If you think you have to fire a [scientist] for doing [science], *you* shouldn’t have the authority to do that. plumber:plumbing building inspector:inspections chef:cooking … Most of government is people doing normal jobs for the best causes. Some are extraordinary. Abusing them hurts everyone.

I’ve been at this a whole decade. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Albania is erupting for the second consecutive day in angry mass protests against the Kushner land seizure deal worth $4 billion.

New: we've obtained a DHS document outlining ICE's plan to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...

🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Weak men serve themselves. Real men serve others. Even when nobody is watching.”

Jared & Ivanka not winning any popularity contests in Albania Have fun spending billions to get some peaceful R & R over there! 🙃 🏝️

Let’s talk about Eligibility renewals for Medicaid expansion states. Starting 1.1.27- (Most) states are required to start verifying eligibility for expansion groups every 6 months. This is problematic for a multitude of reasons, but let’s focus on a few. You really need to get angry.

The landscape of public healthcare is facing its biggest structural shift in decades. A newly enacted federal law introduces mandatory monthly work reporting to the Medicaid program, fundamentally altering how millions of Americans maintain their medical coverage effective Jan 1, 2027. A quick 🧵:

It's been a week since Russell Vought unleashed his latest blueprint of destruction, and we are beginning to see how institutions are approaching the matter. I am calling on orgs, societies, and the left to fully, uncompromisingly, viciously oppose 100% of this rule proposal. Every single line.

NEWS: The House has passed the Ukraine Support Act, 226-195, to provide new military aid to Ukraine and impose tougher sanctions on Russia. The bill advanced through a discharge petition despite Speaker Mike Johnson's efforts to block a vote.

www.today.com/news/spencer... Happy Days!

The names & allegations in the Epstein files deserve full transparency, regardless of party, wealth, or status. The survivors deserve facts, transparency & equal accountability under the law! #SheShed #StandWithSurvivors #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #KeepTalkingAboutTheEpsteinFiles

Some days this is just all too much. Hugs to all those who are suffering these days.

Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers as Schedule F (now Schedule Policy/Career) begins. What I told @npr.org - this is the first step of a much broader assault on the civil service system. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

8,000 senior civil servants lost their for-cause job protections today. They are GS 15, pretty senior, so the type of reclassifications that are easy to defend in court. Once the court oks the policy, the administration will apply it more broadly.

Congress is likely to vote this week on whether to reauthorize Section 702, which the government has used to surveil our calls, texts, and emails without a warrant. We can't allow the Trump administration any more power to secretly spy on us. Tell Congress: Vote no.

Giving billionaires and corporations the green light to buy our elections. Making it easier for polluters to destroy the planet. Stripping millions of reproductive freedom. Granting presidents immunity. Gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The shame of the John Roberts court.

Secrecy breeds corruption. Submit your public comments before the deadline. Link in bio.

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This should be a bigger story. Loads of Americans don't follow ANY news, & have no clue what Trump's doing to our FREE PRESS. If we lose that, it's game over. 'She Was Brought in to Kill' 60 Minutes: Scott​​ Pelley Unleashes on Bari Weiss at CBS Meeting 1/2 www.commondreams.org/news/scott-p...

Uniting to Protect Science & Democracy: Science Rising National Launch Event secure.ucsusa.org/a/2026-6-3-s... In 30 min! @roguenasa.altgov.info @roguenoaa.altgov.info @altcdc.altgov.info @altfws.altgov.info @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info @standupforscience.net @scientistrebellion.bsky.social +++

“It is catastrophic,” says Colette Delawalla, founder and CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group Stand Up for Science. “And I do not use that word lightly.” cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Striking to me how little reporting there is on this rule proposal, which is maybe the biggest change to American governance in almost a century. And this reporting is … weak. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

I’ve now seen one story since the NYC power grid added just a massive amount of renewable energy. About 20% of the city’s grid is now renewable energy! Should be a huge good news story! Share the news: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/03/c...

Page One: “.. the appointment .. has raised alarm internally among staff who question how anyone convicted in the assault on American democracy could be trusted for such a sensitive role ..” @washingtonpost.com

A major shift in how marine traffic interacts with endangered whales is coming to B.C.’s coastal waters, with federal government expanding protections for southern resident killer whales and committing more than $258 million to long-term recovery efforts. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/va...

Fisheries and climate research would be hit hard in Trump’s proposed budget

On President Trump's appointment of Bill Pulte as DNI. Every word of this statement by Senator @markwarner.bsky.social, Vice-Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is spot on.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Frankel to Rubio: "It is crazy that you want to let people in from South Africa because they can assimilate, while you're throwing out hundreds of thousands of people who have already assimilated and that are important parts of our economy and family life."

Good morning ppl! If you don’t keep your head on a swivel, you miss shit. It’s also important to take a moment and step back to see the arching trends.

This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊

Happy Pride Month, especially to my struggling Fed fam. As of this year, feds can no longer receive coverage for gender-affirming procedures & hormone therapies through our health insurance options due to new discriminatory language in federal policies. Trans rights = human rights. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙

“The Trump administration's efforts to dismantle Boulder's National Center for Atmospheric Research hit a roadblock Monday, as a federal judge halted the transfer of the lab's supercomputing center.” www.axios.com/local/boulde...

“The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

“What OMB is proposing is not a reform of grants management,” Elizabeth Ginexi, a former program officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), writes in a Substack post. “It is a vehicle for complete political control of science … ” www.science.org/content/arti...

#AltCitizen Task alert!!!!!!! A guide for responding to the recent OMB RFI.

That *is* an answer.

Donald Trump is working around the clock to undermine our democracy and make it harder for you to vote. We won’t let him. Voting my mail is secure, easy and makes our democracy stronger.

A new sneaky Friday E.O. Thanks @cfbijou.bsky.social for the tip. The USFS has 371,000+ miles of road. Some are paved, most are not, many are gated / closed seasonally or for resource protection. There are snow routes too. What does this E.O. mean for Travel Management on Forest System Roads?

Science dgaf about politics, which is why politics needs to stay tf out of science. Write the checks and step aside. There’s no role for ignorant idjits to dictate scientific inquiry if we expect to benefit from it as a society. Otoh, if you’re trying to sabotage America …

@iamunion.bsky.social @nffe.bsky.social and everyone else! #signalboost #savetheUSFS

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Comments close July 13th If every person that received federal research funding commented, they would reach their goal of 10k comments

This right here is very telling. The OMB proposal directly dismantles the post-WWII system used by NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, and nearly every science agency, in which independent expert peer review was the primary measure of scientific merit. 🧪 elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Make your voices heard! The proposed OMB rule negates peer review for approval of grant applications. The political appointee will have the power to randomly override peer review. The last thing we need is the fear of grants getting terminated based on whim. Russ Vought is all over this.🧪