Nic Bennett (they/them)

Artwork by Monica Trinidad, featuring illustrated tan-colored text on a purple background: “Block It! Don't Build It. Don't Fill It. Don't Fuel It. How are YOU disrupting the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine?" In the middle are three rows of drawings in orange, tan, and black, depicting: a protest in front of a construction vehicle, transport vans and three Avelo Airlines planes, and hands holding and ripping apart money and a paper with "Palantir" on it.

New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.

A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.

Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

What if science workers had a mutual aid network to support each other through job loss, funding cuts, and political attacks?

We’re starting to build one.

Join us tonight at 8 PM ET for a Science in Solidarity Action Hour.

Register here:
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🪴 Grateful for the people I’ve worked with who actually live the values they talk about: equity, care, community.

Those experiences have really shaped how I think about inclusive science communication and civic science.

Always excited to connect with folks doing thoughtful work in this space.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Exclusive: New initiative seeks to tackle "big ideas" on climate The Federation of American Scientists is launching an initiative that aims to promote creative thinking for how government can tackle climate change and other challenges.

New from me: Federation of American Scientists launching an initiative to promote creative thinking for how government can tackle climate change and other challenges.
www.axios.com/2026/02/12/f...

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

Tonight: Take Collective Action with Science in Solidarity Why science workers are banding together to resist the SAVE Act. Across the country, new federal bills — often called the SAVE Act suite — would require...

You don’t have to face this moment alone.

Collective action > doomscrolling.

Tonight we contact Congress to oppose SAVE Act voting barriers. #ScienceInSolidarity

Science in Solidarity Action Hour 8PM ET

🗞️ Learn more: shorturl.at/IBmNP
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The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Opinion | They Don’t Tell You How Fun the Resistance Can Be

"What they don’t often tell you is how beautiful the resistance can be....Everyone is doing his part here, each to his ability. This is easier to accomplish, it seems, when joy and love are the engines" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

George is very seriously considering his next move in Thunder Road Vendetta.

heroes make themselves known all the time, their armor is their love (and bathrobes), their fierceness, their conviction to their values even in the face of incredible risk

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Minneapolis breaking the Trump regime is such an incredible testament to the resolve and courage of the people who live there and I hope they know that they are an inspiration to all of us.

Insight: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

Insight: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. reut.rs/4qzZRCE

Inside a U.S. Senate office, several activists stand defiantly facing a staffer near an American flag. Two people hold a banner reading ‘Dear US Senate: Break up with ICE’ while others read their demands to abolish ICE.

bravery in the aisles of Target, the streets of our cities, and right up in the faces of our electeds

a long fight ahead of us + glad for the company I am building these muscles w/

@surj.org & MI Capital Vis Brigade raising some hell in Senate offices before the ICE funding vote

#abolishICE

it’s scientists doing this shit!!!! 🧪

Talk to our Neighbors about ICE: Phone Bank with SURJ! · Showing Up for Racial Justice #### Right now is the time to intervene. To step up. To move our people. As the Trump Administration continues to deploy violent ICE agents to our nation's cities, we remain clear and centered on t...

Join us from anywhere, no experience needed: www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...

Can't wait to see y'all tomorrow: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We didn’t get into science to build surveillance states or genocide tech. We got into science to protect life.

Feel that tension? Come join our Science in Solidarity Action Hour — we’ll take collective action (ICE + Microsoft) & build trust to grow real power together 💛https://buff.ly/pYBl1Dn

Science should be life-giving, not supporting surveillance + war tech. Join our Science in Solidarity Action Hour to:

📞 block ICE funding

🛑 pressure Microsoft

🤝 build collective power.

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A word cloud from the titles of ~1100 NSF grants that were terminated. The most frequent words are STEM, ADVANCE, Student, career, and engines.

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.

It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

We aren't leaving anyone behind.

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My work should help people breathe easier, not harder.

If my intelligence serves harm, it is misaligned. If it serves life, it is home.

If you were to actually take his white supremacy and racism seriously, you would evaluate their impacts on every single decision and policy advanced by the administration. And you would be on board for future reparations.

I know a lot of us are worried about ICE + how science & tech are used for surveillance and war. We organize Science in Solidarity Action Hour to take action (Senate + Microsoft) and build relationships of trust so we can grow real power together.

Join us 💛
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When they try to pick us off one by one, we answer by linking up.

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I was also at the East Lansing show (Friday). Maybe we saw it at the same time