Anne Hilborn

UF researchers coauthor more papers with authors based in China than with those based in any other other country in the world. This policy would wreck US science.

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.

This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.

I did my PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, which has more Chinese students than any other US university. I had the privilege of teaching and collaborating with Chinese students there.

This makes me indescribably angry for them and for all of us who benefit from our work together

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates

Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).

Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.

ICE/CBP terrorized this woman, the kids, teachers & families at the daycare where she worked. She should have never been targeted in the first place. #chicago

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

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When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.

All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.

This is a core element of conservative philosophy: If a single "undeserving" person is getting a government benefit, the answer is to take it away from millions.*

*Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Kaweah Lake, in central California with red pillars of light over the mountain range from the aurora borealis.

A little bit of excitement from last night. The northern lights very rarely ever make it down into central California. Had to go out and see what I could capture.

#aurora #photography #landscape #art #bluesky #california #canon

Fundraiser to make sure sex workers are getting fed while SNAP benefits are uncertain:

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Indigenous activists from Brazil’s lower Tapajós region and Tupinambá tribes, joined by other activists stormed the Global Climate Summit (COP30) in Brazil demanding land rights and real climate action, not fancy summits full of all talk.

Organize your neighborhood, patrol your block, & defend your neighbors. We need you!

No one is coming to save us except ourselves

Union Starbucks baristas have overwhelmingly authorized an unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW (Thursday, November 13th), grinding Starbucks to a halt during the company’s busiest sales day of the year.

#NoContractNoCoffee

Just saw the terrible news that US Bishops just banned gender affirming care at Catholic hospitals.

A reminder, from the reproductive justice front - For a lot of people, Catholic hospitals are their only option. Even places where they aren't, they sometimes set standard of care.

Graphic celebrating our strike ending. It reads: November 12, 2025 The Strike is Over! with a raised fist and the Kickstarter United logo in each corner

After 7 months of bargaining, and 42 days of striking Kickstarter United has voted to end the strike

Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

A heartbreaking detail about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is that something like 20% of the crew on the Fitz was planning to retire after that journey, which was the last run of the season.

Ad for the movie The Outfit on Netflix showing Mark Rylance's face

It is absolutely because of @dieworkwear.bsky.social that I am about start a movie about suits.

Mark Rylance and Johnny Flynn don't hurt either

DHS lies constantly, and this has been confirmed in court. There is no evidence that any shots were fired at federal agents. The fact that the claim has no known basis in fact should be out front here.

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

British journalist Sami Hamdi to be freed from ICE detention, lawyers say Hamdi's lawyers say he was detained for his pro-Palestinian views, and no reason was given for his visa being revoked.

Hamdi's lawyers say he was detained for his pro-Palestinian views, and no reason was given for his visa being revoked.

Very true, it would probably also help if I had a good sense of how much space 26,000 tons of ore take up

They also dramatically increased safety and regulations of ships on the Great Lakes, but yes a large part is NOAA. There are 50 weather buoys on the Great Lakes now, 30 on Lake Superior alone.

Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

British journalist to be released from ICE custody after detention at SFO, family says Sami Hamdi was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport on Oct. 26 while on a U.S. speaking tour.

Sami Hamdi was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport on Oct. 26 while on a U.S. speaking tour.