Reposted by Marin WengerMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Today's 6–3 decision by the Supreme Court effectively allows the Trump administration to start implementing his ban on transgender troops—not just barring their enlistment, but purging those already serving. An appeals court already put the other nationwide injunction against the policy on hold. 13364101 0
Reposted by Marin WengerMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025BREAKING: The Supreme Court halts a district court injunction that had blocked Trump's ban on transgender military service. SCOTUS is clearing the way for Trump to enforce his purge of transgender troops. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 1071196473 0
Reposted by Marin WengerBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This has never been about efficiency. The NIH is a remarkably efficient organization. No, this has all been about destroying our investment in science and academia. 817965 0
Reposted by Marin WengerColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025When the U.S. withdrew from WHO, prominent voices in public health reached for the wrong talking point - "Okay, you're right, WHO is flawed / inefficient, so, reform it." My undergrads now repeat this back to me, with no understanding of why they believe that. This can't happen to NIH/NSF. Instead: 522553 0
Reposted by Marin WengerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025They are arresting judges now, ramping up a campaign of intimidation against the judicial branch. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b... 10432100 0
Reposted by Marin WengerSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 25/04/2025There are fewer than 10 clinics where people who need these abortions can get them—and no it's not only people with tragic diagnoses. Restrictions on care, sexual assault, late recognition of pregnancy can all lead to someone traveling to another state for a third trimester abortion. 4334110 0
Reposted by Marin Wengerjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 25/04/2025Even if this is true, the damage done to US universities is potentially irreparable. International students know that their degree/career could be upended in an instant, either because of political speech or a traffic ticket. They could even be sent to the camps! 1648169 0
Reposted by Marin WengerLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Look! www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...thegazette.comFederal judge blocks UI students’ deportation; orders student status restoredJust three days after the filing of a complaint seeking court intervention in the termination of four University of Iowa international students’ F-1 status, a U.S. district judge Thursday granted a te... 212636 0
Reposted by Marin WengerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025DOGE will absolutely (on lost tax revenues alone) cost more money than any claimed savings 411310316 0
Reposted by Marin WengerOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025how the mainstream media covered the racist trump attack on the smithsonian vs how we covered it @dailykos.com read more here www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... 431431471 0
Reposted by Marin WengerKathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 25/04/2025The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy" I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below 34447132240 0
Reposted by Marin WengerHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 24/04/2025This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail 18288303024 0
Reposted by Marin WengerDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025The study also finds that "measles may reestablish endemicity" and we're in for more than 800,000 cases over the next 25 years *even at current vaccination rates* jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 13269149 0
Reposted by Marin WengerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I want to continue to push back on the reigning “hey I’m just being reasonable” stance on AI. I “understand” it being useful for coding & emails too. I also understand why beans make us fart. The adult issue is, why are we doing this and is the cost worth it? There’s only ONE reasonable answer 3682108 0
Reposted by Marin WengerChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/04/2025So my read of this is that they are hoping this will go to SCOTUS and SCOTUS will rule in their favor by gutting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is to say that science funding is their trojan horse for legalizing resegregation in all facets of American life 🧪 10957418 0
Reposted by Marin WengerMicah @rincewind.run · 22/04/2025Trans Lifeline is a good place to direct resources if you’re looking to help here fuck everyone involved with this decisiontranslifeline.orgHome - Trans LifelineRadicalcommunity 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 5542702655 0
Reposted by Marin WengerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone. 14874963781 0
Reposted by Marin WengerHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/03/2025To be clear this empowers domestic violence, employee abuse, blackmailing, in addition to your standard run of the mill racism. It exacerbates the inequality & power differential in *every* relationship between immigrant and non-immigrant. 12285111 0
Reposted by Marin WengerAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Why is Trump going after US science? What's the endgame for these attacks? Vance, Rufo, Trump and Republican elites are attacking NIH and manipulating its grants in order to attack American universities. "It's bad, folks." New contributed post at our blog. Please share it w/ your 🧪 colleagues.altnih4science.substack.comTrump is attacking NIH because politicizing funding can force universities to become conservative thinktanksIt's bad, folks. The real war is on free thought in the United States. 54997386 0
Reposted by Marin WengerJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The truth is, in fact, the exact opposite. It is the foreign undergrad, paying full tuition in most cases, that is subsidizing the discounted tuition of the underprivileged American student, among so many other things. 46931192 0
Reposted by Marin WengerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/03/2025“An anti-constitutional act is one that rejects the basic premises of constitutionalism. It rejects the premise that sovereignty lies with the people, that ours is a government of limited and enumerated powers and that the officers of that government are bound by law” 131371 0
Reposted by Marin WengerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Again, today would be an excellent day for Ivy League, Big Ten, & all the other chancellors & university presidents to start speaking loudly & collectively against the all-out existential crisis that this assault on US higher ed represents. The silence is deafening. bsky.app/profile/mcop... 26926340 0
Reposted by Marin WengerParis Marx @parismarx.com · 18/03/2025Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.arstechnica.comAI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study saysCJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests. 12045972431 0
Reposted by Marin WengerAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/03/2025The VA has ceased all gender affirming care for trans veterans. This is a campaign of eradication. www.advocate.com/news/va-stop...advocate.comTrump administration announces end to gender-affirming care for transgender veteransThe announcement comes days after the VA denied it was rolling back policies for trans people’s dignity. 24937318 0
Reposted by Marin WengerPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation. 542075650 0
Reposted by Marin WengerMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable. 866352518504 0
Reposted by Marin WengerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025"I don't care what the judges think" should be grounds for impeachment for any public official, but especially for key actors in the national security system. 23475641872 0
Reposted by Marin WengerChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 14/03/2025They’re segregationists. It’s really time we start calling them that. 185 0
Reposted by Marin WengerKevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together. 20860358 0
Reposted by Marin WengerAAUP @aaup.org · 14/03/2025We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...nytimes.comColumbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last YearSanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions. 7842353 0
Reposted by Marin WengerLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 14/03/2025this is all extreme. I'm especially struck by the demand Columbia put the Middle East, South Asian and African Studies Department under receivership for at least 5 years 922678 0
Reposted by Marin WengerMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025This is the law “best known for its role in Japanese internment” per the Brennan Center. It just gets worse and worse, day by day. 661437442 0
Reposted by Marin WengerVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/03/2025We really don't spend enough time just stating that Trump hates good things. Green infrastructure and biking are among the best things in cities and only retrograde losers think otherwise. 512244 0
Reposted by Marin WengerMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The cynical appropriation of rhetoric about Jewish and women’s safety is in fact antisemitic and misogynist: it trivializes the suffering and oppression of those groups for ends that ultimately hurt them. 125939 0
Reposted by Marin WengerVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Disaster upon disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...nytimes.comEducation Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff (Gift Article)The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office. 1195 0
Reposted by Marin WengerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/03/2025These numbers are complete lies but the underlying argument — that Democrats are paying illegal immigrants to come here and become voters — is 100% Great Replacement Theory. He’s spouting the exact same racist conspiracy that inspired mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Buffalo. 1043680943 0
Reposted by Marin WengerIpsita 🎃Mad Social Scientist🎃 Chatterjea(she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 12/03/2025@congressmanraja.bsky.social , @duckworth.senate.gov , @durbin.senate.gov This, not Chuck Schumer, not Hakeem Jeffries, is the level of concern you should align with, this, and this regime is what you should obstruct and fight every single day, without let up. 439091 0
Reposted by Marin WengerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025TWO GIRLS IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF MAINE! FEWER THAN 10 IN ALL OF THE NCAA! i know true believers can't be swayed, but i think hammering these numbers is important for the average person to understand that republicans are OBSESSSSSSED with such a minuscule group of people and it's fucking weird! 552469780 0
Reposted by Marin WengerElaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social · 12/03/2025One of the questions my Medicaid team and I ask is, how will they decide who to cull from social welfare programs? At least one approach appears to be “add more administrative burdens,” affecting everyone, but those with the least power will feel these cuts most profoundly. 33121 0
Reposted by Marin WengerDr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Republicans in West Virginia passed a bill that would allow health care providers to “visually or physically examine a minor child” for the purpose of identifying their “biological sex” without the “consent of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...lgbtqnation.comGOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent - LGBTQ NationAnd that was actually an improvement over a previous version of the bill. 2861330739 0
Reposted by Marin Wengertim f @timfitz.manapool.nyc · 12/03/2025This above all is one of the most corrosive, most destructive moves they've made -- not only using the Executive branch's power, but also power it stole from Congress, to force anyone it can to adopt the absurd notion that "antiracism is the real racism after all". We need a full-throated response. 1144 0
Reposted by Marin WengerAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121 25515378818596 0
Reposted by Marin WengerAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12/03/2025This was flagged for us and we agree. Reposting from another public site: "NIH Centralizing Review: What It Means [...aka Why It Is Bad]" "threatens to: ✅ Eliminate Specialized Review Panels ✅ Increase Administrative Proposal Withdrawals ✅ Favor Standard [aka not novel/high-risk] Proposals 1/6linkedin.comTK Kozai on LinkedIn: NIH will eliminate many peer-review panels and lay off some scientists…NIH CSR’s Centralized Review: What It Means for PIs and the Future of Specialized Research The NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) is restructuring how… 29237 0
Reposted by Marin WengerJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The ad-hoc termination of training grants, PhD fellowships, and center grants at Columbia is catastrophic and sends a message. The WH will: * Seek revenge at all costs * Destroy science & higher ed, if it can * Risk lives, careers and the economy. Rest assured: they will not stop w/Columbia 23935227 0
Reposted by Marin Wengerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)” 10357861275 0