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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · 4d

Roanoke says No Kings!

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Roanoke Indivisible ❌👑 @roanokeindivisible.bsky.social · 7d

NO KINGS! Saturday in Roanoke- 12 noon in Washington Park! www.bit.ly/NOKINGSRKE

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · May 19

Let’s go Roanoke - www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Roanoke VA · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

www.mobilize.us

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · Apr 5

Big crowd in Roanoke for the #HandsOff protest!

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · Mar 27

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Feb 27

Read every word of this article to see what the Trump folks are doing to the good civil servants at NIH -- and to the important work that protects all of our health. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social · Feb 21

I'm excited to share that we got a pilot grant for a cool new collaboration with the Purcell lab @fralinbiomed.bsky.social

*Decoding the mechanisms of a rare genetic disorder*

(or how the cerebellum is altered in 3q29del syndrome)

fbri.vtc.vt.edu/giving/seale...

Seale Innovation Fund

The Seale Innovation Fund fuels innovative pilot research projects with transformative potential in healthcare

fbri.vtc.vt.edu

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · Feb 21

“Every week of postponed funding brings research team leaders closer to making difficult decisions to cut staff members or stop their activities.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

www.nature.com

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · Feb 11

“A lot of what N.I.H. has funded is basic research that pharmaceutical companies rely on — and which they rely on to develop their products — but won’t fund, in part because it’s not possible to say with certainty where the research will lead.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...

Opinion | The Pharmaceutical Industry Heads Into Elon Musk’s Wood Chipper

Who needs N.I.H. grants? A lot of red-state universities, for one.

www.nytimes.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 11

BREAKING

The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.

The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order

The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.

popular.info

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Feb 10

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”

Lots of information and resources in this one.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?

Yes. And You Can Too.

open.substack.com

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5 Calls @5calls.org · Feb 8

We know many of you are opting to write emails instead. Totally fine! But if you do so, we strongly advise against copy/pasting our call scripts into emails. Repetitious written msgs can easily get filtered out as form letters and trashed. Emails/letters are most effective w unique personal mgs! 🤓👍📞

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5 Calls @5calls.org · Feb 8

**NEW CALL** Demand your reps work to reverse the Trump admin's decision to cut NIH and NSF funding!

These cuts will cause an immediate and massive funding shortfall at research institutions nationwide, forcing layoffs and jeopardizing critical scientific research.

🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

Save NIH and NSF Research Funding ⭑ 5 Calls

On February 7, the Trump administration moved to cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science …

5calls.org

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 8

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

media.tenor.com

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · Feb 7

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · Feb 6

Unions & think tank sue to protect sensitive information of Americans from DOGE. We represent @aflcio.org, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), @seiu.org, @cwaunion.bsky.social, and @epi.org in this case to halt Musk & DOGE. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/doge-suit

Unions and Think Tank File Emergency Suit to Protect the Sensitive Information of Americans from DOGE

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · Feb 5

Half of Virginia’s Community Health Centers have stopped receiving federal funding.

Trump’s chaos means rural health care providers will close down, potentially for good.

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · Feb 4

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

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · Feb 4

“The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup.”

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

February 3, 2025

I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · Feb 3

I urge you to take 5 minutes to call your reps and ask what they are doing to stop this unelected fascist.

5calls.org/issue/elon-m...

Fight Against Elon Musk’s Government Takeover ⭑ 5 Calls

UPDATE (02/02/25): Musk and his DOGE team of personal allies have also now gained access to classified material including high-security intelligence …

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ryanpurcell.bsky.social @ryanpurcell.bsky.social · Feb 3

Great app that makes it easy to call your reps. Tell your Senators to vote NO on Vought this week. 5calls.org

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

5calls.org

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jan 28

A LOT (a LOT) of dictators in the past grabbed power with something claiming to be "temporary."

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 28

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.

Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."

They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jan 27

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.

Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · Jan 28

My office just got a phone call from a domestic violence shelter — the only one serving multiple counties — that says they may have to close their doors if President Trump doesn’t reverse course.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jan 28

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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