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"One key observation about the current crisis is that, unlike similar situations in earlier concentration camp history or other authoritarian states around the globe, people in positions of power are, by and large, not in danger at the moment."

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 2h

"Nevertheless, CEO’s, elected officials at every level of government, presidents and boards of universities, and even some judges have caved to Trumpism out of cowardice, corruption, or both—or the belief that they are somehow going to be able to protect their institutions..."

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 14h

Bessent [...] "the Baghdad Bob of bonds."

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is devastating for science and individual scientists. The k99/R00 has been such an important mechanism for diversifying our pipeline.

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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We joined The American Society for Clinical Investigation and more than 30 other organizations to support early career clinician scientists because we believe patients deserve to see steady development of new treatments far into the future.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How many were executed while innocent? Not in my name.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The US is in the process of building one of the largest camp systems in history." Agony to hear those words spoken. But the question now is whether it just surpasses the scope of Japanese-American Imprisonment or it does what concentration camp systems want to do: get worse at a sinister pace.

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The use of a pocket rescission fits part of a broader pattern by the Trump administration to exact greater control over the US government, eroding the power of Congress. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump cancels nearly $1bn in funding approved by Congress

President using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant services

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

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It's the accountability, stupid.

Doing crime

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Came here to share what @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social wrote (below). Will only add one thing: This felt like a threat, a rehearsal, not the real thing.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026

Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/09/2026

Breast cancer patients shouldn’t be denied hope of a new lifesaving treatment because Russ Vought thinks women’s health research is woke. I will fight this plan tooth and nail.

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Troubling and scary, yes, but (for now) smoke and mirrors. And remember: Vought takes this path because we killed the OMB Assistance rule by swamping it in comments. Take a deep breath. Celebrate the Assistance rule victory. We will crush this one too. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 20/09/2026

ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Abolish ICE

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This is the end My only friend the end..." [Would be, we won't let this happen]

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Rep. Beatty @repbeatty.bsky.social saying out loud what we all know. The president is incompetent. If he and his administration were more competent, the country would be so much worse by now. So I cherish the president's incompetence. And I admire Rep. Beatty courage to stir the Good Trouble.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

RFK Jr should resign. If he doesn't, Trump should fire him. If he doesn't Congress should impeach both.

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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of yesterday’s headlines at The Week: ”RFK Jr assures anti-vaccine group as measles spreads”

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Mark Igra @markigra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

3 non-white refugees and 10,255 white ones. This happened at the same time that the Supreme Court decided that political gerrymandering was not racial gerrymandering. From @austinkocher.com austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...

99.97% The share of every refugee the United States admitted in fiscal year 2026 through July 31 who came from South Africa, 10,255 people out
of 10,258. The Trump administration abolished the refugee system, then reopened it for just one group: white South Africans. The fiscal year opened with a ceiling of 7,500, the lowest in the program's history, and an emergency presidential determination signed on May 21 raised it to 17,500 and allocated every one of the additional 10,000 places to Afrikaners from South Africa under Executive Order 14204. Total admissions were 38,102 in fiscal 2025 and 100,034 in fiscal 2024, so this is a program running at about a
tenth of its size two years ago and drawing entirely from one country. Just

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Freudian obsession tells us more than the letter below.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New: Officials battled over NIH in the Oval Office today, per people familiar. RUSS VOUGHT criticized NIH "woke" spending and floated executive order to review its grants. JAY BHATTACHARYA defended NIH's alignment with Trump. TRUMP appeared to side with Vought. with @rbeggin.bsky.social

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Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash

A heated debate took place in the Oval Office on Friday, with some Trump officials accusing the National Institutes of Health of funding grants that conflict with the president’s agenda.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 19/09/2026

Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States of America.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am suing the NIH. As part of a class action with the ACLU and 16 other plaintiffs, we are challenging the thousands of unlawful grant terminations in an effort to get them all reinstated. Whatever happens, at the very least, no one can say I sat back and watched while they destroyed science.

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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of stories across Pennsylvania about NIH grant terminations at Pitt and Penn. This is why speaking out matters. Even Congress critters who generally support the administration get pressured into actually supporting their constituents. www.wesanews.org/health-scien...

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McCormick, Fetterman question termination of more than 100 health research grants

Pennsylvania’s senators are demanding information about more than 150 health research grants canceled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this summer.

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

While the world burns, and you pay more for everything, your tax dollars become the royal family’s wealth. Because it pays to be a Trump, especially when the whole world knows daddy's a crook.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/09/2026

Holy cow. This may not be a permanent victory, but my god it’s a victory! Omni hasn’t flown for ICE for months. And I heard there was a big layoff last week. Now we can say for certain it was due to the negotiations between Stonepeak and the Chicago alders. Wowowow. news.wttw.com/2026/09/15/d...

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Deal Reached to Sell Chicago Parking Meters to Investment Firm, Alderpeople Say

The deal requires Stonepeak to sell Omni Air International, which has a contract with the Trump administration to carry out deportations, according to the City Council members.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/09/2026

PS Anyone at Omni or Stonepeak: I have all the flight records and will keep them safe until the day comes that everyone who participated in or profited from Omni’s ICE flights can be identified. What you did will not be forgotten. ✌️

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/09/2026

Hard to know what will happy with Omni once it’s separated from its parent company, ATSG. They weren’t doing well before Stonepeak bought ATSG, and they’ll do even worse by themselves. Question is, will they jist go bankrupt, or will they start doing ICE flights again and then go bankrupt?

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We all know Peter Navarro is always wrong. (Started with his PhD thesis). But we did not imagine he would be this wrong for so long.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 15/09/2026

Pennsylvania just announced the fourth death from measles this year. All patients were unvaccinated. This is so sad.

Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths

Pennsylvania Department of Health has recorded four measles-associated deaths in 2026.

Getting vaccinated remains the best protection against measles, providing 97% lifetime protection after two doses.

Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) today confirmed two additional measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania. Both individuals were unvaccinated. One individual lived in Jefferson County and the other lived in Mifflin County.

To protect the privacy of both individuals and their families, DOH will not be releasing any additional details that could personally identify them. While local officials in the respective counties where the deaths occurred may release more details about the deceased, DOH is bound by different laws that strictly limit what it can share publicly. The two additional deaths will be added to DOH’s measles dashboard Wednesday, as part of the regular update.

The best protection against measles remains getting fully vaccinated. The MMR vaccine, administered over two doses, boosts a person’s immune system and provides 97% lifetime protection.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Universal Healthcare will reduce costs by $1,041 billion annually. FROM reductions in administrative overhead, pharmaceutical prices, fraudulent billing, and avoidable emergency care. PLUS ... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Projected economic gains and lives saved under universal healthcare in the United States

The US spends more on health care than any other nation, yet tens of millions of Americans are uninsured or underinsured, and coverage retractions enacted in 2025 are widening these gaps. The misalign...

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