Janelle Lamoreaux

The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.

Where is the MAHA outcry?

The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning

“The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

Donate to Bring Yassine Home: Support His Legal Fight, organized by Shivani Desai Yassine is a beloved son, friend, and roommate, as well as a community role … Shivani Desai needs your support for Bring Yassine Home: Support His Legal Fight

My former student has been detained by ICE in Tucson. He is an amazing person - aerospace engineering scholar with deep respect for the social dimensions of science. Please give if you can. gofund.me/ad78f0dea

UofA rejects Trump higher ed plan as ASU invited to join compact The University of Arizona rejected a Trump proposal linking funding to political priorities.

And now there are SEVEN.

UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact.

“Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved."

Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀

#DefendHigherEd

JOIN OR DIE cartoon snake now featuring segments for MIT, PENN, UVA, Brown, Dartmouth and USC. Not colored in because they have not said no to Trump‘s loyalty oath (yet): AZ, Texas, Vanderbilt.

The snake is growing.

✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼

Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time.

The world is watching.

The resistance is here.

#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd

“The source with knowledge of the White House’s plans said that the meeting ‘appears to be an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign even though it’s obviously not in the schools’ interest to do so.’” I repeat, Obviously not!

An update to the classic Ben Franklin political cartoon ‘Join or Die’ with the original colonies replaced by universities that were targeted by Trump‘s loyalty oath compact. The image has been updated to show that MIT, Penn, Brown & USC have rejected Trump’s offer.

UPDATE:

4 Down
5 to Go

Who’s Next?

When students, faculty, & our communities are united, nothing can stop us.

Join us for our national teach in on the growing resistance movement to Trump’s ‘Loyalty Oath’ Compact today at 2PM ET:

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#DefendHigherEd

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

How Academic Freedom in Universities Generates the Greatest Value for Society Academic freedom is at the foundation of one of the most powerful and fundamental ideas about universities. Learn about how academic freedom has contributed to broad benefits in society and UC Davis f...

“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.”

— Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The Anti-Migrant Crackdown Is Also a Reproductive Justice Crisis Working on abortion access in Texas, we see every day how immigration justice and reproductive justice are inseparable.

"For Latine communities, the compounded impact of anti-immigration laws, surveillance, and the threat of deportation, detention, or forced family separation often makes traveling for abortion care impossible."

Fund Texas Choice's latest for @truthout.org. Read now:
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Trump cuts threaten access to birth control for millions of women Birth control is routine for many Americans and polls show it's popular across party lines. Now, the Trump administration is withholding funds that provide contraception for low income people.

www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

The Trump administration’s deportation machine has made women invisible targets.

If you’ve ever wondered, like me, what happens to all the women ICE detains:

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant

“Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

Opinion | Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...

Opinion | Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

This interview 🙄 - talk about stagnation: this dude sounds like my grandpa (RIP). “We landed on the moon in July of 1969, Woodstock started three weeks later and, with the benefit of hindsight, that’s when progress stopped and the hippies won.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

And you can’t buy your way to better birth rates at an individual scale. Our research shows that unless US politicians take action against climate change, mitigate racism and political polarization, change gun laws to US school safety improves, and avert WW3 birth rates will continue to fall. 😾

The Feminist Case for Spending Billions to Boost the Birthrate

Birthrate👏🏼Decline👏🏼is👏🏼not👏🏼the 👏🏼problem! It’s racist immigration policies and lack of social welfare. Sure, make the case to spend billions but stop framing decline as downfall, repeating Musk’s eugenicist claim about humanity’s extinction. Feminists do better! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...

Since Dobbs, Some Are Considering Desperate Measures - Dame Magazine When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, Justice Samuel Alito asserted that the pro-choice arguments that had upheld Roe for nearly half a century were “damaging” and “wrong.” He wrote that “the conte...

With abortion becoming increasingly inaccessible, more people are discussing seeking a form of permanent birth control because they fear getting pregnant against their will. 1/3

Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon

Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

NIH Staff Have Broken Their Silence Civil servants usually keep a low profile. These NIH employees are putting themselves at risk by calling out the Trump administration.

NIH staffers who signed the Bethesda Declaration "have risked their jobs to blow the whistle on Bhattacharya and the rest of the administration ... this kind of courage is contagious, and energizing. We need more of it." - @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article) The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics shutter amid political turbulence The reproductive health giant is navigating a loss of federal funding and fresh threats from multiple directions

"At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics across seven states have shuttered since the start of 2025 or have announced plans to close soon – closures that come amid immense financial and political turbulence for the reproductive health giant [since the overturning of Roe v. Wade]." @theguardian.com

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

New Survey Shows Abortion Bans’ Unique and Chilling Impact on LGBTQI+ People Findings reveal that after Dobbs, LGBTQI+ people are struggling to find doctors and choosing not to start or expand their families.

Abortion bans disproportionately harm our community, and make it harder for LGBTQ+ people to access family planning or other forms of health care.

Alongside our partners, we’re fighting with everything we’ve got for reproductive rights and freedom.
@americanprogress.bsky.social's survey: ⬇️

Republicans push for bigger families – but their tax bill could exclude millions from child credits Estimated 17 million kids would be ineligible for tax credit because their parents wouldn’t make enough to qualify

Republicans push for bigger families – but their tax bill could exclude millions from child credits

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

AOC’s 3 a.m. comment over miscarriages sparks fiery exchange with GOP male counterparts Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee are engaging in a highly emotional debate over the future of Medicaid.

AOC’s 3 a.m. comment over miscarriages sparks fiery exchange with GOP male counterparts.

Tucson Speaks Out: May 13 Reflecting on maternal mortality

I am coping via op/Ed’s - my latest is “reflecting on maternal mortality this Mother’s Day”

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...