Virginia Marchman

Today’s No Kings protest could be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.

People have power.

We have almost 500 people registered in our small community outside of Los Angeles. Far more people than we have ever had before. We are excited and energized, yellow safety vests ready.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

Great work and a great team! 😁

Michigan Avenue right now.

This is higher education in Texas right now. People applying for faculty jobs here should be aware of this.

They’re gonna blame the moms.

They always blame the moms.

They’re blaming moms for using the only safe pain reliever that in no way causes autism but WILL cause undue guilt and anguish.

Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.

Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research

Many studies including 2024 Swedish study (cohort of 2.4 million) have shown no relationship between Acetaminophen and autism or ADHD. In spite of this, Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Service Journalism - News you can use.

The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!

🧪 Win for NIH researchers:

An appeals court just effectively upheld an earlier order to reinstate terminated NIH grants.

Full opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SCOTUS may be next (see next post) 1/3

PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

Map of the US PROTESTS AGAINST ICE RAIDS EDFORD SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SANTA ANA SEATTLE PORTLAND SAN JOSE MINNEAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS OWENSBORO CHICAGO DETROIT SACRAMENTO AURORA ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS OKLAHOMA CITY PITTSBURGH BOSTON HARRISBURG WASHINGTON, DC NEW YORK CITY PHILADELPHIA LOUISVILLE BALTIMORE LAS VEGAS MEMPHIS RALEIGH SANTA FE DALLAS CHARLOTTE SAN DIEGO ATLANTA ASHVILLE • AUSTIN JACKSONVILLE SAN ANTONIO NEW ORLEANS BMSNB REPORT

Not just in Los Angeles.

[after thinking about it for three hours] ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

America hates Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten:

“American people don’t see this as a big, beautiful bill. They see it as a big, bad bill. They hate it, hate it, hate it! They think it’s awful, awful, awful!”

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.

Flyer for a "No Tyrants" protest in London, UK

when you want to join the fun but can't quite get down with the nomenclature (ht @davelevitan.bsky.social)

Pre-Protest Gathering Join Santa Clara County Democrats at the SCCDP Headquarters before The No Kings Day Protest.  Meet with other activists to prepare for the day's activities. Learn how to be effective and stay safe dur...

if you're not going to graduation tomorrow.. there are, umm, other community events going on...
sccdp.org/index.php/20...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation A Girl Looking at a Physics Model TAKE ACTION Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work. Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

www.savensf.com

The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

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):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump shrugs off fears of shortages due to his China tariffs, saying, “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls.”


“Oh, the Golden Toilet Guy is now preaching minimalism?” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead.

This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend

www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...

Canadian election = e.g. of healthy democracy

✳️ 5-week campaign, w/ spending limits (keeps big money impact low)

✳️ automatic registration of voters, plenty of polling stations; easy voting, short/no queues

✳️ losers conceded their loss instantly

✳️ no violence

In Canadian parlance: a "beauty"