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Slicing Potatoes

It helps
putting my hands on a pot,
on a broom,
in a wash pail.

I tried painting,
but it was easier to fly
slicing potatoes.

Rabia of Basria (c.717-801)
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🆕 “Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches [...] bullies are only emboldened by acquiescence or indifference.”

The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Supporting medical science in the USA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
April 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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NIH bans funding to all institutions with DEIA programs or that boycott Israel. Applies prospectively to new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards issued on or after the date of this Notice.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH
grants.nih.gov
April 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Canadian academics advised against US travel www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
www.caut.ca
April 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.

I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...
Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores
The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.
christinapagel.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It's impossible that these photos are taken without the clear purpose of evoking other past deportations. Impossible.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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“I am starting to think now that I may lose my job and not exist in this field anymore...” said Sean Arayasirikul [dept of Health, Society, and Behavior at UC Irvine]. “But to erase an entire generation of scholars who come from these communities, doing this work, the impact of that is immense.”
NIH abruptly terminates millions in research grants, defying court orders
The NIH is terminating grants, citing Trump administration restrictions on funding work related to DEI and transgender issues
www.statnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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This is how dictators talk.
Patel: "Anyone that wishes to do harm to our way of life and our citizens, here and abroad, will face the full wrath of the DOJ & FBI. If you seek to hide in any corner of this country or planet, we will put on the world's largest manhunt & we will find you, & we will decide your end state. Not you"
February 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is so serious.
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This, this by @ibramxk.bsky.social goes straight to the point!
Trump *also* seems to think those he casts as destroying the Country violate the Law by their very being. Trump calls immigrants from Latin America, Asia, and Africa “illegals.” Trump frames queer people as “groomers.” 1/2
February 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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When people ask how is Israel inciting antisemitism around the world, this is how.

The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.
Circulated footage shows dozens of Palestinian detainees dressed in shirts bearing the Star of David and the slogan “We will never forget, we will never forgive” before being released from Ofer Prison as part of the sixth batch of the prisoner exchange.
February 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Me in the Guardian today on DEI as the new N-word for the right:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
February 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references.

It's brutal.

And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.
February 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States
COLLINS: Where exactly are you suggesting Gazans should go? Who do you envision living there?

TRUMP: I envision world people living there. The world's people. I think you'll make that into an international, unbelievable place.
February 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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January 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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You could keep going and we'd be here all day,’

Author and activist, @naomiaklein.bsky.social told @mehdihasan.bsky.social as he began to list all the shocking things Trump has done in just ten days.

youtube.com/shorts/8jJBC...
10 Days of Trump: 'Shock and Awe'
YouTube video by Zeteo
youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Infectious Disease doc here 🙋🏻‍♂️. The only reason to give less vaccine to Black people is if you don’t want them to be protected. This is straight up medical racism. #DoNotConfirmRFKJr
ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant?

RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ...

ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?
January 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I am going to put together a thread covering RFK Jr's confirmation hearing for the HHS secretary job. Follow along for clips and commentary.
January 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
When you search it on the map and see it with your own eyes and zoom back and forth, you realize once again how the colonial project translates first of all as violence on the land. And, as such, decolonization should start with #landback everywhere.
Google just updated their map of Gaza this is 31°32'34"N 34°32'43"E
January 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Please sign this urgently…. www.theleftberlin.com/weaponisatio...
January 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The full ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now being seriously discussed by the new US administration. The population of Gaza is over 2 million people, mostly children.

Trump also resumed sending the 2000 pound bombs that Biden sent to Israel before pausing.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
January 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Slicing Potatoes

It helps
putting my hands on a pot,
on a broom,
in a wash pail.

I tried painting,
but it was easier to fly
slicing potatoes.

Rabia of Basria (c.717-801)
January 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Quei #libri che non riesci a smettere di leggere. #abigailthomas

I cannot put it down.
January 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM