Leah Korican @leahkorican.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Educated, but on acid. A memoir about growing up on a hippie commune in the backwoods of Oregon in the shadow of the Holocaust. #Questpit #M 0143
Reposted by Leah KoricanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles 517231397178
Reposted by Leah KoricanBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely. 21412826411049
Reposted by Leah KoricanAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage 6547951843
Reposted by Leah KoricanAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...time.comWhy I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of CongressI cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging. 471171185921
Reposted by Leah KoricanRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 01/05/2025How is this making America great? 821998780
Reposted by Leah Koricanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse. 243172422157
Reposted by Leah KoricanSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/03/2025We LOVE seeing contributors at AWP! Thanks for visiting, Ahsan Butt, @leahkorican.bsky.social & @arahko.bsky.social 💖 0162
Reposted by Leah KoricanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/03/2025We’re not “heading” towards fascism. We’re there. 341117272
Reposted by Leah KoricanMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025You know how much you love the "magic" of ILL? Defend it by defending IMLS. 3374158
Reposted by Leah KoricanChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025BREAKING: A federal judge this morning issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport several Venezuelan nationals with no process. Subscribe to Law Dork for a full report, which is forthcoming: www.lawdork.com 5144781163
Reposted by Leah KoricanJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Giotto, Allegory of Hope, c. 1304-1305, fresco, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua 17313
Reposted by Leah KoricanAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I 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. 491413102124236
Reposted by Leah KoricanDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025NEW: I heard from a *bunch* of federal employees tonight with more backbone that Chuck Schumer. Spread the word! "Shutdowns suck, but what we’re experiencing is something much much worse and now is the moment to stand against it or you’re abdicating your duty as an elected official.”splinter.com'If You Don't Fight, You Can't Win': Federal Employees Want Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to Grow a SpineSplinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day. 252357779
Reposted by Leah KoricanThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2025NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanestheonion.comNOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching HurricanesSILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration... 183137572907
Reposted by Leah KoricanThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/02/2025The new administrator of the E.P.A. is likely to reverse the long-standing federal position that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger the public—a “truly and deeply disgraceful” form of basic science denial, Bill McKibben writes.newyorker.comTrump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans DiscoveredIt’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere. 21428146
Reposted by Leah KoricanJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/02/2025NEW: I talked to Congresswoman Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), who is a pediatrician, about the measles outbreak in Texas, the unvaccinated child who died and now-HHS Secretary RFK Jr. downplaying the whole situation, calling it "not unusual." She tore him apart. www.huffpost.com/entry/kim-sc...huffpost.comPediatrician In Congress Blames RFK Jr. For Child's Death From Measles“I do blame him and others like him who, for the past 20 years, have been spreading lies about vaccines," said Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.). 10444147
Reposted by Leah KoricanRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025“OPM does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees within another agency." - US District Judge William Alsup says in ruling from the bench that the mass firing of probationary employees ordered by OPM was likely unlawful.cnn.comJudge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers to likely be unlawful | CNN PoliticsA federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting some temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions and organizations... 402944863
Reposted by Leah KoricanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott 14264649814904
Reposted by Leah KoricanElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/02/2025Maybe instead of purging the Social Security workers who make sure seniors get their checks on time, we should be expanding benefits to make life a little easier for your parents and grandparents. 861251775049
Reposted by Leah KoricanKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I really appreciate @marisakabas.bsky.social reporting on the trauma and physical and psychological effects of how Musk is harassing workers. This kind of workplace abuse wreaks devastating havoc on peoples' lives www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-opm-5...thehandbasket.coMove fast and break peopleFor Elon Musk's government, the psychological warfare is the point. 111254326
Reposted by Leah KoricanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Put plainly, Musk has wasted 48 hours of the federal government’s time to fuck with people’s heads under the guise of achieving greater efficiency. 1063117690
Reposted by Leah KoricanDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I subscribe. I liked that Marisa left substack and thought she did good work. Now she’s become one of the major conduits of information about what’s happening in our federal government. I’m going to re-up for another year and recommend it. 440878
Reposted by Leah KoricanMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Why is the richest man in the world cutting cancer research? 988113102302
Reposted by Leah KoricanBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/02/2025This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)nps.govStonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a... 49791794824
Reposted by Leah KoricanJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one. 298257445255
Reposted by Leah KoricanErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here: 6487492555
Reposted by Leah KoricanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing 973058756
Reposted by Leah Koricanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations? 467243366365
Reposted by Leah Koricanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025ah trump’s merit in action. only certain people can be meritorious 793344790
Reposted by Leah KoricanAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/02/2025A Manhattan Institute fellow just came out as trans. Not even being immersed in their anti trans propaganda can stop someone from coming out. Anyways, good for her for finding her truth. Now, if only she'd stop working for the people trying to eradicate us. www.jessicariedl.blog/p/yes-my-nam... 592598256
Reposted by Leah KoricanSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 06/02/2025Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document 159129663857
Reposted by Leah KoricanLauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department. www.politico.com/live-updates...politico.comTwo Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker's office in backlash against MuskReps. Judy Chu and Gwen Moore denounced DOGE's access to a vast government payments system. 23668001442
Reposted by Leah KoricanMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 05/02/2025They’re looting NOAA now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comDoge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threatsMembers reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’ 1291206775
Reposted by Leah Koricanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025trump and musk's attempt to destroy USAID is much more significant than the violation of the tenure of office act AND ALSO it is a harbinger of an anti-constitutional seizure of power. *that's* why it matters. 385145839
Reposted by Leah Koricanvanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025dem governors should declare all-out-war on elon musk and forcibly seize any assets of his in their states. 214625
Reposted by Leah KoricanJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency 13513096112083
Reposted by Leah KoricanElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025For those who say Elon Musk’s neo-Nazi ideology is just a troll and not a deeply held belief, I give you the reality of what happens when you give him this kind of unchecked power. This is who he is, and it’s also who he associates with. Essential we discuss it as it is instead of whitewashing. 4937761003
Reposted by Leah KoricanLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/02/2025from tonight’s protest in Manhattan over NYU Langone’s choice to preemptively comply with Trump’s executive order impacting healthcare for trans youth under 19 192380460
Reposted by Leah KoricanSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/02/2025NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it. 58842869412990
Leah Korican @leahkorican.bsky.social · 01/02/2025mobilize.us/s/SEh9eMmobilize.usWe Choose To Fight: Action Call · IndivisibleThis Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will... 010
Leah Korican @leahkorican.bsky.social · 01/02/2025www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n... Scientists need to call their congressional reps. Congress allocated funds!npr.orgNational Science Foundation freezes payments in response to Trump's executive actionsThe National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is already hampering research. 010
Reposted by Leah KoricanLena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 01/02/2025NEW: CDC scrubs gender, equity references from public health material. Includes data sets. “Orwellian,” says one doctor. W @dtkeating.bsky.social and @fenitn.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...washingtonpost.comCDC removes gender, equity references in public health materialLarge sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research. 711439
