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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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Kiara Alvarez, Ph.D. @kalvarezphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thank you for highlighting our work! We are excited to be adding a third video to our “Paso a Paso” animated series soon - link to our website with the first two videos below.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In my new piece in @theatlantic.com, I argue that the consensus about birthright citizenship extended far beyond elite legal circles to readers of newspaper advice columns and letters to the editor pages for well more than a century. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Americans Once Understood Birthright Citizenship

Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have forgotten how clear the law is.

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Sonali Rajan @sonalirajan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The call for abstracts for this year's National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms is now open! Threading all the key details below! (1/n) --

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/03/2026

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

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The former private prison exec behind ICE’s immigrant detention surge
David Venturella, a veteran of private prison firm Geo Group, joined the Trump administration to help oversee an expansion of the immigrant detention system that’s benefiting his former employer.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...

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Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country

The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Like I'm seeing people ask why people who've signed deportation papers are being held in detention, or why people going through the "legal" process are being removed. And part of the answer is messiness, but the other part is $. It's profitable.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I think what a lot of folks miss is how profitable deportation is for the corporations involved & the politicians they're backing. Holding people, physically removing them, is cost for the taxpayer & profit into the pockets of the worst people you can imagine.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

David French argued Renee Good's murder is an example of the US having two sytems of law: orderly for friends & belligerent for foes. @victorerikray.bsky.social corrects him: US law has always promised fascism for non-whites & those who stand with them. groupthreat.com/p/americas-d...

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America's "dual state" is a racial state

ICE's terrors draw on an American traditions of racial violence

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Abolish ICE is not enough. It's not about training -- Ross who killed Renee Good was a TRAINER. It's not about body cams -- we saw Alex Pretti killed with our own eyes. We have to abolish the idea that violence ever made us safer, before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray

It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Eastern European here. My entire childhood is filled with stories of abductions, torture and murder - from terror campaigns under Soviet rule and the Nazi regime before then. This kind of violence and suppression is exactly what we all hoped to be free of.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 28/10/2025

In an over 2-mile walk, hundreds of students made their way from Little Village Lawndale High School to the Little Village Arch, denouncing recent ICE action and supporting immigrant communities.

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Students walk out of Little Village schools, hold march in protest of recent ICE activity

Little Village high school students walked the streets calling for an end to ICE and deportations in Chicago.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

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Kiara Alvarez, Ph.D. @kalvarezphd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Or a to do list where the items say things like “follow up with” and it’s just a set of initials that you can’t place

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/08/2025

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🌱 "During uncertain times, like the current moment, we can either retreat or move forward and plant seeds of change. This moment calls on us to plant seeds." 🌱 Honored to share my blog post in @idsainfo.bsky.social's #HealthEquity Series where I outline key practices and strategies...

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Planting seeds in uncertain times: Holding the line on health equity in HIV

Oni J. Blackstock, MD, MHS, outlines key practices and strategies to continue the work of health equity in HIV in the next installment of the new Health Equity Series.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I read about this here, along with a ton of other great news stories about species being saved, environments being protected, people living healthier lives, and so much more. Do yourself a favor: bsky.app/profile/fixt...

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Alicia Stoller @aliciastoller.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"[It's] as if we’ve collectively agreed that fiscal responsibility is best taught through the ritual humiliation of second graders." This is an excellent piece, not just about school lunch debt, but how we manage the relationship between working for systemic change and mitigating immediate harm.

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I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened.

“I immediately wondered if this was real.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is scandalous. The El Paso SPC is one of the few ICE detention centers owned by ICE itself. Members of Congress cannot legally be turned away from ICE facilities when conducting oversight. Yet these emails say Noem herself is deciding when and how Members can conduct oversight.

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Rep. Veronica Escobar @repescobar.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I would have preferred to quietly conduct my oversight responsibilities as I always have, but ICE chose not to follow the law. These ‘guidelines’ are illegal, and that deserves public scrutiny.

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Rep. Veronica Escobar @repescobar.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.” I have some thoughts.🧵

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Smart move, and not surprising; the litigators surely knew this was an option and had the amended complaint ready to go.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025

(5/5) 🚨 It’s time to flood the zone. NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn. 📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration ✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support 👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...

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Sarah Victor (she/her/dr) @sarahevictor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Care about suicide research? Then you should care about how we measure suicide-related constructs! Very proud to share this viewpoint led by @kirstenchristensen.bsky.social, recently accepted at J Psychopathology and Clinical Science 🥳 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) @youthlaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

👉 Today, the Trump administration filed a motion in court to end the Flores Settlement - an agreement that provides basic safeguards for the treatment of children in federal immigration custody. Why does this matter? Let’s break it down: 🧵👇

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The NIH Director continues to misunderstand (or mischaracterize) the extent to which research is being gutted. I appreciate this program officer for speaking up.

At the town hall, Bhattacharya told staffers that they ought not to worry about the anti-DEI push, explaining that studies of the impacts of specific policies like redlining affecting minority populations would not be cut. However, this remark was met with pushback from the audience.

”As the program officer who oversees this research, I will tell you my studies have been terminated,” an individual interrupted.

Bhattacharya clarified that studies into the effects of structural racism would be cut, to which the individual responded, “What do you think redlining is?”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The argument in the piece cited is that ChatGPT cannot do college level coursework better than a deride because - and I’m taking this slowly — college level coursework is designed to accrue learning to the student…not the machine.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Nobody exists exclusively through the lens of struggle. Pick the worst eras, the most oppressed people. You will find rich heritages of art, music, fashion, and games that survived it. Were pioneered during it. Thrived in the midst of it. Why? Because these things give our survival *meaning.*

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Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law @chrclla.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We, along w/ 14 other immigrants’ rights organizations, submitted urgent reports to the United Nations & IACHR, raising the alarm over systematic & grave human rights violations against migrants & asylum-seekers by the U.S. government during the first months of the Trump admin. bit.ly/CHRCLpress

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Maya Emmons-Bell @maya-emmonsbell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Grant cancellations of any kind are terrible and disruptive, but I've been thinking a lot about the compounding effects that cancelling trainee grants will have - so many promising young people left discouraged and (rightfully) contemplating careers outside of science.

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Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org · 28/04/2025

Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

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Home - Trans Lifeline

Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/04/2025

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

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Corbin J. Standley, PhD @corbinstandley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Maintaining funding for 988's LGBTQ+ services ensures continued effective and lifesaving work. “Suicide prevention is about risk, not identity.” – @trevorproject.bsky.social “These crisis response services are effective and save young lives.” – @afspnational.bsky.social afsp.org/story/trump-...

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Trump Administration Proposes Defunding Suicide Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth Beginning October 2025

A leaked budget draft revealed the federal government has proposed to eliminate all funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services – a federal program that provides ...

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Kiara Alvarez, Ph.D. @kalvarezphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Our team’s first presentation is during the Data Blitz at 4:45 pm EST today - newly minted PhD Dr. Grecia Vargas Meléndez will present “The Paloma Intervention: A Systematic Health Literacy Review of Parent Educational Materials” #SRS25

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

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Rowyn @rowyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

These posts from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social pop into my head at least once a week

Screenshot of two posts from Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom. The first reads, "Quick, process question. Whose job is it to do all this damn work?" The second says, "Because I did a work already and now there are more works."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

On March 15, 238 people were rushed onto a plane with almost no warning. Without any chance to see a judge or plead their case, the Trump admin sent them (and a metaphorical briefcase of cash) to El Salvador to be indefinitely imprisoned for no crime. We can’t forget them.

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Kiara Alvarez, Ph.D. @kalvarezphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This week! Excellent talks, symposia, and poster presentations - 100% virtual and free #SRS25

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.

This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/04/2025

Trump’s cronies said we “wasted Easter Sunday” in discussing Mr. Abrego Garcia & their violation of his constitutional rights. We were in good company w/ Pope Francis, who on Easter decried “contempt” for immigrants & has called on them to do better. apnews.com/article/pope...

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Pope rebukes Trump administration over immigrant deportations and appears to aim directly at Vance

The U.S. border czar has pushed back against Pope Francis' criticism of the U.S. mass deportation of migrants plan.

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