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This is an important read for all of us. It's also very interesting. 🇨🇦 open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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In case this won't be reported, Senate Dems are holding the floor for 30 hours to try to stall the RFK Vote! Here's the press release from Wyden's office.

submitted 10 days ago • 277 comments

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can try to silence or erase us, but we aren’t going anywhere. We will keep fighting and being awesome 😤

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

DC, tomorrow. We stand with Americans whose protections are being ripped away by Elon’s grift. Join us: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

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The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine. youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

With all the crazy, nonstop headlines coming out of the Trump White House, is there a way to understand what’s happening without being buried by the flood? I think there is. My write-up: https://buff.ly/3Q7i62z

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

Who could have anticipated that a workforce trained in precisely interpreting complex rules would have found the obvious problems and inconsistencies in a broad, unclear, and probably illegal offer?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t forget to call your elected officials and let them know the issues you care about! Also, don’t forget to thank them for positive things they’ve done (ie filibustering Vought, etc) This has a nice sample script for anyone who hasn’t done this before. autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/u...

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You may wonder why altCDC is so political. Public health is as much about the disease as it is about the society in which that disease occurs. We are battling an admin that wants to dismantle US public health, sow misinformation, devalue science, and cripple our ability to respond to health threats.

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

The Democrats are actually holding the Senate open all night like we asked, it's getting punchy lol. Livestream:

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

Malaria will resurge The President’s Malaria Initiative—suspended by Trump—is the #1 funder of malaria control Our study of 75 malaria resurgence events found that almost all were due to the control program being weakened—usually from funding cuts malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department. www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 17 days ago • 255 comments

NASA did a feature on me last year. It was up this weekend but now when you click on the link you get a 404 message.

submitted 18 days ago • 125 comments

Hundreds at Department of Labor prevented an in-person meeting with Musk surrogates today—Federal workers are mobilizing to protect government operations. #FederalWorkers #StopTheCoup dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/04/c...

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Want to avoid outrage fatigue? Stop doomscroling and do something. www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Signs. Of. Life. Protest outside Treasury Dept. tonight.

submitted 18 days ago • 123 comments

BREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 days ago • 213 comments

there’s no way to say this without sounding like a bowl of extra useless crunchy granola i realize that but my god is it ever important to turn that panic energy into caring-for-your-communities energy