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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand. This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 09/06/2025
Support from non-NIH staff is also welcome, particularly from the scientific community. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
standupforscience.net
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/06/2025
We’re not waste. We are not “the bureaucracy”. We're real people living and working alongside you to make our communities safer and healthier places to live. Say hello to our colleague Abby. She is fired but fighting and she is a patriot @firedbutfighting.bsky.social #FedWorkerFriday #WeArePatriots
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Vernal @vernalcoleman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Latest from me, @bxroberts.org and @ericumansky.bsky.social
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
My latest @npr.org story: Efforts by the Trump administration’s DOGE team to amass data at federal agencies could hurt the U.S. government’s ability to produce reliable #2030Census results, economic indicators and other key statistics in the future, experts warn
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How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics
DOGE's murky push to amass data at federal agencies could hurt the U.S. government's ability to produce reliable census results, economic indicators and other statistics in the future, experts warn.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/05/2025
Bored? Anxious? Obsessed with the Weather Channel? Same here Watch 200+ meteorologists & climate scientists geek out for 100 hours straight. Weather drama, real facts, and budget cuts threatening their jobs. It’s like a science party you didn’t know you needed. 📺 www.youtube.com/live/xdtIKFt...
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100 Hours to Save America’s Forecasts, Weather and Climate Livestream Part 3
YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/05/2025
THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
motherfucker i will take every vaccine i can get if you dipshits open smallpox or polio up again I'll get it that. i love getting rabies shots. gimme all of it.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"It may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed. The reality is, the whole government is DOGE now." read @brbarrett.bsky.social's last musings on DOGE (for now!) before he hands @wired.com's politics lab newsletter off to @jakelahut.writes.news!
wired.com
Elon Musk Says He'll Step Back From the Government. DOGE Isn't Going Anywhere
It may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed. The reality is, the whole government is DOGE now.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/05/2025
Heartbreaking article on trauma White House officials deliberately inflicted on federal workers. Russell Vought is behind this cruelty—don’t forget his name. Fed fam & beyond: You matter. You’re not alone. If you’re struggling, call 988 for support. [gift link below—thanks, public health guy]
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen *refreshes feed* [The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Here is a link to 60 Minutes NIH segment... www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...
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Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations
Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
In its ongoing mission to shrink the federal government, the Trump administration is now proposing a more than 40% budget cut to the National Institutes of Health - the crown jewel of American medical research. 60 Minutes, Sunday.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/04/2025
What, and I repeat, the fuck? I trust any source Jeremy trusts and will be taking his advice tonight.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/04/2025
Today’s essential read. Gift link.
nytimes.com
Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants (Gift Article)
The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backg...
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Phoebe (she/her) @ishpheebs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Never going to graduate. It's been a wild month with a death in the family, getting slammed with a nasty cold, then my uninsured husband broke his hand, and now he and probably I have covid 🤡. He literally cannot work so thank God for my student stipend but if only we could qualify for Medicaid 😩
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Congressman Eugene Vindman @repvindman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... They are stacking these shit birds deep.
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Gabbard’s pick to run a counterterrorism center aided the start of a right-wing paramilitary group
Joe Kent, a promoter of conspiracy theories, has long associated with extremists.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/04/2025
Trump to JANM: scrub your website. JANM to Trump: scrub this.
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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Really bad news here:
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“We preface everything with an admission that our opponents are right and somehow we’re losing the messaging war. We don’t understand why this isn’t working.”
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Roundtable this Wed at the US Senate, on how Trump and Musk are killing research like cancer and Alzheimer’s research. 2:30pm Eastern. There is a livestream. This would be better in primetime and produced for TV, like the Jan 6 Committee did. But it’s a good start from @baldwin.senate.gov.
WHEN:

Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 2:30pm EST

WHERE:     

SD-106, Livestream available here

WHO:           

U.S. Senators
Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, M.D., former Director of the NIH
Dr. Sterling Johnson, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor and Associate Director of Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Dr. Whitney Wharton, PhD, Emory University Associate Professor and Alzheimer’s Disease researcher
Dr. Larry Saltzman, M.D., retired physician living with leukemia and former Executive Research Director for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Mr. Jessy Ybarra, veteran living with ALS and Board of Trustees member for the ALS Association
 

“As Donald Trump and Elon Musk claim they want to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ they are halting lifesaving research that gives Americans battling Alzheimer’s disease and cancer hope every day that they have a fighting chance at getting better,” said Senator Baldwin.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is the most openly corrupt act by a sitting President in the history of America. It is now 4.40 PM - and Politico, WaPo and NYT are simply refusing to cover it. NYT wrote 35 articles speculating on the POSSIBLE corruption of Clinton Foundation. Which was never found.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
ICYMI (especially if you work in Democratic politics): Cutting cancer research is one of the things Americans are most worried about. And one of the things they’ve heard the least about. According to polls from @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social: 1/
New survey data out from Navigator research shows the profound public concern and anger over the cuts in the Musk wilding spree.
Unsurprisingly, voters are more concerned than almost anything by Trump and Musk shutting down cancer cure research (and research into cures for other diseases) in the
U.S. 71% of independents says they're concerned or very concerned about it. 65% percent of voters over all. It's also something they've heard the least about. Here's the raw data for the poll and a powerpoint.
And here's the chart on Elon and the
billionaires.
"Dangerous," "Power-Hungry," "Corrupt," and "Self-Serving" Are
Best Descriptors of Musk and Other Billionaires' Actions
Independents see them most as "dangerous,"
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* and "inexperienced" test lower across the board.
Which of the following words or phrases best describes the actions of Elon Musk and the other billionaires working with the Trump administration?
2024 Trump Voters*
Dem
Rep
Not-Strong Approvers
Strong
Approvers
Dangerous
134%
Power-hungry
134
Corrupt
131
Self-serving
Greedy
129
MAGA
Unaccountable
Unelected
119
illegal
Right-wing extremist
Out-of-touch
115
114
Inexperienced
Un-American IK
Oligarchic Ik
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in DenverZoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 21/03/2025
Not nameless faceless bureaucrats, impressive people you haven’t had the privilege of getting to know. www.michaellewiswrites.com#who-is-gover...
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Repeat after us: "Executive orders are not the law. Executive orders do not override Congress." Screw Trump and screw his made-up EOs. We don't have to keep pretending he gets to make up the law. Stand up and ignore the bad-law EOs. Can someone please spread this word to every NIH leader?
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The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 19/03/2025
First they came for the Venezuelan asylum seekers... Then they came for the Palestinian campus activists... Then they came for the Mexican immigration activists... Then they came for the German green card holder... Then they came for the visiting French scientists... Are we getting it yet?
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It's the Orban neofascist playbook. As in Hungary, fascists in US govt see university independence must be suppressed because universities are a source of independent information power -- they can advance truth that fight the lies at the center of authoritarianism.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
you really ought to read this.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years.” Hell yes, Art Caplan. More courageous defiance, less quiet cowardice. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
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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.
freedom.press
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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Matt Sikora @mjsikora.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Still wrapping my head around 57% cut to CDMRP (cdmrp.health.mil) funding in CR. CDMRP funds some of the most innovative high-risk/high-reward research in biomedical science, and in it all, includes patient advocates. BEFORE the cut, the breast cancer program funded 3-5% of proposals. What now?
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14/03/2025
"Why does he think it's OK for him to take money from this nation and fuck it over? Why does he think he can tell his employers to go fuck themselves every god damn day, all day long and sell his god damn nation out, and fuck his employers over?" Followed by a threat involving an axe
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Wow. It is extremely rare, to say the least, for the top Democrat in the House to denounce the top Democrat in the Senate. Your voices helped do this. Keep the pressure on Senate Dems.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
PUSHBACK CAN WORK!! Bad CDC nominee is out. But for the bad NIH nominee...need to speak up.
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Alt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info · 12/03/2025
@resist.bot and @5calls.org can help! Please do your part to put pressure on the senators to not give in!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/03/2025
This means Trump/Musk could legally cancel funding for any program for any reason. This is unacceptable. A shutdown is bad. This bill is worse.
A screenshot of the continuing resolution proposed with this text highlighted:

“(b) If a sequestration is ordered by the President under section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the spending, expenditure, or operating plan required by this section shall reflect such sequestration.”
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/03/2025
We have to talk about the absolutely insane CR the GOP has proposed. This bill formally abdicates Congressional authority over the budget and allows the Executive to sequester funds for any reason or no reason at all.
appropriations.house.gov
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
More reasons from @drjudystone.bsky.social why Dave Weldon should be nowhere near CDC. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
forbes.com
CDC Pick Dave Weldon’s Views On Reproduction And End-Of-Life Raise Alarm
Weldon will be overseeing some reproductive care. His strong beliefs on abstinence, abortion, and end-of life care raises issues that should be discussed.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excuse us for a second: This is illegal as fuck. Executive branch records are the property of the public, not of these scoundrels and con men.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is why we yell at Dems. They have few levers of power at this point and they don’t even use all of them.
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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”
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