Lisa Lu

If you are not already boycotting Home Depot, here is another compelling reason why you should start now.

You can find a #NoKingsDay event near you at nokings.org/#map.

Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great.

This Saturday. Everywhere.

Oralè Resisters
Attention America
You’re all expected
October 18 No Kings March
Robert DeNiro
#NoKings #DeNiro #USDemocracy

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 12 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

IN 6 DAYS WE MARCH
IN AMERICA THERE ARE NO KINGS

We are fighting for America
No Speaker Johnson
October 18th is a Love America Rally

Hope you will be able to join
Go to :
nokings.org

I thank all of you who are going

F.D.A. Approves Covid Shots With New Restrictions

Did you know that you're now ineligible to get a covid booster unless your 65+ yrs or have an underlying health condition? One more step in towards an authoritarian, anti-science, police state. Pissed off as I am? Call your reps. #StandUpForScience #covid #booster
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines.

The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible.

Vaccines save lives. Period.

PHILLY DA @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social : “Let's not get lost in his silly distraction from the fact that he doesn't want to give up information on his own involvement in a pedophile ring. Did we all forget about that? Trump is the public safety emergency.”

Senate FY26 markups for NIH are supposed to happen today. Make sure to give your Senator one last call and let them know the importance of fully funding the NIH.

Call these 14 senators.

Thank them for supporting #NIH.

Remind them that supporting NIH is meaningless if NIH cannot function.

This stay would:

1) Enable censorship of science.

2) Disrupt NIH’s ability to fund any research.

The #BethesdaDeclaration signers killed it today during the roundtable with Jay.

Some of my favorite highlights shared from my colleagues:

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I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.

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🚨 Scientists are rising up—and we’re rising with them.

Join Scientists in Solidarity +
@standupforscience.bsky.social
for an Action Hour to support federal scientists dissenting against authoritarianism.

🧪 Mon 7/14 · 7–8pm ET
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#BethesdaDeclaration #EPA

Attacks on Higher Education Are Attacks on All Americans If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society

“If Americans don’t fight back … the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society.”


Join the #SummerFightForScience to take action here ➡️zurl.co/zG9W5



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Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants. Tomorrow in DC. Open to the public. Come show your support.

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Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.

Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.

Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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Neither Jeffries, nor Schumer, nor Martin are capable of meeting the existential threat of this moment.

They should all step aside in favor of those able to provide meaningful opposition to an illegal war being waged by a demented psychopath.

Large majorities of Americans, including many Republican voters, oppose bombing Iran. They might want to weigh in with both the House and the Senate.

US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

DR. MONICA GANDHI: THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

No words.

Full link: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...

Yes! I heard some people haven’t signed because they aren’t a scientist or academic. But this is about all of us.

If you are against harming research participants, sign!

If you want more life-saving treatments, sign!

If you value free speech, sign!

The #BethesdaDeclaration coalition expands. Let keep these numbers growing.

Sign up and reach out to friends and family.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.

NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.

📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social

Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

This comes with good timing. Tomorrow at 10 AM, Jay Bhattacharya meets with the Senate Appropriations committee to review the proposed NIH budget. The foundation for this budget is based on false premises on what could be cut without weaking science.

www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

This comes with good timing. Tomorrow at 10 AM, Jay Bhattacharya meets with the Senate Appropriations committee to review the proposed NIH budget. The foundation for this budget is based on false premises on what could be cut without weaking science.

www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Stand Up For Science where you are! Join or create Stand Up For Science local actions! The more people who get involved across the country, the more powerful our movement will be.

The fight for science spans the country—but the roots of every great movement are planted in the soil of community. Join or start a Local and stand with others fighting for science, right where you are:
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Share your science story!✍️ Join the McClintock Letters Initiative to write op-eds for your hometown newspaper, explaining the importance of your research and why science matters

Join their free writing workshop June 6 @ 12p ET via Zoom

Learn more: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

When and what committee?

Hey anyone want to be part of a BlueSky truth squad next week when Jay Bhattacharya testifies before Congress? Would mean live-skeeting the hearings. DM if interested so we can coordinate. #NIH #Science #MedSky #EpiSky

quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.