Nina Amenta
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Retired computer scientist. Spend too much time on news.
Good NPR story on Trump admin cutting NIH funding despite Congress authorizing the spending. Same is going on at NSF. We can't be the wealthiest nation without science.
www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...
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Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5828768/science-funding-cuts-nih-trump-administration
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David Gura
6 days ago
The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”
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Opinion | There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/opinion/trump-doj-slush-fund-criminals-corruption.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Michael Caley
8 days ago
the real story here I think is that Mossad has lost its marbles
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-us-leader-ahmadinejad.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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victoria scott
9 days ago
it took this country five decades for the surviving interned Japanese-Americans who were deprived of absolutely everything and imprisoned for no cause to get $20,000 in reparations per person. we are currently awarding the guys who did the Beer Hall Putsch five years ago orders of magnitude more
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Water usage by almonds vs data centers. We should limit AI like we limit nuclear weapons, but water is not the issue.
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Joshua Reed Eakle (@josheakle)
It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest.
https://substack.com/@josheakle/note/c-259813883?r=nq8ok
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''Kennedy... focused on fraud by home health aides, including family members...“These are family members getting paid to do things that they used to do as family members for free, and this is rife with fraud,” Kennedy said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Leah Stokes
12 days ago
California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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Rep. Mike Levin
18 days ago
Why is no one talking about this?! This Administration dismantled USAID, and now they want YOU to pay the bill.
www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/w...
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Trump admin plans to divert $2 billion in health funding to pay for USAID closure | CNN
The Trump administration plans to redirect $2 billion in funding intended for global health programs to cover the cost of closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID), according to a co...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/world/trump-administration-usaid-global-health-funding-intl
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jamelle
22 days ago
a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.
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Mifepristone telemedicine is back! At least for now, probably till after the midterms... Added bonus: the story quotes UC Davis Law prof and abortion law expert Mary Ziegler. Thanks Nina Martin and Mother Jones.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Supreme Court reinstates access to abortion pills—for now
Justice Samuel Alito, author of the Dobbs decision, tells the Fifth Circuit to slow down.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/supreme-court-reinstates-access-to-abortion-pills-for-now/
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my good bitch 💎
26 days ago
I want to reassure everyone that abortion providers have been ready to switch to misoprostol-only abortion for a long time now, and clinics can still provide mifepristone in person. You can still access abortion and there are people who will help.
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hpanzironi
26 days ago
Could someone please tell me why the judge restricting mifepristone isn’t the lead story every where? They are escalating their assault on control of women’s bodies!
www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
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Appeals court blocks access to abortion pills via telehealth and mail nationwide
The ruling is a blow for abortion rights advocates, since it reinstates a requirement that mifepristone — one of the two pills used in medication abortions — be distributed in person.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/appeals-court-blocks-abortion-pill-access-telehealth-mail-rcna343148
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ProPublica
27 days ago
The cut to SSI for families who also rely on SNAP was not the Social Security Administration’s idea, even though that agency runs the SSI program. Instead, it was initiated by top White House and DOGE officials last year, ProPublica has learned.
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-social-security-ssi-disability-benefits-cuts-parents-children?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1777597380&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Marc Elias
27 days ago
How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
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ProPublica
28 days ago
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1777517280&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Oh yeah? How about 6-7?
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Mark Copelovitch
11 months ago
There is no plan or budget model w/o foreign students There is no plan or budget model w/o NSF/NIH/Title VI/FLAS/etc. federal funding There is no plan or budget model with further state budget cuts There is no plan or budget model with further state government caps on tuition There is no plan
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Katharine Hayhoe
about 1 month ago
This is why your local voice and your local vote matters: today more than ever.
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Popehat Has Gone Absolutely CRAZY!!!
about 1 month ago
A new wholly corrupt settlement handing your money to Trump cronies. It’s notable for several reasons: /1
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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Trump admin agrees to pay $1.25M to 2016 Trump adviser over surveillance
DOJ OK'd the settlement with Carter Page, but he could still press claims against ex-officials.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/22/carter-page-doj-settlement-00887874?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Justin Wolfers
about 1 month ago
Sen. Warren: "Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?" Handsome Kevin: "ummm... errr... " His response raises real questions about whether Warsh is independent of the President and if he has the courage to tell hard truths.
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Costa Samaras
about 1 month ago
All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
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David Costello
about 1 month ago
Maine boasts the highest percentage of forest land in the US and understands that sustainable forestry is central to protecting our precious land and water resources and economic prosperity. It’s vital therefore that Sen Collins stop the Trump Admin from ravaging our US Forest Service
#MEpolitics
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ICE shoots this man, lies about it, and then gets him discharged from the ICU and immediately jailed. Investigate! Make them accountable. Thank you Sac Bee for covering this.
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"...at least 20 elderly deportees were so weak from sleeping on the floor that they needed to be pushed across the tarmac in wheelchairs and carried to their airplane seats, he said." It drives me nuts how DHS mistreats old and/or disabled people. In addition to all the rest of it...
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Great reporting from the Arizona Mirror about detention center with no beds and no showers often crammed to 5 times its capacity. This is what you get with no oversight.
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Patterson CA ICE shooting victim says they cut off his clothes, took pictures of his wounded, naked body, and did not administer first aid. Investigation! Accountability! Now!
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 2 months ago
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/uw-graduate-student-deported-sea-airport/281-416fdfa0-a715-4267-90f1-afe30c71b754
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Timothy Snyder
about 2 months ago
In other words, the war is one more reason to support opposition candidates, to organize, and to protest. May Day is the next big chance for Americans to do so. (14/14)
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May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible
https://indivisible.org/events/may-day-strong-no-work-no-school-no-shopping/
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Radley Balko
about 2 months ago
And she has since been deported. Link here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Courtney Milan
about 2 months ago
I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.
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Dan Silverman
about 2 months ago
In response to the targeting of Iranian universities by the U.S. and Israel, Iran is now threatening to hit U.S.-linked universities in several Gulf countries, including satellites of: -CMU -VCU -Cornell -Northwestern -Georgetown -Texas A&M -NYU -American U -U of New Haven Very scary
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Why is Steve Witkoff, who has huge conflicts of interest and no experience with Iran, in charge of heading off the escalation of this damaging war?
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Everybody in math and science knows great colleagues and students from Sharif University. Likely a war crime, and alienating the population we are pretending to support.
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This week, the Trump administration closed 57 Forest research stations. Defunding research like this.
youtu.be/RTpdNOxXZPo?...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...
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Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
about 2 months ago
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
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NPR
about 2 months ago
Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible for Medicare. Now Carranza's once secure retirement is in question.
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She paid into Medicare for years. Trump's immigration policy will end her coverage
Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible for Medicare. Now Carranza's once secure retirement is in question.
https://n.pr/3QmhQjr
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Katie Mack
about 2 months ago
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
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Taniel
about 2 months ago
exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
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John Bistline
about 2 months ago
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Let all who are hungry come and eat. To make a food donation to Gaza, you could check out this UN page showing whose trucks are getting through lately. Or, check out smaller local groups.
app.un2720.org/tracking/col...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 2 months ago
PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]
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The Tennessee Holler
about 2 months ago
“He is not the owner” A Bush judge. Wow.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝
3 months ago
This is Iran. These are the people being murdered in our name.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 2 months ago
Well done.
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Bill Madden
about 2 months ago
Oh, wow. This is No Kings in Nashville, Tennessee. 🙌💪👏✊️👇
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Mark Hamill
2 months ago
TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊
#NO_KINGS
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The New York Times
2 months ago
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed two Black and two female officers from a promotion list for Army general. The move is highly unusual, and it has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.
nyti.ms/4sFGtGm
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FactPost
2 months ago
Fox host: I think it is alarming that we have not been able to see or hear from any of the Iranian people. Do they have drinking water, food? Trump: Do you remember when we had lunch years ago at Trump Tower? You have not changed. You may be even better looking.
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