Simulated Chollas
@simulatedchollas.bsky.social
An epileptic forever-bumpkin turned intermittent-scientist
Abolish borders
Ruthlessly criticize what exists
Internationalism or bust
Abolish borders
Ruthlessly criticize what exists
Internationalism or bust
Pinned
Gaza Funds Spotlight Campaign
Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here
www.gazafunds.com
“Gaza Funds is a project that connects people to crowdfunding campaigns for individuals and families from Gaza. Each time the page is reloaded, a different campaign appears.” www.gazafunds.com
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Los científicos que había en EEUU ya estaban iniciando un éxodo hacia China y Europa desde que el tarado que tienen de presidente de puso a recortar financiación a las universidades y a denegar visas de estudios. Esto sólo mejora la situación. Para China y Europa.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Los científicos que había en EEUU ya estaban iniciando un éxodo hacia China y Europa desde que el tarado que tienen de presidente de puso a recortar financiación a las universidades y a denegar visas de estudios. Esto sólo mejora la situación. Para China y Europa.
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*america stabbing itself dot png*
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
*america stabbing itself dot png*
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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Molly has created a list of people who are flooded out. Please help.
I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Molly has created a list of people who are flooded out. Please help.
All the social-chauvinists are now the ‘labour’ party (don’t laugh). And more and more frequently British bourgeois parliamentarians, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of socialism, are speaking of the “British citizen”
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
All the social-chauvinists are now the ‘labour’ party (don’t laugh). And more and more frequently British bourgeois parliamentarians, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of socialism, are speaking of the “British citizen”
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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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“Im honored to be your ancestor” - @sfdirewolf.bsky.social final words to disability fighters
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“Im honored to be your ancestor” - @sfdirewolf.bsky.social final words to disability fighters
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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If a severe polar storm hits the Gaza Strip, thousands of tents will flood, thousands of people will be left without a warm shelter, and the humanitarian crisis will turn into an open catastrophe that demands an urgent and unconditional response.
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If a severe polar storm hits the Gaza Strip, thousands of tents will flood, thousands of people will be left without a warm shelter, and the humanitarian crisis will turn into an open catastrophe that demands an urgent and unconditional response.
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China recomenda que seus cidadãos não viajem para o Japão. Dano econômico é sempre uma boa ideia. E eu acho que esse primeira-ministra não vai durar.
China asks citizens to avoid travelling to Japan, following diplomatic feud due to remarks by Tokyo's new premier.
China issues travel warning for Japan over threats to intervene in Taiwan
China asks citizens to avoid travelling to Japan, following diplomatic feud due to remarks by Tokyo's new premier.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
China recomenda que seus cidadãos não viajem para o Japão. Dano econômico é sempre uma boa ideia. E eu acho que esse primeira-ministra não vai durar.
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Forgiveness and understanding are a commodity like anything else and under the current system the rich and powerful will channel them in ways that benefit them most.
the nuzzi profile in nyt feels like… a betrayal to political reporters who do deep & serious investigative work *without* hiding their love affairs with the candidates they were trusted to report on…
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Forgiveness and understanding are a commodity like anything else and under the current system the rich and powerful will channel them in ways that benefit them most.
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‘The public needs to wake up’: Rhode Island mom detained at Logan for more than a week
The woman, a legal permanent resident for 40 years, is being denied access to a lawyer while being held by Customs and Border Protection
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
The woman, a legal permanent resident for 40 years, is being denied access to a lawyer while being held by Customs and Border Protection
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
'The public needs to wake up': Rhode Island mom detained at Logan for more than a week
The woman, a legal permanent resident for 40 years, is being denied access to a lawyer while being held by federal officials at Logan.
www.boston.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
‘The public needs to wake up’: Rhode Island mom detained at Logan for more than a week
The woman, a legal permanent resident for 40 years, is being denied access to a lawyer while being held by Customs and Border Protection
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
The woman, a legal permanent resident for 40 years, is being denied access to a lawyer while being held by Customs and Border Protection
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Cursed statement: “How fast it opens up depends on global warming and the new cold war”
www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
The Arctic will become more connected to the global economy
Expect more activity in the Arctic ocean in spring 2026, when the ice melts. But how quickly the region opens up depends on several factors
www.economist.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Cursed statement: “How fast it opens up depends on global warming and the new cold war”
www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
www.economist.com/the-world-ah...
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As usual Trump himself flails disastrously through a scandal, if the pattern of previous scandals holds it will be the political media and friendly judges on the courts who clean it up for him
If you were a foreign correspondent tasked with reporting on the day to day national politics of another country, you would assume what’s happening now is the active collapse of the administration
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
As usual Trump himself flails disastrously through a scandal, if the pattern of previous scandals holds it will be the political media and friendly judges on the courts who clean it up for him
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This article is from 5 years ago, and I've included an NIH study on the reporting in the comments.
The reason I bring this up is ICE was forcibly sterilizing women during Trump's first term. We new this. And then Biden took office.
Biden gave ICE $3.4 billion to expand detention efforts in 2024.
The reason I bring this up is ICE was forcibly sterilizing women during Trump's first term. We new this. And then Biden took office.
Biden gave ICE $3.4 billion to expand detention efforts in 2024.
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This article is from 5 years ago, and I've included an NIH study on the reporting in the comments.
The reason I bring this up is ICE was forcibly sterilizing women during Trump's first term. We new this. And then Biden took office.
Biden gave ICE $3.4 billion to expand detention efforts in 2024.
The reason I bring this up is ICE was forcibly sterilizing women during Trump's first term. We new this. And then Biden took office.
Biden gave ICE $3.4 billion to expand detention efforts in 2024.
The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to anyone who has collaborated with a scientist or advised a student from China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea in the past 5 years. www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to anyone who has collaborated with a scientist or advised a student from China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea in the past 5 years. www.science.org/content/arti...
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For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
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Breaking from us:
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Breaking from us:
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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FWIW, Florida’s new “History of Communism” curriculum is very similar to how the fascist-adjacent right wingers of the 1950s and 60s talked about the place of communism in America. bsky.app/profile/seth...
If the current draft of the Florida State educational standards pertaining to the new History of Communism course are adopted, then students will learn how it's a Commie trick to use the term "McCarthyism" as an insult to impugn the integrity of wholesome anti-communists like today's McCarthyites!
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
FWIW, Florida’s new “History of Communism” curriculum is very similar to how the fascist-adjacent right wingers of the 1950s and 60s talked about the place of communism in America. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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We have discussed a lot of “the funniest way it could finally happen” and I gotta say that him slinking away to his resort mansion while being too scared to confront the press over his Dead Pedophile Extraordinaire BFF allegations would be pretty high up on the list
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We have discussed a lot of “the funniest way it could finally happen” and I gotta say that him slinking away to his resort mansion while being too scared to confront the press over his Dead Pedophile Extraordinaire BFF allegations would be pretty high up on the list
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Oh no, investigate the president who supported genocidal sanctions in Iraq, Indonesian occupation of East Timor, quarantined Haitians in concentration camps at Guantánamo? Not Clinton, the president I spent most of the 90s on parole for protesting?
Breaking News: Pam Bondi assigned a prosecutor to look into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats including Bill Clinton, at President Trump’s urging.
Trump Live Updates: Bondi Assigns Prosecutor to Look Into Epstein’s Ties to Prominent Democrats
nyti.ms
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Oh no, investigate the president who supported genocidal sanctions in Iraq, Indonesian occupation of East Timor, quarantined Haitians in concentration camps at Guantánamo? Not Clinton, the president I spent most of the 90s on parole for protesting?
According to the Liberal Currents crowd, petty bourgeois real estate ventures are ‘socialist’ and not in any way shape or form related to Capitalism.
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
According to the Liberal Currents crowd, petty bourgeois real estate ventures are ‘socialist’ and not in any way shape or form related to Capitalism.
Burb-trads have no business criticizing food. Their cultural dishes came off the labels of 1960s mayonnaise ads.
Ironically, cranberries are about the only "traditional" Thanksgiving dish whose roots can be traced to North America. Corn, squash, potatoes, even domesticated turkeys made their way to North America from South or Central America. www.si.edu/spotlight/th...
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Burb-trads have no business criticizing food. Their cultural dishes came off the labels of 1960s mayonnaise ads.
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Similar to the US right, the Brazilian right is also telling young people that university degrees are worthless and that you should go to trade school instead.
Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.
Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.
Durante evento para anunciara expansão do ensino técnico no estado de São Paulo, o governador Tarcísio de Freitas afirmou “diploma tem cada vez menos relevância”. Segundo ele, a justificativa seria que o mercado está cada "vez menos interessado" na formação acadêmica.
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Similar to the US right, the Brazilian right is also telling young people that university degrees are worthless and that you should go to trade school instead.
Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.
Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.
“Our party stands for nothing but sustaining our party’s existence. Vote for us.”
I understand we might not be for everyone and that is ok!
But I promise you our goal is singular - getting more democrats elected.
That’s it. Everything else is secondary.
If you’d like to check us out - follow @findoutpodcast.bsky.social or whenever you get your podcasts.
But I promise you our goal is singular - getting more democrats elected.
That’s it. Everything else is secondary.
If you’d like to check us out - follow @findoutpodcast.bsky.social or whenever you get your podcasts.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“Our party stands for nothing but sustaining our party’s existence. Vote for us.”