Amy Duf
@amyduf.bsky.social
I just want to be around nice people and animals.
Never thought I’d be rooting for Harvard, but here we are.
Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."
April 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Never thought I’d be rooting for Harvard, but here we are.
More. of. This.
"We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights." FINALLY. Thank you, @harvard.edu, for FINALLY taking a stand.
April 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
More. of. This.
She did NOTHING wrong. She committed NO crime. They could have called her to tell her that her visa was cancelled and she had a week to leave the country. They CHOSE to terrorize and imprison her to instill fear in all of us. We need to fight this fascist bullshit.
Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest should concern everyone who believes in free speech.
March 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
She did NOTHING wrong. She committed NO crime. They could have called her to tell her that her visa was cancelled and she had a week to leave the country. They CHOSE to terrorize and imprison her to instill fear in all of us. We need to fight this fascist bullshit.
What is even the point of @schumer.senate.gov ?
March 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
What is even the point of @schumer.senate.gov ?
An excellent economic analysis that one can actually understand.
Opinion | Elon Musk and the Useless Spending-Cut Theater of DOGE
The columnist David French speaks with a fellow fiscal conservative about what the Department of Government Efficiency should actually be doing.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
An excellent economic analysis that one can actually understand.
What is happening is so much worse than I could have imagined. To see it laid out so clearly is devastating.
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
What is happening is so much worse than I could have imagined. To see it laid out so clearly is devastating.
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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
February 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
I am so ashamed of my country.
February 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I am so ashamed of my country.
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Anyone looking for a new map app will be pleased to know @mapquest.com has not caved to the idiocy. Please don’t disappoint us Mapquest. I’m counting on you.
February 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Anyone looking for a new map app will be pleased to know @mapquest.com has not caved to the idiocy. Please don’t disappoint us Mapquest. I’m counting on you.
“Well he is a dick.”
February 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“Well he is a dick.”
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‘Americans Can and Will Die from This’: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos
The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.
The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.
‘Americans Can and Will Die from This’: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos
The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.
www.politico.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
‘Americans Can and Will Die from This’: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos
The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.
The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.
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Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:
- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more
#NIH #MedSky #research #science
- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more
#NIH #MedSky #research #science
February 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
If I was a cynic, I’d suspect these companies are thrilled to use Trump as an excuse to kill DEI initiatives they never truly believed in. Now they can redirect any extra funds to those hard-earned executive bonuses.
NPR Exclusive: Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.
Exclusive: GM, Pepsi, Disney, others scrub some DEI references from investor reports
Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.
www.npr.org
February 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If I was a cynic, I’d suspect these companies are thrilled to use Trump as an excuse to kill DEI initiatives they never truly believed in. Now they can redirect any extra funds to those hard-earned executive bonuses.
January 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM