SheRa Campbell

August 1, 2025 Dr.Julio Frenk Chancellor Jniversity of California -Los Angeles 2147 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 Ref: Updated Notice of Award Suspensions Dr. Frenk: I write you with an update on our prior letter of July 30, 2025. This letter supplements our previous communication. Pursuant to 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) $ 200.339(c), and our previous communications, UCLA is officially notified that the National Science Foundation (NSF) is hereby suspending the attached list of grant awards to the University of California Los Angeles UCLA). UCLA should immediately cease all activities on these award numbers. The purpose of this action is to address concerns reported and observed in UCLA programs and ensure compliance with applicable Federal statutes and regulations, and the terms and conditions of these Federal awards. This action is effective 7/30/2025. Noncompliance: NSF has identified the following specific examples of noncompliance: . UCLA engages in racism, in the form of illegal race-based preferences in admissions practices; • UCLA fails to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias; . UCLA discriminates against and endangers women by allowing men in women's sports and private women-only spaces.

‼️ Trump's NSF is demanding UCLA violate CA law and ban trans women from college bathrooms, dorms, and sports, in order to restore illegally withheld NSF grants.

After other universities capitulated to these ridiculous demands, UCLA students and staff must ensure UCLA doesn't follow.

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The persistent belief that people who believe abhorrent things are identifiably abhorrent 100% of the time is honestly going to kill us all.

i feel like a lot of people replying and interacting w this post are missing the point - a lot of people with terrible beliefs have very good manners, even if you are visibly part of the class of people they hate

“The lumberjack from Real World Boston is building a nuclear reactor on the moon” is a phrase that might have gotten you a wellness check a year ago.

“Why would anyone lie about where they’re from?” says man who wrote a book about his Appalachian roots even though he was raised in suburban Ohio.

She’s an icon, she’s a legend and she is the moment. Now come on now.

"A single older data center like Meta’s in Newton County can use 500,000 gallons of water per day- enough to supply thousands of households. ...One permit in Georgia requested nine million gallons a day, the equivalent of 30,000 homes"

Also important to note how many of these higher ed institutions are the largest/most stable/only source of health care for their communities

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.

Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.

This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced.

I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share.

These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.

My 72-year-old mother who is the size of a sparrow lives in NYC and takes the subway all the time. Why are all these “alpha males” such scared little bitches?

Just signed up!

This is one reason Dems have it exactly wrong with their talk of abandoning trans folks, ditching women's rights, mimicking the mirthless rage of men like Miller and Rogan.

You want to hit back at fascism, you hit back with flowers. You hit back with the riotous, beautiful messiness of life lived.

Yeah, I think the tragedy here is that the sluttiest men I knew in my twenties did not rely on all these coercive tactics that signal you are predatory and potentially dangerous - instead they simply broadcast that they were DTF and would be safe/non-judgemental partners

There's a level of rich you can reach where the idea of being told no becomes unfathomable, and it probably shouldn't exist.

I will NEVER get over what they took from us (dark! manny jacinto x space witches)

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

The defunding of USAID was the American Wannsee, the moment the ruling party’s psychosis and disregard for human life led them to choose to kill millions of innocents for its own sake. There is no normal politics possible after that, and no one has understood that yet (not even me, at a gut level).

"Everybody is going to be augmented by AI. Everybody's an artist now. Everybody's an author now. Everybody's a programmer now. That is all true."

there's useful automation, and then there's this broader lie they're telling: error-prone, environmentally problematic software built and managed by terrible people is a perfectly symmetrical replacement for talent, education, age, and experience

How big tech is force-feeding us AI Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?

Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.

How big tech is force-feeding us AI:

Pedro Pascal photoshoot for Esquire Magazine 2023 featuring him wearing a cardigan vest under a blazer stretched out on a park bench

Indeed

For a newspaper ostensibly representing Washington DC, a city where 2 in 5 residents are black, in a larger metro area where 1 in 4 residents are black

the first dem that understands the correct position on trans kids in sports is "republicans are sore loser perverts that will pull your daughter's pants down if she's too good at lacrosse" is gonna win

Screenshot of the clip with caption: Well, I'm not I'm not going to be a part of the group that he kills (The original quote is: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”)

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

Honestly its like that 300 movie never happened

These guys have been throwing random people into gulags without a second thought but they've suddenly rediscovered the concept of presumption of innocence

First time I saw that scene from The Master where Joaquin Phoenix's character drinks the developer fluid I screamed. Can you imagine?

there's so much to comment on here but I just have to draw attention to the way conservatives always do this "every divorce is the immoral act of a weak-willed sinner except mine which is biblical and good" song and dance that is so exhausting

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)