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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/01/2026

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Given our incredible track record of regime changes e.g. Iran (wtf to fubar), Iraq (Saddam to ISIS), Afghanistan (Taliban to Taliban), I’m sure Venezuelans feel pretty good about their prospects.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This would be a good time for anybody interested in doing serious news to resign in protest from CBS.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I would rather have been wrong about this.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I will say, as long as articles of impeachment go sitting unsponsored on the house floor…Dems do, too. Particularly Jeffries.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Screenshot from project 2025 that says By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character. For example, never again should CDC officials be allowed to say in their official capacity that school children "should be" masked or vaccinated (through a schedule or otherwise) or prohibited from learning in a school building.
Such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. We have learned that when CDC says what people "should" do, it readily becomes a "must" backed by severe punishments, including criminal penalties. CDC should report on the risks and effectiveness of all infectious disease-mitigation measures dispassionately and leave the "should" and "must" policy calls to politically accountable parties.
Conflicts of Interest. There was a time when the CDC could not take money

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This year has been brutal for science, especially early career researchers and those working with communities further marginalized by this administration. Please read the experiences of these scientists. And when you’re done reading, find a way to fight back. theconversation.com/this-year-ne...

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‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives

US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/12/2025

This administration specializes in fearmongering, not facts. The facts: 86% of trans youth report s*cidal ideation and 56% have attempted to end their lives. Anti trans laws increase attempts by ~72%. <1% report regretting GAC. If they are trying to protect children, science says they are wrong.

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...

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Kelly Taylor, MS, CGC @msfopra.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🧵I want to scream and yell and throw things. This study is so unethical. And the racism leaves me speechless. White Europeans and Americans taking advantage of a poor country in Africa. If this study gets done there will be deaths that need not have happened.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 19/12/2025

The US Department of Health and Human Services has terminated several multimillion-dollar grants—including one on early autism IDing—to the American Academy of Pediatrics following the association’s criticisms of the policies of its ghoul of a secretary, RFK Jr. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr

Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP

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Gregory @gregoryhmm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

“Tell your children who the cowards were.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Read @boghuma.bsky.social’s piece on RFK Jr’s HBV vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

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How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust

The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm

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Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is outstanding work. If you're only going to read one thing today it needs to be this.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

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Wendy Orent @wendyorent.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It certainly does! We know the best practices for administering Hepatitis B vaccine - given right after birth - but let's experiment on black babies and see what happens. F**k that. Just F**k that.

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Kelly Taylor, MS, CGC @msfopra.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is mind-boggling unethical and if done there will deaths when there did not need to be deaths. RFK JR is a monster.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

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CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers

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Kelly Taylor, MS, CGC @msfopra.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The similarities between RFK Jr and T Lysenko are chilling. RFK Jr will be responsible for so many deaths if he is not removed from office. The damage done under his leadership to CDC and NIH will take years to undo even if we could start today.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

They’re doing eugenics right out in the open now, largely because Trump, RFK Jr, Dr Oz and the rest of the fascists have been pushing a eugenicist agenda since they seized control. It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous. Disabled people are not “imperfect”. We are also not expendable

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025

The billionaires, media, and both major US parties cooperate with each other to fuck the American populace. It's going to be hard to keep in mind that all of it needs to be toppled. But it's...everything. Is the whole goddamn apparatus. We are a failed state.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025

The media attacked trans folks calling them groomers and pedophiles. The Democrats attacked Mamdani. Both groups cooperated, collaborated with and/or capitulated to the Republicans as they struggled to bring about a new authoritarian white nationalist cryptochristian fascist state. Everyone's guilty

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025

Both parties and the media are getting their instructions from the same informal conspiracy walled garden party of rich elites playing monopoly with our lives for their profit and pleasure. The billionaires are the true enemy, and the media will be their foot soldiers here.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025

If the Democrats were a real party, they would be full court pressing this, ousting everyone associated with Epstein and bringing the whole Republican party crashing down. But they're gonna do the same old Democrat shit. We need a progressive movement. I hope one is starting to build.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025

Republicans are going to try to distance themselves from this, and the media is going to do their best to let them. It's gonna feel like Bush II remixes, everyone pretending they've never heard of this Trump guy and if they did they were always against him, everyone was. History repeats.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

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Susanbeth5781 @susanpatrick1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Now that's how it's done. Congratulations, Adelita

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/11/2025

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

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Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states. Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/11/2025

Congratulations to Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on convincing millions to believe in politics and the future of the Democratic Party! His seemingly-longshot win represents a stunning rejection of the outdated, loser version of the Democratic Party that brought Trump to power twice.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/11/2025

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

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Kelly Taylor, MS, CGC @msfopra.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Thank you for this. Read the whole thread. The Rockwell family: “If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see that (his) work has been marshalled for the cause of persecution towards immigrant communities and people of color.”

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Amy Nemmity @amy.wrestlejoy.com · 30/10/2025

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

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Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away'

Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Here are some recent things that I've contributed to and I am very proud to be a part of this movement called #IDSov

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 26/10/2025

FYI: it’s, uh, *not nothing* that the head of an entire Christian denomination — here Rev. Karen Georgia A. Thompson of the United Church of Christ — issued a statement decrying DHS agents for shooting one of her pastors in the face with a pepper round, adding, “No one is safe from tyranny."

"Peaceful protest is guaranteed under the first amendment. The escalation of aggression against peaceful protestors is a sign of the times, another reflection of the cruelty directed at people, and lack of regard this current administration has for the constitution and the law. No peaceful protestor should be afraid of exercising their rights, in fact no person should be afraid to exercise the freedoms guaranteed.
This is the third identified clergy to experience pepper spray in the face. No one is safe from tyranny."

Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia A. Thompson - United Church of Christ

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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have all been clear that this compact is an illegal overreach, but Vanderbilt's leadership has instead tried to remain neutral.
The original letter from Secretary of Education Linda McMahon states that the compact is "largely in its final form" and asks for "limited, targeted feedback."
However, there are no minor changes that will make it acceptable. As MIT and other leading institutions have done, it is essential to reject the entire idea of trading away institutional, faculty and student freedoms for government benefits. Vanderbilt's non-response allows and, in fact, encourages the administration to continue to negotiate "special deals" with institutions rather than following our laws and constitution.
While I greatly appreciate the Chancellor's acknowledgement that "academic freedom, free expression and independence are essential for universities," such reassurances read hollow without transparency about the feedback given to the administration and the willingness to publicly call a spade a spade. The current proposal is unacceptable and universities should refuse to voluntarily trade away their independence and rights to free expression.
University leaders must take a stand for our democracy
My message to Chancellor Diermeier (and all university leaders who may soon be faced with a similar choice) is simple. Take a stand. Have the courage to say that this unconstitutional proposal is unacceptable. Freely acknowledge all of the things your university is doing well and where you have room to grow.
Like all institutions, universities are imperfect and can always be improved. University leaders should feel free to implement reforms to improve their institutions and align closer to their values and mission. But do not negotiate with the people who are trying to destroy you.

Universities can and should have open conversations with the federal government about how to improve higher education in the United States. But they should never sign an agreement that compromises their independence and constitutional rights.
In their ideal form, universities can serve as models of possibility for society -spaces for pluralism, fierce inquiry and evidence-based debate. They should also be institutions with clear values and the spine to stand up for the rule of law, the Constitution and our democracy.

Lisa Fazio is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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CONTRIBUTORS
Opinion This piece expresses the views of its author(s), separate from those of this publication.
Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough | Opinion
The Nashville university cannot afford to remain neutral on the Trump administration's "compact" agreement.
Lisa Fazio Guest Columnist
Oct. 24, 2025, 5:07 a.m. CT
Key Points Al-assisted summary
The Trump administration proposed a "Compact for Academic Excellence" to nine universities, offering federal benefits for restrictions on university operations.
Most of the invited universities, including MIT and Brown, have rejected the proposal, though some remain open to negotiation.
The author, a Vanderbilt professor, argues the university should outright reject the compact instead of just providing feedback.

On Oct. 1, the Trump administration sent a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" to nine universities including Vanderbilt University here in Nashville.
The compact promises preferential access to federal grants and contracts in exchange for wide-ranging restrictions on university admissions, tuition, grading, student discipline, campus speech and protest rules, faculty and staff hiring, athletics and many other domains.
The demands in the compact have been described as "overreaching government coercion," "extortion," "blatantly illegal," and "the most sweeping pile of unconstitutional conditions that any American constitutional lawyer has ever seen in the wild" by legal experts from across the political spectrum.

In addition, more than 330 former senior national security and law enforcement professionals who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations describe the compact as "an indicator of authoritarianism" and a "direct assault on the rule of law." In this context, it is clear why universities should be absolute in their rejection of the administration's demands.
The nine invited institutions have taken different paths in their responses to the compact. MIT quickly and definitively rejected the proposal, stating, "we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
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Other universities followed suit with some rejecting the entire premise of a compact in any form (Brown University, University of Southern California, Dartmouth University, University of Virginia) and others rejecting this version but either implicitly or explicitly remaining open to negotiation on future versions (University of Arizona, University of Pennsylvania). Only the University of Texas at Austin has yet to make a public statement.
Vanderbilt should reject the compact outright
My own university, Vanderbilt, has decided to take another path. Relying on the technicality that the administration only asked for feedback, not acceptance or rejection, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier is providing "feedback and comments" to the administration. Standing alone and forging your own way is often admirable. However, in this case, Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion.

Vanderbilt should not in good conscience participate in negotiations over unconstitutional restrictions on its speech or the speech of its faculty and students. The Vanderbilt senate, undergraduate students and even a current Vanderbilt trustee

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