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From our friends at Stand Up for Science!

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CDC to cut one employee for each it is recalling from layoffs The agency returned around 300 staff and plans to soon cut an additional 300 in response.

I don’t remember when I told you all about this and I’m not going to go looking through my timeline to see because it fucking Friday. God my scoops are good. Sooooooo good www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
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Yes! Good job, Arizona!

Former January 6th case prosecutor: It’s been a privilege to serve my country as a prosecutor, including by prosecuting these rioters. The riot was a mass crime of historic proportions.

“It is incumbent on all of us not to forget what happened that day.”

Trump’s first 100 days have been terrifying, but we cannot lose hope and give up the fight.

Where would we be if our ancestors and elders lost hope and hid rather than doubled down and fought for freedom? We must continue the fight: hrc.im/InYourArea

🚨TAKE ACTION: Tell AZ lawmakers it’s time to rein in ESA vouchers for the rich and (FINALLY) invest in our public schools. A budget without #VoucherReform fails Arizona’s kids.

📧 Email your AZ legislators TODAY using our one-click tool bit.ly/FundAZSchools

Modern-day Jim Crow: Phoenix still has a segregation problem Phoenix’s segregation was deliberately designed, reinforced through policy and sustained by inequality.

Phoenix’s segregation was deliberately designed, reinforced through policy and sustained by inequality. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/commentary-phoenix-still-has-a-big-segregation-problem-21636205 

Trump, Fascism, and What Artists Can Do There is tension between wanting art to transcend and wanting it to reflect reality back to us. Plus: Are Dems finally ready to retire the purity tests?

"Do America and the world really need more grotesque creative interpretations of Trump and his visage? The best art can do now is to activate in us the emotional and social muscles we’ve let atrophy in our public life."

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.

Travelling to the US soon? CBP has broad authority to search your devices.

Whether you're an American citizen or a visitor, here's a guide on how to protect yourself from phone searches at the US border.

We needed that. 🩷

Bill Withers releases “Lean On Me” today in ‘72 — a song about his native West Virginia, where folks “would help you out, even across racial lines.”

“.. It sounds idealized if you’re from an environment where it's not practical to do that. I'm from an environment where it WAS practical to do that.”

Warning that he'll be held accountable? Warning that justice will be served? Sounds good to me.

Narcissistic, compulsive liar. I bet he wears heavy cologne that makes everyone want to vomit.

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Of course. What an incompetent ass hat.

1/2: We have reason to believe that events on 4/19 and/or the 50501 Movement may be misrepresented by the Trump admin in an attempt to justify the use of military force.

Let us be clear: our movement is pro-democracy and firmly grounded in non-violence.

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.

In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting. www.wired.com/story/ice-pa...

'It's time for you to leave': Government letters to legal-status refugee families say Three refugee families living in Millcreek got a shocking and upsetting letter telling them:

Three refugee families living in Millcreek got a shocking and upsetting letter telling them: "It's time for you to leave the United States … your parole will terminate in seven days."

We should be thanking you! For standing up, speaking truth, inspiring us all, and representing the best part of America.

HHS Cuts Impacting Human Subject Research – No More SACHRP? | Insights | Holland & Knight

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SACHRP disbanded

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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Helmer Michael Sarnoski To Direct ‘Death Stranding’ Vidgame Adaptation For A24 And Kojima Productions Michael Sarnoski is set to write and direct feature adaptation of popular video game 'Death Stranding' at A24.

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Extreme heat killed 602 people in Maricopa County alone last year. In Arizona, AC isn’t a luxury—it’s survival.

These cuts are dangerous.

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