On his decision to end $500M worth of research on mRNA vaccines, RFK Jr. said: “The the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu”. These vaccines saved 3.2M lives in the U.S. He is running a disinformation op against Americans.

As I report here for @motherjones.com, a local lawmaker in LA says ICE showed up to a confidential domestic violence shelter. That’s just one of the many impacts they’ve had on shelters & survivors this past week ⬇️

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

More than 295 million people faced acute hunger in 2024, with the outlook ‘bleak’ due to funding cuts for aid efforts.

Canceled travel plans, deleted social media profiles and applications to transfer to universities in Canada or Europe. International students at U.S. colleges and universities shared how the Trump administration’s immigration policies have affected them.

Again, Christianity offers no alternative by which we can turn away from such cruelty.

We are condemned by our turning a blind eye to the need of others to food. Christianity offers no alternatives that allow such callous cruelty.

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A reminder: Both sheriffs and local police have the right to refuse ICE detainers. These requests are voluntary and not legally enforceable under federal law. Across the country, many sheriffs and police departments choose not to cooperate and that choice is fully within their legal rights.

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

JUST A FACT…👇 Any Questions?!

The New York Times pieced together President Trump's deal with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to imprison “convicted criminals” in a feared Salvadoran prison. But many of the Venezuelan men labeled gang members and terrorists by the U.S. government had not been tried in court. nyti.ms/4jygTyl

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Important work and coverage here by ACLU. Please support them. If US citizens are forcibly removed from their country of citizenship though it is something worse than a deportation. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

“Institutions that stood up are remembered for standing up to that power & that coercion, they're remembered for their acts of bravery. Institutions that capitulated are remembered for their willingness to cave to autocratic demands.” — Risa Lieberwitz, president of the Cornell chapter of the AAUP

ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social

RIGHT NOW in NYC! @aaupcu.bsky.social @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @actioninhighered.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

Armed officials stopped Senator Chris Van Hollen from trying to visit the prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been held for over a month.

boston globe editorial board: harvard is making the right decision, and universities should band together to fight. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/o...

A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

Join an online session for the April 17 #DayofActionforHigherEd. Register: www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events

See you out in the streets tomorrow. Lots of ways to participate: in person, online, everywhere. #defendhighered @actioninhighered.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.” #defendhighered

Wishing all chapters, all members - including my chapter - a great day of advocacy abd resistance!!

This cries before God's eyes. (A phrase that does not translate well into English...)

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

After my father died when I was still a youth, I received precious Social Security support. I was a child receiving Social Security checks.

BTW, if there is one Kilmar, there are hundreds more. He's just the one whose name and story we know. #nohumantraffickinginmyname

cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25 the president himself is off to a golf event.

I just introduced the Delete DOGE Act, which – you guessed it – would defund DOGE.

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

LET'S GOOOOO!!!

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

A second person who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by U.S. immigration agents after overstaying a student visa, federal officials said on Friday.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

Not sure what kind of military engagement we are ramping up for (torture? War crimes? Indefinite detention? Doing away with the principle of discrimination?), but this is 125 ways to awful. ( I realize we were doing those things before, but up to now have some way to judge it and prosecute it.)

We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

"Welcome to Science Frida... Thursday. I'm MT Dávila..." (Sorry, @scifri.bsky.social. Couldn't resist!)

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

Inhuman and unnecessary. And costly beyond belief. But the hate and the cruelty are the goal here.

The House will vote this week on the GOP's budget proposal, which includes massive cuts to Medicaid and food stamps to pay for even more tax cuts for the rich. Call your representatives now and tell them to reject it: (202) 224-3121

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.