MARCO IACOBONI

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

If you’re not already in our anti-fasci, pro-Pal Disc0rd, you’re missing out.

It’s where we link up with like-minded folks, share freely.

Also, I'm cooking up a social app that’s gonna take this to the next level.

Drop a comment below with features you’d love to see in it.🔻

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🚨 BREAKING: Denmark’s $25 BILLION teachers’ pension fund just cut all ties with Israeli state assets.

This is one of the biggest financial boycotts yet, joining Norway’s $2 TRILLION wealth fund.

War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is being given a platform at the UN.

Arrest Netanyahu.
Stop the genocide now.
Impose a full arms embargo.
Implement sanctions.

The crowd is gathering in Times Square in New York to march toward the United Nations and demand the arrest of Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

Meanwhile, during Netanyahu's speech, dozens of delegates walked out of the UN General Assembly hall.

🚨NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:

They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.

Horrific news. Doctors Without Borders has been forced to suspend all medical work in Gaza City.

They’ve pulled back because the airstrikes and tanks are now less than a kilometer from their facilities.

People are dying, and they can't do a damn thing about it.

@doctorswithoutborders

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

www.chronicle.com/article/when...

@akilakad.bsky.social

That other place? 😄

@zannaclay.bsky.social Hi Zanna, how are you? In Rome, spent a lot of time here in the last two months, because of my dad’s health issues. Flying back to LA soon, I hope. I was thinking of you and found this account. Looks you are doing great, which doesn’t surprise me at all. 😊

We have failed as a human race. Every day I think I’ve seen the worst photo from Gaza, and the next day I see worse. Where is the outrage?

My heart is with the Palestinian people.

Trump budget draft proposes NIH consolidation and 40% spending cut Draft Trump budget proposes a $20 billion NIH budget cut in 2026 and a sweeping consolidation

🧪Trump wants to cut NIH spending by 40%. If enacted, this will drive a massive, generational brain 🧠 drain of talented scientists and physician-scientists out of the US. Congress still controls the budget (for now). Call your reps and senators: (202) 224-3121
www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/t...

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

In this agreement, if any school faces an assault from Trump, state officials, or political figures, the other schools will rally together, offering legal support, advocacy, lobbying, and public relations efforts.

This is important! Solidarity is key when facing fascism.

They’re not playing!!

Last night, Michigan State’s faculty senate voted to join the other Big Ten schools in a mutual academic defense pact, designed to protect universities from political attacks.

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Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards 2025 Award Recipients - NeuroArts Blueprint The second annual Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards, established by the Renée Fleming Foundation and administered through the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative, will support nine teams of early...

check us out! Excited to be a part of this with amazingly talented @annetenna.bsky.social and amazing mentor @marcoiac.bsky.social. Our foray into music and the brain, to enhance empathy
neuroartsblueprint.org/neuroarts-in... thank you @neuroartsblueprint.bsky.social and @aspeninstitute.bsky.social

“Shame on you. You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you celebrate when Microsoft is killing children.”

Bernie and AOC are where progressive movements go to die. If you’re an elected official and can’t call out genocide, you’re complicit.

He won’t use the word ‘genocide,’ won’t call it an ‘apartheid state.’ He’s just deflecting. Boycotts? Nah, too real. This is all just performative.

Republicans right now:

“Trump is playing chess while you’re playing checkers.”

“i dont know how stock markets work, or anything for that matter but i am going to give my opinion without researching properly"

Girl, Trump is not playing chess, he is eating crayons, and finger painting.

Wisconsin, polls are now open until 8:00 PM!

Make your voice heard and vote for Judge Susan Crawford.

Can someone explain why giving water to people waiting to vote is a crime, but it's ok for a billionaire oligarch to bribe million-dollar checks to voters in Wisconsin?

Meta Drags Delaware To The Bottom Delaware just passed a bill to let executives off the hook across the country — and Meta helped write it.

✨Democrats fighting fascism ✨

Dem leaders in the last 2 weeks:

- Voted for Trump's spending bill (Schumer)

- Passed bill written by Meta/Musk lawyers shielding CEOs from accountability (Delaware Dems)

- Vetoed legislation to protect Amazon wokers (Pritzker)

www.levernews.com/meta-drags-d...

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

The minute you raise your voice against it, you get accused of being a supporter of Terrorism.

Breaking: MASS DISPLACEMENT AND EXECUTIONS IN GAZA

It’s the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime, constant images, day in and day out, of children losing their lives.

Activists are being detained and deported.

Paper alert: Many people with Body Identity Dysphoria simulate their desired state by binding a limb to reduce stress& align with their identity. We explored whether VR offers a safer alternative and its effects on neural activity & connectivity. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kmKS55vZH...

Not into the void :)

The white supremacists and Zionists are losing their minds, raging in comments over us protesting Mahmoud Khalil's illegal kidnapping. This is honestly giving me life!

The world’s on fire from the climate crisis, fascists are tanking the economy for the rich, jobs are vanishing faster than you can say “recession,” and influencers are still filming “get ready with me” videos. Meanwhile, business bros are teaching, “How to profit from this chaos.”