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Lauren Mullenbach, Ph.D. @mullenbach.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I wrote about the actors involved in data center decisions — who is for and who is against. Capitalism usually wins. 👇

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Another pro wrestler with better politics and a more clearly articulated moral stance than 99.9% of elected officials

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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This is so funny because the assignment where I require students to use chat gpt inevitably ends in a class discussion about how AI is worse than they thought & has a lot of problems. & then AI submissions for other assignments stop after because students realize they’re better off without AI.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2025

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“'Teach them how to use it ethically' is a line that ignores the impact of AI on the planet our students will inherit from us. It must ignore this because—setting much else aside...—AI’s environmental abuses alone mean there is no such thing as ethical AI use in most classrooms."

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Resisting AI Mania in Schools - Part II

On behalf of students and the planet, more messages to push back on

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

As an example of how much the media is failing the nation I present to you the first thing you see on CNN right now

CNN homepage with How Trump managed to get his much-needed China trade win in big letters and then a separate article in small letters saying Trump's China trade breakthrough might be enough to avoid self-inflicted recession

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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s fun watching people who don’t teach the ethics of scientific practice discover how many of our regulations exist because of Very Bad Things That Happened Before the Regulation Existed.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/04/2025

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

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Nihil Dev 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @nihildev.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

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Our Health ROI

Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/04/2025

Goal: Crush universities Need a policy tool: Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights. Need a violation to allege: Use the Jews! Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us. bsky.app/profile/cram...

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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The surest way to protect our Constitution is to act like we still have one. The surest way to lose it is to act like we don’t.

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The Trump administration wanted to control the most basic aspects of the university, including what is taught and who is hired. The wanted to turn Harvard into a fancy version of Trump University. And when Harvard said no, Trump used publicly funded research as a hostage.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/04/2025

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

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Protecting American Energy From State Overreach

By 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.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 28/03/2025

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

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Lauren Mullenbach, Ph.D. @mullenbach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

You should be able to record yard work as a workout in Strava

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true. One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.

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Ypsilanti District Library @ypsilibrary.org · 27/03/2025

The executive order attempting to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services puts statewide services like MeL (the Michigan E-Library) & MeLCat (the catalog that allows patrons from participating libraries to borrow materials from all over Michigan) at risk. Read more: buff.ly/jrYdzN5

This image shows a colorful quote graphic with a yellow, blue, and orange border design. The main text is set against a cream-colored background and reads:
"We just want to serve the population that we serve. We want to enrich lives and provide information and resources so everyone has access, it's really as simple as that. And this takes away that access."
The quote is attributed to Carol Dawe, Director of the Lakeland Library Cooperative, whose name and title appear at the bottom of the graphic.
The design has decorative elements including what appears to be a small blue/light colored shape near the top of the graphic and a wavy green border at the bottom.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 27/03/2025

I can’t emphasize enough that cynicism is a dictator’s best friend. Stay outraged. Believe in and work for democracy.

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Lauren Mullenbach, Ph.D. @mullenbach.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Just completely ignoring the whole field of leisure studies 🫠

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
by Talia Argondezzi

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "The people we rely on to do dangerous and difficult things for us rely on one thing from us: That we will not... be reckless with the dangerous things they are doing for us. That's the national security implications of a private server that's unsecured."

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Louie Rivers III (he/him) @louierivers3.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

But her emails

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

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At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control

As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.

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Lauren Mullenbach, Ph.D. @mullenbach.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The assault on science continues. The sheer volume of what we won’t know is incomprehensible if we keep attacking science. A whole generation (or more?) of people will grow up in a less safe world, let alone know how we know anything about our world.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

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Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article)

More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The constant illegality is exhausting. And the extended nature of all this is going wear people down, as what was initially shocking becomes par for the course.

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Lauren Mullenbach, Ph.D. @mullenbach.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I know the world is crumbling around us but I just heard and then saw a red-winged blackbird in my backyard??? And that just feels… miraculous today. My favorite bird call, just randomly on a Wednesday afternoon while working?? We don’t deserve birds

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Lauren Mullenbach, Ph.D. @mullenbach.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Devastated for my colleagues at Maine Sea Grant 💔 hoping we as a national network figure out how to fight this

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Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Across the U.S., Sea Grant supports coastal, marine & Great Lakes communities through research, extension & education. It touches our lives in so many ways. 20 years ago, I arrived in DC to work on #science policy as a marine biologist & Knauss Fellow through the Maine Sea Grant under NOAA. /1

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

For context, the funding being terminated is 50% of Maine Sea Grant's budget. Cutting $4.5 million won't make a drop in the overall federal budget, but will decimate the program. Maine Sea Grant, like all Sea Grant programs, exists to serve the American people. The return on investment is huge.

An infographic about the impact of Sea Grant funding

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is absolutely devastating. "The University of Maine System, which oversees Maine Sea Grant, said it was notified Friday night that NOAA was terminating a four-year agreement for funding, leaving 20 employees and the Sea Grant’s programming in limbo." www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...

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Maine Sea Grant funding terminated as Trump administration makes cuts to NOAA

The move to discontinue the $4.5 million grant program leaves 20 employees and the Sea Grant’s programming in limbo.

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UCLA Emmett Institute @uclalawemmett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“There will be people who die in extreme weather events & related disasters who would not have otherwise.”

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...

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Judge rules mass firings of federal probationary employees is likely illegal

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Office of Personnel Management to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees, including the D...

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

Tweet from the world's dumbest fascist reading: there is a shortage of top notch air traffic controllers. If you have retired, but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

First of many, but here we have a completely manufactured criminal investigation. One career prosecutor already resigned over it. Goal is simply to claw back $20 billion in Biden era climate money. Open and shut corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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FBI investigating Trump EPA claims of fraud in $20B Biden grant fund

While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.

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Natalie Dean, PhD @nataliexdean.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Make it make sense!

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