Heidi Hutchison

Citizenship guarantees protections, even under the most authoritarian regimes.

In "Black Death" Timothy Snyder talks about how in occupied Europe, Jewish people who were stripped of their citizenship were killed at much higher rates than those who retained citizenship in their countries.

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This is why all this casual talk about "denaturalization" in concert with the construction of massive concentration camps is a five alarm fire.

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NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.

I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

The Senate is about to destroy clean energy to give tax cuts to billionaires The bill could pass within the next 24 hours.

It’s so important to understand WHY the new Senate bill has such drastic provisions to kill renewable energy

Fossil fuel industry lobbyists and Big Oil-funded activists have been ALL OVER the GOP in recent weeks, telling them that clean energy jobs are “fentanyl jobs” and “a cancer”

Freshwater insects are in decline, please complete our survey if you fish in freshwater!

PLEASE READ and SHARE from the CHILDREN'S Hospital Association:

“Your child—regardless of their insurance status—could see the services they rely on reduced or eliminated... The bill amounts to fewer doctors and nurses to see your child, longer wait times, and sicker children."

Protest planned to save NASA from Trump cuts! Join us in DC Monday, June 30, from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

We aren’t going away.

Quebec provides universal childcare for less than $7 a day. Here’s what the US can learn

Public childcare network is a win for everyone – kids, parents and the government, and the Quebec model is a shining example.

Paris unveils a memorial to LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi regime and other persecutions A memorial to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime and to all LGBTQ+ people persecuted throughout history has been unveiled in Paris.

Paris unveils a memorial to LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi regime and other persecutions

Much deserved! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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I’m done with the online left. And here's why.

I am so angry that that petty vindictive man (who probably has never been in a library in his life) fired Carla Hayden. For her whole career she’s been a shining light—the North Star—of the library community, making the world better for everybody.

The Farce of the Deal The US-UK Trade "Deal" Achieves Basically Nothing—and That's a Bad Sign for "Deals" to Come

NEW from me:

Trump’s trade “deal” with the UK is a farce—it only affects 0.3% of US imports, got basically no “concessions” from the UK, and barely lowered overall US tariff rates

That’s an extremely bad sign for “deals” to come
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The Trump administration is advancing efforts to dismantle mental health services tailored for LGBTQ+ youth, particularly within the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

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🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants:

You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe.

➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office:

www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

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Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

Carl Sagan said when he was at university in the 1950s, “it was considered unthinkable for an aspiring physicist not to know Plato, Aristotle, Bach, Shakespeare,” and so many of our problems with today’s tech leaders are downstream of their lack of engagement with the humanities.

Seattle Pride events lose corporate sponsors amid DEI rollback Seattle Pride is projecting a $350,000 budget shortfall this year because of the loss of corporate sponsorships, amounting to about a quarter of the group's annual operating budget.

DEI is legal in Washington and the country. Trump’s authoritarianism may have a chilling effect on businesses, but that’s no excuse for ditching what’s right.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This is an unelected oil executive now calling the shots for America’s public lands. No Senate vote. No accountability. Just a signature and the quiet handoff of power to Musk’s inner circle. This is what authoritarianism looks like, buried in bureaucracy.

But under Burgum’s order, Hassen has the power to fire employees, make funding decisions, set policy, and approve or deny programs without needing the Secretary’s sign-off. He’s already reviewing all grants and contracts over $50,000.

Republicans hate it because it innovates away from fossil fuel...but they /say/ they hate it because it's wasteful, which is wild because it's a bank and IT MAKES MONEY.

A 2023 GAO report found LPO's loan portfolio generated income for the government. Their loss rate less than 3%.

The Loan Programs Office (LPO) is one of the most quietly effective tools the federal government has. It is the center of our industrial policy providing loans that banks won't give for energy innovation. It funds real projects. Battery factories. Nuclear reactors. Geothermal energy. Car factories.

Help to reduce high blood pressure lowers dementia risk, study finds

Experts have long stressed dementia is not an inevitable consequence of ageing. Now researchers say tackling high blood pressure could reduce the risk of dementia by 15%.