@callie2.bsky.social
Retired teacher, grandmother, world citizen
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And this highlights a big problem:
Since we didn’t prosecute and jail those responsible for this, people like Stephen Miller, they were emboldened to come back and do worse today.
The lesson is: when political and biz leaders do crimes, Nixon and Ollie North to Musk and Russ Vought, they must pay.
Since we didn’t prosecute and jail those responsible for this, people like Stephen Miller, they were emboldened to come back and do worse today.
The lesson is: when political and biz leaders do crimes, Nixon and Ollie North to Musk and Russ Vought, they must pay.
Reminder that the Trump administration lost track of hundreds (perhaps thousands) of kids during family separation 1.0. I wrote about it from the perspective of government attorneys here: scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1....
August 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And this highlights a big problem:
Since we didn’t prosecute and jail those responsible for this, people like Stephen Miller, they were emboldened to come back and do worse today.
The lesson is: when political and biz leaders do crimes, Nixon and Ollie North to Musk and Russ Vought, they must pay.
Since we didn’t prosecute and jail those responsible for this, people like Stephen Miller, they were emboldened to come back and do worse today.
The lesson is: when political and biz leaders do crimes, Nixon and Ollie North to Musk and Russ Vought, they must pay.
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Someone find out who this Bad Ass woman is. She deserves to be acknowledged!! Well Done! 👊👏
July 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Someone find out who this Bad Ass woman is. She deserves to be acknowledged!! Well Done! 👊👏
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Boy, NBER made such a good choice refusing to criticize their fellow Jay Bhattacharya, as Bhattacharya lied and denied COVID and helped Trump and Republicans win elections.
Surely NBER fellow Bhattacharya will speak up about this! Surely… he will… speak up!?
Surely NBER fellow Bhattacharya will speak up about this! Surely… he will… speak up!?
After 22 years, NBER shuts its Retirement and Disability Research Center. It was funded by the Social Security Administration (SSA) through a cooperative agreement with the NBER with the goal of providing research and analysis that could inform Social Security policy. www.nber.org/brd/20251/nb...
NBER Retirement and Disability Research Center Winds Down Operations
www.nber.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Boy, NBER made such a good choice refusing to criticize their fellow Jay Bhattacharya, as Bhattacharya lied and denied COVID and helped Trump and Republicans win elections.
Surely NBER fellow Bhattacharya will speak up about this! Surely… he will… speak up!?
Surely NBER fellow Bhattacharya will speak up about this! Surely… he will… speak up!?
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May 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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“Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.”
This applies to scientific and academic leaders too. 🧪
This applies to scientific and academic leaders too. 🧪
Such an important piece—
I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.”
This applies to scientific and academic leaders too. 🧪
This applies to scientific and academic leaders too. 🧪
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When it comes to rescind funds for NIH and destroy the NIH budget, we want Dems to fight for us then by using every single tool for delay they have.
New: Democrats are largely shrugging off the idea of trying to delay a House vote on the rescissions package until after the Friday deadline.
They think the admin would probably just ignore or side-step it anyway, sources told @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/07/17/n...
They think the admin would probably just ignore or side-step it anyway, sources told @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/07/17/n...
Scoop: House Democrats shrug off delay tactics to stall Mike Johnson's DOGE vote
"People would be really unhappy after what he did on July 4," said one House Democrat.
www.axios.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
When it comes to rescind funds for NIH and destroy the NIH budget, we want Dems to fight for us then by using every single tool for delay they have.
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When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
July 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
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💕 So many committed NIH employees, people who loved the place and loved public service were terminated today. It is terrible for them, and a loss for us all.
Mourning the loss of those who were RIF’d back in April. Our colleagues at NIH and across HHS are getting their official separation notices. These are friends and family members who were vital to the HHS mission being kicked to the curb. Please keep them in your thoughts.
July 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
💕 So many committed NIH employees, people who loved the place and loved public service were terminated today. It is terrible for them, and a loss for us all.
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They fear your voice because it’s powerful. The status quo trembles at a single voice. Silence isn’t safety-it’s surrender. They don’t fear your sadness-they fear your clarity. History doesn’t repeat itself- it responds to silence. They want you numb...so stay awake. Read this...often.
July 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
They fear your voice because it’s powerful. The status quo trembles at a single voice. Silence isn’t safety-it’s surrender. They don’t fear your sadness-they fear your clarity. History doesn’t repeat itself- it responds to silence. They want you numb...so stay awake. Read this...often.
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We are living Project 2025
They said we were being alarmists
They said we were being alarmists
July 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We are living Project 2025
They said we were being alarmists
They said we were being alarmists
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Most people don’t know that Rosie O’Donnell was a very early supporter of Eleven Films back in 2020.
We will always have her back. 👊🏼💙
This is from her TikTok.
We will always have her back. 👊🏼💙
This is from her TikTok.
July 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Most people don’t know that Rosie O’Donnell was a very early supporter of Eleven Films back in 2020.
We will always have her back. 👊🏼💙
This is from her TikTok.
We will always have her back. 👊🏼💙
This is from her TikTok.
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ICE GOONS hanging out in the lobby of Glendale Memorial Hospital
July 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ICE GOONS hanging out in the lobby of Glendale Memorial Hospital
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Hero. Thank you, @maxwellfrost.bsky.social. Please keep highlighting for everyone the harms this administration is doing.
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Hero. Thank you, @maxwellfrost.bsky.social. Please keep highlighting for everyone the harms this administration is doing.
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Something super important here:
This is POLITICIZATION OF SCIENCE, and if it is not stopped and reversed it will kill American science.
MAGA does NOT GET TO SET funding priorities.
That is for Congress: for the most democratically-elected body.
This is POLITICIZATION OF SCIENCE, and if it is not stopped and reversed it will kill American science.
MAGA does NOT GET TO SET funding priorities.
That is for Congress: for the most democratically-elected body.
Just received this suspicious request from an #NSF email address I have never gotten email from before.
It requests a specifically formatted reply with 2-3 sentences on how my grant relates to the 6 new MAGA "priority" areas.
1/x
@marisakabas.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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#academicsky
It requests a specifically formatted reply with 2-3 sentences on how my grant relates to the 6 new MAGA "priority" areas.
1/x
@marisakabas.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social
🧠🟦
#academicsky
July 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Something super important here:
This is POLITICIZATION OF SCIENCE, and if it is not stopped and reversed it will kill American science.
MAGA does NOT GET TO SET funding priorities.
That is for Congress: for the most democratically-elected body.
This is POLITICIZATION OF SCIENCE, and if it is not stopped and reversed it will kill American science.
MAGA does NOT GET TO SET funding priorities.
That is for Congress: for the most democratically-elected body.
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I’m sounding the alarm with my fellow SFRC Democrats on the deep cuts going on at the State Department that will weaken our standing in the world. SoS Rubio must explain why he is removing the men and women who conduct our diplomacy when we need them most. www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-r...
U.S. Senator Christopher Coons of Delaware
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Christopher Coons of Delaware
www.coons.senate.gov
July 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I’m sounding the alarm with my fellow SFRC Democrats on the deep cuts going on at the State Department that will weaken our standing in the world. SoS Rubio must explain why he is removing the men and women who conduct our diplomacy when we need them most. www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-r...
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I offered an amendment to the Big, Ugly Bill that would have prevented millions of Americans from losing their health care coverage. Thank you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social for reminding the American people that Republicans voted it down.
July 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I offered an amendment to the Big, Ugly Bill that would have prevented millions of Americans from losing their health care coverage. Thank you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social for reminding the American people that Republicans voted it down.
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Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
July 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
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This is absurd. Murkowski was the deciding vote. All the GOPers who voted to strip millions of their health coverage & reduce food assistance to millions of kids to give deficit-expanding tax cuts to the wealthy are each responsible for this. But...Murkowski is a little bit more responsible.
She voted for it, but she’s against it and hopes the House makes changes. The Republican Party.
July 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is absurd. Murkowski was the deciding vote. All the GOPers who voted to strip millions of their health coverage & reduce food assistance to millions of kids to give deficit-expanding tax cuts to the wealthy are each responsible for this. But...Murkowski is a little bit more responsible.
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Governor Andy Beshear: "If this big ugly bill passes, American children and American seniors are going to go hungry. They're going to have that pain in their stomachs and throughout their body when they're trying to go to bed or when they're waking up in the morning."
June 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Governor Andy Beshear: "If this big ugly bill passes, American children and American seniors are going to go hungry. They're going to have that pain in their stomachs and throughout their body when they're trying to go to bed or when they're waking up in the morning."
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I've never been so disappointed in my party in 60+ years. Why aren't members of congress screaming and yelling like their hair is on fire! How else will we survive?
June 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've never been so disappointed in my party in 60+ years. Why aren't members of congress screaming and yelling like their hair is on fire! How else will we survive?
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RFK Jr. is a menace to the health of children worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
Kennedy Withdraws Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RFK Jr. is a menace to the health of children worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
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We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.