Linda Shore

AMEN

Federal health agencies restore webpages and datasets following judge's order Federal health agencies have restored several webpages and datasets, following a judge’s order to bring back public access to information that had been removed to comply with a presidential executive ...

You never know which court orders the Trump administration chooses to obey. Glad they obeyed this one. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Bingo. Say this. Every day. Every hour. @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social

So when exactly are we going to stand up? Is it not time for a nationwide general strike? That is what has been shown to stop authoritarians in other countries....just sayin'. The longer we wait the worse it will get.

YES YES YES YES

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF It's fascism, plain and simple.

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661

‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds

www.science.org/content/arti...

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Exclusive: NTSB scrambled to retain employees after Trump’s federal worker resignation offer | CNN Politics In the wake of the worst American air disaster in two decades, the understaffed and cash-strapped National Transportation Safety Board was scrambling to keep investigators from leaving after federal e...

In the wake of the worst American air disaster in two decades, the understaffed and cash-strapped National Transportation Safety Board was scrambling to keep investigators from leaving after federal employees received an offer by the Trump administration to resign and be paid through September.

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth

Is the portal still down? I am going to write my representatives asap but want to make sure this wasn't "fixed"?

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "Will Democrats in Congress throw themselves across the tracks of what is obviously both an illegal and unconstitutional power grab and also the most chaotically spiteful madness I think I've ever seen a federal office-holder undertake?"

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

This.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau gather to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports from Poland.

Trump’s DEI Snitch Email Is Being Targeted by Spammers Various NGOs reported seeing the address added to their email lists. But they don’t think it’s Orwellian. They think it’s a prank.

UPDATE!! www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-dei-...

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Governor Newsom’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education releases findings and recommendations | Governor of California

Read more 🔗 www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/27/o...

The U.S. President spends Holocaust Remembrance Day on the links.

I know this gets old, but imagine if Obama did it. Or Biden. Or a President Harris.

Project 2025 Outlines Possible Future for Science Agencies Think tanks with Trump ties have put forth proposals to prioritize basic research, roll back climate science, and cut research ties with China.

Curious about Trump’s plans for science? ww2.aip.org/fyi/project-...

Trump's NSF pick reflects close links between agency and White House Sethuraman Panchanathan would succeed France Córdova if confirmed by Senate

Trump's NSF pick reflects close links between agency and White House | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

"We are writing to inform you that the Annual Awardee Meeting for the [NSF] Racial Equity and STEM Education Program has been canceled."

Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) On November 8–9, 1923, Hitler and the Nazi Party led an attempt to overthrow the German government. This attempted coup came to be called the Beer Hall Putsch.

In November 1923, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a group to overthrow the German government. But this violent insurrection failed and is known as the 'Beer Hall Putsch. After Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, he pardoned 8000 involved in the coup attempt. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

NEVER FORGET

Uggh. Hate that I can't edit my typos. I meant to say "NSF seems to be "in the business of ensuring that science is available to all." But - sadly - the NSF removed their DEI page as per executive orders. The literal whitewashing of America continues. WHERE IS THE RESISTANCE?????

Left side of image shows a website for "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Engineering", right side of image shows a "Page Not Found" error.

DEI-related content was still up on NSF's site last night, so thought maybe someone there was making a stand... but no... pages about diversity are now being removed.

LEFT: Yesterday
RIGHT: Today

[this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI]

#academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.

And so it begins:

Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.

“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...

Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today

For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Weekly Report did not go out as scheduled

"This is a concerning precedent that public health messages won't be left to public health professionals and experts, and instead will be potentially controlled by politicians,"