Reposted by Sara SoderstromGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 27/06/2025Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all. 811309315460
Reposted by Sara SoderstromJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."slate.comThe United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass StatelessnessThis scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical. 13855812409
Reposted by Sara SoderstromEddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025This cannot be overstated, and I suspect private industry is underestimating how much it will lose in this equation over the long term. Long term private profit stands on the shoulders of giants just as much as foundational science for the public good does. 34914
Reposted by Sara SoderstromPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street 9773960711260
Reposted by Sara SoderstromGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?" 115138077125
Sara Soderstrom @sarasoderstrom.bsky.social · 08/05/2025And Ono is out! Let’s see who ends up next… 020
Sara Soderstrom @sarasoderstrom.bsky.social · 08/05/2025I remember in 1989 when our basketball coach announced he was leaving after the NCAAs and was told “Nope. You’re out now.” It’s time for Ono to be told that. Let’s have someone as interim who is reflecting Michigan values, fighting for us, and advocating for higher ed. We don’t need to wait. 0124
Reposted by Sara SoderstromSteve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...nytimes.comE.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program 20261182439
Reposted by Sara SoderstromChris Rider @chrisrider.bsky.social · 06/05/2025"As previously honored norms of shared governance are eroding, university leaders increasingly refuse to even talk to faculty anymore, preferring to govern by decree, by badly written email, and, now, by op-ed." www.chronicle.com/article/sant...chronicle.comOpinion: Santa Ono Flees for FloridaHe might be better suited to red-state politics. 032
Reposted by Sara SoderstromJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/04/2025Why is the administration trying to get rid of Head Start? Because it challenges their narrative of waste, fraud, and abuse. And because it gets in the way of their efforts to trap people in precarity and make them easier to exploit. My latest for @msnbc.com: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...msnbc.comOpinion | Head Start is government that works. No wonder the Trump administration wants to get rid of it.The gutting of Head Start would force vulnerable people to labor in more difficult or demeaning conditions for the benefit of the privileged. 527096
Reposted by Sara SoderstromCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...nytimes.comU.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are JewishA questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed. 39992983254
Reposted by Sara SoderstromJordan Acker @jordanackermi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025A few thoughts on the day, regarding the op/ed: If you haven't read it, its here: t.co/uonKEbl17pt.cohttps://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-eds/in-defense-of-our-institutional-independence/ 162
Reposted by Sara SoderstromCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 21/04/2025@therevelator.org: “Yes, Your Friends and Neighbors Want to Talk to You About Climate Change” By @johnrplatt.bsky.social Really, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation. #The89Percenttherevelator.orgYes, Your Friends and Neighbors Want to Talk to You About Climate Change • The RevelatorReally, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation. 0219
Reposted by Sara SoderstromShobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 21/04/2025My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.nsf.gov NSF Award Search: Award # 2240343 - Constructing Credible Knowledge and Expertise in Air Pollution Regulation and Monitoring: The Problem of Quantification Lock 452194948
Reposted by Sara SoderstromIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Browsing articles on AI and environmental justice (across all disciplines). So many of them are like "how to use AI to achieve environmental justice," and totally miss the point that AI is the environmental injustice. 311537
Reposted by Sara SoderstromCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20/04/2025The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib. 292134571
Reposted by Sara SoderstromChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me 7825178311287
Reposted by Sara SoderstromBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 19/04/2025There are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...nytimes.comHow Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal GovernmentFor decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t. 13493208
Reposted by Sara SoderstromAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 19/04/2025This is the policy process in a Trump White House. Rival factions jockey for access to the Oval, race to get POTUS to run their thing up the flagpole publicly before another faction can shoot it down. This is not a healthy policy process... 1630472
Reposted by Sara SoderstromChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!! 16728589220068
Reposted by Sara SoderstromLisa 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 14230681363
Reposted by Sara SoderstromMark Chediak @mchediak.bsky.social · 18/04/2025White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTrump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green GroupsWhite House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta... 14200139
Reposted by Sara SoderstromNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/04/2025The Trump administration justifies a lot of their racism and transphobia through “protecting women from violence.” But this is just another reminder that they’re pro-rape. And using rape victims as a shield is just another form of objectification. 1235103
Reposted by Sara SoderstromPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Jewish classmates of Mohsen Mahdawi speak out— One, an IDF refuser, recalls how Mohsen met with Zionists, including those cruel to him—or how, while seeking to heal campus, he even expressed sympathy for administrators (the same who ignored his pleas for help). "Most profound person I've ever met"zeteo.com'New Kind of Antisemitism': Jewish Students Slam Trump's Detention of Mohsen MahdawiThe Columbia student, a green card holder, was detained by ICE at his citizenship interview on Monday. 81277433
Reposted by Sara SoderstromBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger. 644209097731
Reposted by Sara SoderstromGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now. 9474504414361
Reposted by Sara SoderstromDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/04/2025With current border policies, it is unethical to continue holding so many important science conferences in the US. In addition to moving conferences to safer international locations, US organizers must reorganize meetings around remote participation. 11917178
Reposted by Sara SoderstromEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Teaching kids about climate change is not what causes climate anxiety. *Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...nytimes.comTrump Administration Cuts Research Funding, Claiming It Creates ‘Climate Anxiety’The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming. 8587179
Reposted by Sara SoderstromRep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be. 619314777508
Reposted by Sara SoderstromJamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 13/04/2025DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress Elon Musk now says his group will produce only 15 percent of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...nytimes.comDOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress (Gift Article)Elon Musk now says his group will produce only 15 percent of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. 871207422
Reposted by Sara SoderstromAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/04/2025This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments 458116823526
Reposted by Sara SoderstromYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12/04/2025There is not a soul on earth who believes that President Bukele wouldn’t immediately release Abrego-Garcia if asked by the United States. President Bukele is coming to the United States this week; he can give Abrego-Garcia a ride on his plane! 771995450
Reposted by Sara SoderstromAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for *punishment* in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions 503118542984
Reposted by Sara SoderstromONE Division, AOM @aom-one.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🌍 Welcome to the Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM)! 🌱 Join us in exploring how organizations can thrive while sustaining the environment for future generations. 🌿 #ONE #AOM #Management #Sustainability 173
Reposted by Sara SoderstromDavid Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 12/04/2025It's now 840-plus international students at over 160 colleges and universities who have had their visas revoked. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...insidehighered.comWhere Students Have Had Their Visas RevokedThe Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system. 188
Reposted by Sara SoderstromJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/04/20253. The rationale for this policy keeps changing. Remember when it was all about bringing manufacturing home? (That was yesterday.) Now it's negotiating deals. Those are fundamentally in tension. (I'm only going to build a factory in the US if tariffs are likely to persist.) 221454205
Reposted by Sara SoderstromShobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 09/04/2025There seems to be a sharp increase in student visa revocation for no discernable cause (esp Asian students). Are others seeing this? My international students are completely beside themselves, and not feeling much support. There's a real culture of fear and very little media discussion of it. 97223
Reposted by Sara SoderstromVanessa Bohns @profbohns.bsky.social · 09/04/2025These are literally the headlines and ledes on Fox News today: “Economist says Trump's tariffs are a 'win-win strategy” “Trump is 'just phenomenal at negotiating'” “Trump has a spine of steel and he will not break” We all live in North Korea now. 2195
Reposted by Sara SoderstromDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 09/04/2025"The 'emergency' Trump is *actually* responding to—the one that motivated his Big Oil donors to donate $500m in the last election cycle—is the rapid increase in renewable energy deployment" says @billmckibben.bsky.social #climatecrisis billmckibben.substack.com/p/what-is-an...billmckibben.substack.comWhat Is An Emergency?Thinking as calmly as possible about where we find ourselves 610343
Reposted by Sara SoderstromBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 09/04/2025"[I]t is using this case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop the Trump administration from imprisoning anyone it wants anywhere else in the world. "nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Gulag ArchipelagoHe is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world. 03013
Reposted by Sara SoderstromDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Alternative headline: Acting Head of IRS Resigns Rather Than Break the Law 3944741289
Reposted by Sara SoderstromKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri. This is not my America, and the world is aghast. 16039801857
Reposted by Sara SoderstromKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/04/2025The rationale for this cancellation is climate denial. There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it. Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record. 29639271
Reposted by Sara SoderstromRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported. 12134351712227
Reposted by Sara SoderstromMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol... 7825831149