DeAnna

You were always one of my fav Twitter posters and I’m just so glad you’re here and filling my feed (as infuriating as the topics might be). Just an appreciation comment.

Unyoke this prof from existence

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

Second this!

Flyer with people dancing (an old WPA picture from Pie Town, New Mexico. They look like they’re having a blast). The text reads “how to build a community that survives and thrives. A Barnraisers Projecr summer cohort for tired but big-hearted connectors. Free. Virtual. Good vibes (with your help). Seven weeks of sessions (an hour and a half a week). June 16-July 31. Barnraisersproject.org

JOIN US, PALS! After a busy winter and spring of one-off community building classes, I’m switching it up for the summer. I’m launching a seven week cohort for folks who are currently part of a community project that they’re trying to keep humming (maybe as a leader, maybe as a participant).

My coworker at a fed institute was told to destroy or payback a $50 thank you gift of a box of pears because it was over our allowed gift level.

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

Survey results of various medieval institutions, from castles to the Black Plague

At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague

My cat is perched on a wood beam up near the ceiling of the house and behind me, sternly supervising me while I work (and make this post).

Manager is watching.

Thank you for saying it 🙌

Drone photo of the Missoula courthouse and 3000 protesters on the lawn

Estimated 3000 people for the Missoula #handsoff - Via the Missoulian

Hand screenprint sign in yellow and blue that says, “ENOUGH” being held up at a Handds Off rally.

Large group of Missoulians at the Hands off rally

Great turnout (and day) for the #handsoff Missoula, MT rally!

Blowhard rich guy from I think you should leave sketch correcting an anecdote about himself visiting Egypt by saying, “I lived in Egypt for a month!”

It’s giving this guy

Yes

Bring that baby to Missoula or Bozeman, MT and you’ll make a fortune! Not joking.

A large group of people holding protest signs at a rally today

A group of Missoulians, many of us strangers to one another at the start, organized a Public Lands/Land Stewards rally that an estimated 1,100 Montanans attended today. We can make a better world.

A good thing has happened! Thought we’d run out of those.

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I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second

1. Protests are happening literally every day these days. Trans rights protests. Protests against Musk. Heck, over a thousand people showed up for a protest at the Treasury.

I advise everyone, especially people who don't usually, to find any of them and just go to one.

It's important.

I've never seen it stated so plainly: Joyce can imagine herself as an author whose book event is disrupted by protestors so she opposes the protest.

Can you imagine yourself as a fired federal worker or deported immigrant? Wouldn't you want people to take drastic measures on your behalf?

Marisa is incredible - subscribe!

Women's Bar Association doing a lunchtime Zoom for probationary employees next week

So glad it brought some joy, I needed at least one other person to see this cursed thought haunting me last night.

RFK as The Arm from Twin Peaks saying “those measles you like will come back in style”

This would not leave my brain at 3 am today.

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Finally, someone covering the end run around the court order to unfreeze NIH funds

This image came to me at 3 am

everyone should have some massive, insane art project they can leave unfinished at the time of their death

an epic poem in a made up language!

seventeen intricate altars made out of trash!

something with way too many antlers!

amaze and trouble the world upon your passing

Isn’t one of his closest aides is married to the guy that started mind bloom?

Missoula folks - the best lil bike group around is doing stuff!