Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/08/2026We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year. 561354619
lhowes.bsky.social @lhowes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026No Kings 3 in Durham NC— big crowd, great energy! #nokings3 083
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 31/01/2026Congressional Republicans unveiled their new “MEGA Act” bill, which could: ❌Impose strict voter ID requirements to vote ❌Create a centralized voter surveillance system in every state ❌Ban universal mail voting ❌And much more The kicker? These changes would happen all at once.democracydocket.comNew GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights everThe MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States. 33388256
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026In 2025, departures of govt scientists outnumbered new hires by a ratio of 11 to 1. This reduction in STEM PhDs translates to 106k yrs of federal work experience across 10,000 employees. These talents will take their expertise elsewhere. Experience is indispensable. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti... 12327182
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgU.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took officeA Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies 311620796
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/01/2026ICE and CBP death squads are killing innocent people, terrorizing our communities, and violating our constitutional rights — and the House just voted to give them more money. Demand that your senators use their upcoming vote on the DHS funding bill to rein in the regime’s secret police.act.indivisible.orgTell your senators to rein in ICE NOWOn Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct... 41813367
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Instead of doomscrolling your social media feed, scroll through this stunning visualization of the state of government support for science and research. You’re going to want to see the end, which provides a glimmer of hope for our futures. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...nature.comUS science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remainsA series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce. 05723
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 91147838504
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025We are failing our kids 66487704937
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/11/2025This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively. 35782393328
lhowes.bsky.social @lhowes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Tell your GOP representative to release the Epstein Files act.indivisible.org/sign/rep-hou...act.indivisible.orgTell your GOP representative to release the Epstein FilesAfter months of delay and amid a desperate cover-up attempt, House Democrats managed to force a vote for the FULL release of the Epstein Files! Now, we finally have a chance to learn the truth and mak... 030
lhowes.bsky.social @lhowes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025It's outrageous that Spotify is running ICE ads. I'm moving to another streaming platform that doesn't profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/52mHvtqLapp.sosha.aiDon’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify 020
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotifyindivisible.orgDon’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify 24246522570
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings 5364871105
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/09/2025No Kings Day in June: 5-6 million people 2,169 communities 27 countries The sequel is going to be even bigger.nokings.orgNo KingsAs the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ... 321337616
lhowes.bsky.social @lhowes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Labor Day rally, Knoxville TN #workersoverbillionaires #labordayrally #knoxvilleprotest small city turning out in a big way #knoxvilleindivisible 181
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2025When the Trump administration refused to reveal how many workers had left federal health agencies, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact. Here’s how reporters @pratheekrebala.bsky.social @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org did it.propublica.orgHow We Tracked Workforce Reductions at Federal Health AgenciesWhen the Trump administration refused to reveal how many workers had left federal health agencies, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact. Here’s how we did it. 5413146
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 18/08/2025NIH FY26 #SCIMaP scorecards are now available for * All states * All districts The White House has shared its vision of priorities for this year and years to come. This vision comes with consequences for our health and innovation economy. Explore and share: scienceimpacts.org/fy26scienceimpacts.orgSCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical ResearchView Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH 13824
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialAndrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 16/08/2025AMS State of the Global Climate in 2024. Continent Scorecard Nth America: Hottest on Record Sth America: Hottest on Record Europe: Hottest on Record Africa: Hottest on Record Asia: 2nd Hottest on Record Australia: 2nd Hottest on Record Antarctica: 2nd lowest sea ice www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat... 23329
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/08/2025the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that 6540341343
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20/07/2025While children are starving, the Trump Admin is literally setting food on fire — destroying 500 tons of US taxpayer-funded food that could feed 1.5 million starving children for a week. Destroying the food alone will cost $130K. This is heartless cruelty, not efficiency.theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency FoodFederal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. 52652232
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 19/07/2025Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels. roll_safe.gifnytimes.comAfter 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them 5623241217
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/07/2025Federal workers across a dozen agencies are revealing how DOGE is dismantling essential services provided by the federal government: linktr.ee/FedsSpeakOut 10401220
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/07/2025Thousands of research projects—some years in, with taxpayer money already spent—were wiped out by Trump’s budget cuts. At the Science Fair of Lost Research, scientists showed what was lost: cancer breakthroughs, climate solutions, public health progress. zurl.co/1KB6I #standupforsciencezurl.co‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump CutsA protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase 118796
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/07/2025Capitol Hill just hosted a science fair with a twist: 🔬 Nobel winners & other leading scientists stood by posters showing their work — and the cuts now gutting it. They came from across the country, many paying their own way, to call attention to the serious risks these cuts pose to our future.npr.orgCanceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair'On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it. 8424144
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 601545998
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialNick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/07/2025It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt: 5331631050
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... 14051902246
lhowes.bsky.social @lhowes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Impressive No Kings turnout in tiny Hamilton NY with the university students on break… #nokings #hamiltonNY overheard: “I didn’t know there were so many people in Madison County that feel the way I do!” 030
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialAlt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info · 03/06/2025Reminder that 988 and the crisis text line are both connected to emergency services and can track location. The other numbers here are not! You're not alone, please reach out for help if you need it! The cruelty is the point and we all need to stick together & use our resources to make it through. 05323
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/05/2025Global average temperatures are spiking, rising faster than climate models seem able to explain, and in a sane world, every country would be united in a full-scale effort to figure this out & respond. Instead the US is dismantling its scientific infrastructure.app.wedonthavetime.orgThe World’s Most Urgent Scientific Questionhttps://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level There is no question more urgent than the one indicated by that red arrow in the graph... 431531711
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialAnna 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
lhowes.bsky.social @lhowes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Writing to Ohio voters about Medicaid support, with #ActivateAmerica . I’m convinced that it all helps move the needle back toward democracy. 050
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialAndrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 02/05/2025NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...cnn.comUS weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNNSeveral current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears. 8518041002
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialLisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Once again begging media reports to get the math right. For example, cutting a $5M five-year grant in year 4 isn't saving $1M, but it is wasting the $4M already spent. Stop letting this administration get away with so many lies. 182345722
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialChickpea @lemonlime799.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Let me repeat, as someone who has a degree in both emergency management and public health: THIS IS BIOTERRORISM Thanks for sharing @samlmontano.bsky.social 7515131
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialKeith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it 13513825910329
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF? 23635051314
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialKatie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 17/04/2025This bodes well... 😡 042
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialKatie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 05/04/2025My 3-yr old's #HandsOff sign (front & back) and my sign (f&b) @indivisible.org @indivisibleva.bsky.social @pbs.org #Elmo 14613
lhowes.bsky.social @lhowes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Knoxville TN showed up today, spread out on sidewalks every which way at a busy intersection. Lots of visibility, lots of supportive honking! #indivisibleknoxville #handsoff2025 1548
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy. 755357875517
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵 19664613511
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025People respond to “call your Senator” with “but mine are both Republicans.” Precisely. The only way anything will change is with PRESSURE. Signalgate is a serious breach & display of lying & incompetence at the highest levels. Call them! 202-224-3121 www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/member...armed-services.senate.govCommittee Membership | United States Senate Committee on Armed ServicesUnited States Senate Committee on Armed Services 1002043709
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025(AP) — Democrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning Pennsylvania suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/penn...apnews.comDemocrat James Andrew Malone scores an upset win in a Pennsylvania Senate special electionDemocrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning Pennsylvania suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Demo... 26806131
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Bidenomics worked. The media failed. 17709257
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10% in tax receipts this year compared with 2024. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue. The reason? Staff cuts and disruptions related to Musk's DOGE. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comTax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRSStaff cuts and disruptions related to the U.S. DOGE Service have officials bracing for a sharp loss of revenue. 32601271
Reposted by @lhowes.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...talkingpointsmemo.comIRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USAThe Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the... 8772713312505
