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“It’s a reminder that you don’t actually own much of the digital content you consume, and without the ability to back up copies of ebooks, you could lose them entirely if they’re banned and removed.” www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else. For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right? But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B. Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

What is happening right now is not just a targeting of minority groups and our integration into society. It is the targeting of minority groups as part of remaking the United States government and the theory of democracy that has organized it for over two centuries.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Lotta stuff you can urge federal Democrats to do right now that’s effective and useful, but the scale and impact of the constitutional crisis is so severe that they should be abusing parliamentary procedure to hold the floor in the House and the Senate until the coup ends. Waiting is dangerous.

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

* IT'S A COUP * I’m repeating it, because illegal power seizure isn’t just another story to be swept away in a deluge of other stories. It’s the foundational framing to understanding everything... This week, I went to market, bought a coup & realignment of the world order @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Academic colleagues, especially junior ones, you’re about to learn a lot about your institutions, colleagues and peers. These next few years will be terrible, but take note of who steps up, who gives up and who cuts a life raft off for themselves and their own. It will serve you to know who is who.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 8 days ago • 5662 comments

This administration will destroy research sustainability and scientific eminence before they share it with a multi-racial country

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The position I'd like to see House and Senate Democrats take is pretty simple: We refuse to cooperate with Republicans on anything until they stop breaking the law and trashing the Constitution. We want Musk out, DOGE dissolved, and the Trump administration complying with federal court orders.

submitted 9 days ago • 95 comments

Good morning unsubtle authoritarianism. Good morning loss of all credibility.

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 10 days ago • 522 comments

it's sort of incredible to me that more people haven't done what sassoon is doing here: refusing to do an illegal thing, and making a stink about it. feels like it would be popular!!

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 1572 comments

If you’re in DC pls go and make a witty sign and yell real loud for me tomorrow‼️ For the love of @noaa 🩵 www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfu...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I was a Head Start kid with a single teenage mom growing up in a rural community. My aunt is a Head Start teacher, my grandmother was a Head Start bus driver. This program provides vital support for our communities. No one who is “pro-family” should want to shut this down.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The richest man in the world, Congressional Republicans, & the US president have unilaterally decided that 1000s upon 1000s of people around the world are going to die of famine & preventable diseases. Men, women, children, babies. Republicans decided to kill them all. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

Federally Qualified Health Centers were established by law in 1965 and expanded in Obamacare. They are crucial in serving rural and urban populations. It is illegal for anyone in the executive branch to unilaterally block FQHC funds, that should go triple for freelancer billionaires.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void

submitted 19 days ago • 431 comments

If you’re like me & calling your senators feels stressful & overwhelming—check out the 5 Calls: Contact Your Congress App! I logged in at 5:07pm & by 5:13pm I had left 2 voicemails & tried the third, but his mailbox was full. It really helps me to know that it only took me 6 mins! 5calls.org

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 18 days ago • 1755 comments

NOAA saves lives during tragedy and feeds millions of people every year Mess this up and people will die www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

I don't know if anyone caught it during the Treasury rally today, but. Rep. McIver straight-up said that her Republican colleagues are leaving their phones off the hook because they don't want to hear from their constituents. THAT is what Dems should be preaching from every corner, every day.

submitted 19 days ago • 57 comments

super bowl ad not even kidding about this, do a super bowl ad about how Elon has your social security number and can shut off your grandma's check at any time

submitted 19 days ago • 162 comments

This!

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How i am feeling from @wonkette.bsky.social this am: open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 21 days ago • 3291 comments

Musk is not an elected government official. Why is he being given access to these resources? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

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Dear 🧪🔭⚛️: Stop calling the anti-DEIA executive orders, bans, work stoppages, research stoppages, and whatever else “rollbacks.” The executive orders are Resegregation Orders. These are attempts to return us to segregation.“ jmjafrx.substack.com/p/the-resegr...

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

The federal government regularly spends money to encourage behavior it couldn’t compel directly. Like paying states to build roads or fund healthcare for those who can’t afford it. It’s called the Spending Clause—and it’s the very first enumerated power that the Constitution gives to Congress. 🤦🏻‍♂️

submitted 21 days ago • 205 comments

@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov

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At. Gunpoint. Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right. In any other country, we'd call it a coup.

submitted 21 days ago • 58 comments

A 58-year-old poll worker is among the 60,000 North Carolina voters whose ballots could be disqualified if a Republican judge's election challenge succeeds. “I want people to know today it’s North Carolina, and tomorrow it’s another state,” she said. Read more: https://propub.li/40Jcbpc

submitted 22 days ago • 29 comments

I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts… 🔌💡 1/X

submitted 23 days ago • 44 comments

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

submitted 23 days ago • 232 comments

I must not be wording this right. Lemme try again. There is only one (1) office (not even an institute) at the NIH dedicated to women’s health research. That office is now being dismantled, with only a bland landing page remaining on their website. This is a five-alarm fire! orwh.od.nih.gov

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

submitted 23 days ago • 278 comments

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

submitted 23 days ago • 602 comments

California’s monarch butterfly population plummets; fire wipes out Topanga habitat 🧪 www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

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