A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Here's my Blooski statement that Sen. Kennedy calls hyperbolic. I will defend natural law until the day I die, Senator. People's rights come from their humanity, not their government. If ordered to act unethically, you should always refuse. Do Republicans now disagree?
We cannot build trust with people whose losses we refuse to honor.
I keep coming back to that. It captures something I think we’ve underexamined. Not a policy failure or a messaging failure. Something deeper. Something about who we decided was & wasn't worthy of our compassion, & what that cost us.
"I have dedicated my career to ensuring that the words engraved on the front of the Supreme Court building—'Equal Justice Under Law'—are a reality and not just an ideal." - Ketanji Brown Jackson, First Black woman to become a Supreme Court Justice
“As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.” - Sandra Day O’Connor - First woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice and issued the deciding vote to uphold Roe v. Wade in 1973
“Your committee takes unusual pleasure in recommending the admission of Mrs. Mansfield… She has given the very best rebuke possible to the imputation that ladies cannot qualify for the practice of law.” – Iowa bar examiners attesting to the qualifications of Arabella Mansfield, First woman to become a lawyer in the United States in 1869
“The right to identify our own existence lies at the heart of one’s humanity. And so, we must heed their voices: 'the woman that I am,' 'the man that I am.” – Judge Cerezo’s written order in Arroyo v. Rosselló requiring Puerto Rico to allow transgender people to change their gender marker on their birth certificate Carmen Consuelo Cerezo - First Latina to serve on a federal bench when she became a U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Puerto Rico
This Women’s History Month and on International Women’s Day, we celebrate some of the legal pioneers who broke barriers, challenged exclusion, and re-shaped our justice system to ensure all women have a voice under the law.
Their work built the path – now we must keep pushing forward.
❤️ @janeese4dc.bsky.social focus on kids & youth: need for universal child care & places and spaces for youth, after school programs, and addressing the dearth of school nurses, social workers, psychologists, & to do this leverage local universities, increase pay for caregiving jobs, etc.
Future DC mayor @janeese4dc.bsky.social highlights Black
maternal mortality in DC as a problem that doesn’t need another panel.
What’s needed is a birth center east of the river where women can receive quality care (incl. doulas) before, during, and after giving birth.
janeesefordc.com
A DOJ lawyer argued in court today that RFK Jr. has the absolute authority to recommend (hypothetically) that people get a shot *of* measles instead of *against* measles during a hearing for the lawsuit filed against RFK Jr. by the AAP and APHA.
The good side is seeking a preliminary injunction…
I hope SC voters see Graham for the corrupt and traitorous (isn’t that what conspiring with another country is?) warmonger he is
Since @defendpublichealth.bsky.social launched this effort, more than 4500 people have sent letters to their Senators. We’d love for you to join us in this effort.
Will it fix everything? No. But it is an opportunity to demonstrate that the people of the U.S. are fed up with RFK Jr.’s insanity.
Tired of unqualified hacks running the U.S. public health system? I sure am.
Sometimes it feels like there is nothing we can do to fight this.
But right now, we can write letters to our Senators to oppose Casey Means as Surgeon General to prevent yet another quack from gaining power.
Send these fuckers to The Hague.
three National Guard members standing on street corner waiting to cross at a light
This doesn’t belong in DC or anywhere else unless there’s a natural disaster or equivalent. This is in the residential area of the Capitol Hill neighborhood. DC is under federal occupation. Troops on our streets should never ever become normalized. It’s an anti-American aberration.
#FreeDC #homerule
Yet again reinvigorated by how many people liked my signs at @standupforscience.bsky.social!
A reminder that the scientific community has not abandoned trans people
Follow @beyondxandy.bsky.social for news soon about our plans to rally scientists to fight for trans rights! 🧬🏳️⚧️
#standupforscience
You all are looking fantastic!!
Brilliant Science Fighters, we need YOU to get out there with us TODAY!!! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally!!
#March7
#rally
#standupforscience
#science
#savescience
Stand Up for Science National Day of Action tomorrow March 7th around the nation. Standupforscience.net/march7
Public pressure and threat of impeachment helped get Noem out. This is why we are pushing for impeachment of RFK, because that kind of pressure works.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience
#savelives
#removerfkjr
you are here 📍 in 2026. Earth 1 legislatures have to *write into law* that schools must teach true things. which is necessary bc of that same mob's decades-long attack on schools... of all kinds, serving all ages.
the more you know™
They so effectively linked science (their work), health (coverage), and democracy (labor organizing) in their lived experience as NIH fellows!
#StandUpforScience
#SUFS
speaker behind a lectern at Stand Up for Science rally
Dr. Helen T D'Couto, MD, American Thoracic Society taking about the research infrastructure and pathways that made huge wins like the COVID-19 vaccines possible.
Dismantling that infrastructure will profoundly harm scientific research and lifesaving applications
#SUFS #StandUpforScience
Awesome remarks from @repoyedc.bsky.social at #StandUpforScience
repping science, health, and DC’s own fight for democracy with @freedcproject.bsky.social
“Fight for each other, fight together, … let’s fight for the America we all deserve and an America that has DC as its 51st state”
#SUFS #FreeDC
speaker behind lectern at Stand Up for Science Rally
Susan Polan of @apha.org on how public health is usually quiet and behind the scenes, but “when it’s weakened the consequences become wide and clear”
“The public’s health is not partisan”
#sufs #standupforscience
#publichealth
rubber ducky with Anti Vax Quack sign
Alas, an inflatable cassowary was not available for #SUFS.
This rubber ducky’s too cute 😒. Folks, come see it on the National Mall if you’re in the DC area!
#StandUpForScience
www.standupforscience.net
giant inflatable rubber duck with “ Anti-vax quack” on the National Mall
Don’t miss #StandUpforScience on the National Mall and many other places today.
In DC it’s at 7th between Madison and Jefferson NW.
Join us to stand up for science, #publichealth, and democracy.
www.standupforscience.net
#SUFS
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.
15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
Shah Alam was found dead in late February.
Here in Cook County, IL, there's still no announced state or county investigation into the ICE agents who killed Silverio Villegas González last September. We don't even know their names.
That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...
Also many low income moms lose Medicaid coverage right after delivery even though sometimes pregnancy related complications such as cardiovascular health events can occur in the weeks months after giving birth
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
This is a great example. And if you add more population level issues the picture grows bleaker: our rate of maternal death is worse than all peer nations www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...
“Trump's administration has curbed diversity programs and policies and targeted museum and educational content on slavery that it deems "anti-American." It has also supported restoring monuments honoring the Confederate South … leaders who fought to preserve slavery”
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
