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Cuts to #science of >50% at NASA and >75% at NOAA would end US climate and space science research. NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... "At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

submitted 5 days ago • 153 comments

I get it, but really don't like the thing where people detained by ICE and/or deported are presented as "beloved by their community," "hard-working," etc. Like if an iconoclast isn't welcome in America, then what's the point?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We are risking plunging the United States into a dark age of entomology next week. USDA programs are facing massive lay-offs next week and the public should be aware of the impact. If you care about food systems, forests, invasive species, this thread is for you. Read Below: 🧪 #entomology #science

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death. Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.

submitted 7 days ago • 163 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

The covid-19 pandemic revealed the huge gaps in our public health infrastructure. The overwhelming conclusion from researchers was to invest more to prepare for the next pandemic. We're doing exactly the opposite.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

submitted 13 days ago • 209 comments

To hell with JD Vance. If you want an authentic, smart Appalachian delivering insights on working class Americans, look no further than Joe Bageant, RIP, and his masterful Deer Hunting with Jesus.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”

submitted 13 days ago • 172 comments

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

submitted 15 days ago • 1137 comments

With everything else going on, it's hard to express why this news hits so hard. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A political science professor during Trump's first term argued against use of the word fascism. He was skeptical that the Trump crew had that kind of power. "I have since turned out to be wrong," said Corey Robin to On the Media. Good on him for recognizing that. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

submitted 20 days ago • 33 comments

Maybe the reason so many on the Right don't seem to care about all of this is that they thought this was already the status quo. They weren't aware of the protections we all had. They imagined that government was always a monolith full of people acting maliciously.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

@ifbookspod.bsky.social has anyone else requested that you cover Grit, by Angela Duckworth? It's been very influential in education, and the idea (maybe vulgarized) is used to advance a kind of tough love, pull-yourself-by-your-bootstraps ethos.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

submitted 23 days ago • 176 comments

Lando's leadership of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back turned out to be a tragically prescient parable for our time. Leaders of institutions: Pay attention! A story in four parts. cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 23 days ago • 881 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 25 days ago • 1669 comments

This is a not-so-subtle point, but I’m not interested in Democrats winning. I’m interested in democracy winning.

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

submitted 35 days ago • 122 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 35 days ago • 22 comments