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Indivisible Naperville @indivisnaperville.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🚨 THE PENTAGON WANTS TO LIVESTREAM A PUBLIC EXECUTION. IS THIS WHO WE WANT TO BE? Join Indivisible Naperville, the League of Women Voters of Naperville, and AAUW Naperville Area on Saturday, October 17, at 10 AM at the Washington Street Bridge and Aurora Avenue in Naperville!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/10/2026
Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵
A photo of Trump in front of the U.S. National Science Foundation entrance, overlaid headline that reads "Trump admin stole $1.4B for world changing science against the will of congress", with a Stand Up for Science logo beneath it.
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Here is another thing you should do to oppose OMB’s proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034). Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it! 5calls.org/issue/federa...
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Oppose OMB's Political Attacks on Scientific Research ⭑ 5 Calls
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, has proposed sweeping rule changes to the federal grantmaking …
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/06/2026
Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience
The graphic displays an image of the SUFS Foundation logo, a hand holding pen, and hands over a type writer. The graphic reads: "The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments, Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO. BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: This is an opportunity to tell YOUR government that the OMB-2026-0034 "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance" is wrong. https://zurl.co/XgyzA "
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IndivisibleMontgomery @indivisiblemontmd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Just attended this and was struck by Prof. Tim Snyder's statement that if this proposal becomes policy, then government will cease to exist. The final stage will be all distribution of $$ will be politicized, like they are currently spending millions to coat DC statues in gold that nobody asked for.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
In case you missed it. In case you don’t get it. Read this, then see my earlier posts for the link for public comment as this administration tries to kill the competitive grant process, where the ability of scientists to do good science is judged by… GASP! Other scientists!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...
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Mike Holloway @mikeholloway.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🧪 #resist #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...
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How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.
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Pam Westfall @geneticspam.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/12/2025
These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close
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Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
She’s very good at this.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is brilliant! 🧪“The Monster Slash” By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.
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Andrii Dmytro @andriidmytr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
REPOST if you stand with President Zelenskyy! #StandingWithZelenskyy #StandingWithUkraine 🇺🇦💙💛💙🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraïni
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Pam Westfall @geneticspam.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Come on Is it worth it? Let me work it I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 31/05/2025
A lot of the cuts in NSF funding were predictable (and awful), but one thing that stands out is cutting SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) by 57%. This program supports small businesses and entrepreneurs at turning laboratory discoveries into cutting-edge marketable products.
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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This innovative solution has already protected 13.3 million people from dengue. It involves introducing the Wolbachia bacteria into mosquito populations to prevent them from transmitting viruses to humans. We’ve supported this ground-breaking initiative since 2014 ⤵️ wellcome.org/news/world-m...
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World Mosquito Programme | Impact | Wellcome
The World Mosquito Program has protected 13.3 million people from diseases like dengue. Find out about Wellcome's contribution to this ground-breaking initiative.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump approval rating dips; many wary of his wielding of power, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
President Donald Trump's public approval rating edged down to its lowest level since his return to the White House, as Americans showed signs of wariness over his efforts to broaden his power, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday found.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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Whitney Robinson @whitneyepi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
One thing that made the US a powerhouse in the 20th century were networks of government support for education & research in all the regions of the country There was this idea that people across our country deserved access to the best knowledge & services we could provide with our pooled resources
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 15/03/2025
Modern art!
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Free on Saturday at 1 pm? On 3/15, join our phone bank to people in GOP Rep Mike Bost’s district (Illinois's 12th district). We'll ask them to call their rep & tell him to protect Medicaid. Get on Zoom with us & we'll train & support you all the way. More info/sign-up:
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Don't Cut Medicaid ! Phone Banking to IL-12 · Indivisible Chicago
No Cuts to Healthcare to Fund Tax Giveaways for the 1%. At the end of February the GOP controlled House of Representatives voted a Budget Resolution that instructed the Energy and Commerce Committee ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
👩‍💻🧀 This Sunday, 3/16, 3:45 pm CT, hop on Zoom with our partner Indivisible Illinois & phone voters in Wisconsin. Help elect Susan Crawford to WI Supreme Court. FYI, @indivisibleil.bsky.social's Rockin' Phone Bank parties are both fun & impactful. Info/Sign-up:
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Indivisible Illinois Rockin' Zoom Phone Bank Party for Wisconsin Supreme Court · Indivisible Illinois
Join Indivisible Illinois for a Rockin' Zoom Phone Bank Party to GOTV for Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court on Sunday 3/16 from 4-5:30 pm. ***This phone bank will use HubDialer. If you have n...
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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Venezuela has become the first country in the world to lose all of its glaciers. The climate crisis is now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/03/2025
NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
MUSK OR US. Indivisible Naperville announces a Musk or Us Rally, Tuesday, March 4th, 4:30-5:15, at Jackson & Webster in Naperville, IL. Bring signs to say no to Musk & take back our democracy. Indivisible Naperville will have chants & postcards to pick up. Info here: www.facebook.com/events/11685...
Graphic with logo of Indivisible Naperville, saying Musk or Us Rally. Corner of Jackson and Webster, Naperville.  Tuesday March 4:30-5:15. Bring signs. We will have chants and postcards to Illininois GOP Reps downstate to pick up and send.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Summer research opportunities cancelled, grad school admissions paused, funding programs suspended/delayed, career scientists fired. This really is an all out attack on science across all ranks.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps! #EduSky #STEMEd
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: Our first wins of the year! Plus, details on our candidate intro call tmrw, our strategy briefing next week, and so much good stuff from across the RFS community. I needed this today. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
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RFS feel-good update (2/24): Our first wins of the year
Plus: Two events coming up to put on your calendar
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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The Preamble Patriot @preamblepatriot.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
runforsomething.net has a list of candidate resources that will help you run for office. One of the biggest reasons we’re in the mess we’re in right now is because not enough good people run for office and take active roles in campaigns. Be the example and @runforsomething.net
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Run for Something
Run for Something recruits and supports talented, passionate young leaders to run for state and local office - we’re building long-term power.
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🎃 Booing Burbs 👻 @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Please show a bit of 🎉 for a senator explaining how they’re fighting for us!
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
❌️ Elon Musk has got to go! Musk & Trump are the enemies of our democracy, bent on destroying every program keeping us safe, secure, informed & well. Outside a Hakeem Jeffries book tour event in Chicago, we call on the House Democratic leader to use *all his power* in DC to obstruct the MAGA agenda.
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Our look at how the Trump administration is systematically dismantling the government teams that have stopped Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and others from meddling in US elections: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b... With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @stevenleemyers.bsky.social
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Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations
The Trump administration has reassigned or forced out several dozen government employees who had been working to fight foreign interference in U.S. elections at multiple agencies, according to current...
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I write about this a ton in my upcoming book - what Jamie Dimon is describing here is a skills issue on behalf of leadership. Managing remote teams is dif than in-person & requires time & intentionality — if he & his supervisors cant do it, that’s on them. thehill.com/business/514...
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Jamie Dimon: ‘Don’t give me this s‑‑‑ that work-from-home Friday works’
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon scolded employees Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, during a fiery internal town hall, after workers raised concerns with the bank’s five-day return-to-office policy…
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
All of us, on starting at NIH took this oath: "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely..."
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
📲 Illinois friends, can't make it to our in-person rally? That's OK. Any time time week, we can all send a message to our senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth telling them to STOP TRUMP'S POWER GRAB. Use our quick form to email them:
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Tell your Senators to Shut It Down — Indivisible Chicago Alliance
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/01/2025
On climate, did you know that only 11% of people in the US (and even smaller percentages in Canada, the UK, Australia and beyond) are dismissive? Yet because their voices are so loud and persistent, people often think they’re 50%. This is why I advocate so strongly for using YOUR voice!
Six colored circles representing the proportion of people in the US who are alarmed, concerned, cautious, disengaged, doubtful and dismissive about climate change. 72% are alarmed, concerned or cautious! Source: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects/global-warmings-six-americas/
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Trump and Musk are trying to do to the federal government what Musk did to Twitter. They want to break it, turn it into a playground for extremists—as they enrich far-right billionaires at the expense of working people.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/01/2025
BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community. Veterans suicide.
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