Michelle Smirnova

The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.

The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense newrepublic.com/article/1963... via @newrepublic.com

Opinion | In One of the World’s Wealthiest Countries, More People Will Go Hungry

TLDR: Don't cut SNAP. Make work pay.
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Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...

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One dream I have is that one day physical scientists and biological scientists recognize that they don’t have the same systemic training in social analysis that their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do and that this means we need help when it comes to doing politics

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

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Shifts in Gender and Sexual Identities in the U.S., 2024 Update Every year since 2013, Gallup has released new data on the size and composition of the LGBTQ+ identifying population in the U.S. As in previous years, the 2024 data continue to reveal interesting t…

Shifts in LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S., Gallup 2024 update.

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The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over It's time to admit that the fascism we feared is already here.

Can we stop talking throwing around words like "autocracy" and "oligarchy" when talking about America's uncertain future?

According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.

After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care.

The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!

I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (Gift Article) Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.

NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities.

Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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It's incredibly disheartening to hear about dedicated public health professionals getting mass-laid off from CDC. Including first year epidemic intelligence service officers. This program has been the backbone of outbreak investigations in US since 1951. Decimating this workforce makes us less safe.

I deeply hope cis people start paying attention to how this government is beginning to interact with us. In an official capacity.

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

The US National Park Service has scrubbed the word “transgender” & replaced “LGBT” with “LGB” on website.

1) Go 2 website: www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
2) Scroll down to the Yes/No survey box - click “No”
3) A dialogue box pops up-plz type in some feedback about the evils of erasure & Submit

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help. Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

Trump Says He Could Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt Over Gaza Development Plan

"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing

NO CHARGES

Kill the Doomer in your head There is always hope, always opportunity

Uplifting and important read for today. “Wherever we are, there is opportunity.”

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Responding to social problems with exhortations to kindness is a way we make systemic inequalities look like individual ones, ones that can be changed if we are just nice enough, not ones that require fundamental shifts in how our institutions, organizations and society are arranged.

End racism removed from endzone

The NFL be like: after careful consideration we have unfortunately decided to continue going forward with racism at this time

We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn **Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...

DC, MD, VA: We'll be outside Treasury at 4:45 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money.

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Protest in Houston today against deportations

Protect Trans Kids On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order that attempts to ban gender affirming care for youth under the age of 19, an attempt to detransition all trans children in the US. Despi...

NYC Protect Trans Kids rally tomorrow, Monday 2/3 6:30 PM

St. Vartan Park• 1st Avenue &, E 35th St, New York, NY 10016 US

Protesting NYU Langone denying healthcare to a trans kid in response to Trump’s executive order

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Climate displacement is real. It's also overwhelmingly a story of people dying in place due to food security, unclean water etc. It is not a story of people "flooding" wealthy countries' borders. Stop using victims of our military-industrial complex as political tokens in your climate advocacy.

People who are less likely to be believed and trusted by medical professionals (as a result of gender, race, class, or sexuality) face lethal risks as these professionals determine their life outcomes. Believe patients and work together. All of our lives depend on it.