That was honestly my first thought (as a pro vaccine, pro science, pro evidence, anti conspiracy person). Like that was the antivaxx cults whole pseudoscience platform. Now what, vaccines cause headaches? 😂

Dems in DC please take note on how to use a big platform to speak truth to power. Neil Young is LEGEND

It’s funny when you’ve worked your whole life for an #NSF CAREER grant and it’s terminated (as were ALL cancelled NSF grants) for containing blacklisted WORDS (like “climate”) compiled by Ted Cruz and ppl are fired for simply speaking truth about a hateful bigot - where’s our right to free speech??!

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Instead of a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, I will be observing a lifetime of speaking out against bigotry and fascism.

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

This stunning photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com is one for the history books!! Captures everything about the precarious and dangerous position we find ourselves fighting for our democracy: The teargas, the ICE sign, the protester, flag, incredible work! Award worthy!!💪🏼🫶🏼

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Shout out to the American Federation of Musicians

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

I’m a LGBTQ science education prof who had my dream NSF CAREER climate justice grant terminated by trump; I will not “play down” who I am or my essential community work during the very real climate crisis because that’s what exactly zero young voters asked for in 2024, go touch some fucking grass

I was just in Copenhagen presenting my terminated dream #NSF CAREER #climate justice grant research at the European Science Education Research Association #ESERA conference w/ a global group eager to talk climate change ed & innovation. Europe is on it!! This shirt helps me imagine how it could be!

Heatwaves caused more than 1,000 deaths in Australia over four-year period, study finds #environment #health #climate #auspol

Reeling from the gutting termination of my #NSF CAREER climate justice grant in April, I connected with @karenattiah.bsky.social here. RSS emerged from her vision, integrity & leadership. She inspired me to reimagine a path forward in my work. I’ll always stand by her. The pilot was epic, LFG 102!🫶🏼

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

I was a server at a fine dining restaurant in Marin County way back while in grad school and I’ll never forget when the host said: we seated Mr. Redford in your section. MY section?! He was the kindest, most gentle human. And those eyes! You never know what icons will be like, he was a real one.RIP💔

Science denial, whether it’s climate change or efficacy of vaccines, hurts us all.

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday.

Exactly when TF did the we become a police state where racial profiling is “common sense” not a constitutional violation?? “Under this Court's precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the U.S.”

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..." www.kgw.com/article/news...

It shouldn't be overlooked that Sonia Sotomayor wrote the dissent on greenlighting racial profiling in ICE raids as she's the only one on the court who could be profiled by ICE and detained solely for how she looks lest she be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status.” Justice Sotomayor on the #SCOTUS decision to greenlight the racist regime’s right to racially profile in LA (but everywhere really) without explanation. Fight like hell people! #HumanRights #SupremeCourt

I’ve been in Copenhagen <24 hrs & already feel such positive human energy, joy, happiness. I’ve never seen so many bicycles or a city designed to center this way of life. It’s INCREDIBLE! Came upon this “CHP By Bike” photo contest- read the description! (In my city, my favorite route, my way home🚲🫶🏼)

I’m off to Copenhagen for the European #ScienceEducation Research Association conference (#ESERA25). Stoked to engage on climate justice work and experience a country that prioritizes green design & bicycles! #NSF CAREER grants support our life’s work, take my funding but you never get my ideas! 💪🏼🚲🌲

I am the perfect opposite of a sports person but I got a free ticket to a women’s soccer game today and while I was there, surrounded by many of my fellow lesbians and lots of eager young girls, I was really able to grasp why the right wants to control and discriminate within women’s sports so badly

While I’m grateful #LAUSD is implementing plans to keep K-12 students/families safe in a district that is 75% Latino/a/x, it is absolutely gutting that the biggest school district in CA (and so many others) need to protect their students FROM THEIR OWN U.S. GOVT!!! Who have we become?! #AbolishICE

I keep thinking about this song and how Jesse Welles absolutely nailed it: “They got a sign on bonus of 50 grand, There in need of you needing to feel like a man, join ICE.” #AbolishICE #ProHumanity

Under pressure to do more to help immigrants in SF, the Mayor apparently issued a press release claiming credit for funds that had already been granted to Public Defender from a foundation. Kudos to @missionlocal.org for reporting on this. Press release mayors have been gaming media for far too long

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”

As a prof who prepares science teachers I have this ethical dilemma knowing: 1) We need the best/brightest to center justice/inclusion and transform school science, and 2) They’ll enter an always undervalued workforce that our govt continually makes choices to underfund so small men can feel manlier

Courage in the face of inhumanity 💪🏼 We all need to be Rebecca Torres 🫶🏼

"No matter how skilled, strong or accomplished women become, they can still be reduced to a sexual punchline."

🚨🧪GREAT NEWS!! UC previously argued that #NSF grants were “terminated over alleged DEI violations. UC attorneys argued the suspensions were arbitrary and capricious.” Now UCLA grants are restored too!!💪🏼 🙋🏻❓How do we get this to apply to CSU grants? Our NSF grants were cut for the exact same reason!

"A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the National Science Foundation to restore about 300 grants to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) that it suspended on 30 July, saying the agency violated a preliminary injunction she issued in June…"

Governor Pritzker is right. No more blank checks for Netanyahu’s right-wing government and its military. No more blank checks for war crimes against Palestinians. forward.com/fast-forward...

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Stay salty DC 🔥

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

We need a mayor who will fight for every single New Yorker every single day — not conspire with a demagogue in Washington who attacks our rights and steals from the working class to enrich his billionaire friends.

Israeli Strike TARGETS & Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists” - fixed it for you @nytimes.com. You’d think of all people, other journalists would properly capture the gravity and unconscionable nature of this insanity.

I’ve been thinking about that lag time while things go through the lengthy legal pipeline vs all the harm done to real humans in the immediate present. Our legal systems clearly weren’t designed to manage an onslaught of attacks from within and that’s exactly what the felon is exploiting, it’s gross

🚨🧪If you, like me, care about #science for the public good, we need to fight like hell against this EO. It codifies racist, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant ideology into federal funding. Awards must “demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities, an entirely insane & dangerous precedent. LFG💪🏼🫶🏼

🚨This made me sick to my stomach. As someone who served on rigorous #NSF review panels, had many proposals rejected & am the recipient of a prestigious (now terminated) NSF CAREER, this EO demanding grants “demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities” is insulting, alarming & chilling!🚨

My #AI director friend sent this on burn/churn “extreme performance culture” (cc @kattenbarge.bsky.social) “We don’t believe in work-life balance…at Cognition we spend 6 days at the office, clock 80+hr wks..routinely work through wknds…Many of us literally live where we work” GO TOUCH SOME 🤬 GRASS!