if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last yr.

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

I just feel like we should just TRY matriarchy. After all, can’t possibly be worse than where we're at!!

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · last yr.

"This Court rules that the challenged directives . . . are arbitrary and capricious." "They are of no force and effect." "They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"

@scott-delaney.bsky.social has had a front row seat to the Trump admin’s cancellation of NIH grants I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...

A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut

Harvard's Scott Delaney helped build a database of NIH grant terminations that is being used in litigation against the Trump administration.

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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡

@noaa.gov axed their Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters dataset: a crucial resource showing the inflation-adjusted cost/damages of U.S. extreme weather and climate disasters. (We at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social grabbed it.) www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c... #climate #weather #disaster #NOAA

Kinda amazing that one of the biggest announcements of the year *in 2025* is still done by smoke signal. Social media has destroyed democracy—let's go back to smoke signals & carrier pigeons!

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share! dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

[1/5] @jonathang.bsky.social, data scientist à Harvard, dénonce la destruction de données scientifiques par l’administration Trump. Ces bases de données sont essentielles pour analyser les risques globaux comme le climat, la pollution ou les pandémies, qui affectent tous les territoires. #geography

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools

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From me in @theguardian.com (!) "Data is being stolen from us; our ability to understand the world is being stolen from us. Americans will die because the Trump administration is abdicating its responsibility to the people." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools

theguardian.com

A clarion call to stand up for scientific data from @jonathang.bsky.social ⤵️ I have the privilege of working with Jonathan and have had a front row seat as he and his team have busted their asses to archive data the past several months. He's a warrior for science. 💪

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools

theguardian.com

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

Weird way to say that capitalism is on track to destroy the climate! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hilarious juxtaposition. "'There's certainly a concern of retribution from the administration, but we feel strongly we're on the right side of history here,' Gilmour said. The White House did not respond to Context's request for comment before time of publication." www.context.news/digital-righ...

Volunteers on 'right side of history' fight Trump data purge | Context

U.S. volunteers restore health and climate data deleted by Trump administration - for everyone to use

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NIH terminated *7* grants focused on mitigating the spread of misinformation just last week. That's half of all grants that contained the word "misinformation" in their titles in 2024. So he spreads misinformation, then prevents others from correcting it. Cool cool

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · last yr.

A second Texas child has died of a measles outbreak, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — infamous spreader of vaccine misinformation — reportedly plans to attend the funeral on Sunday.

Asking for help—do you have access (DUA) to any of these critical datasets? If so, now would be a great time to download them—and ensure that you're preserving rich metadata about them. Let's make sure these exist for posterity. www.404media.co/nih-archives... #nih #data #preservation #research

Abject contempt for our health and ability to understand the world from this administration www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...

Canceled contract means NOAA research websites slated to go dark

NOAA is under a mandate to slash its IT costs.

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An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

So proud of this piece! Federal data and environmental justice tools that we use to make sense of the world are being stolen from us—we started @publicenvirodata.bsky.social to save these tools and data. We'd be honored if you gave it a read. www.nextgov.com/ideas/2025/0...

America's digital infrastructure belongs to you

COMMENTARY | We’ve seen unprecedented attacks on our nation’s federal digital infrastructure, from removing or restricting datasets and tools, to taking websites offline, to widespread layoffs.

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What's with all this #tariffs hoopla? Line go up!

New research 🏭📈: Bitcoin mines in the U.S. used more electricity in 2022 than all of Los Angeles combined. But who breathed the air pollution from generating all that electricity? Our answer: mostly people in New York City, Houston / Austin, NE Texas, and IL / KY border. Check it out: 🧵 1/n

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

President Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., announced on Monday that they were investing in a new Bitcoin mining venture, an expansion of the family’s business interests in the crypto industry. nyti.ms/4iJLkRK

"Make America Healthy Again," huh? Gutting critical Health and Human Services functions on environmental health, gun violence, HIV, reproductive health, smoking, chronic disease, civil rights, etc. would be a cruel April Fool's joke. Worse, it's real. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership

Staffers began receiving termination notices this morning as part of a major restructuring at HHS. Some senior leadership are on their way out too.

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The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

we are living under fascism right now

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss. grist.org/biking/one-m... #Bikes #Bicycle #Economy #GreenSky #Transportation

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss

Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

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