Kerri Lemoie

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

$105 Million Reparations Package for Tulsa Race Massacre Unveiled by Mayor

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

DEI hire

WIN: Federal Court Blocks GOP Effort to Overturn North Carolina Supreme Court Election Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: In a victory for voters, a federal court has halted Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin’s efforts to overturn an election and disenfranchise thousands of voters. A federal judge has ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory.

I love the internet

Puppets…

Loyalty Day and Law Day, U.S.A., 2025 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATION The rule of law is the capstone of our constitutional order and the crown jewel of the

More racist fuckery. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I’ll join that cabal.

Take Back Control: Make AI Bots Play by Your Rules | Fastly Take back control of your content. Fastly AI Bot Management lets you manage AI bots, block unauthorized scraping, and protect your intellectual property.

Oh, and! If you are a non-profit or open source project that does good internet stuff, we’ll protect you for free. If not, then you can pay us money and we will hook you up. But either way, it’s good tools to put you in control over the bots. www.fastly.com/blog/take-ba...

What It Means to Tell the Truth About America And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”

“It is impossible to understand the contemporary landscape of social, political, and economic inequality without understanding the forces and events that served as its catalysts. This is why so many have worked so hard to silence this history.”

We asked you to share protest photos. Wow, you delivered. Tiny towns. Giant cities. Interstate overpasses. Your responses flooded in.

Great great photos published on Mother Jones from protests this weekend. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action.

"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."

www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

What a surprise. Consumer Reports study shows company’s are not honoring opt outs required by CA an CO privacy law. innovation.consumerreports.org/Mixed-Signal...

Photos from Raleigh, NC protest #handsoff

EFF Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Perkins Coie Law Firm Against Unconstitutional Executive Order EFF has joined the American Civil Liberties Union and other legal advocacy organizations across the ideological spectrum in filing an amicus brief asking a federal judge to strike down President Donal...

EFF is proud to join this amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie and against the Trump administration's efforts to punish law firms for refusing to do the government's bidding.

20th Anniversary of Saturdays in Saxapahaw! Help celebrate 20 years of beautiful gatherings down by the riverside in Saxapahaw! Free to all! | Check out '20th Anniversary of Saturdays in Saxapahaw!' on Indiegogo.

Let’s all $$ support this amazing community event - Saturdays in Saxapahaw - it’s exactly what we need more of! Community gatherings that support local art music and food and families! @kerrilemoie.bsky.social @kathryn-wall.bsky.social @heatherlagarde.bsky.social @markotter.bsky.social

This is the leadership we need. May Strom Thurmond now rest in the disgrace and forgotten irrelevance that he so richly deserves.

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

I’m heading to the Senate floor because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have shown a complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people. You can tune in on CSPAN, YouTube, X, and Facebook.

We are asking our leaders to stand up. And he’s doing just that., please sign in and show support

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Watch Cory Booker to show your support: www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

I think they made the case to end the collection of federal taxes. Let the oligarchs pay for the military to protect their wealth. The rest of us will support our communities to take care of and protect each other.

A school photo of a gently smiling teenage girl. She has long brown hair and a black cardigan.

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow.

I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws.

But her name was Haley.

Military Analyst: Network State Takeover of U.S. Government The United States is currently evolving into a Network State, says a military analyst who writes regularly on the subject.

If any creators want viral content on the tech takeover, read John Robb.

He is a respected military analyst who is pro-Elon. The NYT, Wired, etc., have quoted him for years.

He explicitly describes what's happening as a "prototyping" of the Network State.
www.thenerdreich.com/network-stat...

She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation. Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.