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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 6

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

Know your rights, Illinois.

Stay safe and stay informed.

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 19

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 19

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ...
theverge.com
The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5
successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting
with in 2023.
Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output."
The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can
give incorrect responses."
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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · Jun 24

I just feel like we should just TRY matriarchy. After all, can’t possibly be worse than where we're at!!

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Jun 16

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!

PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!

Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Jun 16

"This Court rules that the challenged directives . . . are arbitrary and capricious."

"They are of no force and effect."

"They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · May 27

@scott-delaney.bsky.social has had a front row seat to the Trump admin’s cancellation of NIH grants

I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪

www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...

A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut

Harvard's Scott Delaney helped build a database of NIH grant terminations that is being used in litigation against the Trump administration.

www.statnews.com

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 19

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · May 12

The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡

waysandmeans.house.gov

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · May 8

A spot of hope: this is a dataset that we may be able to crowdsource. Insurance companies, attribution scientists, and outside evaluators already estimate the cost of disasters, and so we can probably "life raft" this until we have an administration that gives a damn about the American people.

Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · May 8

What better indication that the Trump admin would have us stick our heads in the sand as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods sweep through our country and kill our friends and neighbors? Climate disasters don't exist if you don't collect data about them!

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · May 8

$2.9 trillion dollars of total cost in billion dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, and 16,941 Americans killed. Why would you want to collect data about such trivial events!?

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · May 8

It's easy to see why an administration so beholden to fossil fuel interests would feel threatened by this data. This dataset shows, directly, the $ cost to Americans of climate disasters, and provides a valuable timeseries of the increasing frequency of such disasters.

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · May 8

But data availability isn't the main problem here: supposedly, all reports will remain available on the site: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi.... The biggest problem is that THIS is no longer a priority for the government.

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · May 8

@noaa.gov axed their Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters dataset: a crucial resource showing the inflation-adjusted cost/damages of U.S. extreme weather and climate disasters.

(We at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social grabbed it.)

www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

#climate #weather #disaster #NOAA

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · May 8

Kinda amazing that one of the biggest announcements of the year *in 2025* is still done by smoke signal.

Social media has destroyed democracy—let's go back to smoke signals & carrier pigeons!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · May 6

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.

Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thanks for the tip, @lizneeley.bsky.social !

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · Apr 25

There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share!

dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · Apr 22

[1/5] @jonathang.bsky.social, data scientist à Harvard, dénonce la destruction de données scientifiques par l’administration Trump. Ces bases de données sont essentielles pour analyser les risques globaux comme le climat, la pollution ou les pandémies, qui affectent tous les territoires. #geography

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · Apr 22

From me in @theguardian.com (!)

"Data is being stolen from us; our ability to understand the world is being stolen from us. Americans will die because the Trump administration is abdicating its responsibility to the people."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools

www.theguardian.com

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Apr 21

A clarion call to stand up for scientific data from @jonathang.bsky.social ⤵️

I have the privilege of working with Jonathan and have had a front row seat as he and his team have busted their asses to archive data the past several months. He's a warrior for science. 💪

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools

www.theguardian.com

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · Apr 17

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · Apr 9

Weird way to say that capitalism is on track to destroy the climate!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Jonathan Gilmour @jonathang.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hilarious juxtaposition. "'There's certainly a concern of retribution from the administration, but we feel strongly we're on the right side of history here,' Gilmour said. The White House did not respond to Context's request for comment before time of publication."

www.context.news/digital-righ...

Volunteers on 'right side of history' fight Trump data purge | Context

U.S. volunteers restore health and climate data deleted by Trump administration - for everyone to use

www.context.news

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