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BlueSky academics, this is your moment. It's time to activate, rally your department, put pressure on university administration and public officials by showing that what is happening is not ok. That you will Stand Up. For science, knowledge, and humanity.
We have been hard at work this weekend getting organized!
🚨IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE THE CHOPS TO LEAD A PROTEST SITE FILL OUT THE FORM🚨
Our goal is to solidify protest locations by FRIDAY 2/21! So, let’s get cracking, everyone!
FOLLOW FOR UPDATES
@standupforscience.bsky.social #scienceforall
🚨IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE THE CHOPS TO LEAD A PROTEST SITE FILL OUT THE FORM🚨
Our goal is to solidify protest locations by FRIDAY 2/21! So, let’s get cracking, everyone!
FOLLOW FOR UPDATES
@standupforscience.bsky.social #scienceforall
📢 We're still looking for volunteers and state leads to help us organize local events to #standupforscience2025!
If you or anyone you know would be interested, please fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
Any questions? Feel free to DM!
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
If you or anyone you know would be interested, please fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
Any questions? Feel free to DM!
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
February 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BlueSky academics, this is your moment. It's time to activate, rally your department, put pressure on university administration and public officials by showing that what is happening is not ok. That you will Stand Up. For science, knowledge, and humanity.
Words like “defense” aren’t important
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Words like “defense” aren’t important
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President Donald Trump did not attend events at the arts institution during his first administration. The move is the latest of several directives to force changes at Washington’s cultural institutions.
Trump says he will fire Kennedy Center board members, appoint himself chairman
Trump did not attend prominent events during his administration. The move comes as his directives have begun to force changes at Washington’s cultural institutions.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
President Donald Trump did not attend events at the arts institution during his first administration. The move is the latest of several directives to force changes at Washington’s cultural institutions.
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A federal judge issued an emergency order early Saturday prohibiting Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm.
Federal judge blocks Musk’s DOGE from access to Treasury Department material
The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A federal judge issued an emergency order early Saturday prohibiting Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm.
My first trip to Mexico City and I think I’m in love. People of course are brilliant, but the art, the mix of modern and classic architecture, and huge parks surprised me (though I realize it shouldn’t!). Now if we can build a huge smog vacuum!! :-)
February 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My first trip to Mexico City and I think I’m in love. People of course are brilliant, but the art, the mix of modern and classic architecture, and huge parks surprised me (though I realize it shouldn’t!). Now if we can build a huge smog vacuum!! :-)
they want your children uneducated - or at least to pay Elon’s fantasy school
President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on its contents.
Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data
Closing the agency would require congressional approval, so the new administration hopes to diminish it in the meantime.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
they want your children uneducated - or at least to pay Elon’s fantasy school
Just remember when you see talking heads on Fox who are supposed to be great businessmen…they’ve often failed more tham succeeded - but used courts, bullying, and shady investments to keep their house of cards alive en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O...
Kevin O'Leary - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Just remember when you see talking heads on Fox who are supposed to be great businessmen…they’ve often failed more tham succeeded - but used courts, bullying, and shady investments to keep their house of cards alive en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O...
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Reposted by Evan Adelman
Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.
January 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.
Reposted by Evan Adelman
After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.
How to get started on Bluesky, the app some X users are defecting to
After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:10 PM
After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.
Of all the side benefits of watching this shitshow progress, I’m just excited to see the scrunchy faces of small dick energy coal rollers trying to decide if they should block a supercharger with their pickups
November 14, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Of all the side benefits of watching this shitshow progress, I’m just excited to see the scrunchy faces of small dick energy coal rollers trying to decide if they should block a supercharger with their pickups
Defunding schools through the DOE is the exact opposite direction we should take. It should be obvious that purely locally funded schools makes disparity of education quality worse. Red states (and counties) are going to suffer disproportionately langworthy.house.gov/media/press-...
Congressman Nick Langworthy Announces Over $2 Million in Federal Funding for SUNY Alfred Research Foundation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Nick Langworthy (NY-23) announced a U.S. Department of Education grant for the Research Foundation of State University of New York (SUNY) at Alfred in the amount ...
langworthy.house.gov
November 14, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Defunding schools through the DOE is the exact opposite direction we should take. It should be obvious that purely locally funded schools makes disparity of education quality worse. Red states (and counties) are going to suffer disproportionately langworthy.house.gov/media/press-...