Yvette Lewis
@ylewisgrace.bsky.social
Happily married, mom of two teenagers, ballet teacher, compulsive reader, trying to love Jesus and my neighbor well.
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#dftba This tracker is for all the legal challenges to all of Trumps actions, including USAID.
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
www.justsecurity.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#dftba This tracker is for all the legal challenges to all of Trumps actions, including USAID.
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
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It turns out entrusting our democracy to a bunch of white Christian nationalists who only see government as a means to enrich themselves and punish their enemies is a really bad idea, actually.
February 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It turns out entrusting our democracy to a bunch of white Christian nationalists who only see government as a means to enrich themselves and punish their enemies is a really bad idea, actually.
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Regardless of what you think about CFPB, it was created by an act of Congress (the Dodd-Frank Act). If Congress wants to amend or abolish it, that's the legislative branch's prerogative. It is not Elon Musk's prerogative.
Musk & the DOGE henchmen are now inside & gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
CFPB costs less than $1billion to run, but has returned over $20 billion to ordinary Americans who’ve been victims of big business fraud & illegal junk fees.
A great day for corporate scammers.
CFPB costs less than $1billion to run, but has returned over $20 billion to ordinary Americans who’ve been victims of big business fraud & illegal junk fees.
A great day for corporate scammers.
February 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Regardless of what you think about CFPB, it was created by an act of Congress (the Dodd-Frank Act). If Congress wants to amend or abolish it, that's the legislative branch's prerogative. It is not Elon Musk's prerogative.
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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
February 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
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Sometimes, in order to make sense of the chaos going on in the world, it’s important to bake a batch of emotional support cinnamon rolls.
February 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Sometimes, in order to make sense of the chaos going on in the world, it’s important to bake a batch of emotional support cinnamon rolls.
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I wrote a book that helps kids understand the faith fueled activism of the black church. I think the ideas there are particularly relevant in this moment.
Andy Johnson and the March for Justice
Amazon.com: Andy Johnson and the March for Justice: 9780593580646: McCaulley, Esau, Boateng, Emmanuel: Books
www.amazon.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I wrote a book that helps kids understand the faith fueled activism of the black church. I think the ideas there are particularly relevant in this moment.
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Tomorrow is my day off, and my college freshman is also coming home tomorrow for the weekend. Yay for something good to look forward to!
January 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Tomorrow is my day off, and my college freshman is also coming home tomorrow for the weekend. Yay for something good to look forward to!
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Stop. Saying. Telling. The. Truth. Doesn’t. Matter.
It matters.
Saying it doesn’t matter because it won’t change things is just enabling utilitarianism wrapped up in pseudorighteousness.
Tell the truth.
Scream it into the void.
Truth has value in itself. Or it’s not truth.
It matters.
Saying it doesn’t matter because it won’t change things is just enabling utilitarianism wrapped up in pseudorighteousness.
Tell the truth.
Scream it into the void.
Truth has value in itself. Or it’s not truth.
January 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Stop. Saying. Telling. The. Truth. Doesn’t. Matter.
It matters.
Saying it doesn’t matter because it won’t change things is just enabling utilitarianism wrapped up in pseudorighteousness.
Tell the truth.
Scream it into the void.
Truth has value in itself. Or it’s not truth.
It matters.
Saying it doesn’t matter because it won’t change things is just enabling utilitarianism wrapped up in pseudorighteousness.
Tell the truth.
Scream it into the void.
Truth has value in itself. Or it’s not truth.
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If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.
January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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You will hear many calls for unity.
Philippians 2 tells us how true unity happens: by all parties giving up selfish ambition and putting each others' interests before their own. By mutual submission.
If someone calls for you to unify with them but is not willing to do this, is it unity they want?
Philippians 2 tells us how true unity happens: by all parties giving up selfish ambition and putting each others' interests before their own. By mutual submission.
If someone calls for you to unify with them but is not willing to do this, is it unity they want?
January 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
You will hear many calls for unity.
Philippians 2 tells us how true unity happens: by all parties giving up selfish ambition and putting each others' interests before their own. By mutual submission.
If someone calls for you to unify with them but is not willing to do this, is it unity they want?
Philippians 2 tells us how true unity happens: by all parties giving up selfish ambition and putting each others' interests before their own. By mutual submission.
If someone calls for you to unify with them but is not willing to do this, is it unity they want?
Today I went to Pilates class, drank coffee, helped my kids, and taught my ballet classes. Later, I loaded my college freshman’s car with a few grocery staples and sent him back to school with hugs/kisses. Now I’m watching football next to my husband. Sleep well, friends. Fresh mercies tomorrow.
January 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Today I went to Pilates class, drank coffee, helped my kids, and taught my ballet classes. Later, I loaded my college freshman’s car with a few grocery staples and sent him back to school with hugs/kisses. Now I’m watching football next to my husband. Sleep well, friends. Fresh mercies tomorrow.
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The January 19th, 2025 Sunday Scaries are on an unhinged level.
January 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The January 19th, 2025 Sunday Scaries are on an unhinged level.
I’m pretty sure I have to teach my ballet classes tomorrow afternoon, so I think I’ll spend tomorrow morning drinking coffee, listening to beautiful music, and planning fun choreography for children.
January 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m pretty sure I have to teach my ballet classes tomorrow afternoon, so I think I’ll spend tomorrow morning drinking coffee, listening to beautiful music, and planning fun choreography for children.