Heather GD
@heathergd.bsky.social
Scientific researcher, singer/lyricist, humanist and politics nerd
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Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage.
Just do it.
Just do it.
June 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage.
Just do it.
Just do it.
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These RFK Jr hires have MASSIVE conflicts of interest.
Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR.
@aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.
Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR.
@aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.
Learned some more about a few of these dangerous new ACIP people
June 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
These RFK Jr hires have MASSIVE conflicts of interest.
Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR.
@aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.
Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR.
@aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.
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Holy shit, this is horrifying.
Today and every day we stand with @seiuca.bsky.social and our immigrant friends and neighbors.
Today and every day we stand with @seiuca.bsky.social and our immigrant friends and neighbors.
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
seiuca.org
June 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Holy shit, this is horrifying.
Today and every day we stand with @seiuca.bsky.social and our immigrant friends and neighbors.
Today and every day we stand with @seiuca.bsky.social and our immigrant friends and neighbors.
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One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated.
zurl.co/QUnUU
zurl.co/QUnUU
Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.
zurl.co
June 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated.
zurl.co/QUnUU
zurl.co/QUnUU
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Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up.
"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"
Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"
Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources
abcnews.go.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up.
"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"
Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"
Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
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Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn:
“Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”
“Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”
June 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn:
“Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”
“Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”
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UPDATE thread:
This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week.
Get ready, US scientists.
Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings.
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This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week.
Get ready, US scientists.
Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings.
🧪 1/3
Today's shadow docket decision allowing DOGE immediate access to individual Social Security data is a flaming turd substantively and procedurally. Justice Jackson, dissenting, joined by Justice Sotomayor; Justice Kagan also would've denied the stay. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
UPDATE thread:
This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week.
Get ready, US scientists.
Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings.
🧪 1/3
This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week.
Get ready, US scientists.
Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings.
🧪 1/3
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Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
June 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
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Amazing how quickly the rhetoric of “personal choice” drops away once they’re in a position to impose their crackpottery on everyone.
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Amazing how quickly the rhetoric of “personal choice” drops away once they’re in a position to impose their crackpottery on everyone.
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🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days.
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days.
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
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Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:
- Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP
- Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
- Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP
- Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
May 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:
- Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP
- Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
- Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP
- Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
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DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
May 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
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Some DOGE political appointee choosing which grants to fund is oppression of academic freedom and scientific freedom.
If the right wants to kill science in the US, the surest way to do that is to take away scientists’ freedom to judge which ideas are meritorious.
If the right wants to kill science in the US, the surest way to do that is to take away scientists’ freedom to judge which ideas are meritorious.
Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.
May 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Some DOGE political appointee choosing which grants to fund is oppression of academic freedom and scientific freedom.
If the right wants to kill science in the US, the surest way to do that is to take away scientists’ freedom to judge which ideas are meritorious.
If the right wants to kill science in the US, the surest way to do that is to take away scientists’ freedom to judge which ideas are meritorious.
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America is intentionally squandering our global scientific advantage by persecuting academics and researchers. There is beauty and wonder in the quest for scientific understanding, and we should be helping that curiosity bloom, not crushing it under jackboots.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
America is intentionally squandering our global scientific advantage by persecuting academics and researchers. There is beauty and wonder in the quest for scientific understanding, and we should be helping that curiosity bloom, not crushing it under jackboots.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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ok, here we go.
Now this could be a real NYT scandal. Get this on The Daily!
Now this could be a real NYT scandal. Get this on The Daily!
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
May 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
ok, here we go.
Now this could be a real NYT scandal. Get this on The Daily!
Now this could be a real NYT scandal. Get this on The Daily!
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“Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump, [Musk, and DOGE]”
@dceiver.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com. Yes.
@dceiver.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com. Yes.
What’s in the water in the state of Maryland? Whatever it is, it’s certainly more invigorating than the sewage that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his grandchildren have been swimming in. A few weeks ago, one of the Old Line State’s senators, Chris Van Hollen, dropped his gloves to take on President Donald Trump’s unlawful banishment and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This week, his House colleague Kweisi Mfume was responding to an administration flirting with suspending the habeas rights of its citizens in stark, but welcome terms. “It’s a damn shame to continue to see what is happening to our nation under the guise of this Trump administration and his Department of Government Evil,” he said. “He and Elon Musk, really in my opinion, deserve to be arrested and charged with assault on the Constitution.”
newrepublic.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump, [Musk, and DOGE]”
@dceiver.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com. Yes.
@dceiver.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com. Yes.
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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
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Those warning against using menstrual apps were on point: UK "Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Those warning against using menstrual apps were on point: UK "Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30.
*GASP* 😮
We know, it's a big goal.
If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.
*GASP* 😮
We know, it's a big goal.
If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.
May 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
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Breaking: 🚨
Federal district court in California grants a temporary restraining order in AFGE v Trump.
This TRO stops Musk/Trump/DOGE from taking any further actions on RIFs for now. 1/3
Federal district court in California grants a temporary restraining order in AFGE v Trump.
This TRO stops Musk/Trump/DOGE from taking any further actions on RIFs for now. 1/3
![Case 3:25-cv-03698-SI Document 85 Filed 05/09/25 Page 1 of 42
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO,
et al.,
Case No. 25-cv-03698-SI
Plaintiffs,
v.
ORDER GRANTING TEMPORARY
RESTRAINING ORDER AND
COMPELLING CERTAIN
DISCOVERY PRODUCTION
Re: Dkt. No. 37
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al.,
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The new presidential administration has made clear that it intends to change the way the
federal government operates. An Executive Order issued on February 11, 2025 seeks to
“commence[] a critical transformation of the Federal bureaucracy” by “eliminating waste, bloat, and
insularity[.]” Exec. Order No. 14210, 90 Fed. Reg. 9,669 (Feb. 11, 2025). It is the prerogative of
presidents to pursue new policy priorities and to imprint their stamp on the federal government. But
to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies, any president must enlist the help of his co-equal
branch and partner, the Congress. Federal courts should not micromanage the vast federal
workforce, but courts must sometimes act to preserve the proper checks and balances between the
three branches of government. As a group of conservative former government officials and advisors
have written to the Court, “Unchecked presidential power is not what the Framers had in mind.”
Dkt. No. 69-1 at 1.
The plaintiffs in this case—a collection of unions, non-profit organizations, and local
governments—contend that the executive branch cannot lawfully implement large-scale reductions
in the federal workforce without the participation of Congress. They bring this suit against President
Trump, numerous federal agencies, and their respective agency heads. Specifically, plaintiff](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:et2wciooy67fjldjcvls34c6/bafkreib542du556nwj5en7ajpqw3kbwzjnj7v6rggvnermh4lw3ehxekdu@jpeg)
May 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Breaking: 🚨
Federal district court in California grants a temporary restraining order in AFGE v Trump.
This TRO stops Musk/Trump/DOGE from taking any further actions on RIFs for now. 1/3
Federal district court in California grants a temporary restraining order in AFGE v Trump.
This TRO stops Musk/Trump/DOGE from taking any further actions on RIFs for now. 1/3
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