joe-okib.bsky.social
@joe-okib.bsky.social
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Outrageous. Irresponsible. Shameful.

This isn’t leadership—it’s sabotage.

Lives and futures are at stake.
President Trump’s order freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans sent officials at schools, hospitals, nonprofit organizations and many others into a frantic scramble to understand the extent of the directive. Here's what to know.
Order to pause federal spending creates deep uncertainty for schools, nonprofits and companies.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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So I got a text that grants are paused and then an hour later I see it has been revoked. The emotional roller coaster of this month is overwhelming. But keep calling your reps. Fighting works. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
January 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Attacks against our right to teach, research, and advocate for higher education as a public good, are increasingly rapidly.

Join our movement to organize for a better future for all higher ed workers:

www.organizeeverycampus.org
Organize Every Campus
www.organizeeverycampus.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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What we’re seeing now isn’t just revisionism—it’s a fight for control over what comes next. Erasure is power. Resistance is memory. #HistoryWars #TheFutureIsUnwritten #FutureOfAnotherTimeline
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
February 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Scholars of civil resistance study what happens when mainstream political institutions break down and the people rise up.
How to Stop a Power Grab
As democracy hangs in the balance, activists are drawing lessons from the study of civil resistance.
nyer.cm
February 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Insane. Peer-reviewed journal papers already written and submitted by CDC officials are being ordered retracted by the president of the US if they include any words on his profoundly idiotic list? Beyond Orwellian. Freakishly immature and batshit crazy. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...
Opinion | CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals
Banned terms must be scrubbed from CDC-authored manuscripts
www.medpagetoday.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM