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standupforscience.bsky.social
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨

You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.

Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.

Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️
April 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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altnih4science.bsky.social
A step outside science and cures. It's important.

Left, understated update just now from NYT: "El Salvador Won't Return Man."

Right, @jonathanvlast.bsky.social at the Bulwark yesterday:
"If (3) happens", El Salvador won't return man, it THREATENS THE ENTIRE US LEGAL SYSTEM. 1/
LIVE April 14, 2025, 12:26 p.m. ET4m ago Salvadoran Leader Says He Won’t Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported President Nayib Bukele’s visit to the White House came as the Trump administration stepped up its use of a notorious Salvadorian prison for deported migrants. Over the next 36 hours, one of three things will happen. (1) Bukele will agree to repatriate Abrego Garcia to the United States. He will insist that this decision is entirely his own and that he has chosen to do so as a token of good will toward President Trump. (2) Bukele will defer the decision, saying that he is considering returning Abrego Garcia but has not yet made up his mind. (3) Bukele will refuse to return Abrego Garcia. He will say that this is an internal matter on which the American courts can have no say. He will claim that Abrego Garcia is a criminal, a danger, and a threat to El Salvador.1 If (1) comes to pass, then a constitutional crisis will have been postponed. Both Trump and SCOTUS can claim to have held firm, but no further action will be necessary until Trump creates the next showdown. If (2) happens, then all of the pressure falls to the district judge, who will be in the position of trying to manage the U.S. government’s lawyers as they stall, obfuscate, and attempt to evade the fact that they are making a direct challenge to the authority of the judicial system. But if it’s number 3? Let us speak plainly: Nayib Bukele is a minor strongman who will do whatever Donald Trump demands of him.2 If Trump wants Abrego Garcia in the United States, then Bukele will return him. By the same
April 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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neilabrams.bsky.social
If you do want to know how it works—and, specifically, how it can work in the US, here’s a thing I wrote: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Trump Can Be Stopped
Other countries managed to fend off autocracy. By borrowing from their playbook, America can too.
substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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djentle.bsky.social
When I was a young fundamentalist Christian, I remember being taught that the world is here for us to plunder, as Jesus would return and take [some of] us all to heaven long before life on earth would be unsustainable.

Magical thinking is going to kill so many of us unnecessarily.
February 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM