Brian Lin

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

@baldwin.senate.gov @markpocan.bsky.social what's the plan?

"Still, every university remained publicly silent. The chief sponsor of Senate Bill 1 took notice. Republican State Sen. Jerry Cirino reportedly said that IUC’s neutrality over the bill was a sign that the presidents were at least not overwhelmingly opposed to his vision for higher education reform"

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans Passport Question / Discussion The Department of State has published 30-day notices for public comment for changes to the following passport forms: DS-11 new passport application DS-82 passport renewal DS-5504 name change or data corrections In all these cases, the changes made include changes related to the "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" executive order, and requesting the biological sex at birth. I thought this community would be interested in weighing in on these changes. I am not entirely sure about how to submit comments, but I believe you can submit comments by going here, under "Currently under Review", selecting "Department of State", click Submit, checking the box to show only those available for public comment, and selecting the appropriate form.

hey, look at this. read it, reskeet this, like this, and do it as well. it's about trans people and passports. take it seriously. thank you!

between NIH and “stop all DEI [which is anything] or get no funding,” I think they just don’t want universities to exist.

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

All those universities that bravely took up those positions of "institutional neutrality" a few months ago, what do you do now?

Instead of "don't cut our funding," our message should be: hands off higher ed.

You want to restrict what professors can say in the classroom? Hands off.

You want to ban diversity offices? Hands off.

You want to cut our research funding? Hands off.

Hands. Off. Higher. Ed.

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI.

I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

C&B never misses!

Before you say something mean about Henry Kissinger, take a breath and see if you can think of something meaner

I think it's good to remember voting (or abstaining) isn't a symbolic representation of your values or even an endorsement of the politician your voting for. It's a strategic decision with real-world outcomes for the people you know and love, which hopefully includes yourself.

Come on now

death to all computers

Dr Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog