DHS watchdog reveals ICE detention guards in Louisiana used chokehold to ‘gain compliance’ and stabbed detainee with a pen

I have often been critical of the leadership @aaas.org but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment www.aaas.org/news/aaas-st...

NEW: The chair of the President’s Cancer Panel, Dr. Harvey Risch, is a co-author on a study touting ivermectin for cancer. The study is backed by two anti-vax orgs, including The Wellness Company, which sells the drug and with which he is affiliated. www.importantcontext.news/p/chair-of-p...

Sweeping draft regulations released by OMB pose one of the most significant threats to federally funded research in decades. The proposal would affect nearly every aspect of the scientific process. Read more: https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/federal-research-regulations-threat-american-science/

#Conan O’Brien’s #Harvard address is funny, thoughtful, and surprisingly moving, and a reminder that success is not a straight line, and reinvention is part of the journey youtu.be/yHBasrew8yY #ConanOBrien

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

hard to emphasize how much power this takes away from career civil servants and experts/scientists and gives it to trump and his deputies like vought. spitting in the face of congress and the rule of law

How one man's Kafkaesque plight explains the growing hunger strikes at immigration lockups and the nightly unrest in Newark Izzy Aly says he'll die soon unless an ICE camp in rural Pa. stops neglecting his advanced kidney failure My column on the fight to save Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

🧪More information will be forthcoming about this *critical* development, and the Federal Register website will be open for public comments tomorrow. Thanks to @standupforscience.net for sounding the alarm. Background: an op-ed from @cdelawalla.bsky.social et al www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

NIH has allocated just 33% of its normal budget this year, putting critical medical breakthroughs at risk. Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels and University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Girod are calling on the government to release it before the damage becomes permanent. https://bit.ly/4f3GuzR

"NJ Governor Sherrill says she’s been denied entry into Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark... Roughly 300 detainees had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions they describe as inhumane." DHS denies the strike is happening. 🎥 from @nj.com: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxIJaO...

Scientists across the nation are describing the state of science in America as a sinking ship. Science needs you to stand up for it. Volunteer with us at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/Qlt58 #Volunteer #StandUpForScience #Science #SaveScience #FundScience

🚨 Trump's IRS settlement now includes a clause from DOJ effectively granting Trump a blanket pardon for any past or present tax crimes.

The same week of Garcia Venegas’s third detention, a top immigration official said at a border security conference that arrests “where we thought they were an illegal alien but they were actually a U.S. citizen” had “happened zero times.”

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) has secured the release of Deisy Rivera Ortega from a month-long ICE detainment. Ortega is the wife of Sgt. 1st Class Jose Serrano, an active-duty U.S. Army soldier and Afghanistan war veteran who has served for 27 years.

Trump brushes off Iran war’s cost at home: ‘I don’t think about American financial situation’

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.

Lawmakers in the South wasted no time in trying to undermine Black voting power after the Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act. But we’re not wasting time, either. We are fighting for our right to vote with everything we’ve got.

A Texas mother of 4 who was in the U.S. legally was detained by ICE for over 6 weeks: "When the door locks, you become small. You start to believe that perhaps you are not equal. That you are not human."

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

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I came here in 1975. I'm a Nobel Prize-winning scientist born in Germany during WWII, came here in 1975 thinking there was no way fascism could take hold in this country. I was wrong. I don't not want to be book-ended by two fascist regimes. We will stand up and set things right.

Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post [GIft Link] wapo.st/3OONwh6 1/8

Jack Szostak "All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."

The Bible doesn’t justify war crimes, writes Russell Moore. Old Testament warfare ultimately points us to the Cross, where God’s justice and mercy meet in Christ.

New reports indicate Iran's Sharif University of Technology was bombed early Monday morning. This comes as the U.S. is escalating strikes on civilian infrastructure in Iran after having bombed two Iranian elementary schools, killing 100+ children.

Evil. No other word for it.

ICE has detained Annie Ramos, the newlywed spouse of an Army sergeant training to deploy. Ramos was taken from the military base where the couple planned to live.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds. The couple checked in at the visitor center, ready to complete the steps for her to move into his home on the base. Within hours, ICE agents detained her.

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

Amazon is adding a 3.5% "fuel and logistics-related surcharge" to all U.S. sellers due to rising gas prices from Trump's Iran war.

Free link: The Supreme Court is now weighing whether a president can redefine who counts as an American. Birthright citizenship—rooted in the 14th Amendment for over 150 years—is on the line. This isn’t just policy. It’s the meaning of citizenship itself. 🇺🇸 @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

Charles Barkley: "The way some of these immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace. ... What we're doing to some of these amazing immigrants is really unfortunate and it's really sad."

Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation. Complete abdication of duty.

While I’m not a cancer biologist, I’m excited that the first cancer biology PhD program in NJ has launched at my institution. Great things happening! Contact @boehninglab.com for more information.

Blessed are the warfighters For they shall demolish the earth apnews.com/article/pete...

Host: Voters are asked the words most Americans think apply to Trump. The top of the list is arrogant, opportunist, corrupt, dishonest.

Feel like it might benefit the U.S. in some ways if our current position weren't that science is for woke losers.

"In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention."

If you want to know how researchers who depend on NIH funding are feeling right now read this thread 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

And that’s why pasteurization was invented. #standupforscience

Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.

Michael B Jordan proving he can win without Scottie B Pippen.

It's something to step back and think that we started a war that creates refugees and have no refugee program to take anyone in. Seems like a first in many decades

A new study reveals Trump's tariffs will cost American households an average of $2,512 a year.

“We can’t afford cancer research but $11 billion for one week of an absurd war is fine” is a hell of an argument