Good morning! Last night sucked, but it is Monday, which means that phone lines are being monitored. Yesterday’s vote was what is called “motion to proceed” and it was the vote with a 60 vote threshold. In the next couple days, maybe even today, 1/

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Zohran Mamdani's focus on affordability concerns has energized many young voters around the country, who say he speaks to some of their most pressing economic concerns. n.pr/4hzXH2Y

I made a resource as part of my Boycotting 101 & 102 workshops. Basically, it's a huge list of mostly FREE stuff, experiences, & mutual aid. Please share! Kitsap County focus, but ++Puget Sound/Seattle too. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social @bikebremerton.bsky.social

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Read the blog here on my website: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar... It’s the biggest I’ve ever done for my tiny little portfolio so I appreciate any & all readers. I hope producers of shark documentaries will do better next time. Fin! 🦈 (9/9)

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

BREAKING: According to new data from the Wisconsin OCI, if Republicans fail to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits, Wisconsinites are going to pay hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands more dollars a year for their healthcare coverage. This is really bad, folks.

Vote now. If you live in a district with an election on Nov 4, vote now. Unless your only option is to wait till election day, don’t wait. You never know what could happen. For instance, Trump is sending election monitors to various places in New Jersey and California, but not right now. 1/

Fantastic thread about great research on a super important topic.

There are a lot of cowards in elite positions. There is a lot of courage in civil society. People aren't just taking career risks--though the spate of recent resignations and denunciations might rep. that--they're taking physical risks confronting ICE. They're organizing. Suing.

Spotify is doubling down on decision to run ICE ads ‼️ Help us spread the word to #BoycottSpotify | boycottspotify.com

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I am a big fan of @democrats.org senators' and representatives' work to lock in and keep focus on the many threads and players of corruption, authoritarianism, and anti-democracy. Many thanks to @wyden.senate.gov and others for digging in and persisting! @ariellaelm.bsky.social

Join us on Tuesday at @obecbrewing in Ballard for the 2nd Beer Reviewed Science talk! 🍻🍻🍻 RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/marin...

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#NoKings Nome Alaska 💥⚡

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

Semi-rural Idaho here. Nearly a 1000 people showed up, and we had ZERO opposition. Also the car and bystander ratio of folks in support has gone from about 50% to something like 80% over the last year. If you'd told me this in January I wouldn't have believed you.

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

#NoKings 104 year old US Navy WWII Vet Ken Lyon in Washington State 📸Jack Ottaway Props, Shipmate!

Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

Such a cool experience this morning, paddling with our Indigenous students (with Yo Yo Ma), being invited to the land by Wabanaki relatives, and then witnessing Yo Yo Ma’s incredible music at a sunrise concert ✨

Just over 2 weeks ago, our petition in support of #NSFGRFP was submitted to NSF (now with nearly 1,200 signatures). Today Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Haley Stevens requested that eligibilty of 2nd year graduate students be restored: democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r... PERSIST!!

Fight misinformation while supporting your mental health:

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation. youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...

The Power of Public Comment - happening tomorrow evening! @uwsmea.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsseattle.bsky.social @ucs.org @snapcoalition.bsky.social @sciforgood.bsky.social

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Make sure everyone knows: these mass firings are NOT because of the shutdown. Trump doesn’t have to fire any of these people—he’s choosing to do it as an intimidation tactic. Difficult to overstate how stupid and reckless this is.

The AAUP is doing a skills training for campus organizing. Is your school participating? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually! RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

Several organizations are now putting more than $1 million toward reimagining hiring, promotion and tenure at U.S. universities.

Reporting from @cenmag.bsky.social on the last-minute announcement and eligibility changes to the NSF GRFP program, including a link to the petition to restore eligibility to 2nd year PhD students + more. Petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ Story: cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

This is great work. Great. And you know what? A librarian might not know all this off the dome, but they would absolutely help you find out.

A government shutdown and the current FY26 proposed federal budget will have lasting impacts on scientific agencies, researchers, universities and students. Learn what’s at stake and how to respond on 23 Oct at 2 p.m. ET. Register today. 👉 lite.spr.ly/6004zxTM

Please sign and share this petition to #NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition. laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Please sign and keep sharing, this is important! #NSFGRFP

📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday. We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition! *nearly 900! @danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social

Take a moment to breathe, and remember, "People are in motion everywhere" (quoting @prisonculture.bsky.social) Sharing some hints of autumn from yesterday in #Bremerton, WA - fallen leaves with fog droplets, before the sun came out and dried them up. @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social