People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

14.09.2025 03:32 — 👍 37843    🔁 11400    💬 1421    📌 678

Cover image for the May 14, 2025 episode of Cycles Per Second: a lime green-tinted image showing a close-up of a hand putting a record-cleaning brush down on an LP, superimposed with large white and aquamarine polka dots, against an aquamarine-light green background.

Playlist for the May 14, 2025 episode of Cycles Per Second: Coral Grief - Rockhounds Lake Ruth - The Next Level VOV VOV! - Nancy's Track LA FEMME - Venus Self Improvement - Scam bIG*fLAME - Debra (session) Empty Bones - Funfair Retail Drugs - person A MERCENÁRIAS - ONTEM Piggy Bank - No Codes Peugeot Brigitte - Lasso Snake Lips - Thumbs Up Whitney's Playland - Long Rehearsal Graphic Violets - Hard to find Autumn Sweater - Ambulance The Fillmores - the far right Ryli - Medicine Speed Gargoyle - Quintana Uranium Daughters - I Saw Your Obituary

Cover image for the May 21, 2025 episode of Cycles Per Second: orange line illustration of an overhead, angled view of a reel-to-reel tape machine emitting sound, against a two-tone background of an orange rectangle centered inside of a yellow rectangle.

Playlist for the May 21, 2025 episode of Cycles Per Second: Aurora Roja - Aurora Roja The Crabs - The World Can't Bring You Down Morenas - Dos extraños the black watch - Listen You Wait Christine's Cat - Like a Summer's Day Dumbells - Big Lies Perennial - Baby, Are You Abstract? Strontzo - Cover di Wof (impro) EEL MEN - Archetype Grey Causeway - I-580 Civic - Chrome Dipped Swingsets - At Their Best Dead Family Dog - RR Thalia Zedek Band - Disarm Tony Jay - faithless (feat. Kati Mashikian) Menow - 月の約束 (Tsukinoyakusoku) Dummy - Ethereal Security Guard

Two hours of Cycles Per Second from the last two weeks' @khuh.bsky.social broadcasts feature everything from drone to jangle to punk to space-age pop. Full playlists and playback, along with Bandcamp links at nstop.com

27.05.2025 19:17 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 3

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science

Delighted to see this piece with Victor Ambros, @carlbergstrom.com, Carol Greider, @michaelemann.bsky.social, and @briannosek.bsky.social in the wild.

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it

@standupforscience.bsky.social

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29.05.2025 13:41 — 👍 99    🔁 48    💬 3    📌 3

Grant Cancellation Web Form WAS YOUR GRANT CANCELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancelation of federal research awards. If your award was terminated since January 20, 2025, please fill out this brief survey. If you had multiple awards terminated, please fill out a separate form for each award. While anonymous submissions will be helpful to the Committee’s efforts, we encourage you to leave your contact information if you are open to having a confidential conversation with Committee staff. Please find our confidentiality policies at the following link – any information you share will be treated with these protections, regardless of your current affiliation with any current or former funding agency: https://democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whistleblower

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration?

Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪

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29.05.2025 13:46 — 👍 319    🔁 288    💬 4    📌 8

4/20/2025

Women's Health Initiative defunded after 30 years and 5,000 publications

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22.04.2025 20:02 — 👍 122    🔁 96    💬 7    📌 14

And then he says “that’s an existential problem..” I thought it is a problem with chemicals in food - but mess with men and their testosterone and that becomes an “existential problem.” What a madman.

23.04.2025 01:57 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Trump has ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

“The impact of [Trump’s] collective executive orders appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says.

23.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 3735    🔁 1429    💬 386    📌 303

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

22.01.2025 21:16 — 👍 93395    🔁 30353    💬 2439    📌 1762