Tonya Wilson 💙🌈

Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚

Dear students, faculty and staff, We are writing to inform you about a deeply concerning situation involving one of our international graduate students at the University of Minnesota. We learned that, on March 27 at an off-campus residence, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detained a graduate student enrolled on our Twin Cities campus. We are actively working to gather more details about this incident.

Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided.

This. Is. Crushing.

Same!!

The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine.

Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

Our President Is A Global Embarrassment 2.28.25

I appreciate a correct headline: Our President Is A Global Embarrassment

YouTube video by FilmSelect MR. JONES Trailer (2020)

Please RT! Mr Jones, the film about the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, directed by three time Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland, starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard played on the BBC and France's Art. How do we get it on TV in the US? youtu.be/-o7VoM1jlOs?...

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Im excited to take place in the economic blackout boycott tomorrow.
I hope you'll join me and millions of others.

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

University of Minnesota president calls Trump’s NIH cuts a ‘direct attack’ on health research University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham said the decision to limit “indirect” support could prove costly for health care research. This is just part of President Donald Trump’s budget-cut...

Trump’s NIH cuts are an attack on cancer research ⚠️

An attack on medical innovation ⚠️

An attack on our economy ⚠️

An attack on our universities ⚠️

An attack on our health ⚠️

We can’t afford to fall behind in life-saving science.
www.startribune.com/trump-federa...

She speaks truth.

Large Earthquake Strikes Caribbean Near Cayman Islands | Weather.com The Caribbean was rocked by a powerful earthquake Saturday evening. Here's what we know so far. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

“A​ powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean, about 130 miles southwest of the Cayman Islands, which triggered a tsunami advisory for several islands nearby Saturday evening.”

Time of occurrence: 6:23PM EST.

“Pull that same s**t now that you did on January 6th.”

Former US Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn responds to Brandon Fellows outside US Capitol.

Fellows, convicted of felony for involvement in Capitol Attack, was heckling Dunn after press conference condemning Trump pardons. 📹 Eric Flack WUSA9

A staffer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics. The 25-year-old employee, Marko Elez, resigned Thursday after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account. The deleted profile associated with Elez, who was embedded in the Treasury Department to carry out efficiency measures, advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act and backed a "eugenic immigration policy" in the weeks before President Trump was inaugurated. "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," the account wrote on X in September, according to a Wall Street Journal review of archived posts. "Normalize Indian hate," the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.

The account, @nullilptr-a misspelling of a keyword in the C++ programming language-was deleted in December, but hundreds of brash, sometimes-sophomoric posts have been archived. The user appeared to have a special dislike for Indian software engineers. "99% of Indian HlBs will be replaced by slightly smarter LLMs, they're going back don't worry guys," the user posted in December. "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," @nullliptr posted in July. In June, the user weighed in on the conflict in the Middle East, offering some sympathy for Israel but also posting, "I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth." The deleted @nullilptr account previously went by the username @marko_elez, a review of archived posts shows. The user behind the @nulliiptr also described themselves as an employee at SpaceX and Starlink.

Marko Elez is the first of Elon Musk's DOGE boys to resign after the Wall Street Journal uncovered racists posts including ones where he "advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act" & backed a "eugenic immigration policy"

Elez previously worked at SpaceX and currently works at X

I don’t really know how to manage the cognitive dissonance of watching the world burn (in both the acute and chronic senses) while simultaneously doing things like planning my groceries and, well, anything.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.”

— Alicia Keys

Damn right.

BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY!

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth , and as a result of our nation’s major STEM-research organizations (#CDC, #FDA, and #NIH)being forced remove or change data…

What if Elon gets access to NIH grants database; information only accessible to qualified program officials? The extramural community’s proprietary research is contained within, not just the 10-20% who got funded but also the 80-90% who applied and didn’t. They will lose intellectual property.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"