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Trisha Clark

@tcinindy.bsky.social

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Research Administrator - Blue Dot in Indiana - I believe in science - I follow the facts - #HoosierSky - All are welcome - 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - 🚫 Porn - 🚫Crypto - 🚫DM’s - Views/Opinions are my own.

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Trisha Clark @tcinindy.bsky.social · Dec 29

Welcome to my new followers! I follow back most accounts.
Reasons for not following back:
▶️ No profile description, very few or no posts.
▶️ Stocks/Crypto, Porn, Selling, Dating - Not Interested.
▶️ If I determine you’re scamming, spamming or a bot, I will unfollow.
Thank you for following me! 🫶🏻

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CDC Mutual Aid Network @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social · 5h

And in the middle of a government shutdown too... meaning people's last paycheck was only about 70% of the normal amount. :(

We're raising money to support fired CDC Workers! Please check us out and consider donating here: www.cdcresourceportal.org/donate

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9h

“There are a lot of critical things the federal government does... There are critical things that need to be saved.”

Vice President JD Vance (R-Arson Club of America)

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️

📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 21h

It is day 10 of the government shutdown, and instead of negotiating with Democrats, Trump is disrespecting federal workers and using them as pawns in his plan to dismantle the services Americans rely on.

Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown

Mass firings of federal workers have begun. That was the announcement Friday from the White House as Republicans worked to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers to end the government shutdown.

apnews.com

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MADVoters @madvoters.bsky.social · 5h

Indiana Governor Mike Braun and his MAGA administration are enabling Trump’s authoritarian takeover at Hoosiers’ expense. No Kings 2.0 will bring Hoosiers together in solidarity to take action against the Trump regime here on the homefront.

Learn more at www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

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MADVoters @madvoters.bsky.social · 5h

Join @indivisiblecentind.bsky.social, @madvoters.bsky.social, @acluindiana.bsky.social, Women4Change, Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, and @indivisiblesci.bsky.social at No Kings 2: No Pawns. No Puppets.

⏰ Saturday, October 18, 11am-2pm
📍Indiana Statehouse

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cbs4indy.bsky.social @cbs4indy.bsky.social · 5h

An employee of WGN, a Nexstar station in Chicago, was detained by two Border Patrol officers, sparking viral reactions.
DETAILS: https://fox59.com/news/national-world/wgn-employee-detained-amid-ice-activity-in-chicago-later-released/

WGN employee detained amid ICE activity in Chicago, later released

An employee of WGN-TV was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection in Chicago Friday Morning.

fox59.com

Trisha Clark @tcinindy.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know enough about that to provide any information.

Trisha Clark @tcinindy.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning Bluesky!

Trisha Clark @tcinindy.bsky.social · 9h

Skies will be partly to mostly cloudy today with temperatures in the low to mid 70s. Lows will fall into the mid 40s tonight and tomorrow night with dry weather continuing through much if not all of next week. #INwx #Hoosiersky

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 1d

Proud of my colleagues for speaking out!

There is so much power when people come together.

Trump knows that, and that’s why everything he does aims to divide us.

But we see through that and are growing stronger together!

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Shut down but not silenced: Federal workers find their voice

After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.

www.npr.org

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

Mark Bray this morning:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

next.frame.io

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Trisha Clark @tcinindy.bsky.social · 1d

This shitshow continues every day. I truly feel bad for the government workers that are merely pawns to this cruel and inhumane Administration. They deserve so much better than these fascist idiots!

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Here's that new post, btw. Things going great in the federal government, as usual.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

www.gravityisgone.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Meredith Clark @meredithlclark.bsky.social · 1d

I say this with all the fury I have in my upper midwestern soul: I hope the ghost of Bozo the Clown seeks vengeance for his comrade

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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League of Women Voters of Indianapolis @lwvindy.bsky.social · 1d

🗳️ CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!
We need your help to make democracy work.
Join the League of Women Voters of Indianapolis for upcoming volunteer shifts supporting civic engagement events this fall!

💻 Sign up: www.lwvindy.org/events

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Trisha Clark @tcinindy.bsky.social · 1d

America will be paying for this for generations. The only thing this Administration knows how to do is create chaos and destroy America. This only reiterates the need to resist! Silence will not save us!

STAT @statnews.com · 1d

#Breaking: HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/h...

HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown

Federal health employees are being fired as the White House makes good on a promise to terminate federal employees en masse because of the shutdown.

www.statnews.com

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 1d

Interior, Homeland Security, Treasury, EPA, Commerce, Education, Energy, HHS and HUD.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

The Trump admin has started firing federal workers 10 days into the shutdown, according OMB Director Russ Vought — who called the firings "substantial."

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

Vought sounds layoff siren: 'The RIFs have begun'

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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Michael_Mc @michaelmpennsy.bsky.social · 1d

Sen. Cassidy of LA. The latest lunacy from your approved HHS head, RFK, Jr. Circumcision is a predictor of autism! Why? Because they would be more likely to have taken Tylenol for pain. HUH???? This charlatan uses correlation as equivalent to causation. Heinous!
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

www.medpagetoday.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

A response from MIT rejecting "The Compact"...

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Meteorologist Amber Hardwick @ahardwickwx.bsky.social · 1d

The Covered Bridge Festival in Parke County kicks off today! The weather looks awesome for the first weekend of the festival! 😍 #INwx @fox59.bsky.social @cbs4indy.bsky.social @theWXauthority

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

A good 🧵to start to day…

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 2d

I am really glad that @jeremymberg.bsky.social wrote this. Everybody who cares about science, and about knowledge generation and civil society generally, should read and share with their favorite administrator.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

open.substack.com

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