That Clyburn thinks Andrew Cuomo is part of the future of the Democratic Party - and points to his character!!! — is the problem with the current Democratic Party leadership in a nutshell. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

I've never donated to Harvard because I never felt they needed it. But today I made my first alumni donation to let @harvard.edu know that I stand in solidarity in the fight against the federal government's attacks on our freedom of speech and thought.

Today, I am very proud to be an alum and faculty member of Harvard as we stand up against autocracy. "We proceed now, as always, with the conviction that the fearless and unfettered pursuit of truth liberates humanity" www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

This is fascism

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana. inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

We need all college presidents speaking out against assault on freedom of thought like @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social Michael Roth. There is strength in solidarity. Elite institutions have a particular responsibility. Looking at my own Alma maters: Williams and @harvard.edu @harvardmed.bsky.social

Those looking to DO SOMETHING today, we have three special elections coming up to fill seats vacated by Trump’s cabinet picks. If we win all three, we will have control of the House - a HUGE deal! Two are in FL (April 1) one in NY (TBD). Will post links.

Here’s the thing about opposition: You don’t need a clear roadmap specifying how one act of opposition will cause direct benefits and stop the malfeasance on its own. You just need to see that the malfeasance is causing direct harm and will cause more. Object to it, and rally more people against it.

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

The cruelty is the point. And for whatever reason, academic medicine is a target in so many ways. Our institutions must resist. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

🪦 New Yorkers are in front of the New York Stock Exchange for a mass die-in to symbolize how these devastating cuts will destroy families & take lives. Deep spending cuts to programs like healthcare, food assistance, and education is a matter of life & death for millions. Congress: #StopTheCuts!

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

From a source inside a fed agency: “How bad do things have to be for committed civil servants and scientists to be in favor of a shutdown?”

This is an utter failure of leadership @schumer.senate.gov

We need principled leadership, not appeasement @schumer.senate.gov.

Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them. We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.

If I weren't taking care of patients today, this is where I would be. Our Harvard community must fight like hell to preserve our freedom of speech @harvard.edu @harvardmed.bsky.social

If you haven't cancelled your @washingtonpost.com subscription yet, let this devastating account by @ruthmarcus.bsky.social persuade you to.

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

"We really need to put our values into action...if we're really here to serve patients and to advocate for patients, then we need to push back." Bravo Dr. Celeste Royce. #StandUpforScience Doctors Sue HHS for Removing Patient Safety Papers www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

NIH funding supports science as a public good. The knowledge generated is generalizable. It's not about helping just one patient or even one disease. It is a public good. Trump is a looter and a thief. #StandUpForScience

This is an emergency for all of academia and biomedical research. Massive, intricately designed research projects are being STOLEN from scientists, doctors, and the public. None of us is safe. Our silence will not protect us. #StandUpForScience www.statnews.com/2025/03/11/c...

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

I don’t know who wins in the end but I know you should be a thorn in their side until the end because that’s the only way you keep the chance that we win alive

As Paul Farmer used to say, “We do not have the luxury of being pessimistic on other people’s behalf.” It is time to stand up for science, for global HIV and for everything we have fought so hard over decades. #CROI2025

It takes a lot to rile up scientists. Opposition to this administration's actions is growing by the day. Snow didn't stop Madison's #MarchForScience

25 hours after Mahmoud Khalil was detained in a Columbia-owned apartment building — Khalil’s whereabouts are still unknown & Columbia has still not commented

A patient from the VA asked me today if the VA would still be here by our next visit I don’t know But I do know that they will not get the same care in the community, or the same access to excellent primary care, mental health, or subspecialists if the VA is gutted

we need our universities to take a public stand against the federal govt's assault on free speech, academic freedom, and DEI. Columbia is being made an example of, but silence will not save us.

Would be interesting to know what percentage of US physicians did some of their training at a VA hospital. I suspect it's quite high. I loved caring for vets at the Manhattan VA. though it wasn't fancy, it was equitable and comprehensive in a way fancy, private hospitals will never be.

This THREAD is essential for all of my colleagues in the academy. PLEASE READ.

We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.

Are universities going to start speaking up? Because if they think Trump pulling back federal dollars is an existential threat, they should see what happens when no international students want to come here for fear of ending up in a MAGA concentration camp.

Presidents of #Harvard, #Yale, #Princeton, #Stanford, #MIT, #Penn, #NotreDame, #Columbia, #Northwestern, #JohnsHopkins should stop hiding under the bed & collectively stand up w/ other university leaders to fight back against #Trump, #Musk. You already have targets on your backs. Fight. Damn it.

This is scary authoritarian shit, and anyone who cares about basic American freedoms -- of speech, of assembly -- should be terrified and livid over this. It doesn't *matter* what you think about the content of this man's speech or his political positions. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.

#standupforscience2025 in Nashville was a big success. I spoke. I didn’t throw up. 😂 Love seeing all the pics from around the country and around the world. Out of the lab and into the streets! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Some favorites from today’s #StandUpforScience in #LA

Today, tons of Marylanders rallied at the Lincoln Memorial with Dr. Francis Collins, Bill Nye the Science Guy and thousands of others to tell MAGA to let our expert civil servant scientists get back to work, pursuing facts and conducting critical research for the common good.

My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

Exercising the right to peaceably assemble and #StandUpforScience in Boston today