Wednesday, February 19, 2025

MAGA vs. Free Speech

The far right group building a list of pro-Palestine activists to deport (February 6, 2025)

 

 

The vice president is busy attacking Europeans for not defending free speech while the Trump-Musk administration threatens to imprison American journalists. (February 18, 2025)

 

 

Trump is punishing Americans who don’t say the words he likes best. That’s not how it works in America. (February 19, 2025)

 

 

Letter to the Editor: White House tries to chill free speech (February 19, 2025)

 

 

Trump brags he "brought back free speech" hours after calling to ban illegal protests (March 4, 2025)



Jewish Americans Are Sick Of Trump Exploiting Them (March 13, 2025)



There can be no ‘Israel exception’ for free speech (March 14, 2025)



Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says (March 18, 2025)



US court orders White House to restore access for AP journalists (April 8, 2025)

 

 

'Citizenship won't save you': Free speech advocates say student arrests should worry all (April 8, 2025)

 

 

The Texas-Sized Plan To Shut You Up (May 8, 2025)

 

 

 

AOC (2030)

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AOC (2029)

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AOC (2028)

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AOC (2027)

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AOC (2026)

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Monday, February 17, 2025

AOC (2025)

Ocasio-Cortez mobilizes Democrats against Schumer plan as colleagues privately urge her to consider primary challenge (March 13, 2025)

 

 

The Time for AOC to Take Chuck Schumer’s Seat After Shutdown Surrender Has Come (March 15, 2025)

 

 

 

AOC (2024)

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AOC (2023)

Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Vote Against Record $886 Billion for Military Spending (December 14, 2023)

 

 

 

AOC (2022)

Ocasio-Cortez only Democrat to vote ‘no’ on spending package (December 23, 2022)

 

 

 

AOC (2021)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Submits 7 Amendments for National Defense Budget Bill to Protect Human Rights (September 16, 2021)

 

 

 

AOC (2020)

 














AOC (2019)

TWITTER: First House Floor speech from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (January 16, 2019) 

 

 

YOUTUBE: First House Floor speech from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (January 16, 2019) 

 

 

Ocasio-Cortez Wants Hearing on Banks Funding Immigrant Prisons (February 25, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: AOC points out the logical fallacy underlying poor-shaming (May 11, 2019) 

 

 

Face it, Repubs, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is way smarter than you guys (April 19, 2019) 

 

 

FACEBOOK: AOC points out the absurdity of fundraising (May 24, 2019) 

 

 

Ocasio-Cortez Criticizes Pelosi for Pushing Pharma-Friendly Bill Behind Closed Doors (June 6, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: "If calling the detention camps what they really are makes you uncomfortable, fight the camps — not the nomenclature." (June 19, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: AOC shares video from before her primary when she flew to a concentration camp at the border (June 18, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: "This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying." (June 18, 2019) 

 

 

AOC’s Generation Doesn’t Presume America’s Innocence (June 21, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: AOC calls for the child abuse at the border to stop (June 21, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: "Diplomacy is what grants us peace and stability — not war." (June 20, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: AOC calls out the hypocrisy of House Republicans (June 20, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: AOC calls out CBP for the violent hate group that it is (July 1, 2019) 

 

 

TWITTER: "CBP has lost control of its officers." (July 2, 2019) 

 

 

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez move to declare climate crisis official emergency (July 8, 2019) 

 

 

AOC to DHS Secretary: “Did You See the Photoshopped Images of My Violent Rape?” (July 19, 2019) 

 

 

AOC says Palestinians have ‘no choice but to riot’ — and Americans could do the same (July 31, 2019)

 

 

 

Inflation (1st Quarter, 2025)

‘No one wants to pay $25 for breakfast’: US restaurants are cracking under inflation (February 14, 2025)

 

 

 

Sunday, February 9, 2025

DOGE and Elon Musk

DOGE Staffers Appear to Have Admin Accounts at Department of Education as Trump Seeks to Abolish It (February 7, 2025)

 

 

"Armored Tesla" forecast to win $400 million State Department contract after Trump's election, government document shows (February 12, 2025)

 

 

UPDATED: "Armored Tesla" (was) forecast to win $400 million State Department contract after Trump's election (February 12, 2025)

 

 

DOGE Staffer Is Trying to Reroute FEMA Funds (February 13, 2025)

 

 

This is the way to stop Elon Musk (February 17, 2025)

 

 

DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up. (February 19, 2025)

 

 

Tens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims (February 19, 2025)

 

 

New Social Security chief contradicts claims that millions of dead people are getting payouts (February 19, 2025)

 

 

Is Elon Musk “dumb”? (March 4, 2025)

 

 

Elon Musk’s DOGE Quietly Kills Affordable Housing Program (March 12, 2025)

 

 

The People Trump and DOGE Hurt (March 14, 2025)

 

 

Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine? (March 14, 2025)

 

 

Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say (March 15, 2025)

 

 

Who DOGE Hurts: Gutting NOAA (March 16, 2025)

 

 

DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library (March 17, 2025)

 

 

DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help (March 18, 2025)

 

 

Judge Says DOGE Has No Right To Sensitive Personal Data Held By Federal Agencies (March 24, 2025)

 

 

DOGE keeps trying to dodge the FoIA, so we're suing. (March 24, 2025)

 

 

For these seniors, DOGE's affordable housing pause means suffering longer without AC (April 6, 2025)

 

 

More than 50 House Democrats demand answers after whistleblower report on DOGE (April 24, 2025)

 

 

DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says. (April 25, 2025)

 

 

New lawsuit argues Trump and DOGE's government overhaul is unconstitutional (April 29, 2025)



Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in fight over DOGE records (May 21, 2025)



Elon Musk leaves White House but says Doge will continue (May 28, 2025)



DOGE layoffs may have compromised the accuracy of government data (June 5, 2025)




Saturday, February 8, 2025

MAGA vs. Science

‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts (February 7, 2025)

 

 

'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers (February 7th, 2025)

 

 

Research Universities Are Poised to Lose Billions Under Trump’s Sudden Cut (February 8, 2025)

 

 

Breaking the silence (February 13, 2025)

 

 

Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness (February 17, 2025)

 

 

As Feds Slash Funds, Research Universities Start To Trim Their Budgets (February 18, 2025)

 

 

Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies (February 18, 2025)

 

 

As blue states battle Trump's NIH funding cuts, red states benefit too (February 18, 2025)

 

 

There’s a big courtroom showdown over NIH’s ‘indirect costs’ this week. What are they? (February 19, 2025)

 

 

 

 

 

Senate Committee Targets $3 Million in Harvard NSF Research Grants for ‘Far-Left Ideology’ (February 19, 2025)

 

 

Researchers, Educators Rally in Downtown Boston To Protest Trump’s Research Funding Cuts (February 20, 2025)

 

 

NIH funding cuts could ‘severely hinder’ research at Dartmouth (February 20, 2025)

 

 

What happens when billions of dollars in research funding goes away (February 20, 2025)

 

 

NIH funding cuts are Trump’s latest attack on education, professors say (February 20, 2025)

 

 

Any fool can break things (February 28, 2025)

 

 

NSF brings back 84 fired workers after judge blocks White House–ordered dismissals (March 3rd, 2025)

 

 

Universities across the U.S. freeze hiring as federal funding hangs in the balance (March 12, 2025)

 

 

‘Devastating for science’: U.Md. professor warns grant cuts could send grad students abroad (March 13, 2025)

 

 

UMass Chan freezes hiring, rescinds PhD program admissions amid funding uncertainty (March 13, 2025)

 

 

Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender (March 13, 2025)

 

 

Iowa State researchers facing anxiety amid funding uncertainties (March 13, 2025)

 

 

These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States (March 13, 2025)

 

 

The True Cost of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NASA (March 13, 2025)

 

 

Johns Hopkins to slash nearly 2,000 jobs after losing $800 million in federal grants (March 14, 2025)

 

 

Fear spreads that NIH will terminate grants involving South Africa (March 14, 2025)

 

 

As NOAA braces for more cuts, scientists say public safety is at risk (March 14, 2025)

 

 

Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts (March 16, 2025)

 

 

DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library (March 17, 2025)

 

 

EPA plans to cut scientific research program, could fire more than 1,000 employees (March 18, 2025)

 

 

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change (March 24, 2025)

 

 

‘Anxiety is palpable’: detention of researchers at US border spurs travel worries (March 24, 2025)

 

 

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts (March 25, 2025)

 

 

Dear US researchers: Welcome to Germany! (March 27, 2025)

 

 

NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half (April 8, 2025)



How the United States became a science superpower — and how quickly it could crumble (April 14, 2025)



Europe must become a research epicentre as US system gets undermined (April 22, 2025)

 

 

Medical journals complain of 'harassment' from Justice Department (April 25, 2025)

 

 

What happens when the federal government stops funding university research (April 28, 2025)

 

 

Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report, throwing US assessment into limbo (April 29, 2025)



Cuts to US science will take a generation to repair — leaders must speak up now (May 6, 2025)



NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones (May 12, 2025)



US brain drain: Nature’s guide to the initiatives drawing scientists abroad (May 16, 2025)



USAID cuts are even being felt at high school science fairs (May 19, 2025)



A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut. (May 27, 2025)



‘Science saved my life’ — and it must save other at-risk scholars (May 27, 2025)



Europe can capture the US brain drain — if it acts fast (May 28, 2025)



US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance (June 1, 2025)



More US scientists must speak out (June 2, 2025)



NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment (June 2, 2025)



Our trans health study was terminated by the government – the effects of abrupt NIH grant cuts ripple across science and society (June 2, 2025)



Why Federal Funding for Health Care Policy Research Matters (June 5, 2025)



We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers (June 9, 2025)



Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research (June 11, 2025)



NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more (June 13, 2025)



‘Have we no shame?’ Federal judge declares NIH grant terminations ‘void and illegal.’ (June 16, 2025)




Climate Change (1st Quarter, 2025)

Call to make tech firms report data centre energy use as AI booms (February 7, 2025)

 

 

'We left pieces of our life behind': Indigenous group flees drowning island (February 8, 2025)

 

 

Philippines storm survivors join climate protest outside Shell HQ in London (February 12, 2025)

 

 

Rio de Janeiro’s hottest day in at least a decade sends residents to the beach (February 17, 2025)

 

 

Rate of Sea Level Rise Doubled over 30 Years, New Study Shows (February 25, 2025)

 

 

Climate change is set to increase city fires around the world, according to new research (March 4, 2025)

 

 

As Trump attacks US science agencies, ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred ushers in a fresh wave of climate denial in Australia (March 11, 2025)

 

 

EPA head says he’ll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules on climate change (March 12, 2025)

 

 

Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit (March 13, 2025)

 

 

Why coalitions of wealthy nations should fund others to decarbonize (March 13, 2025)

 

 

Countries must bolster climate efforts or risk war, Cop30 chief executive warns (March 18, 2025)

 

 

Nature Climate Change: Food security or climate action (March 24, 2025)

 

 

 

Rashida Tlaib (Congresswoman for MIchigan's 12th District)

Tlaib Says $900 Billion Military Budget ‘Impossible to Justify’ (December 15, 2023) 

 

 

Rashida Tlaib: Politicians should not be allowed to profit from war (January 29, 2025)

 

 

 

Mass Incarceration and the Prison-Industrial Complex (2025)

How the Head of an Embattled Tennessee Youth Detention Center Held on to Power for Decades (June 7, 2025)