Nic Bennett (they/them)
@nicbennett.bsky.social
🔭 Science in Solidarity co-founder | 🗞️ newsletter: https://buttondown.com/scienceinsolidarity/#subscribe-form | 🚨 action hours: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wxnDlXzhQHypIwScvcnRNg?utm_source=scientistsinsolidarity&utm_medium=email#/registration
Dear US friends: if you are tired of seeing screenshots of posts that are mostly inflammatory lies but you know they might impact you and your community, might I refer you instead to @unbreaking.org? Timelines of what’s *actually* happening in US federal policy in key areas, sourced and updated.
Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week. REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...
Noam Ross@noamross.net · 2mo agoNSF seems to have stopped making new awards last week. There have been no new awards from any directorate since Weds, June 3. Even with the slow pace of new awards this year, there's been a consistent trickle. Something stopped the flow. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF 🧪
I've fallen hard for Detroit 😍 thanks to everyone, from the local barista to the art weirdos to my neighborhood block club who have helped me feel welcome looking forward to plugging in to the amazing arts and organizing happening here and becoming a good neighbor
Read the full piece by clicking the link, and buy Beth's book, out now: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2622-s...
Song for a Hard-Hit People
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"toward those at the top, not immigrants, Black people or trans kids — we can build enough power to not just defend against fascism but to also win the world we need. And every time we don’t take this opportunity, we know the far-right does."
"There’s a big misconception that poor white people are Donald Trump’s base. There’s so many images of “hillbillies,” “rednecks,” “white trash” and “trailer trash” used in the media... to make the case that poor white people in the South hold all of the racism in the entire nation."- Beth Howard
How working-class white Southerners can help defeat MAGA
Rural whites can be fierce fighters for economic and racial justice — if they are welcomed by progressives
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Bystander intervention training put to use...against a goose attacking a student. My experience suggests: less effective against geese than humans 🩹
Applications are now open for "Putting Science to Work," a new virtual certificate program from the Reclaiming STEM Institute!! Learn more and apply here: lnkd.in/eQSYY-VC
the work unbreaking.org is doing is brave, factual, and necessary - and you need to know it... and sometimes, yes, the data is indeed "super rough"... but do NOT turn your eyes away from it this is _your_ government's actions understand what they are doing (big thank you to all the volunteers)
Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 4mo agoThe @unbreaking.org Immigration timeline update is up with 47 new entries: unbreaking.org/issues/immig... I don't usually say this but…content warning: Super rough.
"We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don't surrender it to those who would destroy it."
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo agoClaims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.
Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽
I am proud to be an autistic librarian, proud to be a librarian with ADHD 💚
Jesus wept. I just called my US rep and senators and told them they have to do everything they can to stop this genocide. I told them I don't care if they're in the minority. They have options. I told them to chain themselves to the White House fence. Please call your reps, too. reps.fyi
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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo agoGod help us.
In these moments, we can close off and harden—or reach into our shared humanity and hold each other through the grief. Let’s choose the version of ourselves that names craters after our beloveds and hold each other through the long night. #carroll #ArtemisII www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Emotional crew names Moon crater after commander's late wife
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman's wife died from cancer in 2020 at age 46.
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NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
After emerging from the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts witnessed something few have ever experienced—a total solar eclipse in space. 📷 NASA
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.
In light of the recent announcement to disband NSF's SBE program (which includes much of what would cover basic social psychology research), EMP Lab postdoc @amormino.bsky.social put together this advocacy resource guide. Please take a look, share, and let's advocate www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.
Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...
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I talked with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Alison Macrina, and Katie Clark about libraries as public infrastructure, contested political terrain, and spaces of possibility—and about what it means to fight for them in this fascistic moment.
Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
truthout.org
Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
hatchmag.com
Today, I talk with @tanuja.bsky.social about rupture and repair in our movements. This is the first of two episodes about conflict, how we process it, and how we can keep our relationships and organizations strong.
Rupture and Repair Under Fascist Conditions
“Disagreement can be a beautiful, beautiful thing,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.
truthout.org
How Book Clubs and Knitting Circles Can Restore Our Democracy www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/19/o...
How book clubs and knitting circles can restore our democracy - The Boston Globe
‘Group whisperer’ Martha Crawford aims to help Americans revive in-person engagement skills that have gone dormant.
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