Lauren Mullenbach, Ph.D.
@mullenbach.bsky.social
Asst Research Scientist, School for Environment and Sustainability | Research Program Manager, Michigan Sea Grant, University of Michigan | she/her 🏳️🌈 | Urban environmental justice, climate adaptation, homelessness
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Another pro wrestler with better politics and a more clearly articulated moral stance than 99.9% of elected officials
Brody King shared a post about what is happening in LA right now on Instagram. #AEW 🤼
June 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Another pro wrestler with better politics and a more clearly articulated moral stance than 99.9% of elected officials
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This is so funny because the assignment where I require students to use chat gpt inevitably ends in a class discussion about how AI is worse than they thought & has a lot of problems. & then AI submissions for other assignments stop after because students realize they’re better off without AI.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
June 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is so funny because the assignment where I require students to use chat gpt inevitably ends in a class discussion about how AI is worse than they thought & has a lot of problems. & then AI submissions for other assignments stop after because students realize they’re better off without AI.
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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
projects.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
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“'Teach them how to use it ethically' is a line that ignores the impact of AI on the planet our students will inherit from us. It must ignore this because—setting much else aside...—AI’s environmental abuses alone mean there is no such thing as ethical AI use in most classrooms."
Resisting AI Mania in Schools - Part II
On behalf of students and the planet, more messages to push back on
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io
May 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“'Teach them how to use it ethically' is a line that ignores the impact of AI on the planet our students will inherit from us. It must ignore this because—setting much else aside...—AI’s environmental abuses alone mean there is no such thing as ethical AI use in most classrooms."
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As an example of how much the media is failing the nation I present to you the first thing you see on CNN right now
May 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
As an example of how much the media is failing the nation I present to you the first thing you see on CNN right now
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It’s fun watching people who don’t teach the ethics of scientific practice discover how many of our regulations exist because of Very Bad Things That Happened Before the Regulation Existed.
May 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It’s fun watching people who don’t teach the ethics of scientific practice discover how many of our regulations exist because of Very Bad Things That Happened Before the Regulation Existed.
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Trump gutting the Science that Built American prosperity
thinc.blog/2025/04/27/t...
thinc.blog/2025/04/27/t...
Trump Dismantling the Science that Built American Greatness
Smart people are a limited resource, and they have choices. They don’t need to come here, or stay here, if our Government makes them feel unwelcome.
thinc.blog
April 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trump gutting the Science that Built American prosperity
thinc.blog/2025/04/27/t...
thinc.blog/2025/04/27/t...
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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
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April 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.
They're going after the accreditation of universities and threatening to revoke the ability of accreditors if they don't crack down on DEI and LGBTQ people in academia.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
April 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.
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Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
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April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
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Goal:
Crush universities
Need a policy tool:
Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights.
Need a violation to allege:
Use the Jews!
Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us.
bsky.app/profile/cram...
Crush universities
Need a policy tool:
Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights.
Need a violation to allege:
Use the Jews!
Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us.
bsky.app/profile/cram...
And then they came for Brown. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University
The administration has now targeted five schools’ federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Goal:
Crush universities
Need a policy tool:
Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights.
Need a violation to allege:
Use the Jews!
Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us.
bsky.app/profile/cram...
Crush universities
Need a policy tool:
Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights.
Need a violation to allege:
Use the Jews!
Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us.
bsky.app/profile/cram...
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The surest way to protect our Constitution is to act like we still have one.
The surest way to lose it is to act like we don’t.
The surest way to lose it is to act like we don’t.
April 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The surest way to protect our Constitution is to act like we still have one.
The surest way to lose it is to act like we don’t.
The surest way to lose it is to act like we don’t.
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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
April 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
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The Trump administration wanted to control the most basic aspects of the university, including what is taught and who is hired. The wanted to turn Harvard into a fancy version of Trump University. And when Harvard said no, Trump used publicly funded research as a hostage.
JUST IN: The Trump administration announced that it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value at Harvard University after the school said it would not follow policy demands from the administration. cnn.it/4imtzXL
April 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The Trump administration wanted to control the most basic aspects of the university, including what is taught and who is hired. The wanted to turn Harvard into a fancy version of Trump University. And when Harvard said no, Trump used publicly funded research as a hostage.
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Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference.
The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
April 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference.
The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
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yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
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This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
Protecting American Energy From State Overreach
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
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Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.
April 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.
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FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
March 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.