The Editorial in full.

🆕 “Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches [...] bullies are only emboldened by acquiescence or indifference.”

The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Supporting medical science in the USA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

NIH bans funding to all institutions with DEIA programs or that boycott Israel. Applies prospectively to new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards issued on or after the date of this Notice.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Canadian academics advised against US travel www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.

I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

It's impossible that these photos are taken without the clear purpose of evoking other past deportations. Impossible.

NIH abruptly terminates millions in research grants, defying court orders The NIH is terminating grants, citing Trump administration restrictions on funding work related to DEI and transgender issues

“I am starting to think now that I may lose my job and not exist in this field anymore...” said Sean Arayasirikul [dept of Health, Society, and Behavior at UC Irvine]. “But to erase an entire generation of scholars who come from these communities, doing this work, the impact of that is immense.”

This is how dictators talk.

This is so serious.

This, this by @ibramxk.bsky.social goes straight to the point!

When people ask how is Israel inciting antisemitism around the world, this is how.

The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.

Me in the Guardian today on DEI as the new N-word for the right:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references.

It's brutal.

And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States

Punishing the land: Israeli symbolism during the Gaza genocide

It is important to understand that punishing the land itself has always been part of the settler colonial process. The land is wrong, ugly. It must be corrected and beautified. It cannot serve as a permanent witness to what you have done to be here. It must be maimed by the same machine that maims Palestinian children and that has created the "the highest number of children amputees per capita anywhere in the world" in Gaza, to quote the UN Secretary= General Antonio Guterres. The war on the land is the same war that is committed against children. Questioning the innocence of children must necessarily be part of the process of genocide. The impossibility of their guilt is what the Israelis sought to bomb away, and that's what they achieved in Gaza: it is now completely normal in mainstream Israeli discourse to talk about killing large numbers of children.

My latest www.hauntologies.net/p/punishing-...

YouTube video by Zeteo 10 Days of Trump: 'Shock and Awe'

You could keep going and we'd be here all day,’

Author and activist, @naomiaklein.bsky.social told @mehdihasan.bsky.social as he began to list all the shocking things Trump has done in just ten days.

youtube.com/shorts/8jJBC...

Infectious Disease doc here 🙋🏻‍♂️. The only reason to give less vaccine to Black people is if you don’t want them to be protected. This is straight up medical racism. #DoNotConfirmRFKJr

I am going to put together a thread covering RFK Jr's confirmation hearing for the HHS secretary job. Follow along for clips and commentary.

When you search it on the map and see it with your own eyes and zoom back and forth, you realize once again how the colonial project translates first of all as violence on the land. And, as such, decolonization should start with #landback everywhere.

Please sign this urgently…. www.theleftberlin.com/weaponisatio...

The full ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now being seriously discussed by the new US administration. The population of Gaza is over 2 million people, mostly children.

Trump also resumed sending the 2000 pound bombs that Biden sent to Israel before pausing.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Come iniziare al meglio la domenica...

Slicing Potatoes

It helps
putting my hands on a pot,
on a broom,
in a wash pail.

I tried painting,
but it was easier to fly
slicing potatoes.

Rabia of Basria (c.717-801)

Quei #libri che non riesci a smettere di leggere. #abigailthomas

I cannot put it down.

Oh finally able to share news from news outlets again! This alone is a good reason to migrate from #meta to #bluesky for 🇨🇦 folks!

Grazie 😊