California FTW. Massachusetts, it's time to step up. @massgovernor.bsky.social @jamieeldridgema.bsky.social apnews.com/article/cali...

tl;dr: Urge your reps to support a "fighting continuing resolution (CR)" that reverses Medicaid cuts, blocks tax breaks for big corp.s and the rich; gets military out of cities, puts scientists in charge of US public health & scientific research scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/democrats-...

This is somewhat reassuring, in a depressing way. Oh and BTW -I am sick to death of the media talking about "vaccine confusion." There's no Fing confusion. Vaccines are being intentionally undermined by grifters. Get it right. #standupforscience www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

"Around 1/4 of the heatwaves recorded between 2000 and 2023 can be directly linked to greenhouse-gas emissions from individual energy giants." They increased the likelihood of 53 heatwaves by a median factor of more than 10,000. Sue the bastards - hit 'em in the money www.nature.com/articles/d41...

tl;dr: There are two reasons: 1. Fear (of reprisal, of being called partisan) 2. Thoughtless adherence to "both-sides-ism", aka This Is a Rule I Learned in Journalism School So I Must Follow It Whether It Makes Sense or Not theconversation.com/why-journali...

States where abortion restrictions allowed for exceptions based on the health of the mother or fetus saw essentially the same rise. theconversation.com/infant-morta...

Alexandra Petri FTW @petridishes.bsky.social #standupforscience www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Thank you, @massgovernor.bsky.social ! #standupforscience www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Physicians at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have set up a website that covers pediatric health misinformation that's going around and provides evidence-based info on the topics. For clinicians and parents. www.chop.edu/pediatric-he...

Thank you, Governor Healey @massgovernor.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...

#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).

So pretty much everyone? “A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” Geoff Brumfiel/NPR

Potentially reassuring news: #resist

The signers of the FEMA Declaration have all been placed illegally on administrative leave for speaking out. Let’s support them in their resistance to the autocracy! Stand Up for Science!

College professors (and high-school teachers), spread the word! #standupforscience theconversation.com/college-stud...

Every newspaper in America should publish this statement. RFK is a grifter, just like his boss, and he's going to have a tremendous amount of blood on his hands. #standupforscience

Concerned about a specific federal dataset being altered or removed? We at the #DataRescueProject have you covered. Submit to our Nominations Tool (bit.ly/DRP-nominati...) or check out our portal (portal.datarescueproject.org)

This is huge. And appalling. And not at all surprising. If we get another COVID-level event (or worse) in the next few years, we're in serious trouble. Glad that states in the NE are banding together on public health - hope it'll be enough, at least for folks in that region. #standupforscience

🚨🚨🚨FEMA employees just sounded the alarm with their Katrina Declaration. They’re warning that Trump’s dismantling is gutting disaster response, erasing climate science, and putting lives at risk. Read it, sign on, and stand with them.

Now it’s #FEMA workers standing up to an administration that is destroying our capacity to respond to natural disasters. These workers have more integrity and courage than anyone in this White House. To them, their duty sacred. To protect Americans from the worst that nature can bring.

RFK Jr and MAHA: dangerous, emboldened, and escalating "a dangerous pseudoscientific programme of work that supports a corrupt, unscientific wellness industry, seeks to discredit mainstream medicine, and portrays institutions and experts as enemies, not partners" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The illegal loss of funding for these grants is a profound loss of progress in research. Before funding, these grants were all subjected to highly rigorous peer-review by experts in the research topics. NIH and Congress approved the funds. Trump stole them away. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is what fascism looks like. #resist

A F*ing GAG ORDER. You're not allowed to talk about HOW TO CONTAIN AN OUTBREAK THAT COULD KILL PEOPLE. These people are beyond evil #standupforscience #resist

NIH funding had a 156% basic annual return in 2024 (ie not taking into account any previous and/or future investments and/or returns). I’m no finance expert but it seems crazy that we’re all going to have that thrown away cause some people think public schools want to turn kids into transgender mice

Yes!! More of this, please. And not just in the public-health sphere - want to see this for law enforcement (don't cooperate w/ illegal ICE activities) and protection of LGBTQ+ folks, among other things www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/22/m... #standupforscience #resist

The rainbow crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub site in Orlando, one of the most significant LGBTQ sites in Florida, has been removed as state and federal transportation officials aim to wipe "political banners" from public streets www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...

Best $3 I spent today. Please get video. :)

@massgovernor.bsky.social (Maura Healey), I look forward to you backing Mayor Wu up on this, and to your making a similar statement regarding Massachusetts as a whole. #resist

Good news: He's stepping down b/c of poor sales, which are happening in part because of boycotts. Bad news: The new guy's plans don't address the cause of the boycotts (lack of commitment to DEI), and instead sound worrisomely tech-bro-ish (more tech will solve things!) apnews.com/article/targ...

theconversation.com/data-that-ta... #standupforscience #resist

Mayor Wu FTW. #resist

Biologists, virologists, evolutionary biologist, and public health experts have much to learn from climate scientists on tackling misinformation. This is the model to follow and the culture to foster:

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/o... Good to see this. Hope they'll be able to do something substantive. #resist

Crap. Can someone who's good at these things please get a campaign started to pressure retailers NOT to give in to this BS??? #standupforscience #reproductiverights

If the guy really wanted to do something about crime in DC, this is what he'd do. But he doesn't want to do anything about crime. He wants to a) look macho and tough, b) use his power to throw anyone he doesn't like in the trash. #resist

We are so grateful that @drjudystone.bsky.social has published a piece in @forbes.com about the report we released today, Improving the Health of Americans Together (IHAT). We need a way forward so that all Americans can have improved health, and MAHA isn’t it. #IHAT #IHATnotMAHA

🚨🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 14! WE ARE LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN TO IMPEACH AND REMOVE BOBBY “The Quack” JR. 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm... We will hand deliver to Congress in Sept! #31doa #imoeachthequack #signandshare

This is exactly the kind of action we need. Time to start building a coalition of like-minded states. #standupforscience #resist www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...

The question now is, how do we educate service members about this? #resist theconversation.com/4-out-of-5-u...

Would love to see this get traction. www.cpr.org/2025/08/04/o...

📣 UPCOMING EVENT ALERT - 🗓️ Tomorrow, August 7th ⏰ 6pm ET 📍 Online ☎️ Join the call campaign to save science research funding. 🔗 Scan the QR code or RSVP here ➡️ actionnetwork.org/events/calli...

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding. ✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP... 🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p... 🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!) #31days

Time for me to re-examine my home improvement shopping

state rep. jolanda jones on abbott's threat to extradite dems who left TX: "there is no felony in the TX penal code for what he says. so respectfully, he's making up some shit...he has no legal mechanism. and if he did, subpoenas from TX don't work in NY/chicago, so he's going to come get us how?"

New updates from @theimpactproject.bsky.social, this time pulling together and visualizing a massive number of cuts to our nation's public health infrastructure. A superb tool for understanding the local impact of Federal policies: theimpactproject.org/public-healt...

Chicago FTW www.wbez.org/gender-ident... #trans #translives #translivesmatter

Because they want these people to die. It's eugenics. www.propublica.org/article/trum...