HI HELLO. Mitch McConnell and Tom Kean got longer medical leaves (with literally zero transparency and fully funded healthcare) than I, and most women get after having a baby…including having a baby via major surgery 💁🏻‍♀️

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

🧪 #climate Trump has ordered a probe of the National Academy of Sciences. If the timing on his post is Eastern Time, and he actually types his posts himself, then I guess this was on his mind during the World Cup final.

Just heard on tv that our elections are totally corrupt and unreliable. We have no choice but to start over and elect a new president

California and 21 other States filed a powerful and detailed response to the proposed #OMB revisions, earlier this week. Press release here: oag.ca.gov/news/press-r... Actual filing here, and worth reading (99 pages): oag.ca.gov/system/files... ** NSF proposed revisions, now in comment period! **

@nationalacademies.org has released its long-awaited report on extreme event attribution for #climatechange. "...human-caused climate change is altering the frequency & intensity of several types of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, record-breaking heat waves, & extreme rainfall" 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

"Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question?" This exchange between Sen. Ossoff and Trump nominee Jay Clayton—about who won the 2020 election—is well worth watching.

#OMB "By the close of the public comment period on July 13, the proposed rule had received 496,769 comments" 50,000 accessible so far. "One analysis of the published comments ...found that around 95% opposed the rule, with just 1% supporting it." This is consistent with my own sampling.

This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion

OMB proposed revisions. So far 52,000 comments available for viewing, and total number of comments received is 341,699. Remember: OMB is legally required to review and respond to all comments, that are not duplicates.

Today's the day. Comments on the proposed OMB rules and regulations revisions are due today at 11.59pm EDT. You can comment directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... Detailed information on the ramifications at the platforms linked below.

PS It is not just Senator Collins. Here is a letter from the entire Democratic caucus + 2 independents: www.murray.senate.gov/wp-content/u... and another letter by Senators Kaptur & Murray specifically about implications of the proposals for DOE www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

If you're thinking of making a comment on proposed OMB regulations, you have 6 days left. There are many good points made in the letter by Senator Collins to OMB, including requesting an extension. Her points not only address science grants but grants to communities, cities, States. 🧵1/N

Science needs you to speak out against this disasterous proposed change & time is running out. Submit your comment to OMB on this proposed rule by Monday, July 13. AAAS has resources to help you 👇 www.aaas.org/resources/wh...

Donald Trump is a racist.

If you're not aware of the attacks on the national park service despite the best efforts of groups like @altnps.bsky.social then here's a good but depressing summary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Huge protests in Albania, hardly in news. For 35 days! Protests "began over a luxury... development ...in a protected natural area linked to Jared Kushner, but have evolved into broader anti-government & anti-corruption protests." Why not here? Our parks? Our corruption? Where's the outrage?

Donald Trump's corruption is allowing him to do what he never achieved in his business career. He's finally making a profit.

Douglass’s “What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” remains one of the most honest and powerful speeches about this important day in our shared history. www.npr.org/2020/07/03/8...

“Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country's 250th birthday and made it all about him” democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/news/videos/...

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

This entire “you brought this on yourself” framework from Nature is particularly funny as straight up eugenicist race science is dictating national policy.

@cdelawalla.bsky.social debunks the scientists need to be bipartisan politically myth to build greater trust. Meanwhile scientists are far more trusted than politicians. Why isn't there more public demand for certain politicians to be more open to science, facts, data?

Nobody is stopping "the market" from doing this. The fact that they aren't doing it means it's too risky and should be done by public institutions. What they really want is subsidies for corporations to do the research so they can privatize any profit while the public assumes all of the risk.

Right, so here is the Hoover Institute saying we should abolish the NIH: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Springer Nature sold Scientific American to a new company that is already laying people off TWO DAYS before their union election. If you want to sign an open letter in support of the union, you can do so here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...

At today's UKRI board meeting, the fate of UK particle physics and astronomy will likely be decided. Have we done enough to convince the powers-that-be to halt the proposed funding cuts? 🤞 Read Prof. Hiranya Peiris in Nature today eloquently explaining why these cuts are wrong.🧪🔭⚛️ 📖: rdcu.be/friwM

if your 80yr old parent was talking about having conversations with someone who died ~27 years before they were even born, you'd be getting power-of-attorney in place bsky.app/profile/atru...

Do people trust scientists? US politicians on majority side demonize scientists. Data: ~ 56% of respondents trust scientists. In fact, the three most trustworthy professions are doctors, scientists and teachers. Politicians are the least trusted, with ~15%. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a REALLY important story to tell: actually trust in science is quite high overall. It is dropping with Republicans and that is due to a self-sorting phenomenon that is causing one group to have low trust IN THE ESTABLISHMENT ACROSS THE BOARD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

President Donald Trump’s administration wants to enlist the public in attacking what it sees as wasteful spending. https://scim.ag/4gKrp76

It's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

He’s achieved in the White House what he never could in his business career. He's finally making a profit.

If someone doesn't like your research grant, the US government may soon be able to help them sue you. www.science.org/content/arti...

OUR BIG TAKEAWAYS: - The Dems pressed Vought on the proposed OMB Rule - DeLauro critized the admin for trying to make federal grants pass a political loyalty test. Vought denied this characterization, but refused to commit that OMB would respect Congress's constitutional power of the purse. 🧵:

Heads up! The National Science Foundation has published new grant proposal rules for public comment. 203 pages! The comment period is open until Aug 24 2026. It implements all the proposed changes in the OMB document, maybe more. The Supporting and Related Material is where the bodies are buried.

How to Stop OMB's Proposed Rule 'Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance' open.substack.com/pub/27unihte... 🧪🌐

It's been bothering me that Vought is launching the OMB changes now rather than after the midterm. Clearly there is no expectation that they will not still be in power after the midterm. But how? Interesting discussion below by @daslin.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to Pennsylvania voter records. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. Another defeat for DOJ. DOJ is now 0-10. 👀 ELG remains undefeated! 🗳️⚖️💪 www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

“According to a new study of more than 8000 researcher parents in 119 countries, only 21% of women & 27% of men started to have children during their Ph.D. program. And mothers face particular challenges when navigating parenthood while in grad school, the study findings indicate.”🧪

A focused response to notice and comment picks an issue and hammers it home. An agency has to provide an effective response to a well-reasoned explanation of how a particular rule fails.

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

#Denaturalization Democracy Forward submitted multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests earlier this year ... to inform the public about matters of public interest. While the agencies acknowledged the requests, they did not provide the public documents & communications as required by law.

Fu**ing idiot. Literally the 1st words of the 1st Amendment. Also, T. Jefferson in 1802: The "people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State"

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president. (Published Oct. 2025)

🧪 "science ... is not a partisan argument but an empirical one... The best way to stand [up] for science remains showing that it is curiosity-driven research that led to a better world today, as in the cures that did not exist a generation ago and weather forecasts that save lives and livelihoods."

Kind of seems like this whole situation could have just been avoided if people in this administration just listened to science. 🤷‍♀️ arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

We have an opportunity in this moment. A responsibility. To insist on everyone’s humanity, all the way through.

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.