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Studied International Relations. Lived abroad. Mom. Work in R&D. Fourth Gen Bay Area Californian. Progressive. #RESIST #Pro-Democracy #Anti-Fascist
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Protesters have surrounded the federal detention center in Los Angeles. California isn’t backing down, this is a full-blown standoff with the feds.
June 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Protesters have surrounded the federal detention center in Los Angeles. California isn’t backing down, this is a full-blown standoff with the feds.
Revised after today’s disgrace
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Revised after today’s disgrace
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How it started/How it's going
February 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
How it started/How it's going
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Parse through the Trump administration's corruption with
@brennancenter.bsky.social's new resource guide:
@brennancenter.bsky.social's new resource guide:
Uncovering Conflicts of Interest and Self-Dealing in the Executive Branch
The new administration could use federal contracts, tariffs, regulations, taxes, and other levers of government to benefit campaign donors, high-level officials, and the president himself.
www.brennancenter.org
February 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Parse through the Trump administration's corruption with
@brennancenter.bsky.social's new resource guide:
@brennancenter.bsky.social's new resource guide:
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The corrupt use of criminal investigative tools to try to claw back $20B in Biden EPA funding –a gambit that already led to the forced resignation of a career prosecutor who raised objections–has continued below the radar, the WaPo is reporting.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Career Prosecutors Balk Again At Corrupt Ask From Trump DOJ
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The corrupt use of criminal investigative tools to try to claw back $20B in Biden EPA funding –a gambit that already led to the forced resignation of a career prosecutor who raised objections–has continued below the radar, the WaPo is reporting.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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“In a pair of studies involving more than 2000 participants, the researchers found a 20 percent reduction in belief in conspiracy theories after participants interacted with a powerful, flexible, personalized GPT-4 Turbo conversation partner.”
Opinion | Finally, something is puncturing conspiracy theories
Researchers have long struggled to combat conspiracy theories. Artificial Intelligence offers hope.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“In a pair of studies involving more than 2000 participants, the researchers found a 20 percent reduction in belief in conspiracy theories after participants interacted with a powerful, flexible, personalized GPT-4 Turbo conversation partner.”
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NASA's Jim Free, a key official who has defended the agency's moon program, is leaving NASA on Saturday, and the CFO, CIO and top procurement official at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center had their retirements announced internally yesterday. www.reuters.com/world/us/key...
Key NASA officials' departure casts more uncertainty over US moon program
NASA is losing four key senior officials close to its flagship moon program, according to people familiar with the changes, adding more uncertainty over the agency's space exploration trajectory as Elon Musk and President Donald Trump play up missions to Mars.
www.reuters.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
NASA's Jim Free, a key official who has defended the agency's moon program, is leaving NASA on Saturday, and the CFO, CIO and top procurement official at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center had their retirements announced internally yesterday. www.reuters.com/world/us/key...
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"It is, in many ways, an oligarchy gestating in real time. It is an opening to influence American policy beyond the Kremlin’s wildest dreams. And it is what an implosion of democracy looks like."
November 1, 2024.
November 1, 2024.
Elon Musk Is Putin’s Best Weapon
The world’s richest man is coordinating with the world’s most dangerous dictator.
www.thebulwark.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"It is, in many ways, an oligarchy gestating in real time. It is an opening to influence American policy beyond the Kremlin’s wildest dreams. And it is what an implosion of democracy looks like."
November 1, 2024.
November 1, 2024.
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Reasons to love the EFF, cont'd.
The Department of Government Efficiency is ransacking multiple federal agencies, without oversight or safeguards, and EFF is glad to join the brigade of lawsuits to protect this critical information.
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...
www.eff.org
February 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reasons to love the EFF, cont'd.
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NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.
Opinion: Navalny's words of love
NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.
www.npr.org
February 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.
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BREAKING: JD Vance Lays the Groundwork to Eliminate the Separation of Powers in America. I break it all down in a special, midday Substack and provide my legal perspective on this dangerous comment. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: JD Vance Lays the Groundwork to Eliminate the Separation of Powers
This is an extremely dangerous time in America, and a special report is warranted.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
BREAKING: JD Vance Lays the Groundwork to Eliminate the Separation of Powers in America. I break it all down in a special, midday Substack and provide my legal perspective on this dangerous comment. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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This tweet is setting up the Trump administration to thrust the U.S. into a constitutional crisis and obliterate our system of checks and balances as we know it.
February 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This tweet is setting up the Trump administration to thrust the U.S. into a constitutional crisis and obliterate our system of checks and balances as we know it.
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Can your Congressperson and Senators 202-224-3121. Congress needs to investigate this immediately. Private mercenaries are not (legally) allowed to block Members of Congress.
The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014.
This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. *Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous.*
#resist
This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. *Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous.*
#resist
February 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Can your Congressperson and Senators 202-224-3121. Congress needs to investigate this immediately. Private mercenaries are not (legally) allowed to block Members of Congress.
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities.
It's deadly to the US economy.
The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.
It's deadly to the US economy.
The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.
2. While NSF and NIH indeed have a mission to fund specific research innovations via grantmaking, they do a lot more than that.
Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.
Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.
February 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities.
It's deadly to the US economy.
The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.
It's deadly to the US economy.
The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.
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This tells you who their constituents are. Not American voters. Not Americans at all.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics
The order also curbs prosecutions of Americans who improperly lobby for foreign nations. President Donald Trump says Republicans were unfairly targeted in the past.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This tells you who their constituents are. Not American voters. Not Americans at all.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.
February 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.
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Read scholar and author Dr. Timothy Snyder (On Tyrrany) latest snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
snyder.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Read scholar and author Dr. Timothy Snyder (On Tyrrany) latest snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-...
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In an email obtained by NPR, employees at EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were told they were on administrative leave, effective immediately.
EPA employees who work on environmental justice are put on leave
In an email obtained by NPR, employees at EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were told they were on administrative leave, effective immediately.
www.npr.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In an email obtained by NPR, employees at EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were told they were on administrative leave, effective immediately.
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Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt
Exclusive: Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX, sources say
President Donald Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract.
reut.rs
February 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt
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The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon contractors. No one has asked: What’s going on with that today?
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?
The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon contractors. No one has asked: What’s going on with that today?
newrepublic.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon contractors. No one has asked: What’s going on with that today?
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Breaking news: The Trump administration cut billions in biomedical funding. Researchers say it imperils work on cancer and other illnesses.
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Breaking news: The Trump administration cut billions in biomedical funding. Researchers say it imperils work on cancer and other illnesses.
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The hiring of thousands of federal firefighters has stalled amid a governmentwide freeze ordered by President Trump, just as agencies were beginning to ramp up staffing for the summer wildfire season, according to a firefighters’ union.
Firefighter Hiring Stalls at Federal Agencies After Trump’s Freeze
Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The hiring of thousands of federal firefighters has stalled amid a governmentwide freeze ordered by President Trump, just as agencies were beginning to ramp up staffing for the summer wildfire season, according to a firefighters’ union.
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⚡️Trump's pick for FBI chief took money from Russian propagandist, WP reports.
Kash Patel received $25,000 in 2024 from a company run by pro-Kremlin filmmaker Igor Lopatonok.
Kash Patel received $25,000 in 2024 from a company run by pro-Kremlin filmmaker Igor Lopatonok.
Trump's pick for FBI chief took money from Russian propagandist, WP reports
Kash Patel received $25,000 in 2024 from a company run by pro-Kremlin filmmaker Igor Lopatonok.
kyivindependent.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
⚡️Trump's pick for FBI chief took money from Russian propagandist, WP reports.
Kash Patel received $25,000 in 2024 from a company run by pro-Kremlin filmmaker Igor Lopatonok.
Kash Patel received $25,000 in 2024 from a company run by pro-Kremlin filmmaker Igor Lopatonok.