@afsc-org.bsky.social is mapping out the schools, hospitals and corporate offices that have connections and contracts with Palantir. afsc.org/map-palantir...

Agreed!! Bring it up to the light!

This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.

For later tonight, contacting Congress (specifically the House) to fight the voter suppression bill dubbed the Save America Act - did not realize it was coming up so fast: www.democratsabroad.org/urgent_prote...

Astronomers/physicists: is the postdoc job market this year ultra difficult? I know seven people with no job offers right now, and I feel like they would have had many offers in previous years. In my career, I have never seen this lack of jobs at the postdoc level before. 🔭

The Marie Skoldowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships had the most applications ever in its history this season. ~17k this season vs. ~10k last season. It is brutal out here for we who love physics beyond measure. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

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It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

I just found out that Indivisible also exists in Europe. Hm. I like it.

Digging into the GOP's SAVE Act. There will be others coming along. Calling + writing. Bird by bird. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

I deeply appreciate people like Jenny Cohn who link to source files, such as the steal-the-vote act called the SAVE Act. There are many places to focus but this is #1 for me, the midterm votes (followed very closely by ICE OUT): www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...

Super interesting. State senator WIN in Texas & interesting statistics. I also really like the football analogy to winning and losing, which we all do all the time, specifically the reaction we have towards our losses + wins - INTROSPECTION and RECKONINGS!! Gotta do it. Chin up, GET IN DARLINGS ❤️

GET IN WE-THE-PEOPLE ❤️

Frederick, Maryland back in the day was the only place more backwards/rural-ish than my own town. Not so now, but this sheriff is a monster and also not surprising. Will be on top of his reelection attempt.

Ok. I will follow this one too. Bird by Bird 💙

Cooperating & reckoning. I just love it. I should figure out how to watch Star Trek ✨🌌 Right now I'm into WWII literature, learning tons but need shoring up on the side of beauty & honesty & philosophical reckonings (solo and cooperative both) that make you stronger...never easy but worth it 🌠

Looks wonderful. Inspiring, and a balm 🕯️

Exactly. And it is an accurate calculation.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

This is a good listen and explains a lot about the inability of so many powerful voices in the media to meet the moment

Following along. Back to the house. At least one House Rep has said even 2 weeks of continued function for DHS is too much. Exactly so. We'll see how it goes. But if it passes, we have a fight coming in less than 2 weeks, and a big one.

YES 💜 Books & plots & motion 💜

Extremely intense day and night in Torino, helicopters just stopped flying around ❤️ My first (extremely light) dusting of tear gas and my ears are still a bit off. More tomorrow - and I didn't even know this was going to happen, although I did know of the event that lit today's demonstration.

However! Prior to that vote, we punted on continuing funding for DHS, so the Senator Sanders amendment failing is awful - and brilliant that he put it forward and it almost got there, I was shocked - but we still have 2 weeks to put some kind of brakes on ICE (yes they have their 75billion) 🥊

Thank you @sanders.senate.gov & all who voted for his amendment - we got so close, it is terrible - we need the Senate & we've got to stop them now too. It is so hard to figure out what the Senate is doing, maybe I need to learn how to read the website better or maybe scheduling occurs last minute..

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Liam Ramos and his family entered the United States legally, seeking asylum. ICE used him as bait to arrest his father, who has no criminal record. Now, Liam is sick and depressed in a detention facility over 1,300 miles from home. DHS must release Liam and his father now. #BringLiamHome

We’ve spent time over the past few weeks criticizing Democrats who are pro-ICE, like the 7 House Dems who voted for DHS funding. But this is an important no vote, and it’s incredibly that every Dem senator + 8 Republicans (counting Fetterman) voted against it. Dem Senate leadership stood up today🎉

It is vitally important that Democrats (and the media) frame this properly. If the government gets shutdown it is because the GOP insists on DHS, ICE and CBP continuing to occupy American cities and trample the rights of US citizens.

“Restrain, Reform and Restrict the Gestapo” is so Chuck Schumer

NO! These Dems are not going to succeed in placating and serving the ICE and DHS Gestapo - NO! Neither of you have the measure of the hour. And the hearing is STILL not scheduled on the Senate floor (www.senate.gov). @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are corrupted.

Exactly.

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Now do Stephen Miller

Correct. The architect is Stephen Miller. The influence and style is white supremacist and neo-Nazi. The end goal is fascism.

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that the parents have disappeared.” - Anne Frank, 13 January 1943

Thank you Rep. Jennifer McClellan!!! This is what I was looking for, the House vote from last week - first Dem I've seen that posted about it - thank you, and thank you Virginia for voting with hearts and minds ❤️

I cannot figure out WHEN this 6-bill ICE-funding bundle is coming up for a vote - it is not scheduled as far as I can see, and 5calls.org says it has to come up this week: www.senate.gov

I should have said this - I do not trust Schumer - ERGO I will call or email every day. I do not trust Dem leadership to help us out of this mess, neither Senate nor the House. I support many house members, especially AOC, but none of them had posts on the House vote when we could have called!!

Good, information. The House bundled up DHS funding with necessary bills into a 6 bill package. Voting NO (which the Senate will do unless ~6 Democrats also vote yes) means all 6 bills go down & a partial government shutdown occurs. But ICE still has funding from last year. Schumer says it is a NO.

No member of Congress should allow the Trump administration and this lawless paramilitary squad to continue stomping on our rights and terrorizing our communities. They have endangered everyone in America. Call your Senators to DEFUND ICE. Info, numbers, and scripts @ 5calls.org

Email senators if calling doesn't go through, I've just done it. 5Calls.org will tell you what to say, the number of the bill etc. - just modify it for email and also from your heart, if you wish: www.senate.gov/index.htm

If you cannot get through to your Senator (fi, Senator Duckworth's box is full, @durbin.senate.gov NEVER accepts phone calls bc he's a quisling pos), go to the Senate website and leave an email.