Priorities… How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Insanity. How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Who asked for this? E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Correction We Are Watching [the #GOP] Destroy a Scientific Superpower www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

My weather dreams have come true!!

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public This is like setting money on fire

✊ Sign your support for all three here⬇️ NASA: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor... EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad... NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...

Trump and the #GOP dragging women back to the past: Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...

The GOP is taking us backwards: Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

The number of people in ICE detention without criminal convictions nearly doubled in the last month — a significant increase compared to detainees who have been convicted of crimes.

McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."

How Trump’s big tax cut for the rich will decimate states and people who rely on medicaid: Alaska Cannot Survive This Bill www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...

Remember when Republicans were carrying around little copies of the Constitution and swearing to fight to protect it? Another lie. Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions in Birthright Citizenship Case www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

(gift article)Trump Might Get Us Into Another War. Where’s Congress? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

Just finished a wonderful workshop with @theopedproject !! www.theopedproject.org

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

More Trump #gop caused chaos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

NYC, we are better then this—i hope! www.instagram.com/reel/DKkGJVq...

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

This is what Trump and the #GOP has done to research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How to kill women = www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Majestic bodega cat

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

Red Hook, Brooklyn w/the Statue of Liberty tiny on the right

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

New Yorkers, get ready for the best sunsets of the year. Here’s when, where and how to watch Manhattanhenge, if the weather cooperates. nyti.ms/3Z54U3e

Are you a scientist and not sure what to do to help with all the awfulness all around us? Inspired by Vietnam era activism, @standupforscience.bsky.social is hosting a series of "teach ins," in which scientists share a bit about their area of expertise and why it's important with the public. 🧪🦑🌎

Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

Looks good!

Coney Island winter

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

Brooklyn 💕

Research funding matters.

The hiring of thousands of federal firefighters has stalled amid a governmentwide freeze ordered by President Trump, just as agencies were beginning to ramp up staffing for the summer wildfire season, according to a firefighters’ union.

Paywall free, gift article of a continuously updating list of Trump’s first 100 days actions www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director? DUFFY: *walks away* (The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)

“All review panels, new awards and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis. NSF has created an executive order implementation webpage to ensure the widest dissemination of information and updates.”

Here is a page of NIH research highlights going back to 2007. Projects funded by NIH have given us progress against Parkinson’s cancer, Alzheimer’s, bipolar, H5N1, blood pressure, food allergies, infertility, MS, HIV, diabetes, depression, malaria, etc. www.nih.gov/research-tra...

Teen keeps absent mindedly opening tiktok and yelling random shouts of despair.

Please share with LA friends in need. 💕

Get the facts before you share! gavinnewsom.com/california-f...