The Human Toll The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change. If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story! To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US [image of a person with their face in their hands]

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?

I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.

tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…

Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison.

He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.

James B. Greenberg | Substack I am a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Founding Editor of the Journal of Political Ecology, and past president of the Political Ecology Society.

His essay today about the US bombing and analysis on engaging in dialogue with MAGA supporters might be helpful for families divided during these tumultous times. substack.com/@jamesbgreen...

I am finding James Greenberg’s essays on substack to be insightful and thoughtful analyses on the current events from MAGA.

Native American tribes in the area and conservation groups objected to the project from its outset, claiming the operation’s toxic chemical runoffs could potentially impact nearby water sources and ecosystems. jacobin.com/2025/06/chil...

Praying for all affected by today’s events. Thinking of all military personnel and their families. Another point of no return. 😔

Mental health matters. Please share and keep the below list in case you would need it 💙💚

Wore red today.

Sometimes seeing Indigenous stories can be the best medicine. Thank you North of North.

Meeting the Moment Together We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

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Truth still matters Voters are seeing--and experiencing--that lies have consequences

We are a nation that is great, not because of those trying to whitewash our history to remove great people, natives, blacks & women from our military websites. I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history... Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness. Sen. Booker

The NIH canceled my research on vaccine hesitancy The decision to end research on vaccine hesitancy is deeply disrespectful of those who have lost or will lose loved ones to vaccine-preventable disease.

The NIH canceled my research on vaccine hesitancy www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/v... via @statnews

"Each year in the United States, approximately 6,000 people die from influenza.

More than 7,000 will die from Covid-19 in 2025.

...an American child died from measles for the first time in a decade."

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Let America Be America Again Let America be America again.

Sen. Booker just quoted the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again"

"America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"

poets.org/poem/let-ame...

Making a quick trip to DC today to talk about poetry and democracy with @sifill.bsky.social.

I believe poetry brings us back to ourselves and deepens the color of reality. Poetry gives us language we can use to connect to each other. It’s always vital, but especially when truth is under siege.

To my WI peeps, please vote for Supreme Court. Support Crawford. You can make a difference.

This is just sickening…

Obscurantism informing policy.

Daniela Battistella (@dbattistella25) on Threads The entire archive of Centers for Disease Control datasets can be found at the link below. HUGE debt of gratitude is owed to the data archivists who collected all of the #CDC data before it could be...

www.threads.net/@dbattistell...

Yep. Pretty succinct.

Reminder that dismantling or defunding the Department of Education means putting our communities, our schools, our kids, and their academic, social, and emotional success at risk. The Department of Education currently does the following (and so much more): 🧵/1

Maddow: I think it's pretty obvious now that they are using DEI as just a pretext. They're giving everything that, you know, unfashionable boogeyman label to try to avoid people in general, realizing that what they're really doing is just wrecking the US government

Called and left messages to my senators and representative. Unsure how to do this or who that is? No problem. Call 877-862-8762. You just need your zip code!

I respect AND support the humanity, dignity, vitality, and spirituality of two-spirited people, mahu, & fa’afafine and all souls in gender fluidity.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving.

osf.io

Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

The NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office website has been taken down.

LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately subjected to violence, discrimination & stigma, affecting their health outcomes.

Ignoring these facts endangers us all.
#MedSky #LGBT #LGBTQ #NIH #research #science