🚨 Read this to see how extremists within the US State Dept have *weaponized the government*. They made a list of journos & researchers they personally don’t like, ideological keywords, and are searching for mentions. They plan to leak, Twitter Files style.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...

The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.

Looking forward to this @bethnoveck.bsky.social

Great thread @eliothiggins.bsky.social
I do think, though, that the first phase is not only gate-keeping what @mariaressa.bsky.social calls 'holding the line' - it is the long work of maintaining credible institutions - government, media, civil society

The circus is starting: Jim Jordan, Taibbi & Shellenberger are congratulating themselves on Twitter Files.

Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...

@devingaffney.com thx for making it down to the SF office. Safe travels.

@ammeep.com would love to talk if you have any cycles! 🙏☮️

If there are people you care about who need more care today than they did yesterday, then you have more purpose today than you did yesterday.

For folks interested in Bluesky, in about half an hour @yoyoel.com is moderating a panel with myself and @jay.bsky.team talking about Bluesky and protocols over platforms at the Knight Informed conference. knightfoundation.org/events/infor...

listening to Jay Gruber discuss Bluesky - we want to build an ecosystem where anyone can particpate in moderation, including third party middleware - a marketplace for sharing apps that help with moderation as a service. Yes - this is such an important aspect of protocol based platforms.

Oh, social media again. Nice.