Reposted by Angela HvitvedFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026I keep banging the “USAID was good and we must confront the obscene wave of death MAGA’s destruction of it unleashed” drum because I *desperately* want Democrats and the Left to prioritize rebuilding global aid. We should rebuild it better, but we can’t just let Musk’s global massacre continue. 231448359
Reposted by Angela HvitvedSpooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 15/04/2026The "where can we send JD Vance next" Djinn has blessed us 031
Reposted by Angela HvitvedSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin 1129791164
Reposted by Angela HvitvedAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19/12/2025welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way 562563246
Reposted by Angela HvitvedProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2025ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/3MTlm33 10630131459
Reposted by Angela HvitvedDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/12/2025Cosmopolitan, egalitarian values are better than authoritarian values and it would be cool if one of our two political parties argued as much instead of spending decades trying to avoid cultural arguments by clinging to "it's the economy stupid" or "kitchen table issues" or "affordability." 1231161
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Good! This is a genuinely embarrassing effort, especially at the time when the Europe has real problems to address. www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...politico.euEU ‘veggie burger’ ban stalls after talks collapseAn MEP’s crusade for naming restrictions on non-meat foods expands to ‘liver’ and ‘ham’ — but national governments aren’t buying it. 050
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Yeeess. My mom is one of these women and they need help! 020
Reposted by Angela HvitvedCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/11/2025I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months. 884044665
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I still can't believe I went from Raskin to Hinson. 😢 030
Reposted by Angela HvitvedGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/11/2025The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...pbs.orgTop researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b... 20855370
Reposted by Angela HvitvedCat Lady🌈📚🍂 @librarycrone.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I had to look this up since I was too little to remember it and…I’m sorry, I’m crying I’m laughing so hard 532968
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Text needed a little fixing but still great to see so many patriotic people with so much enthusiasm for saving our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... 020
Reposted by Angela HvitvedPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 09/10/2025it is so important for the public to know about this terrible waste of talent, curiosity, wonder, and progress too much of science -- how it's made, who makes it, and how and why -- is hidden from public view these stories need to be told 13814
Reposted by Angela HvitvedDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I've heard colleagues say that the solution to what's happening to American science is for scientists to communicate the value of science better. That's false. Trump is doing a lot of unpopular things, including destroying the science enterprise. What's happening is not our fault. 1/2 2043872
Reposted by Angela HvitvedCelicia @spoonbread.bsky.social · 14/09/2025My account is officially a "Jon Green stan acccount" (@modestholdings.com). Jon Green, an Iowa county supervisor who refuses to lower the flag for Charlie Kirk, is the tip of the "no, I won't do what you tell me" spear. Hell.effing.YESSSSSSSS. Let's be more like Jon Green. 👍😁 051
Reposted by Angela HvitvedStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Our political media is simply not equipped to handle a situation where the voters were unambiguously wrong in a way which morally implicates the electorate. 402435705
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Hey Iowans in IA-2, she's either lying to you or she's too uninformed to be voting on this. Maybe give her a call and let her know what you think. 202-225-2911 (DC) 319-266-6925 (Waterloo) 563-557-7789 (Dubuque) The IA Hospital Assoc predicts $10B cut over 10 years, which affects ALL IOWANS 130
Reposted by Angela Hvitvedashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/06/2025rep. @leighfinke.bsky.social posted this speech and i am glad it is the last thing i saw before going to bed tonight. to give so much this week of all weeks, it is pretty amazing. 💜 “love each other til you cannot stand it.” -from the caption 213638
Reposted by Angela HvitvedJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025What a beautifully written and powerful essay from @dannagal.bsky.social about magical thinking and science. Really excellent. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either. 66825
Reposted by Angela HvitvedBrad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy. 10568241972
Reposted by Angela HvitvedBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/06/2025This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant. 431375539
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Imagine if the government expended even half of this effort actually protecting the welfare of ag animals. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wm...wired.comHow the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as BioterroristsFor years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat. 010
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Kudos to WaPo--more coverage like this please! Efficiency isn't the outcome and wasn't intended to be. Everyone should know how they are intentionally breaking your government to prove a point and making you less safe and less healthy in the process. It should be easy for ATC to have clean windows!washingtonpost.comDOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the oppositeNew procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies. 000
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 09/05/2025So we're crashing the global economy to stop China from "eating our lunch" and then handing them *decades* of scientific and technological supremacy. Is this the 4D chess? 030
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 08/05/2025I can't believe I traded Jamie Raskin for Ashley Hinson. 😢 120
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Great thread on govt funding --> tech advances. 010
Reposted by Angela HvitvedKaren James @kejames.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Every other country would have to almost double its current investment in research for this pipe dream to happen. Far more likely is that global scientific research decreases by about half. That is bad for every hope people might have for cures, energy technologies, etc. 641776
Reposted by Angela HvitvedKrista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 21/04/2025I asked all the lizards and they said "look at the diversity of our sex determination mechanisms. Do you really think we would buy Trumps simplistic interpretation of sex and its conflation with gender?" They are also in favor of eating the rich, but I think they thought I meant literal cannibalism 1518
Reposted by Angela HvitvedPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now 149165592810
Reposted by Angela Hvitveddamniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/04/2025in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list 1993164368
Reposted by Angela HvitvedBrandon Keim @brandonkeim.bsky.social · 07/04/2025A point that hasn’t received nearly as much attention as it should in the deextinctiom discourse: the lives of the animals involved. 3155
Reposted by Angela HvitvedMichael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research. en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...en.univ-toulouse.frToulouse Welcomes U.S. Researchers Facing Unprecedented Challenges | Communauté d'universités et établissements de ToulouseIn response to the targeted and drastic budget cuts threatening scientific research in the United States, the Toulouse academic community is launching an initiative to host researchers whose work is a... 17794386
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 08/04/2025The NIH budget for FY2024 was about $47 billion. It will be interesting to compare the ROI for this amount of money--I bet we don't get any new drugs or lifesaving treatments from this 031
Reposted by Angela HvitvedJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 06/04/2025These are important images to be passed around. These faces should be associated with these headlines. In addition to their covid misinformation, they now have this on their resume. Make sure everyone knows that. 07937
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Iowans! Grassley finally remembered he's a senator and capable of exercising political power. So, he's decided to go after the courts for obstructing Trump's agenda. I guess if you can't win, change the rules 🤷 Consider letting him know what you think of the Judicial Relief Clarification Act!desmoinesregister.comAs judges stymie Trump agenda, Chuck Grassley says legislation is needed to rein them inChuck Grassley said legislation is needed to limit federal judges' use of universal injunctions as President Trump's feud with the judiciary escalates. 020
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Thinking of my friends and former colleagues who have spent their careers advancing science and health in service of the American public. They deserve better than this.washingtonpost.comMassive layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agenciesThe move comes after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement of a sweeping reduction of the Department of Health and Human Services. 051
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Oh, ok. I mean, I guess why pretend?grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of HealthNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD 121
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Jesus christ, this is wild. All around!!epa.govWHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Praise All Around for EPA’s Greatest and Most Consequential Day of Deregulation in U.S. History | US EPAEPA News Release: WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Praise All Around for EPA’s Greatest and Most Consequential Day of Deregulation in U.S. History 000
Reposted by Angela HvitvedKathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS 5391572238
Reposted by Angela HvitvedJonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...lse.ac.ukLSE announces new centre to study animal sentienceThe Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically. 53729130
Angela Hvitved @angelahvitved.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Disappointing to learn that Mayo Clinic is shilling for the dairy industry, esp since it's for a pittance wrt their bottom line. Kudos to @statnews.com for this; the check-off programs are terrible policy that doesn't serve the public interest, and they don't get enough attention.statnews.comMayo Clinic’s partnership with dairy poses conflict of interest, critics sayMayo Clinic's partnership with the dairy industry is drawing criticism for its potential to undermine its credibility. 120
Reposted by Angela HvitvedSilvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Seems like a good time to remind ourselves that in 1931, when Mussolini forced academics to sign an oath of allegiance to the fascist regime, only twelve refused.blognostrumuva.wordpress.comAcademic freedom and fascism: A new book on the Italian professors who said NO in 1931Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (32) Earlier addressed in the Library333 series Inclusive searches & sources @FMG Library – with posts on the Academic Freedom Inde… 11507229
Reposted by Angela HvitvedDamian Dalle Nogare @damiandn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025It's good that Italy puts these warning signs at the airport, so visitors know what to expect during their visit. 131