s1eepyscientist.bsky.social
@s1eepyscientist.bsky.social
Reposted
Mohammad is focused on getting his degree. He wants to become a lawyer and join a nonprofit that helps people in the situation that he finds himself in now.

“I have many plans for the future,” he says. “God willing, I will try to make that happen." nbcnews.to/44MCv5s

📷 Sebastián Hidalgo
May 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reposted
Federal law enforcement agents can arrest Venezuelan nationals in the US suspected of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang without judicial or administrative warrants, according to a directive from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
US Agents Cleared for Warrantless Arrest of Alleged Gang Members
Federal law enforcement agents can arrest Venezuelan nationals in the US suspected of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang without judicial or administrative warrants, according to a directive from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
bloom.bg
April 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Reposted
The Trump Administration’s cuts at Health and Human Services hit every part of the scientific establishment: not only the federal government and universities but also states, counties, cities, and the private sector.
“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”
Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.
nyer.cm
April 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Reposted
The Trump administration is preparing to unveil a budget proposal as soon as next week that includes draconian cuts that would entirely eliminate some federal programs and fray the nation’s social safety net.
Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs
A draft document outlines steep cuts or the elimination of funding for programs that provide child care, housing assistance, foreign aid and health research.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Reposted
A handful of Democratic U.S. senators sounded the alarm Friday after federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on charges she obstructed immigration officials from detaining a man in her courtroom.
Arrest of Wisconsin judge ‘escalation’ in Trump-judiciary conflict, Democrats warn • Colorado Newsline
Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, said Trump “continues to test the limits of our Constitution.”
coloradonewsline.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Make America sick
The Trump administration is withdrawing a Biden-era proposal that aimed to reduce Salmonella in raw poultry products, according to a notice posted in the Federal Register.
USDA is withdrawing a proposal that sought to reduce Salmonella in poultry
The rule, proposed by the Biden administration last year, would have created new safety standards in an effort to prevent the sale of contaminated chicken.
nbcnews.to
April 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Reposted
"We are racking up debt at an alarming pace, and it's unlikely to end any time soon. In fact, lawmakers seem hellbent on adding to that sum with trillions of unpaid-for tax cuts and spending increases."
Feds borrowed $1.3 trillion in the first 6 months of this fiscal year
That's the highest total outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now Congress wants to borrow even more.
reason.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted
Officials investigating the 8 agencies found unjustified killings, excessive force, debtors’ prisons, retaliation against police critics, racial discrimination, unlawful strip searches and undercover officers having sexual contact with sex workers.

By @tophersanders.bsky.social
Trump’s DOJ Has Frozen Police Reform Work. Advocates Fear More Abuse in Departments Across the Country.
Federal investigators had identified at least eight police departments with patterns of unlawful behavior. But Trump’s freeze on oversight activities leaves many reform efforts in the hands of local…
www.propublica.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reposted
Researchers say Trump’s promise to eliminate any policy promoting diversity are threatening a decades-long effort to improve how the nation studies the health of women, shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks
What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word? • Ohio Capital Journal
Researchers say President Trump’s promise to eliminate any policy promoting diversity are threatening a decades-long effort to improve how the nation studies the health of women, shutting down…
buff.ly
March 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reposted
🚨 Climate data isn't disappearing - just the government websites that share it 📊

The administration is removing "climate change" from federal sites, but you can find the data

1️⃣ archive.org's Wayback Machine
2️⃣ FedEnviroData.org for preserved datasets
3️⃣ OSF.io for researcher-uploaded gov data
March 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reposted
The FDA’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure on Friday and said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. Follow live updates.
Trump Administration: Live Updates and Latest News
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reposted
Faculty, staff, and students who support the University of Michigan’s DEI efforts will held an “emergency meeting” to push back on the news that the university’s DEI office and Office for Health Equity and Inclusion are being shut down and an unspecified number of employees fired. chroni.cl/3DUiI9o
After Backlash and Trump Edicts, U. of Michigan Shutters DEI Office
The flagship has struggled mightily to recruit and retain students of color, but the scope of Thursday’s cuts still came as a shock to many.
chroni.cl
March 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted
Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr. war on vaccines just landed another major blow as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services successfully forced one of the nation’s top vaccine officials out of his position.
“Spiraling deeper and deeper into danger”: RFK Jr. forces out top vaccine official
“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
www.motherjones.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted
President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order to eliminate what he considers “anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution cast the world’s largest museum, education and research complex into a state of confusion Friday.
Trump order launches Smithsonian and its visitors into confusion, dismay
Current and former members of the Smithsonian’s board of regents condemned the edict, while visitors said the Trump administration was trying to edit U.S. history.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You should be ashamed, Johns Hopkins.
March 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted
Popular resistance in Trump's first term accomplished more than many realize. A history professor explores how quiet organizing in communities and workplaces had more impact than visible tactics like petitions and hashtags. buff.ly/XilgRJT
Kevin A. Young @umassamherst.bsky.social #polisky
Social movements constrained Trump in his first term – more than people realize
Pushback works.
buff.ly
March 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reposted
Civil liberties experts warn that treating alleged attacks against Tesla cars and infrastructure as terrorist activity could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting Elon Musk’s role in the government.
The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters
The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk’s role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn.
wrd.cm
March 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted
A legal resident of New Hampshire was “violently interrogated” for hours, stripped naked, and forced into a cold shower. Given little food or water and prevented from taking medication, he collapsed and was hospitalized.
No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore
Even legal residents and tourists are being terrorized by Trump-emboldened officers at ICE and CBP.
newrepublic.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reposted
🚨NEW: The inside story of how Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg just got Democratic lawmakers to legally protect CEOs from workers and shareholders trying to hold them accountable for corporate fraud. www.levernews.com/this-state-i...
This State Is For Sale
Delaware just passed a bill to prevent CEOs like Elon Musk from leaving their state. Lawyers and legislators sound the alarm about what this means for the rest of us.
www.levernews.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Reposted
The Trump Administration is moving to prevent fair elections in 2026, Senator Chris Murphy says. “It won’t matter if we’re more popular than them.” David Remnick interviews the Connecticut Democrat on a new episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour. Listen here.
Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”
The Trump Administration is moving to prevent fair elections in 2026, the Connecticut Democrat says. “It won’t matter if we’re more popular than them.”
www.newyorker.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposted
An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1
March 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Reposted
Everything we said would happen is happening with RFK Jr. When I say we, I mean tens of thousands of scientists and healthcare workers. RFK Jr. has hyped vitamin A over vaccines for measles, and now some kids in Texas are being treated for liver damage from vitamin A toxicity, thanks to RFK Jr.
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reposted
💥 👿 🧪
aaup.org AAUP @aaup.org · Mar 26
“I want to make this clear: Trump’s cuts & the attacks on Columbia’s medical school KILL.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President speaking at today’s press conference on the lawsuit filed by AAUP & AFT on the weaponization
of Federal Research Funds against Columbia University.
March 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM