Mary Thompson-Hall
@maryt-h.bsky.social
Geographer, Mom, and trying to be a potter.
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! Let’s get into good trouble!
April 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! Let’s get into good trouble!
Very thankful to all you @noaa.gov , @nws.noaa.gov , and local/other meteorologists who have been working tirelessly this weekend to help keep us safe and informed during this dangerous weather despite the major staff and budget cuts. Your work is so important and so appreciated.
March 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Very thankful to all you @noaa.gov , @nws.noaa.gov , and local/other meteorologists who have been working tirelessly this weekend to help keep us safe and informed during this dangerous weather despite the major staff and budget cuts. Your work is so important and so appreciated.
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If you know someone in Christiana or S of Murfreesboro, give them a holler. Fairly impressive couplet.
March 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you know someone in Christiana or S of Murfreesboro, give them a holler. Fairly impressive couplet.
NEW: Tornado Watch until 9:00 pm. Several tornadoes, hail to two inches in diameter and wind gusts to 75 mph are likely somewhere in the yellow counties. Stay connected from now until this passes.
March 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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March 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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For Donald Trump and Elon Musk, if you don’t bend the knee, you’re a traitor.
Senator Kelly served in combat as a Navy fighter pilot. He commanded NASA missions into space. He’s a patriot.
Like many of us, he believes in freedom and democracy — including for Ukraine.
Senator Kelly served in combat as a Navy fighter pilot. He commanded NASA missions into space. He’s a patriot.
Like many of us, he believes in freedom and democracy — including for Ukraine.
March 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For Donald Trump and Elon Musk, if you don’t bend the knee, you’re a traitor.
Senator Kelly served in combat as a Navy fighter pilot. He commanded NASA missions into space. He’s a patriot.
Like many of us, he believes in freedom and democracy — including for Ukraine.
Senator Kelly served in combat as a Navy fighter pilot. He commanded NASA missions into space. He’s a patriot.
Like many of us, he believes in freedom and democracy — including for Ukraine.
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Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today, local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
www.npr.org
March 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today, local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
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President Trump defended his humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." Here are some facts about the African nation of Lesotho.
What to know about Lesotho, the country Trump said 'nobody has ever heard of'
President Trump defended his humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." Here are some facts about the African nation of Lesotho.
www.npr.org
March 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
President Trump defended his humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." Here are some facts about the African nation of Lesotho.
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Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
March 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
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Please read—this is becoming serious!
March 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Please read—this is becoming serious!
Working on a new sign for tomorrow. 💙💛
March 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Working on a new sign for tomorrow. 💙💛
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We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
February 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
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Im excited to take place in the economic blackout boycott tomorrow.
I hope you'll join me and millions of others.
I hope you'll join me and millions of others.
February 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Im excited to take place in the economic blackout boycott tomorrow.
I hope you'll join me and millions of others.
I hope you'll join me and millions of others.
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Feds, take care of yourself. If you have any feelings of harming yourself, please call or text 988. Or call 1 800 273 8255!
This Fed loves you guys and wants you to be here.
Be kind to yourself, #altgov
This Fed loves you guys and wants you to be here.
Be kind to yourself, #altgov
February 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Feds, take care of yourself. If you have any feelings of harming yourself, please call or text 988. Or call 1 800 273 8255!
This Fed loves you guys and wants you to be here.
Be kind to yourself, #altgov
This Fed loves you guys and wants you to be here.
Be kind to yourself, #altgov
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JUST IN: The Supreme Court paused a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to pay $2 billion in frozen foreign aid.
Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump admin to pay $2 billion in foreign aid by midnight | CNN Politics
Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have required the Trump administration to spend $2 billion in frozen foreign aid, a goal that the government...
www.cnn.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
JUST IN: The Supreme Court paused a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to pay $2 billion in frozen foreign aid.
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USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.
February 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.
And absolutely no one who could have done something did absolutely anything when unidentified men dragged this woman out of a town hall meeting that she had every right to be in? Would they have kept clapping if they’d shoved her into an unmarked van? Cheered?
PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.
February 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
And absolutely no one who could have done something did absolutely anything when unidentified men dragged this woman out of a town hall meeting that she had every right to be in? Would they have kept clapping if they’d shoved her into an unmarked van? Cheered?
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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to close due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.
JFK Library forced to close due to ‘sudden dismissal of federal employees,’ foundation says | CNN Politics
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to close Tuesday due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.
www.cnn.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to close due to the “sudden dismissal of federal employees,” the library’s foundation said in a statement to CNN.
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Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Trump’s DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women
www.huffpost.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Well-written, important, infuriating.
With the gutting of USAID comes the end of a vital lifeline for millions. Kristina Drye ( a now former USAID worker/ speech writer for Samantha Power ) shares what’s facing Americans and the nightmarish ripple effect being felt around the globe.
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2025...
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2025...
February 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Well-written, important, infuriating.
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So to be clear - in Tennessee unidentified white men in hoodies can grab any immigrant that "looks" undocumented, and if officials even as much as vote to protect them it's a felony.
This is where we are now.
Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...
This is where we are now.
Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...
February 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
So to be clear - in Tennessee unidentified white men in hoodies can grab any immigrant that "looks" undocumented, and if officials even as much as vote to protect them it's a felony.
This is where we are now.
Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...
This is where we are now.
Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...
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Great thread on the overhead rates issue.
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 12:55 AM
Great thread on the overhead rates issue.