This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Visited my MAGA family in rural America this weekend. *huge, dramatic sigh* Chat, it was bad.

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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

“These Gestapo are everyday Germans. They have families, pay taxes, and sit next to us at church every Sunday. These are our neighbors and they deserve to be treated with respect as they collect the Undesirables & bring them to the gas chambers! The hateful rhetoric is inspiring political violence!”

I’m going to say something abt domestic abuse that I think applies to our current situation: Abuse increases when the abuser feels they are losing their control. Also, here is the Power and Control Wheel.

I’m giving a free/public talk this Tues in Seattle about how US government investment in science laid the foundations for the field of human-computer interaction and how that field (and investment) connects to so many of the innovations that we take for granted, as well as the future of AI.

I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

The federal workers who take care of our veterans, inspect our food, and help people through natural disasters know Trump’s lawlessness is hurting everyday Americans and they are begging Congress to stop it.

Did you even pass your dissertation proposal if someone didn’t suggest collecting $100k worth of data???? (This is my official announcement: I passed my dissertation proposal).

Feeling overwhelmed by the political attacks on science? You're not alone, and you don’t have to face it alone! Join Stand Up for Science's Action Hour to learn how to join our rapid-response effort to protect science and democracy. All scientists and allies welcome. Register here: zurl.co/6S33y

Stand Up for Science is the best!!

🚨We’ve got the Quack-O-Gram video up on YouTube!🚨 Please share widely—Bobby “The Quack” Jr has to go. He’s unqualified, corrupt, and going to get people killed. 🐥It’s not to late to send a QOG or bundle of Quacks to Congress: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams youtu.be/wjET_T15qBk?...

LEOPARDS AND FACES. LEOPARDS AND FACES. LEOPARDS AND FACES. Whatever is going to happen to you, your job, your institution is going to happen NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO. So, you might as well face it with your dignity and integrity in tact.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Please come out (or participate via livestream) for our #ScienceUnderSiege event at the storied DC bookstore @politicsprose.bsky.social, featuring my co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly, Thursday Oct 2: politics-prose.com/mann-hotez

Remember, folks, edgy political satire is a weapon. It's also, at this point, our patriotic duty in defense of our freedom. Use it relentlessly and push the envelope. In that vain, I say, Lindsey Graham is the kind of guy that would eat Trump's belly button for a morsel of praise and an easy buck.

This is sure to put a smile on your face!

This takes so much incredible courage and fortitude. Thank you for standing up for SCIENCE & the hundreds of millions of Americans that benefit from it. #FireRFKJr

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office! There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB#ImpeachRFKand keep the momentum going! 🦆

This is the best thing I’ve read since Jan 20th, 2025. Absolute perfection from @petridishes.bsky.social “Authoritarianism is like measles: Ignore it and it will go away.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

3/ Almost $300* 😲 And now, if a parent wants MMRV but their kid isn't eligible for VFC, they have to decide if they can spare that kind of money *Per current VFC price data for the private sector cost per dose, the red number in the photo

I literally just want to raise my beautiful boy in a world where he’s not exposed to previously eradicated diseases, he isn’t going to be shot and killed at school, the air isn’t burning, and we have free speech. Is that too much to ask?!

I say this with my whole entire chest, as the mom of a toddler: THIS IS BULLSHIT. This will make lifesaving vaccines less available, confuse ppl, decrease vaccine uptake, and KILL CHILDREN. Everyone who supposed this has the blood of children on their hands. SEND SKEET.

We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself. Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations. That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

We are a PROUD partner with @indivisible.org et al., 2025 in the October 18th No Kings protests because a thriving scientific ecosystem is a pillar of a healthy democracy. The minute we can’t ask questions is the minute our systems are under duress. @standupforscience.bsky.social

Here’s the thing, American institutions—universities, societies, businesses, etc.—actually do have the collective power to stand up to King TACO. Imagine your house being on fire and your neighbors blocking the fire dept from accessing the hydrant because “it’s only for emergencies!” That is this.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The Constitution

From Hopium: - We must demand courage now - Trump's mandate has been revoked as growing majority reject him and his strongman horsesh-- - Very effective new tariff ad in Alaska - A report from my event in St. Paul supporting the great DFL of Minnesota 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-de...

We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple. It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.

THIS!!! THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO SEE!!!! Well done Rep. Swalwell.

I’m hearing a lot of despair and “what’s the point”-ing. Here’s the point: ONE less person kidnapped by ICE. ONE more child vaccinated. ONE grant reinstated. ONE more PEPFAR treatment. ONE more meal to a hungry kid. ONE more person covered by Medicaid. One life is ALWAYS worth resistance.

I LOVE THIS! THANK YOU @standupforscience.bsky.social #ImpeachRFK

CALL TO ACTION! During one of our meetings this week with a House Dem, who shall remain nameless, the idea that "DEI research doesn't save anyone's life" was espoused. My team was *flabbergasted* by this assertion. PLEASE DROP YOUR PEER REVIEWED WORKS OF "DEI" SAVING LIVES HERE SO WE CAN SHARE!

Sorry fam, I'm not live tweeting the ACIP hearing today...I'm proposing my dissertation tomorrow and need to get my ducks in a row. *deadpans into camera*

I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates. The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.

Make them look stupid! They cannot handle being mocked. -Kilroy was here-

Here’s the thing, American institutions—universities, societies, businesses, etc.—actually do have the collective power to stand up to King TACO. Imagine your house being on fire and your neighbors blocking the fire dept from accessing the hydrant because “it’s only for emergencies!” That is this.

Donald Trump announces yesterday ANTIFA, ANTIPASTO, ANTIFREEZE and ANTICLIMAX to be added to US's official list of terrorist organizations.

We are a PROUD partner with @indivisible.org et al., 2025 in the October 18th No Kings protests because a thriving scientific ecosystem is a pillar of a healthy democracy. The minute we can’t ask questions is the minute our systems are under duress. @standupforscience.bsky.social

You love to see it! Good on you, @cdelawalla.bsky.social

This is such a brilliant (and delightful) campaign.

Live footage of our forefathers: