Civil disobedience is often necessary. Thank you Chris Kluwe.#civil disobedience

Where?

What is USAID and why does Donald Trump want to end it? The US aid agency spends $40bn a year on humanitarian support - but its future is in doubt.

Why USAID is so important, and why the administration wants to kill it

www.bbc.com/news/article...

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO FIGHT BACK If you have a Democratic senator, make their life hell until they fight back. Demand that they block every Trump nominee. Demand they shut down the Senate until this crisis is addressed. Demand they use every parliamentary tool available to obstruct Trump’s agenda. If you have a Republican senator, hammer them on Russell Vought’s confirmation. We need four votes to flip. And behind closed doors, we know Republicans are shaking in their boots about Project 2025. They should either vote against him—or suffer the political fallout. Get in the streets and into their offices. Nothing rattles a senator like dozens of constituents physically showing up at their office demanding action. That is what we need this week.

To all who see this:
Indivisible is co-founded by @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and part of a larger network helping average, everyday Americans fight back.

Rep. Al Green has filed articles of impeachment & it's our job to convince Republicans and Senior Dems to accept.

indivisible.org/coup
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This is our sense too. Things are changing. Keep fighting, keep speaking up.

Make the Senate Listen Don’t be afraid to call or write your senators before they vote on the Kash Patel nomination, along with those of Robert Kennedy, Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard.

Make the Senate Listen
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More (Gift Article) A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.

Trump EPA appointees plan to demote career employees who oversee scientific research, enforcement of pollution laws, hazardous waste cleanup & the agency’s HR department and replace them with political appointees (read: Trump loyalists), Lisa Friedman reports www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/c...

You deserve a break from the dumpster fire to enjoy a little dose of happy beauty. Thank you, Canada 💕

It's like the worst movie ever. I'm thinking "War Games" is coming...."would you like to play a game?"

🧪 and #EduSky

I put all these words in a google sheet if that helps anyone docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole

There is almost no chance now of saving the Greenland Ice Sheet, nor the West Antarctic Ice Sheet for that matter

This locks-in a ~12m sea level rise, which will eventually drown every coastal town and city

But do our 'leaders' care - do they even know?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole

SHIIIIIIIIT

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A tongue-eating isopod takes a 5-million+ year journey through fossilized feces One day, 5 to 20 million years ago, a tongue-eating isopod parasitized some unknown Miocene fish, embedding itself in the fish’s mouth where wit would grow and consume scraps as its host feed…

This paper has been delighting me for months, but I've been struggling to write about delightful things. I finally forced myself to sit down and just be delighted by the ocean.

We still need delightful things.

A tongue-eating isopod takes a 5-million+ year journey through fossilized feces:

The strike back.

Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.

- SGEs are limited to providing services for up to 130 days in a 365-day period.
- SGEs are prohibited from acting as an agent or attorney before the government.
- SGEs must not participate in matters affecting their personal financial interests.

Reminder to Elon:
- SGEs are subject to the same ethics standards as other federal employees.
- SGEs must comply with conflict of interest laws.
- SGEs must file a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.

Trump is considering executive action to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education

The Trump administration blamed the dismantling of USAID on its workers’ high levels of “insubordination.” Nothing like gaslighting America.

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Politics Girl, Leigh McGowan, talking about Elon Musk gaining access to government computer information at the Treasury Dept. our private information: ss numbers, tax returns, banking info, pmts from medicare, social security, va benefits, medicaid, Musk now has access to all the country's money.

An Act of War YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6g...

Perfectly captured.

Let’s try something. We here at @altnih4science.bsky.social want to boost descriptions of NIH-funded science.

If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost.
We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪

How is Trump hoping to improve air safety?!

Elon fucking Musk does NOT appropriate federal funds.
That is the job of CONGRESS.
Not some foreign born private citizen jumping bean exploding penis rocket car melting nepo-baby conspiracy theorist womanizer who exchanges horses for handjobs.

Congress needs to stand the fuck up. All of them!!!

There's a petulant idiot from Queens, New York in the White House who is going to tank the American economy because he's too simple-minded to understand how tariffs work.

There's another petulant idiot from Pretoria, South Africa trying to dismantle the US government.

Most Americans: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯