members of their respective appropriations committees. Two days left to sign! www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

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A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

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JUST IN: Two ballot measures to protect public libraries from the conservative city council in Huntington Beach are both ahead by very wide margins. Measure to repeal a 'book review committee' up 61/39. Measure to bar privatization up 63/37. That's already with 51K+ ballots counted. Context:

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Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case in a televised address Tuesday evening that President Trump’s decisions to send military forces to immigration protests in Los Angeles have put the U.S. at the precipice of authoritarianism. https://trib.al/EpbF098

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Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

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I paid tribute to the late Sly Stone over at @ebertvoices.bsky.social. I mention the burden of Black genius (to use Questlove's documentary title), Sly and the Family Stone's hits, and the message his music gave a lost and lonely little kid named Odie Henderson. www.rogerebert.com/tributes/i-l...

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This is a really good essay & I agree completely that from an epistemological perspective "science" isn't smthg one "believes in" any more than is "carpentry" or "accounting". newrepublic.com/article/1963...

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BREAKING - An exclusive video from a protester on the ground in Arcadia, CA, was shared with me depicting protesters yelling at occupying police, including Customs & Border Patrol. Reports of over a hundred protesters currently protesting hotel housing ICE More exclusives shared below 👇

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given how online the white house is, at what point do they suggest locking up the kardashians

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Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."

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We feed you. They hunt us.

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Helen Chu was among the scientists who first detected COVID-19 in the US. She knows more about vaccine policy than all of RFK Jr cronies combined. When you drive away expertise, you are left with nothing, or worse - like the discredited quacks & dilettantes he has chosen so far.

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Two good follows for this evening @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Two of the leaders at NIH who wrote the #BethedaDeclaration and are standing up and speaking out for all of us. @standupforscience.bsky.social

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I’d go further and say that RFK Jr sees scientific expertise as an obstacle to his plans. I know Helen Chu well, and she is as smart, dedicated and upstanding as they come. This is a big loss for US vaccine policy.

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Helen Chu is the hero who revealed that—contra daily briefings from the White House—COVID was spreading widely in the community in the US by late February 2020..

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If you're working on a local mutual aid project, an organizing project etc... Saturday will be a terrific recruitment day. If you attend one of the mobilizations, bring info about your work. Make sure it has contact info.

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Good (and infuriating) op-ed in NYT by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild, who has spent years in Trump country rather than (as many journos do) just parachuting into a diner. The bad news: His supporters are aware that his policies hurt them. They don't care. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A. via @swholocron.bsky.social

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I am so tired, and so profoundly resentful that all of us have to live in the midst of all this fascist grifter shit. Fuck all of this. (Current events are attempting to tip my brain into an anxiety attack and doomerism. I'm hoping to head that off by being obstreperous and obnoxious.)

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Gov. Gavin Newsom: "Congress is nowhere to be found." "Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility. The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don."

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New TV ad starts airing tonight. We are done settling for less.

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Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

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Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...

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Donald Trump deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines — men and women trained in foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement. We honor their service and bravery. But we do not want our streets militarized by our own Armed Forces. Not in L.A. Not in California. Not anywhere.

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Donald Trump commandeered 2,000 of our state’s National Guard members to deploy on our streets. Illegally, and for no reason.

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#ttjobs

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Shit ain’t been right since Desus & Mero went to Showtime.

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Gavin Newsom just gave a strong speech laying out the stakes for democracy in blunt language that too few powerful Democrats have been willing to use. I know the huge problems with him. But at this awful moment, playing the "Sorry, he's dead to me" game with Democrats seems an unaffordable luxury.

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Damn 😶

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"This brazen abuse of power by a sitting US President enflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk. That's when the downward spiral began...He did it on purpose."

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"What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence, to be complicit in this moment. Do not give in to him."

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If you are an academic institution that has a dismissed ACIP member- it is time to grow a spine. Not speaking out will not spare you from this administration, but speaking out will at least shed light on what is happening to people who are not aware.

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Y'all Bluesky is just a place to post. Why are these white pundits LOSING THEIR SHIT. LOLOLOLOL

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Ha! Nobody wants this loser's military birthday parade. See y'all everywhere else on Saturday. ❌👑 prri.org/spotlight/mi...

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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All, I'm thinking of the Asian grandparents who like to hang out in these shopping complexes where 99 Ranch Markets are - like mine did, when they were alive - and I can't even begin to express how angry I am right now. And this is why we have to keep fighting.

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Checking on TikTok

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