@ellieirons.bsky.social
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All Democrats have to do to win is literally nothing.
Yet Chuck Schumer is actively trying to lose.
I can’t with this guy.
I can’t believe I ever voted for him.
Yet Chuck Schumer is actively trying to lose.
I can’t with this guy.
I can’t believe I ever voted for him.
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
All Democrats have to do to win is literally nothing.
Yet Chuck Schumer is actively trying to lose.
I can’t with this guy.
I can’t believe I ever voted for him.
Yet Chuck Schumer is actively trying to lose.
I can’t with this guy.
I can’t believe I ever voted for him.
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Culturally attuned #scicomm at its best. 🧪
[COMMENTARY] The harms to marginalized communities caused by AI are palpable, yet they don’t always resonate with everyday people, thanks in part to messaging that paints it as useful and necessary.
https://bit.ly/4gOmM9W
https://bit.ly/4gOmM9W
We Should Care About The Harm Generative AI Is Causing
The harms to marginalized communities caused by AI are palpable, yet they don’t always resonate with everyday people, thanks in part to messaging that paints it as useful and necessary.
bit.ly
October 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Culturally attuned #scicomm at its best. 🧪
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if you're in the NYS capital region, stop into Honest Weight Co-Op and pick up a free deadtree edition of its gorgeous magazine, Coop Scoop, which features an interview with me about ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE conducted by @ellieirons.bsky.social & @phiffer.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
if you're in the NYS capital region, stop into Honest Weight Co-Op and pick up a free deadtree edition of its gorgeous magazine, Coop Scoop, which features an interview with me about ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE conducted by @ellieirons.bsky.social & @phiffer.org
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Considerable coverage of the retaliation against the EPA staffers who signed the Declaration of Dissent yesterday.
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
EPA puts 139 employees on leave who criticized administration
The staff were put on administrative leave after signing a “declaration of dissent.”
www.eenews.net
July 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Considerable coverage of the retaliation against the EPA staffers who signed the Declaration of Dissent yesterday.
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
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NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission.
ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with…
projects.propublica.org
June 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission.
ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
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Oh look, tech company emissions are already up 150%, and the AI data center build out has just gotten started.
June 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Oh look, tech company emissions are already up 150%, and the AI data center build out has just gotten started.
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“Remember that the LRAD beams sound in a narrow pattern, so move off to one side to get out of the main pattern”
How to Dodge the Sonic Weapon Used by Police
The #LRAD is like a car alarm from hell—and if you aren’t careful, it could permanently damage your hearing.
www.popularmechanics.com/military/wea...
The #LRAD is like a car alarm from hell—and if you aren’t careful, it could permanently damage your hearing.
www.popularmechanics.com/military/wea...
How to Dodge the Sonic Weapon Used by Police
The LRAD is like a car alarm from hell—and if you aren’t careful, it could permanently damage your hearing.
www.popularmechanics.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“Remember that the LRAD beams sound in a narrow pattern, so move off to one side to get out of the main pattern”
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Solidarity with the protesters who took part in the today’s actions against Avelo!
Avelo Airlines has accepted a $150 million contract to operate ILLEGAL deportation flights. Learn more and join the next Avelo action at www.stopavelo.org.
#PeoplesMovement #StopAvelo #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne
Avelo Airlines has accepted a $150 million contract to operate ILLEGAL deportation flights. Learn more and join the next Avelo action at www.stopavelo.org.
#PeoplesMovement #StopAvelo #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne
The Coalition to Stop Avelo
www.stopavelo.org
June 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Solidarity with the protesters who took part in the today’s actions against Avelo!
Avelo Airlines has accepted a $150 million contract to operate ILLEGAL deportation flights. Learn more and join the next Avelo action at www.stopavelo.org.
#PeoplesMovement #StopAvelo #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne
Avelo Airlines has accepted a $150 million contract to operate ILLEGAL deportation flights. Learn more and join the next Avelo action at www.stopavelo.org.
#PeoplesMovement #StopAvelo #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne
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Shane Burley explains that when the administration undermines our power in the courts and Congress, we have only one option left, each other. Find out on Ep 5 (S2) – Safety Through Solidarity: How Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Struggles are Connected. Listen at fascismbarometer.org. #antiwar
May 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Shane Burley explains that when the administration undermines our power in the courts and Congress, we have only one option left, each other. Find out on Ep 5 (S2) – Safety Through Solidarity: How Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Struggles are Connected. Listen at fascismbarometer.org. #antiwar
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Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
May 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
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Upstate New York has strong abolitionist roots….“fugitives who arrived in Rochester and other cities and towns in upstate New York were welcomed by organized vigilance committees, clothed, fed and found employment or, if they wished, sent on to Canada.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
How a School in a Tiny, New York Town Beat ICE
Sackets Harbor demanded that Tom Homan return three children and their mother. Why did he cave?
www.bloomberg.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Upstate New York has strong abolitionist roots….“fugitives who arrived in Rochester and other cities and towns in upstate New York were welcomed by organized vigilance committees, clothed, fed and found employment or, if they wished, sent on to Canada.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Hey this is extremely not cool, just in case you didn’t know.
1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇
May 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Hey this is extremely not cool, just in case you didn’t know.
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
April 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
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Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
wrd.cm
April 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
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My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some final thoughts for the week. "To keep as many of us alive and free as possible, we are going to have to recognize the nature of the fight we’re waging, and we are going to have to refuse characterizations that deem some of us disposable."
Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Deportations and the Rule of Law
“This may be one of the worst moments in history to fetishize the law or the quality of being law-abiding.”
organizingmythoughts.org
April 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some final thoughts for the week. "To keep as many of us alive and free as possible, we are going to have to recognize the nature of the fight we’re waging, and we are going to have to refuse characterizations that deem some of us disposable."
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The science coup within the Us Government continues.
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
Interesting banner going up on a few of NIH institute sites (four of 27 so far, by my rough count)
April 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The science coup within the Us Government continues.
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
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What stage capitalism is this?
April 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What stage capitalism is this?
Spring Herbal Series kicks off @peopleshealthtroy.bsky.social
@mediasanctuary.bsky.social
on Monday! Learn to make tinctures while helping us stock the Community Apothecary. Details & registration here: www.mediasanctuary.org/event/herbal...
@mediasanctuary.bsky.social
on Monday! Learn to make tinctures while helping us stock the Community Apothecary. Details & registration here: www.mediasanctuary.org/event/herbal...
April 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Spring Herbal Series kicks off @peopleshealthtroy.bsky.social
@mediasanctuary.bsky.social
on Monday! Learn to make tinctures while helping us stock the Community Apothecary. Details & registration here: www.mediasanctuary.org/event/herbal...
@mediasanctuary.bsky.social
on Monday! Learn to make tinctures while helping us stock the Community Apothecary. Details & registration here: www.mediasanctuary.org/event/herbal...
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There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group:
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
March 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group:
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
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If you live in New York, please call the governor and your state lawmakers and tell them to oppose any anti-masking laws. This toolkit from @covidadvocacyny.bsky.social has the numbers and info you need.
COVID Advocacy NY - Stop Mask Ban NY Action Toolkit
covidadvocacyny.org
March 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
If you live in New York, please call the governor and your state lawmakers and tell them to oppose any anti-masking laws. This toolkit from @covidadvocacyny.bsky.social has the numbers and info you need.
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I want to point out, they were doing this kind of thing in 2020.
Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms
Agents are deployed in the Oregon city amid anti-police protests. Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli tells NPR the tactic is being used to move detainees to a "safe location for questioning."
www.npr.org
March 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I want to point out, they were doing this kind of thing in 2020.
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I guess I can ask my mom if she saved that “acid rain pollution” poster I made for a school science project in fucking 1987 and post it on the wall again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US could see return of acid rain if pollution rules are quashed, says scientist who first discovered it
Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I guess I can ask my mom if she saved that “acid rain pollution” poster I made for a school science project in fucking 1987 and post it on the wall again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The post office is under attack! Visit the website of the national postal workers union to find a rally near you- nalc.org. graphic by Justseeds artist Josh MacPhee!
March 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The post office is under attack! Visit the website of the national postal workers union to find a rally near you- nalc.org. graphic by Justseeds artist Josh MacPhee!