Cindy Sousa

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

🔔🔔 Tomorrow, April 1st at 8pm on Zoom!

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net

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I’m so glad you’re here!!

Jawdropping.

You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States.

This country is unrecognizable.

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.

Harrowing to learn that Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, who is here on a valid student visa to conduct research on peacebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been arrested by ICE and is being threatened with deportation www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student activist being faced with deportation, writes from an ICE detention facility: “The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress...

Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention facility: "The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent."

mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...

#Palestine #Israel

CNN Poll: Democratic Party’s favorability drops to a record low | CNN Politics The Democratic Party’s favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters.

The Democratic Party's favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters, a new CNN Poll finds: cnn.it/4bRAzKs

www.cnn.com/2025/03/15/p...

Stack of hard drives overlaid with the caption "What do you mean delete?!" Delete is in all caps and red

💾 Huge thank you to the Data Rescue Project and every archivist and librarian out there saving this country one megabyte at a time

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

CDC datasets prior to 1/28/25 here: archive.org/details/2025... & contraception guidelines here: jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-birth-...

Black graphic with text “You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police.If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries.If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away.If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present.If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status.”

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”

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VSIP, RIF, illegal firings, possible shut down. Our lives are so uncertain right now. Many will need to leave for good reason. But for those who can, please stay. CDC needs us. Public health need us. This country needs us. Stay and fight. Staying is resisting.

#resist #holdtheline

So let's stop sugarcoating what is going on and fight back!

NCI employees can’t publish information on these topics without special approval Communications involving “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny.

Scientists at NCI now have to get their papers approved by RFK Jr.’s henchmen before publishing if they are focused on vaccines, autism, etc. This is another egregious attack on science with severe ripple effects. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.

This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare

nyti.ms/4iIDZkY

Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment current...

Vaccines do not cause autism. If you need a quick reference to studies that disprove this relationship:

Commentary, how we got here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Meta-analysis synthesizing the results from studies on almost 1.3 million children: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire

Me seeing every #standupforscience post in my timeline

JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I smell some good trouble

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We skipped the non-SOTU last night but heard that once again the Putin Administration went after one of #USAID 's best, most impactful and beautiful programs educating refugee children. Read the results for yourself and ask why they hate this so much.
sesameworkshop.org/our-work/wha...

I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers.

Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

Elon Musk's empire has benefited from $38 billion in contracts and government aid According to an investigation by 'The Washington Post,' his Tesla and SpaceX companies have been benefiting from large orders and tax credits from local states and the federal government for the past ...

"Elon Musk's empire has benefited from $38 billion in contracts and government aid" www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a....

Truth social post from Trump that reads Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump • 1h All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Well now I’m definitely going to protest today. And I’ll wear a mask if I damned well feel like it.

February 2025 Medical News Summary Changes to CDC’s Website Threaten Patients, Public Health; Landmark Study of Black Women and Cancer Launches

Changes to CDC’s Website Threaten Patients, Public Health; Landmark Study of Black Women and Cancer Launches; and more.

🎧 Listen to a summary of the February 2025 JAMA Medical News.

#MedSky #JAMA #MedicalNews

Quick request:

Please do contact us if you're a scientist at a university or outside NIH, and you serve on an #NIH council or advisory board, including the intramural Board of Scientific Counselor review boards (the reviews that impose high standards on NIH!)

We'd love to be in touch.

OK FINE we are DOING THIS. Another 🧵as that sociopath Musk claims no one got hurt by the stoppage of foreign aid and his henchman Marocco prepares to LIE LIE LIE to Congress tomorrow. Can @propublica.org just testify instead please. We have shared so many stories about the harm 1/