Susan Ferrari

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD.

Actually and literally.

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Soyinka's response is almost worthy of a second Nobel all by itself. (below)

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

*stands up at 'the godfather' screening*

"he's not even a godfather to anyone!!!!"

*storms out*

Uncle Joey from Full House

This man? Not actually related to the Tanners at all, yet they call him "Uncle Joey"

*Truly* excellent thread.

Research Is the U. of Chicago’s Lifeblood. Its Board Is Killing It. A great university could be reduced to a shell of its former self.

Opinion: A fiscal crisis at Chicago is putting the university's noblest legacy in peril.

Hard to imagine better Halloween content than this.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez V @AOC X.com Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn't have come in fifth. Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_• 17h We're being destroyed from within

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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

personally I take great solace from trying to stick to a “if I die it’ll be with my teeth in their throats” kinda approach to life

New York Times article reads: "Mr. Zhao had pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations in 2023 and served four months in federal prison, after a yearslong investigation by financial regulators and U.S. prosecutors. “President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden administration in their war on cryptocurrency,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Thursday. “The Biden administration’s war on crypto is over.” The pardon was the latest example of how high-profile business partners of Mr. Trump and his family have benefited from his rollback of the wide-ranging crypto crackdown orchestrated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. To seek the pardon, Mr. Zhao hired lawyers and lobbyists with ties to the Trump administration, while Binance struck a business deal with World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto start-up."

the most corrupt administration in my lifetime

From a former Eric Adams deputy press secretary (2022–23):

Congratulations!!

I think there might be some interesting stuff for research deans at the National Organization of Research Development Professionals annual meeting--I'm in a hybrid sponsored programs/grants/research development role housed in Academic Affairs, and NORDP is where I found my people! nordp.org

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

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🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

The Epstein Files must be the most nightmare shit ever if they're willing to do this. And I think Swalwell wasn't lying when he said there would be a huge defection if the vote hit the floor. Absolutely no other reason to do this. None at all.

2025 Study section tracking

Been a rough year for federally funded scientists, and I hate to add another tab to this spreadsheet. So far, the shutdown has resulted in cancellation of 161 CSR study sections. 🧪https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing

Not only does it help the folks who are hired through those ads, it's great for getting accurate market rates for salaries in the field. (I find it hard to get useful data from salary surveys.) I work in a women-dominated support role in academia, which makes salary advocacy INCREDIBLY important.

In my work with my professional organizations, one of the things I'm proudest of doing is setting an expectation that all job ads posted on one of our listhosts will include salary ranges. If you manage a job board or listhost where this isn't currently an expectation, consider making it one.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

It’s Day 21 of the GOP shutdown.

While families see their health care costs double or even triple, Republicans are on vacation.

By refusing to work with Democrats, they’re refusing to work for the American people.

maybe posting a video of yourself in a crown calling yourself king and dumping shit on half the country and then physically tearing down the White House the day after the largest protests of the century is a political masterstroke. I guess we'll see