This is BLEAK. And illustrates why we didn’t celebrate the funding “wins”.

Thank you @padilla.senate.gov & @schiff.senate.gov for opposing the SAVE Act From @brennancenter.org This act would disenfranchise millions, including women whose married names aren’t on their birth certificates or passports www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

"There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made-a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements. Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded those methods and thereby undermined the integrity of its actions." #publichealth #defendscience

"A pivot has occurred: the nation’s inaction in addressing the US health disadvantage has been replaced by something worse, government actions that—intentionally or not—endanger population health" @shwoolf.bsky.social in @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #publichealth #defendscience

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent. 📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle

We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

If this were to pass in the Senate, it would do so much harm Gender affirming care is evidence-based. It is safe. It is effective. It is a decision for the person, their parents, & their doctor If that’s not enough, actions like this are a step toward controlling & restricting rights of more of us.

Another boat strike today. Let's dedicate this one to the 214 Republicans and 2 Democrats who voted against stopping these illegal murders. The death toll from 26 attacks now stands at 99.

Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson is the hero we need. Brilliant work. The photos were perfect. Exposed the ugly that's been there the entire time.

I love my city.

NEW: A judge ruled today that the Trump administration had illegally blocked Congress from accessing ICE detention facilities. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

"On top of trying to prevent people of color from entering the workforce, the administration is making it easier to kick them out ...this amounts to a claim of constitutional power for the president to fire 1000s of gov’t workers…based on their sex, race, or…other legally protected characteristics"

An attempt to require SCOTUS to document reasoning: Bill text proposes requiring "a written explanation of reasons supporting such order" and info on how each justice voted for "any order granting, denying, or vacating injunctive relief or granting, denying, or vacating a stay of such relief"

“Differed” seems like an understatement. “HHS had terminated 977 NIH grant awards totaling $1.7 billion in value… according to a dissent authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the NIH terminated fewer than six grants midstream in the 13 years from 2012 to January 20, 2025” #standupforscience

Wow www.propublica.org/article/usai...

@ap-ls.org's Teaching, Training, & Careers committee is inviting nominees for Outstanding Teaching & Mentoring in Psychology & Law. This year, we will honor a teacher/mentor from a program/dept that is undergraduate-only or MA-terminus. Students, nominate your fantastic professors! Deadline 12/15

RFK Jr has done an incredible amount of damage in the 10 months he has been Sec of HHS The articles of impeachment introduced by @rephaleystevens.bsky.social are a chance to stem the tide of harm @pelosi.house.gov, as a constituent, I ask that you vote to impeach Contact your reps #standupforscience

Says the man who elevated RFK Jr to head of HHS, which controls vaccine policy. As if RFK’s long-standing anti-vaccine views were not well known.

This individual is currently presenting at ACIP. He is neither a scientist nor a doctor. I am not sure how he is at all qualified to be speaking at today's meeting or to be working at CDC. He is cosplaying as a scientist and you shouldn't believe anything he says www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...

"This disease has gone down in the US thanks to the effectiveness of our current immunization program," says Dr. Cody Meissner. "... In your opinion?" ACIP's Dr. Robert Malone. "Hah, well, okay, these are facts, Robert..." 🙈 #ACIP

Rep. Zoe Lofgren on House Space panel decrying Trump administration attacking NASA even as it fulminates over China. "China is not culling its talent and technical capabilities, it's not undermining its universities, turning away the world's brightest minds" www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0vI...

This is a fraught time for our beloved trans siblings. Here is a list of some resources for anyone who cares about their well-being and rights and wants to show up. 🧵 Please read on and consider sharing, getting involved, or donating. And feel free to add! #TransRights 1/6

Yeesh. Look at the thousands of kids who died before vaccines were available: 1,822 deaths from diptheria; >4,000 from pertussis (whooping cough); 400 from measles; 3,292 from polio; 472 from tetanus; 24 from rubella. Is this what we're going back to?

Not only does medical research save lives, federal funded medical research fuels job growth. Every one of us has benefited in some way from federally funded research. The destruction to research infrastructure (not just decreased funds) will take time to undo, but we must undo it. #defendresearch

“Strategies include effective regulation, stronger platform and influencer accountability, and user empowerment through targeted education and access to reliable, fact-checked information.”

#WorldAIDSday is today. We must keep up the fight to end the AIDS epidemic. As @drdemetre.bsky.social said, we have the science. We need to create the political will through community pressure. #defendresearch #publichealth #sciencenotsilence

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

One of whom presented a Russian capitulation document as a US peace plan. That’s the headline. We need headlines that are true and not news jargon that washes out the basic facts.

Hey so as someone who has a degree in global politics and spent a significant amount of time studying international law — this is a textbook example of a war crime.

Earlier this week, a new page titled “Vaccines and Autism” appeared on the CDC website. The agency's employees are not happy about it. “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection. But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk. They are still worth getting. Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

I was late to read this, but it is such an important piece. Taking stock of ask that has been done, even when there is still much to do, can fuel forward momentum. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social (& @strictscrutiny.bsky.social for mentioning it)

@sanders.senate.gov: "Even if by some miracle you got 60 votes, where do you think that amendment would go? Speaker Johnson has made it very clear that he's not going to entertain it. Trump would never sign it. So it is an empty gesture. It bothers me that people want to raise false hopes."

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Another awful decision in which “The assertion without any deep analytical support that the lower-court ruling at issue is inflicting “irreparable harm” on the executive branch” rules the day w/o considering the real harm to plaintiffs. footnote 1 -SCOTUS is also ignoring Article 1 altogether

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Every time one anti-vaxxer is quoted in the media, one million scientists and healthcare workers should also be quoted in support of vaccines. False equivalence in the media is killing us.

WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."

A Maine ballot measure to add new election restrictions failed because — and hear me out on this — voters like voting.

Interdictions beyond our borders have been controversial, with courts expressing skepticism about the constitutionality of prosecuting (not killing!) drug traffickers captured in international waters. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...

Judge Talwani: "Defendants are statutorily mandated to use the previously appropriated SNAP contingency reserve when necessary and also have discretion to use other previously appropriated funds as detailed below" The admin has to report back Monday whether/when they will authorize benefits

Empirical evidence shows that public expenditures like SNAP are associated with better child outcomes @kristenharknett.bsky.social et al published just one of the papers to prove this @spssi.bsky.social Fund #SNAP Fund #ACA subsidies Reverse restrictions on access to #Medicaid bit.ly/4oMjerx