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Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 7h

You should not control a nuclear arsenal if you cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. The story needs to be told through the lens of mental illness

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 7h

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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🅰️bacus 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇹🇼 @tradersabacus.fellas.army · 6h

"There are terrible things happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men
women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared." -Diary of
Anne Frank - January 13, 1943

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 8h

Stephen Miller is not the only person in this administration’s cabinet who thinks they are actually the ones in charge.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 6h

More winning.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 7h

In order to stop this fascist proliferation the legal system must be able to stop this regime’s violence, Constitutional violation of rights, it must hold these mercenaries accountable for their crimes against freedom. If it can’t, then they can do whatever they want. It’s that simple.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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South Carolina Democratic Party @scdemocrats.bsky.social · 8h

Military families are missing paychecks, food pantries are overwhelmed, and kids are losing after-school programs, all because of Trump’s shutdown.

Our troops deserve better than this chaos.
Read more here: www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...
#TrumpShutdown #SCDems #SCpol

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 6h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 18h

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Joan ❌👑 @still4dems.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 15h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 1d

This is tragic! How Trump's research cuts affect a 4-year-old in heart failure.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

VIRGINIA CALLER: “As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party, and I'm very disappointed in you… I am begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die... the audacity of someone who makes 6 figures a year to do this to military families is insane.” #TrumpShutdown

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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 1d

This is where our hard-earned New Yorker taxes are going—incarcerating priests whose only act was singing in peaceful protest. #Pinks

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

A good example of Dems not adapting to MAGA war mindset is that they keep telling reporters they can't engage on Trump's military occupations because it's a "trap" to entice them into a losing debate about crime. That concedes too much up front and plays by old rules.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just said the quiet part out loud: he’s only cutting “Democrat programs.”
So not waste, not fraud just anything that helps people who don’t vote for him. He’s a 34 times convicted criminal felon and unfit to govern!

#FascismInPlainSight
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

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Pat Andrea @oaktreedance.bsky.social · 2d

Seems on-brand for Johnson

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

This is quite literally, anti-science.

It is what happens when ideologues fit the data to the narrative and not the other way around. With these leaders in charge, HHS will generate junk discoveries, junk findings, and ultimately, junk cures.

Americans must turn elsewhere for guidance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 2d

"Anti-Science Superstorm" -- 8 mins

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZq7... @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @pbsnews.org

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

www.youtube.com

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 1d

11/12

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 1d

Today marks World Post Day.
Postal services in Ukraine are still being targeted by russia: even while delivering pensions, medical supplies and other essentials. The post is vital for connecting people and sending support to the frontline. Thank you to post workers for their dedication💙💛
🧵1/12

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

I get this.

That said, I’m not sure why this is being written — or getting such a response — today, since people have been writing versions of this at least since the court said it was hearing arguments over “universal injunctions” in the birthright citizenship case.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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