Kathy Anderson

Courageous citizen standing up to CBP in north Durham. Brava.

Hope you got warmers for those boot toes 🔥🔥

Column: Information is the most human thing you can study "This detective work, this human ability to read between the lines and see what’s missing as well as what’s there, is the real work of information and library science. The information is all the littl...

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It is an absolute scandal. An embarrassment. A tribute to the long history of state terrorism that codifies power. Shame, shame, shame.

No Kings in scrappy Durham NC
#NoKings #KeepDurhamDirty

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
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As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

In my somewhat younger days I rivaled your deadlift & bench numbers, but that squat is absolute 🔥. Congratulations!

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

“Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia.”

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

ASU Projects 18% Drop in International Student Enrollment Arizona State University typically welcomes over 17,900 international students to its four campuses each year, but this fall, due to a variety of complications, the university expects only 14,600 inte...

One in three new international students at Arizona State University are waiting on student visas to come through. Difficulties in getting appointments and social media reviews are key drivers.

This creates chaos for faculty and administrators as the new term nears...let alone the students.

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

The Trump administration just established a precedent that they can pick and choose who leads higher Ed institutions. An authoritarian government deepens its reach into higher education.
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NC county elections boards shift from Democratic to GOP control • NC Newsline All NC local boards of election switched from Democratic to GOP control on Tuesday as the GOP expands power over voting administration.

North Carolina’s elections shakeup extended to all 100 counties Tuesday as local boards flipped from Democratic to GOP control and State Auditor Dave Boliek appointed Republican chairs to lead them. ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-co... Story by @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol #ncga

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors.

This ain’t about law and order.

This is what authoritarianism looks like.

🧵 Today's revocation of Harvard's ability to enroll international is awful for many reasons, chief among them the human cost as @jeremywallace.bsky.social notes. It's also an attack on the US economy. But maybe less obvious: it is terrible national security policy. It makes Americans less safe. 1/

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Activist pastor who has criticized Trump arrested while praying inside Capitol William Barber, leader of ‘Moral Monday’ progressive movement, was arrested Monday by Capitol Police officers along with two others

“What we hope is that folks will see this and it will begin to remove some of the fear, and people will understand that this is the time — now — that we must engage in nonviolent direct action to register our discontent.” ~Bishop Rev. Dr. William Barber II

#MomSky

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As higher ed faces new pressures, UNC's president and staff leader offer sobering assessments • NC Newsline UNC System President Peter Hans and Staff Assembly leader Shayna Hill offer sobering, but differing take on state of higher education

As higher ed faces new pressures, UNC’s president and staff leader offer sobering assessments ncnewsline.com/2025/04/14/a... #nc #ncpol #highered

Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them.

Also? These messages are effing hilarious.

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

In this corner of the internet, hope and optimism abounds so here is your weekly round up of good things you may or may not have heard about.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you

A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION:

My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then,

"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...

Bonkers story. Trump’s DoD is using AI to flag posts and photos that feature women and LGBT people.

So now, any material that references the Enola Gay, the aircraft that drops a nuclear bomb in Japan, has been marked for deletion. apnews.com/article/dei-...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has *upheld* a lower court's order forcing USAID/State to immediately pay ~$2 billion owed to contractors for work they've alreayd performed.

Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch/Kavanaugh dissent. t.co/k86ttz6Wdt