Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

Given our incredible track record of regime changes e.g. Iran (wtf to fubar), Iraq (Saddam to ISIS), Afghanistan (Taliban to Taliban), I’m sure Venezuelans feel pretty good about their prospects.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

CNN@cnn.com · 7mo ago

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss

This would be a good time for anybody interested in doing serious news to resign in protest from CBS.

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

I would rather have been wrong about this.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Accurate about @gorskon.bsky.social from 5.5 years ago.

I will say, as long as articles of impeachment go sitting unsponsored on the house floor…Dems do, too. Particularly Jeffries.

RFK Jr. is out of control. Republicans own this.

U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors

The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.

washingtonpost.com

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

This year has been brutal for science, especially early career researchers and those working with communities further marginalized by this administration. Please read the experiences of these scientists. And when you’re done reading, find a way to fight back. theconversation.com/this-year-ne...

‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives

US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.

theconversation.com

This administration specializes in fearmongering, not facts. The facts: 86% of trans youth report s*cidal ideation and 56% have attempted to end their lives. Anti trans laws increase attempts by ~72%. <1% report regretting GAC. If they are trying to protect children, science says they are wrong.

I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...

Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬@jeymccreight.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

🧵I want to scream and yell and throw things. This study is so unethical. And the racism leaves me speechless. White Europeans and Americans taking advantage of a poor country in Africa. If this study gets done there will be deaths that need not have happened.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Many people have been giving excellent updates about the $1.6 million that RFK Jr. has given to Danish researchers to “study” the HepB birth dose in Guinea-Bissau, and I’m glad this story is spreading. The first thing that was confirmed is that the researchers are Benn and Aady, as many predicted.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has terminated several multimillion-dollar grants—including one on early autism IDing—to the American Academy of Pediatrics following the association’s criticisms of the policies of its ghoul of a secretary, RFK Jr. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr

Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP

theguardian.com

“Tell your children who the cowards were.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

Read @boghuma.bsky.social’s piece on RFK Jr’s HBV vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust

The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm

bktitanji.substack.com

This is outstanding work. If you're only going to read one thing today it needs to be this.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 8mo ago

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

Liz Szabo@lizszabo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

This is mind-boggling unethical and if done there will deaths when there did not need to be deaths. RFK JR is a monster.

Liz Szabo@lizszabo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers

cidrap.umn.edu

The similarities between RFK Jr and T Lysenko are chilling. RFK Jr will be responsible for so many deaths if he is not removed from office. The damage done under his leadership to CDC and NIH will take years to undo even if we could start today.

Michael Scherer@michaelscherer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

When I first met with RFK Jr. for this story, he told me his staff thought it was a bad idea. A few months later, he accused me of being a scorpion who had tricked him. But we kept talking. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

They’re doing eugenics right out in the open now, largely because Trump, RFK Jr, Dr Oz and the rest of the fascists have been pushing a eugenicist agenda since they seized control. It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous. Disabled people are not “imperfect”. We are also not expendable

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 9mo ago

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.

We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them