Jenna Norton, a vocal critic of Trump administration actions at the NIH, was abruptly placed on administrative leave this week. www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/n...

When NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said “dissent is productive”, I’m pretty sure he meant “MY dissent is productive. It got me to the top of NIH, wheeeee! But YOUR dissent won’t be tolerated”.

Stand Up For Science Condemns Retaliation Against Bethesda Declaration Whistleblower Jenna Norton “an attempt to silence the many federal workers who are speaking out about the harms this administration is causing the American people” @standupforscience.bsky.social

Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL

This administration can eat a big bag of dicks.

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Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

The damage from NIH cuts to Montgomery County, the country and the world is incalculable.

Jenna Norton, an outspoken signer of the Bethesda Declaration. was welcomed back to work by being placed on Administrative Leave (for No Disciplinary Reason). www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/ 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Many people are saying Jay Bhattacharya is a hypocrite and a coward.

According to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Per @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social, DOD presented Trump with plans for strikes in Venezuela yesterday, including on the ground. Astonishing to see the U.S. on the brink of another regime-change invasion with essentially none of the pre-2003 effort to rationalize it domestically and internationally.

Housing First approaches to homelessness, that prioritize getting a stable roof over people's heads before addressing trauma from the streets & other issues, prove to lead to long term stability. Rounding every homeless person up for forced mental health care which is incarceration is not the way!

I will never forget people complaining to me about it before it was even a "movement", when it was literally just every women I knew posting on Facebook about their experiences.

Harvard grads can call the Harvard Alumni Association and politely let them know they won't donate to the school as long as Summers is working there. Their number is 617-496-0559.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

If i were the president of the united states i simply wouldn't have spent 50-60 years of my life raping and molesting a wide variety of innocent victims including children and then run for office promising to expose pedophiles and then call it a hoax once elected

If you are also a scientist, sure. If you aren't, like these guys, you should probably shut the fuck up and let the people whose opinions matter talk.

Hey, voters rule. But I want to say a special thanks to everyone who put their time, money, and heart into a campaign this year! Thanks for using your freedom to fight for everyone else's.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

I'm mad about the shut down and worried about healthcare, but not letting people starve is a pretty good reason to cave on this bureaucratic fight, the more I think about it. So just say that: Republicans wanted you to starve rather than compromise, so we let this one go.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

If only there were a must-pass bill Senate Dems could have used as a vehicle to stop such things.

Are they just going to stitch together a bunch of community-sourced video from Chicago and LA?

It’s okay because the Republicans promised to hold this exact same vote in a month

Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now. I get it. I have my own feelings. 🧵

I called both my senators and told staff that as a constituent I wanted to express the need for new Democratic caucus leadership in the Senate. Took two minutes.

the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years

Important to note that the DNC, House Dems, 2028 contenders, and even the most pro-leadership pundits and influencers are all laying on Senate Dems right now. They betrayed all of us. Schumer has no allies left.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning. Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.

It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

ASAP!

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

I don’t think this is chess. I think this is as straight forward as it looks.

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.