If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Trump administering an oath of allegiance to the Constitution is ironic in general but in DC in particular I’m not sure what other response you’d expect.

And if that doesn’t work, try 202-224-3121

I'd like to think that all Senate Dems know that failure to rein in OMB/Vought's assertions re: impoundment/rescission is capitulation. Now, maybe there's a plan to gets some points on the bd & hold out on FSGG approps, but we will see.

Flood the phones: (202) 224-3121 Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line… There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.

a million years ago I remember trying to explain to undergrads in the first class I ever taught, at Northwestern, how civil service rules and civil society create resilience against authoritarianism. Well, here's a teaching case

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DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Frogs are an invasive species that can wreak havoc on ICE’s frail ecosystem…

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Poll. 61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes, 40% say Israel is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians. That's not antisemitism. That's moral and ethical responsibility. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

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This is an area you can push back in your own community, if you live in one of cities listed in the solicitation in this story. Talk to city council and state reps, as well as local landlords and organizers. Create pressure preemptively to keep them from using private spaces. Cities include... [1/2]

BREAKING NEWS: Tyler Robinson charged with aggravated murder, discharge of a firearm, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and violence in the presence of a child in the murder of Charlie Kirk. #utpol #Utah

All right, I wrote about it:

It does not matter that Kirk’s killer was a fellow conservative. It does not matter that this terminally online guy was most certainly not radicalized in a college. We are in a post truth world. The fascists don’t care. Facts no longer matter. All that matters is power, and leverage. That’s it.

Hey! If you're struggling with the volume of ... stuff in the main feeds today, you should take a look for some of the other feeds and hashtags out there. I really enjoy #birds #mammals #FlowerReport #MorningWalk Craft Sky, and Fiber Arts. Go have a browse of the feeds! You'll find some relief.

Time for some common sense gun laws. Democrats should introduce a bill named the Charlie Kirk common sense gun reform bill and make every Republican vote for it.

In a parallel with the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia in Iran -- once one of the world's largest saltwater lakes -- has now also been completely destroyed by overpumping, #water diversions, and increased evaporation from climate change. www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/862...

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.

I thought this piece by @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social laid it out pretty well - last section includes so what do we do now, including the desperate need for a Blue State Coalition/Compact.

Utah lawmakers were told today the Trump administration's next budget proposes a 55% cut to EPA. For states like Utah? The Utah Dept. of Environmental Quality says it represents a 71% cut in funding, which impacts clean air, clean water efforts (and has economic impact). #utpol #Utah

You know what kind of interstate crime the FBI is really good at investigating? Sex trafficking

I hope this helps universities see why it’s dumb to “make a deal.” As the EO shows, Trump wants to destroy successful American R1s and reprogram funds as he sees fit, regardless of the law. He is not a reliable counterparty. Fighting him is scary, but it’s the only path to secure funding. (5/5)

This isn’t Congress tying the President’s hands; this is just how the law Congress and the President agreed to works: it is clearly designed to give money to what expert research communities judge deserving. The President must “take care that the law is faithfully executed,” but that’s it. (4/5)

But both assumptions are wrong. The President might have some discretion, sure. But in most of these statutes, especially the research ones, the law already specifies the priorities to be advanced and the process to do so. The President’s discretion is quite limited — it’s mostly supervisory. (3/5)

There seem to be two assumptions behind this order: first, that the grant making statutes leave real discretion to the President about who to fund and, second, that in any case the President has some constitutional authority to award money according to a process or even values that he picks. (2/5)

This is another attempt to circumvent the law and aggrandize personal power. Trump is trying to politicize grants by using “discretion” to change priorities. The problem is not just this includes unconstitutionally vague language and viewpoint discrimination. It also misunderstands discretion. (1/5)

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

I bring this news up and the comments start flooding with "lolnothingmatters, RFK will just ban it (he literally cannot)" or "The Elites will price it out of everyone's reach (it is a royalty-free drug that has at least six generics lined up to produce it)".

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..." www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

The USGS ecosystems research program doesn't just study wildlife. Its researchers work on rangelands and forests, fisheries and aquaculture, and critically, wildfire. Trump's proposed budget eliminates this program entirely, allocating $0 for 2026. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

Remember folks, the budget cuts for NSF and NIH *can still be stopped*. That is a luxury not granted to our agency science colleagues who have or could still lose their jobs from the top down. So - Fight! Speak up! Pay attention!

Glad to see this letter of support for the Climate Adaptation Science Centers from @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @agu.org and others. "CASCs provide actionable science, tools, and training that land and resource managers need to safeguard communities, ecosystems, and economies across the nation."

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

I think the biggest lie being told right now is that one of the wealthiest countries in the world cannot afford to invest in science, education, and the environment.

Good thread with more information about the “Red Caesar”: bsky.app/profile/alwa...

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

"The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening." www.bmj.com/content/388/...