Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I’ve never quite understood Vought’s consuming hatred of science and scientists — it seems to go far beyond his complaints about the “cost” to society (which are wrong, as he surely knows). 131549
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 02/08/2025Trump’s retribution: share.newsbreak.com/ecg03qgd?s=i16share.newsbreak.comWatchdog agency investigating ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith for alleged illegal political activity - NewsBreakBRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Federal officials have opened an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special counsel who investigated then-candidate Donald 64314
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I've a post at Remaking that reads the Agreement between Columbia & the government. It's much worse than they say. The idea that Harvard is about to cave in too is truly horrifying. The post also outlines the framing that universities should be setting up utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/07/line...utotherescue.blogspot.comLiner Note 34: Derailing the Columbia PrecedentMilos, Greece, on July 19, 2025 There’s a drift towards seeing the Penn and Columbia University deals with the Trump Administration as ... 098
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution. 34454062135
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I set chrome to default to web search instead of AI search and I am delighted. 😙 3442147
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity. Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is. 4458155
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) @ivey.house.gov · 26/05/2025Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him. 7263871110680
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20/05/2025If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved. 25790322223
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect 48524399612787
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order. 15783193857
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war. 1163333248596
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science 1102455943
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Chronic Angst 🌈🗽🇺🇦 @chronicangst.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Reward acts of bravery. Keep track of the courageous and pay tribute to businesses that stand up to lawless, thuggish threats. This is Constitutional Courage. Chinese food sounds terrific right about now 😋 03310
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Horrible. Prasad is an unqualified crank and liar. Makary, Bhattacharya, and Prasad in charge of our key health agencies is like oil CEOs running env protection, or Fox talking heads running the military. Impeach, convict, remove. There’s no fixing US science w/out getting Trump out. 05620
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Kind of old news. But when I think back on everything that happened during the Covid pandemic the one thing we got completely completely right was the vaccine. Super successful thing out into people's arms in under a year. Basically tamed the worst of covid. And yet ... 32563125
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/05/2025We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...abcnews.go.comJustice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: SourcesDOJ has been investigating a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ABC News has learned. 458115113378
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Trump DC US Atty nominee Ed Martin looks to be done after NC Senator Thom Tillis says he’s a no vote on Sen Judic Comm. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...nbcnews.comKey GOP senator won't support Trump loyalist Ed Martin to be D.C.'s top prosecutorNorth Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis' decision likely derails Martin's nomination as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. 721679290
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away. 378198795668
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 30/04/2025youtu.be/lPebyPWDNxY?... Sometimes humor is a great way to educate people as what's really happening. Great reminder of what federal employees do and the impact they make thats rarely celebrated, let alone even publicizedyoutu.beMeet the DOGE Layoff Victims That Elon Musk Deemed Wasteful | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 26120
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025in New Hampshire, JB Pritzker hits the "simpering timidity" of many Dems: “Fellow Democrats, for far too long we’ve been guilty of listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types who would tell us that America’s house is not on fire,even as the flames are licking their faces" 6164061352
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Pritzker invokes his own Jewish background in responding to Trump: "Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about anti-semitism. When you destroy social justice, you are disparaging the very foundation of Judaism." 2754541129
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025"It's time to fight everywhere and all at once" Pritzker says, blasting "the do nothing crowd" of Dems in response to Republicans: "We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak." 6483611752
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Biden, 52%: “low end approval” Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected” 16159641427
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 27/04/2025This in a real story posted by NBC and blasted out to their email lists. The mainstream media is, without exaggeration, gonna kill us all. 1414338927
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 26/04/2025This is reassuring, if you think Trump can't be stopped 19215
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/04/2025When a media company or law firm surrenders to Trump, they are hurting America. In most cases, they are doing it out of pure greed - both sides are highly transactional & care only about themselves. But their viewers/readers/clients should be clear-eyed about who they really are. 743464635
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 22/04/2025In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD 79118422363
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 26/04/2025“Disappearances are disturbingly common under authoritarian regimes where dissent is quashed and the rule of law is more fiction than fact.” Belarus — or the United States of America? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in DetentionThe Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it. 311192358
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/04/2025NEW: Republican lawmakers are attacking lower courts for blocking unlawful executive actions. The GOP is now pushing a legislative attack on the judiciary that should be stopped at all costs, Democracy Docket Contributor @keiththirion.bsky.social of @afj.org argues.democracydocket.comLower Courts Are Saving The Rule of Law — Now the GOP Wants to Neuter ThemOpinion | We can’t always count on our courts to do the right thing, but we certainly need them to be empowered to try. 27677232
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health (NIH) effort centered on the health needs of women.science.orgNIH guts its first and largest study centered on womenThe Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings 62516
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈AAUP @aaup.org · 24/04/2025Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, & said by college instructors & students. Threats to remove accreditors are transparent attempts to consolidate power in the hands of the administration in order to stifle teaching & research. 🧵aaup.orgEO on Accreditation Opens the Door for Rampant Corruption and Political InterferencePresident Donald Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, said and done by college students and instructors. Threats to remove accreditors fr... 111676
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/04/2025The Trump administration is ending federal civil rights enforcement, including in higher education. The regulations being repealed here are the basis for the withdrawn science funding at Columbia & Harvard. They specifically accused them of Title VI violations. 🧪 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govRestoring Equality of Opportunity and MeritocracyBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. A 25659253
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/04/2025💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success." 432238174969
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025i think it is bad that among the most influential people in government are the monomaniacal adherents of a millenarian tech cult 665260952
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The free speech website where the owner (who believes in free speech) will throttle your access if you criticize him - even if you support all the far-right conspiracy theories and bigotry he supports. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThey Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (Gift Article)Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet. 763006814
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2025"While submission in the face of Trump’s threats and corrupt inducements proved to be infectious in civil society and other private sector contexts, Harvard’s resolute resistance has had the opposite impact. His choice of a powerful target is clearly backfiring."publicnotice.coResistance is not futileHarvard is demonstrating that bullies don't like to get hit back. 352369390
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Zeteo @zeteo.com · 23/04/2025’60 Minutes’ top producer Bill Owens resigned, saying he lost independence, and CBS, like other mainstream news outlets, seems like it may bend the knee to Trump. Subscribe to Zeteo.com for independent journalism that won’t bow to fascists. 12654105
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025RFK Jr. is launching a government registry to track autistic Americans using private medical records.newrepublic.comRFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic PeopleAnd he’s using private medical records to make it happen. 183069822886
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.npr.orgWith CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop. 808168256366
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈WIRED @wired.com · 18/04/2025EXCLUSIVE: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.wired.comDOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track ImmigrantsDOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope. 1221106637
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025The vibe that Dems are poll-tested cowards with no underlying principles will persist at least as long as they insist on maintaining that image themselves bsky.app/profile/murs... 912775571
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Trump and Rubio plan to close the *entire* State Department division covering Africa, and close *all* US embassies south of the Sahara. Just insane. They’ll be drinking champagne in Beijing and Moscow tonight. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u... 38604225
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Wall Street Journal Editorial Board pens sustained criticism of President Trump's current path to a constitutional collision in Abrego Garcia case. "Why is Trump so dead set on denying due process to the wrongly deported El Salvadoran migrant?" (Second time for WSJ to play off of Judge Wilkinson)wsj.comOpinion | Judge Wilkinson’s Sage Advice on Abrego GarciaWhy is Trump so dead set on denying due process the wrongly deported El Salvadoran migrant? 52793176
Reposted by meownisota 🇺🇦🏳️🌈Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale 14230671362