Ashlea Kosikowski
@ashleak.bsky.social
Communications professional in the biotech space. Former TV news journo. No longer a news anchor but I sometimes play one on TV. 📺 Truth teller. ✅ Married, childless dog lady. 🐕 Steelers fan. 💛 Ohio U alum. 🐾
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it's painful to think how much incredible research has just stopped. 🧪https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/25/research-grant-cuts-harvard-trump/
Harvard’s research is shrinking amid the Trump administration’s freeze
Even if grants at Harvard are suddenly restored, there is deep-rooted uncertainty about the damage already done and the future of basic science research in the U.S.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
it's painful to think how much incredible research has just stopped. 🧪https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/25/research-grant-cuts-harvard-trump/
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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A very sad day
Conservatives Get the PBS and NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A very sad day
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I look for silver linings. And CBS ending hilarious, brilliant, wise @stephencolbert.bsky.social ‘s show after eleven years—“a financial decision not related in any way to the show's content”—has one. Colbert now has a whole year to satirize his bootlicker bosses and all the booted villains.
July 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I look for silver linings. And CBS ending hilarious, brilliant, wise @stephencolbert.bsky.social ‘s show after eleven years—“a financial decision not related in any way to the show's content”—has one. Colbert now has a whole year to satirize his bootlicker bosses and all the booted villains.
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Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.
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Sounds like Trump is going to do a selective release of some Epstein evidence now
July 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Sounds like Trump is going to do a selective release of some Epstein evidence now
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It's wild that CBS is canceling a show that's been on the air since 1993 (32 years!) suddenly for "financial reasons." Likely story, sure.
July 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It's wild that CBS is canceling a show that's been on the air since 1993 (32 years!) suddenly for "financial reasons." Likely story, sure.
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Why is this headline not referencing Trump saying they shared a “wonderful secret”?
THAT is the story here.
THAT is the story here.
A collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003 included a note bearing Donald Trump's name and an outline of a naked woman, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Wall Street Journal: Birthday letter to Epstein bore Trump’s signature, drawing of naked woman | CNN Politics
A collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003 included a note bearing Donald Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman, according to a Wall Street Journal report p...
www.cnn.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Why is this headline not referencing Trump saying they shared a “wonderful secret”?
THAT is the story here.
THAT is the story here.
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straightforward Trump appeasement. a bribe from a company wanting regulatory approval variety.com/2025/tv/news...
CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’
CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night
variety.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
straightforward Trump appeasement. a bribe from a company wanting regulatory approval variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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Well this sure as hell isn’t incriminating! Nothing to see here.
July 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Well this sure as hell isn’t incriminating! Nothing to see here.
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CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
July 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
This timeline sucks.
Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement.
The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026
CBS said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision.” The show launched with Colbert as host, executive producer and writer a decade ago.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This timeline sucks.
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Devastating account of the damage that conspiracy theories can cause. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers
Paloma Shemirani’s brothers say she refused chemotherapy because of their mother’s beliefs.
www.bbc.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Devastating account of the damage that conspiracy theories can cause. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
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Don’t blame me, I voted for the first black President, the decent man from Scranton and the two highly intelligent successful talented supremely qualified women.
June 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Don’t blame me, I voted for the first black President, the decent man from Scranton and the two highly intelligent successful talented supremely qualified women.
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I hate everything about this. The definition of spiteful idiocy. 🔌🚗 🔌💡
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I hate everything about this. The definition of spiteful idiocy. 🔌🚗 🔌💡
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Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)
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If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.
June 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.
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Can’t emphasize enough what a disgrace this whole sad episode was
Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.military.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Can’t emphasize enough what a disgrace this whole sad episode was
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Raise your hand if you’re not even a meteorologist and you still know there’s a hurricane season.
June 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Raise your hand if you’re not even a meteorologist and you still know there’s a hurricane season.
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action
June 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action