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“Scientists are already considering moving trials to other institutions, which will mean veterans are no longer first in line for participation, and could cause millions of dollars in research funds to go to waste…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...

Eight years later, and we haven't gone anywhere. Peaceful protest of all of the latest nonsense on this International Women's Day.

This week's undaunted heroine.

Another authoritarian grab:

The undaunted continue to fight.

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

"This is an extremely stupid problem to have."

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

Shocker.

This is the kind of Kickstarter I can really get behind.

I'd like to bring this multimillion-dollar photo-op to the attention of Elon Musk and DOGE. Instead of firing food inspectors and air traffic controllers and cancelling critical medical research at NIH, stop this outrageous waste of our people's tax dollars!

Keep it up, America. We can't go along with all the nonsense.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Please share with your followers. open.substack.com/pub/quartzev...

Elon Musk won’t hand over his tax returns. Now, he wants yours.

cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

More good news: U of C gets 100M to figure out renewable energy transition

A potentially useful post from Emily In Your Phone:

Five Calls is a great site that helps constituents contact their reps and senators. I just used it to request that we get Elon Musk the hell out of the US treasury and everything else.

A good read.

@raskin.house.gov THANK YOU, Representative Raskin! We need your leadership more than ever.

Pushback!

essential points here 🧵

Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter on Monday to the Treasury secretary demanding answers for why the Dept. of Government Efficiency was granted access to the federal payments system, giving Elon Musk's team a powerful tool that could be used to track and potentially limit government spending.

Five Calls is a great site that helps constituents contact their reps and senators. I just used it to request that we get Elon Musk the hell out of the US treasury and everything else.

Keep the good news coming, world. We need all we can get.

President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. nyti.ms/42ok5qL

Hundreds of people braved yesterday's single-digit temperatures to gather Downtown and protest the inauguration of President Donald Trump. https://buff.ly/4g1apFG

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

Hyde Parkers have unveiled their neighbor-led designs to preserve Promontory Point. https://buff.ly/40AZ4aI

I just learned about The Contrarian. A media group made up of people who quit the Post and other sources that appeared compromised. Here's a sample: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

From "HEATED" Substack: