Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
Have an idea for an #AABA2026 symposium? The submission portal is OPEN! Check out the guidelines and submit your proposal by August 15 bioanth.org/95th-annual-...
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🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
The gratuitous nature & careless instigation of this mass death may mark out the Trump regime as *the most evil in American history* — in a country that had the most brutal form of chattel slavery in world history, genocided its indigenous neighbors, & put its own Nisei ppl in concentration camps
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The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
"National Science Foundation Surprise: Employees Being Relocated to Accommodate Secretary of HUD’s Palatial New Office"
Here's the official union statement on the HUD takeover.
Small correction that's not included in the screenshot: "Correction: currently 1,833 NSF employees work in the NSF headquarters building."
What the fucking fuck
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RFK Jr. fired science and hired delusion at the CDC.
He replaced experts with skeptics & swapped facts for fear.
Science is being erased. Lives will follow. Add your name to our Open Letter: zurl.co/5hCTQ
zurl.co/OVdYo
In the year after Dobbs, 210+ people faced criminal charges for pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth, while conditions for pregnant & postpartum people in the criminal legal system worsened. Pregnant people need HEALTHCARE not HANDCUFFS.
It's simple: law enforcement has no place in pregnancy.
ACIP
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I cannot emphasize this enough that for YEARS:
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago.
Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”
timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
when we scream and shout about doing things, this is what we mean. got popped and still went back again? hell yeah brother
20.06.2025 21:50 — 👍 4230 🔁 900 💬 13 📌 14Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to this at any time.
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"Peace president."
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I spoke with several leading archaeologists to better understand the impact recent federal funding cuts will have on archaeology in the US. The future doesn’t look good.
#NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage
New at @science.org 🏺🧪
Reflecting on the HUGE #NoKings turnout vs lackluster attendance at Trump’s parade & realizing this administration does not have the power we feared.
Because—and this is important—WE are choosing not to give it to them. The only power they have comes from us.
Don’t let them take your power.
Political scientist says: when millions protest, it’s not destabilizing — it’s democracy functioning.
Portraying peaceful dissent as a threat? That’s a hallmark of authoritarian-style governance.
The people know the difference.
zurl.co/31cDH
#StandUpForScience
#NoKings
Sadly, I can’t see that flying in the US because one party is overly invested in the performance of norms, and the other revels in breaking norms and laughing at the rubes that let them keep doing it.
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When people asked early in the administration how we could lose access to vaccines -pediatricians were most worried about the dissolution of the ACIP.
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
JUST IN: California has officially sued the Trump administration to rescind the deployment of the national guard over the objection of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The lawsuit:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation.
It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop.
Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.
ICE shot a reporter...
"Nick Stern, a British news photographer based in Los Angeles, is set to undergo emergency surgery for a wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters in Los Angeles on Saturday."
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
09.06.2025 00:52 — 👍 23129 🔁 14100 💬 237 📌 629Historians and political scientists spend decades trying to determine the influence of money in politics and Musk just tweets out "I bought the election"
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