if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

I just feel like we should just TRY matriarchy. After all, can’t possibly be worse than where we're at!!

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

@scott-delaney.bsky.social has had a front row seat to the Trump admin’s cancellation of NIH grants I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡

@noaa.gov axed their Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters dataset: a crucial resource showing the inflation-adjusted cost/damages of U.S. extreme weather and climate disasters. (We at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social grabbed it.) www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c... #climate #weather #disaster #NOAA

Kinda amazing that one of the biggest announcements of the year *in 2025* is still done by smoke signal. Social media has destroyed democracy—let's go back to smoke signals & carrier pigeons!

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share! dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

[1/5] @jonathang.bsky.social, data scientist à Harvard, dénonce la destruction de données scientifiques par l’administration Trump. Ces bases de données sont essentielles pour analyser les risques globaux comme le climat, la pollution ou les pandémies, qui affectent tous les territoires. #geography

From me in @theguardian.com (!) "Data is being stolen from us; our ability to understand the world is being stolen from us. Americans will die because the Trump administration is abdicating its responsibility to the people." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A clarion call to stand up for scientific data from @jonathang.bsky.social ⤵️ I have the privilege of working with Jonathan and have had a front row seat as he and his team have busted their asses to archive data the past several months. He's a warrior for science. 💪

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

Weird way to say that capitalism is on track to destroy the climate! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hilarious juxtaposition. "'There's certainly a concern of retribution from the administration, but we feel strongly we're on the right side of history here,' Gilmour said. The White House did not respond to Context's request for comment before time of publication." www.context.news/digital-righ...

NIH terminated *7* grants focused on mitigating the spread of misinformation just last week. That's half of all grants that contained the word "misinformation" in their titles in 2024. So he spreads misinformation, then prevents others from correcting it. Cool cool

Asking for help—do you have access (DUA) to any of these critical datasets? If so, now would be a great time to download them—and ensure that you're preserving rich metadata about them. Let's make sure these exist for posterity. www.404media.co/nih-archives... #nih #data #preservation #research

Abject contempt for our health and ability to understand the world from this administration www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...

An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

So proud of this piece! Federal data and environmental justice tools that we use to make sense of the world are being stolen from us—we started @publicenvirodata.bsky.social to save these tools and data. We'd be honored if you gave it a read. www.nextgov.com/ideas/2025/0...

What's with all this #tariffs hoopla? Line go up!

New research 🏭📈: Bitcoin mines in the U.S. used more electricity in 2022 than all of Los Angeles combined. But who breathed the air pollution from generating all that electricity? Our answer: mostly people in New York City, Houston / Austin, NE Texas, and IL / KY border. Check it out: 🧵 1/n

"Make America Healthy Again," huh? Gutting critical Health and Human Services functions on environmental health, gun violence, HIV, reproductive health, smoking, chronic disease, civil rights, etc. would be a cruel April Fool's joke. Worse, it's real. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

we are living under fascism right now

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss. grist.org/biking/one-m... #Bikes #Bicycle #Economy #GreenSky #Transportation

“We should not be in this position where the Trump administration can literally take down every government website if it wants to...We’re not prepared for having resilient public information in the digital age and we need to be.” -- EDGI’s Gretchen Gehrke www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/c...

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Hosting a @publicenvirodata.bsky.social datathon tomorrow from 3–5 on zoom to preserve critical federal environmental data! Sign up here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #climate #environment #opendata #fedcuts

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

New from us: a map of EPA EJ grants awarded through the IRA that could be affected by proposed DOGE cuts. These hundreds of projects would reach thousands of communities and improve the lives of countless Americans. #EPA #EJ #fedcuts #DOGE #environmentaljustice

Wondering 'yes but what can I do?' Listen to stories of people staging a digital Dunkirk to save US climate data - we spoke to @jonathang.bsky.social + the engineers who resurrected FEMA's climate risk tool. If you have the skills, outside the US, these chaps might have a way you can help.

Just rewatched Lee Zeldin's statement on the EPA deregulatory actions. It's really something to be this dumb in public when you could just... be quiet. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Hosting a @publicenvirodata.bsky.social datathon TODAY from 3–5 on zoom to preserve critical federal environmental data, in partnership with @earthhacks.bsky.social. We'd love to see you there. Register here! harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #climate #environment #datapreservation #noaa #nws

Another critical tool taken down by the admin but preserved for the American people: FEMA’s Future Risk Index. It shows how much climate change will cost our communities (actual $ figures!)—no wonder the admin felt threatened. fulton-ring.github.io/nri-future-r... #FEMA #risk #data #climate