EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “White People and Wealth: The Politics of Money Under Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/surj/event/7...

Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight... www.publicsource.org/national-day... 1/2

Thank you again to everyone who signed the open letter to #Pitt! Today, we are delivering the letter - electronically and in person - to the university leadership. The link remains active for anyone who didn't have a chance to sign previously: tinyurl.com/PittLetter

Good job, Stanford admin. More of this. “America’s univs are a source of great national strength, creating knowledge and driving innovation and economic growth,” they also wrote. “This strength has been built on government investment but not government control.“ stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

I was just cc-ed on an email where a Nobel prize winner and green card holder who's spent a lot of time in the US says he cannot risk coming back at this point for a visit. And I cannot blame him for this decision. We are witnessing absolute mad king behavior.

So you'll die of a pulmonary embolism in the hospital, but you can die with a smartphone in your hand. "The anticoagulant drug heparin...requires ingredients from Chinese plants" www.rawstory.com/tariff-26717...

This is bad. And it’s where universities should band together and take action.

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Please read this whole document. Ms Ozturk's actions did not violate any Tufts policies.

"The undersigned submits this declaration, on behalf of Tufts University, in support of Ms. Öztürk and asks that she receive the due process rights to which she is entitled ... so that she can return to complete her studies and finish her degree at Tufts University."

Inspired.

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

UPDATE: EVERY Republican on the Senate Finance Committee voted to continue The DOGE destruction of Social Security They voted to advance the nomination of Frank Bisignano, Donald Trump’s choice to lead Social Security.

Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. nyti.ms/4iXMx8m

Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s. Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

WE WILL HOLD THE LINE WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY WE WILL TAKE THESE M*FUCKERS DOWN WITH US 😭✊😭✊😭

Same, little pepper, same

People have a tough time getting this. An EO basically has the same legal authority as a CEO's email about not wearing jorts to work. If a CEO sent a memo that said people had to show a passport to vote, the media wouldn't report it as a new "requirement".

The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century. gvwire.com/2025/03/26/u...

bookshop.org/p/books/fear... Sharing a link to her recent book bc I loved it 📖

The censorship-industrial complex is a thought-terminating, gaslighting cliche that attempts to portray the most powerful people in the United States as oppressed and silenced. (2/?)

WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥

#Cervicalcancer dx are 📈 for those in their 30s & early 40s. Sadly a third of women in their 20s are overdue for #cancerscreening. Those in rural areas are screened less & die more. HPV vaccine (which PREVENTS cancer) uptake remains suboptimal. #gyncsm #ayacsm @lizszabo.bsky.social @nbcnews.com

"People will die based on these decisions that have been coming through these past few weeks, and I don’t say that to be dramatic. I say that being a realist, that this will lead to a loss of American life, and I don’t know if the greater public fully understands that" www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/h...

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Laptop class professors wrote a revisionist history of the pandemic to glorify the laptop class. My review of In COVID’s Wake, a horrible new book praising misinformation advocates of herd immunity via mass infection. sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopclassb...

Top Illinois Democrats on Friday lambasted President Trump and Vice President JD Vance for their Oval Office ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the president a “national disgrace” and “an embarrassment” chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...

Traitor Trump will spend the entire night trying to spin his disastrous Oval Office ambush stunt into a political win. Zelenskyy is a war hero. Trump is an all-time zero.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Yup. By Bill Bramhall

Students, post-docs, and early career faculty are the future. We can't afford to lose them and the scientific advances they will make. Donna Gintner: "When disruption & uncertainty strike, the people who lose their jobs are students and postdocs”.

Here it is. We are in our documentary moment. Watch it. I stand for #science.

🧵 When Medicine and Science Ignores Diversity, People Die. 1/ Ignoring diversity in medicine and science is deadly. From unethical experiments to life-threatening misdiagnoses, history is replete with examples of how neglecting race, gender, and identity costs lives. A thread of concrete examples.

Each day of this communications ban at HHS is a detriment to progress and innovation... let alone a threat to the livelihood of our nation's scientific workforce- including those who run and work in labs across the country. Lives are at stake- current and future tense.

What will motivate you to lead the resistance? Treatment of refugees? Denying existence and value of LGBTQIA+ friends, family, neighbors? Replacing EXPERTS with SYNCOPHANTS and BROS across government? Our public health system substituting science with quackery. EVERYTHING? Let's go!

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the 1940s after the military was desegregated, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, has died. She was 104. Remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers during her long military career. apnews.com/article/nanc...

Trump has signed an executive order eliminating all funding for diversity and inclusion in the federal government, sending home DEI staff who will then be laid off. The historical echo for this is when Woodrow Wilson resegregated the federal government in 1913. We have reached the second nadir.

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

“The patient asked that if the doctor needed an in-person visit with her, “may it be scheduled before January?” She would do only virtual visits after Trump took office. “I’m scared I.C.E. will be in train stations and bus stops” …As a physician, it was hard to read this without feeling sickened”

NEW: Lawmakers in at least seven states are filing more than a dozen bills to expand abortion access. Some were introduced in direct response to ProPublica’s reporting on the fatal consequences of abortion bans. By @zivabranstetter.bsky.social & @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

👇 #MedSky #anSky #SurgSky the American Society of Anesthesiologists has something to say about that Anthem BCBS company announcement