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😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

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Sometimes the bluntness of the tabloids is what's needed. Very rarely so, but this is one such occasion.

RFK JR: You're making things up to scare people. And it's a lie.

Hassan: With respect, I do not think I'm the one making things up.

End The Federal Takeover of D.C Send a message to Congress to withdraw federal law enforcement agencies and the National Guard from DC.

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“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”

Donald Trump’s UFC stunt is more than a circus. It’s authoritarian theatre | Karim Zidan MMA was once used to curry favor with Putin. Now, Trump is using the UFC to project a nationalist cult of masculinity

UGH

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball

Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball

Every prominent Democrat in the country should jump on this immediately. Enough bullshit cowering on this issue. Get on this! Trump just handed you a massive weapon. Use it!

HAPPENING NOW: A rally of protesters in Boston, MA in solidarity with LA and SIEU California President David Huerta, who was arrested over the weekend in LA.

We, the people, are standing up in a nonviolent manner, but the government continues & create chaos so they can execute their agenda.

(5/5)

🚨 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...

Some funny ones coming in, but this is especially good.

Scientific Communication in a New U.S. Government Regime: What We Need to Consider Now - Science Editor On January 20, 2025, a new Administration was sworn into office and issued a flurry of executive orders, initiating a series of actions that I believe will change the course of scholarly publishing, a...

www.csescienceeditor.org/article/scie...

April 17, 2025 Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...

April 17, 2025

A photo of Boston’s Old South Meeting House (where the Boston Tea Party began) with the following words projected onto it: “FRIENDS! BRETHREN! COUNTRYMEN! You are called to THE COMMON April 5 to make UNITED RESISTANCE to every destructive measure of this administration!”

Boston is ready for Saturday’s national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

Truck drives onto Chinatown sidewalk and flips on its side, injuring six people - The Boston Globe At least two pedestrians sustained serious injuries, police said.

A rental truck drove onto a sidewalk and flipped on its side in Boston's Chinatown, injuring six people, officials say.

Sen. Cory Booker has been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 13 hours — taking aim at Trump, Musk, and America's 'moral moment'.

Just after hitting the 12-hour mark, Booker said, "I am standing here because of a national crisis that is growing."

Immigrant justice Network of Massachusetts Luce Defense Hotline SEE ICE IN YOUR COMMUNITY? CALL: 617-370-5023 The hotline operates from 5am - 9pm every day of the week across multiple languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole, and more to be added!

LuceMass.org

Luce Defense Hotline:
SEE ICE IN YOUR COMMUNITY?
CALL: 617-370-5023

The hotline operates from 5am - 9pm every day of the week across multiple languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole, and more to be added!

Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe In an email Tuesday night, Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said the school received reports that the student was taken into custody outside an off-campus apartment building in Somerville.

Federal immigration authorities late Tuesday detained a Tufts PhD student who is a Turkish national, her attorney and community activists said.

Quite an essay on the basis of cancer entitled "The End of the Genetic Paradigm of Cancer" @plosbiology.org arguing against the primacy of somatic mutations (traditional model) and cells, invoking gene regulatory networks and tissue
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Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans | CNN Politics Former national security officials reacted with shock and horror to revelations in The Atlantic that top members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet sent detailed operational plans and other likely hi...

Taking stupid to a whole new level:
National security leaders accidentally included The Atlantic's editor-in-chief in a group Signal chat about strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. cnn.it/4iBB0eJ

YouTube video by The DailyFAFO Les Misérables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army Chorus

The U.S. Army Chorus performed a song from Les Misérables at the White House Governors’ Ball Sunday night

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQh...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

www.science.org/content/arti...

Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Gov JB Pritzker (R-IL) signs order prohibiting Jan 6 rioters from state employment in Illinois:

“I hereby direct CMS to apply the State Personnel Code and consider
any participation in the January 6 insurrection as infamous and disgraceful conduct that is antithetical to the mission of the State”

What to read scary?

House HR 7 119 Congress

Summary: Recognizing the importance of access to comprehensive, high-quality, life-affirming medical care for women of all ages.

Stipulates abortion is not to be considered women’s healthcare.

It’s a Federal Abortion ban.

legiscan.com/US/bill/HR7/...

CITY OF NEWARK = "Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant. One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned. This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees 'the right of the people be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures... "Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized. I will be holding a press conference in alliance with partners ready and willing to defend and protect civil and human rights. Details to come."

The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

The White House Financial Disclosure page has been WIPED. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics mandates public financial disclosures for high-level federal officials through the OGE Form 278e promoting transparency and ensuring compliance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

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