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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

One time @themountaingoats.bsky.social John Darnielle was in front of me at the Target self-checkout in NW DC and I tried to be cool and say nothing, and failed, but he was so incredibly nice despite just trying to take his kid to the zoo that weekend, apparently, and to buy cold medicine

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I ran into Brian Wilson enjoying a cozy chair in the lobby of my hotel in Salt Lake City, and I managed a very restrained (imho) thank-you for the music. Enjoying that one especially this week.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/05/2025

Dear business genius, I’m a [WORKING-CLASS PERSON / MIDDLE-CLASS PERSON / SUPER-RICH PERSON]. Thank you for making me poorer. Staying brief to save ink money, [YOUR NAME. LITERALLY ANYONE]

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Templates for Thanking President Trump

Template 1 Dear President Trump and [RELEVANT MINIONS] I’m just writing from [UKRAINE / GAZA / THE HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS] to say, once and for...

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Panch is a coward and traitor of the highest order

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

arXiv used to be funded by Los Alamos for many years, so its a good job its not there now. It's a nice profile that captures Ginsparg pretty well (and there's still a question of its long term viability as funding is still dependent on grants). #scholarlypublishing #physics

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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This also goes for removing “censor-worthy” words from websites, like diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, etc. Don’t do them a favor by doing their work for them!

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/03/2025

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social is doing amazing work these days — a great example for Dem leaders AHEM

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Yay. According to this LibGen trained it's LLM on BOTH of my books, one of my features, and... ...my 2019 scientific article on the deletion of the VMAT1 transporter? Love to see literal years of my work stolen so people don't have to work to write an email. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Looks like everything I ever wrote, original research or reviews or published recaps of other works, it’s all in there

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I know such events are happening at numerous ports of entry, but I wonder if it gives #LPSC organizers yet more pause about hosting the conference in Texas when it is hostile in so many ways to scientists.

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I don’t know the answer, but I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this question into a holiday card for a lot of our extended family

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Tell your family, tell your neighbors, let’s break the ability to look away or not know

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

You would never see defections like this from the GOP for such a critical vote. Traitors. Haven’t heard the term DINO a lot lately but seems we could usefully bring it back!

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Everyone sees what you are doing, @schumer.senate.gov, and we are not stupid. My 4yo can do better smoke and mirrors. You’re torpedoing DC and the Democrats and we will not forget. #FreeDC

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 13/03/2025

CURRENT STATE OF PLAY: @schumer.senate.gov still has the votes to pass the DOGE CR. Here are the top Ds planning to sell out America and kill the filibuster of the Musk coup: Schumer, Durbin, Gillibrand, Hassan, Peters, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto, and Whitehouse

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

No Dem Senator has to follow Schumer here. This is a weak stategic move driven by fear and learned helplessness. Don't follow him. He's leading the party into irrelevance and helping Trump and Musk in the process. Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today we came out again to advocate for DC’s congressionally approved budget— happy to learn many Dem senators said publicly they plan to vote NO ON CLOTURE for the CR … and incredibly disappointed and furious at @schumer.senate.gov that he plans to bow to the administration and not fight. #FreeDC

A family of 3, 2 adults and a child, poses in front of the Hart building atrium sculpture, a large black metal installation representing mountains

A group gathers in the doorway of a typical Congress office with large wood accents; a female legislative assistant talks with them.

A group of 3 small children looks out a brightly backlit window overlooking Capitol Hill from inside a Senate office

A man and a small girl examine and point at parts of a large historic map of Virginia hanging on the wall in a Senate office

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If we can talk to Senate staff, so can you! Just pick up the phone—details on who best to call in post below! Lots of senators had no idea DC is slated to get screwed over like this, and not even for anyone else’s gain. #FreeDC

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Want a rundown on the DC budget that the District and Congress already approved (for use of OUR OWN money) but now threatens to axe mid-year? You got it:

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A woman studies embryos for decades, struggles for funding and respect. She publishes under her husband’s name, until they divorce. A single mother, she moves across an ocean to continue her studies. It all sounds quite modern, until you learn that she also worried she’d be burned as a witch. 🧵 1/15

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

These are the Dem senators likely to cave and support the GOP spending spree plans— call them if you can! And note that Klobuchar (MN) was recommended as an addition.

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This is one of the greatest shocks and disappointments of this mess, the cowardice and preemptive compliance

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/03/2025

breaking via inbox: “On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent grad student at Columbia, at his place of residence, an apartment building owned by the university. The DHS agents said that the State Dept revoked Khalil’s green card.”

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"Why has the public gutting of science not caused an immediate political backlash? The authors of the culling have correctly recognized that the public has no idea how science works and has no connection to scientists who aren’t on television" 🧪⚒️

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Help our friends at the NSF: Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings. If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments. (comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)

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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Pretty sure any followers I have will have seen this umpteen times by now, but a friendly reminder that tomorrow is the big day to come out for science! See you at the Lincoln Memorial if you’re in DC!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

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Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again)

The Caprices of the Oligarchs Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...

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Julie Libarkin @holdingupthesky.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I am absolutely disappointed in @agu.org - despite many calls from members…still statement urging federal government to support #inclusion and #justice in #science. You just released such a statement for climate science so we know you can do it. You just don’t want to. news.agu.org/press-releas...

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AGU urges US commitment to climate science

The U.S. must restore critical climate science leadership for a secure, prosperous future for the country and the world.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The people in power intend to completely annihilate scientific infrastructure, capacity, & research in the US. No institution will be spared if its mission is to advance science. Everyone is already a target, whether you speak up or not. So, institutions, consider speaking up.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/02/2025

We literally worked through this exact problem in my "solar system for non-majors" course, and the students proved for themselves how impossible this is. Water is not stable! It cannot be stable! It is very easy to demonstrate this!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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