Carrie McDonough

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ICE Off Campus: Alumni & Higher Education Organizing Call · Indivisible Since Trump’s return to office, higher education has been under attack – with schools facing pressure from the administration to curtail free speech and academic freedom, eliminate DEI policies as part of admissions, and limit the number of international students. And now colleges and universities are facing yet another pressing threat: ICE enforcement on campus. We’ve seen ICE terrorize our communities, use intimidation tactics on innocent bystanders, and deploy chemical weapons at schools - this dangerous agency has no place on our campuses. Join Indivisible, Stand For Campus Freedom, the Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education, and other partners to learn what you can do to keep ICE off campuses. "Everyone has a role to play in ensuring colleges and their communities are safe from ICE. This call is specifically meant for folks who may not have a presence on campus — including alumni, concerned neighbors, and loved ones of someone on campus — but anyone is welcome to attend and take action.

TONIGHT: We’re hosting an organizing call about how to keep ICE off college campuses — and how you can help. Together, we can make sure students and campus communities stay safe.

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

All conversations lead to this.

Thanks to Trump's attacks on federal research funding, the National Cancer Institute hasn't made a single grant this fiscal year.

Just last month, Trump issued an EO to increase production of glyphosate, a chemical linked to cancer.

"Make America Healthy Again."

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Pittsburgh rally aims to stand up for science at Allegheny Landing Park This is the second year the rally is held in Pittsburgh

WTAE ABC story from Saturday morning before the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally.

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EPA’s actions on forever chemicals will leave Americans sicker, not safe 😡😡😡⁉️

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So proud of my hub @jaydaronson.bsky.social who spoke today at #StandupforScience

"They are coming for all of us.
And we have to defend one another."

@standupforscience.bsky.social @pgh-health-science.bsky.social @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Thousands Rally to Support the Need for Science in a Democracy - Eos Dozens of Stand Up for Science gatherings nationwide focused on the importance of science for federal policymaking.

“We’re fighting to save science, we’re fighting to protect health, and we’re fighting to defend democracy,” @cdelawalla.bsky.social, founder of @standupforscience.bsky.social, about today’s Stand Up for Science rallies. eos.org/articles/tho...

Pic of FIRE RFK JR sign w Washington Monument in background

FIRE RFK JR

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

Pittsburgh 'Stand Up for Science' rally to bring attention to impacts of immigration crackdowns The National “Stand Up for Science” day of action returns to Pittsburgh tomorrow for the second year in a row to protest government actions and policies affecting scientific institutions, research and...

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We're standing up for science tomorrow with awesome guests - including a conversation with Dr. Rachel Levine (17th Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services) and Dr. Ghady Haidar (Pgh infectious diseases physician)! fight2win.standupforscience.net/Pittsburgh-M...

We're also excited to hear from Dr. Arvind Venkat, representing the 30th district in the PA House of Representatives (ands formerly an emergency physician)! @drarvindvenkat.bsky.social

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photo of denali kincaid holding a sign that says "don't take science for granite"

Getting excited for the March 7 rally at Allegheny Landing - we have an excellent speaker lineup, starting with Denali Kincaid @dykanite.bsky.social , a geologist and volcanology PhD candidate and excellent science communicator!

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

“It’s dystopian. It’s like Black Mirror stuff.”

This is Mobile Fortify, an app used by DHS that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query databases for matches against passport records, visa files, and border entry photos.

Our latest with @france24.com:

Screenshot of article which reads: David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary under the Biden administration, told attendees of February’s American Council on Education meeting that he had seen the consequences of universities’ willingness to play along with that country’s authoritarian government. “There are some of you who believe that you’re in a dialogue with the federal government about the future of education,” he said. “When you start from that premise, you have already lost.” The current administration, as he sees it, is not interested in solving these problems. Its goal is “to undermine your independence and, in some cases, humiliate you.”

Nice to know I'm not crazy

American Women Who Were Anti-Suffragettes Who were the women who worked against voting rights for women in the early 20th century? Some were involved in community and charity — but not electoral politics.

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Let's talk about some history of another oppressed group of people in America.

Women.

Did you know that some of the loudest voices against women's suffrage were other women?(cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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Top: picture of a white man looking at a computer captioned when you're tired of white people Bottom: same man looking at camera captioned But you are a white people

Me everyday for at least a decade

“I think what [the EPA has] been trying to eliminate is the kind of work that points out that there are still problems,”

This is such essential work - we can't protect ourselves from things we aren't aware of.

As the EPA formalizes end of research office, critics fear health impacts Opponents view move as the end of independent environmental research at the agency

The EPA informed Congress on Feb. 13 that it is eliminating the Office of Research and Development (ORD). Opponents worry that the closure marks the end of independent research at the agency.

#chemsky 🧪

RAJU: You'll concede this is war?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us

RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war

REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war

MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.

Thrilled to announce that Dr. Rachel Levine, Pediatrician and former Assistant Secretary for Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, will be speaking at the March 7 Stand Up for Science rally at Allegheny Landing!

But Erika Twerk was right there

Stand up for Science Stand up for Science

Finalized speaker list is up for our rally at Allegheny Landing on Saturday - check it out!!

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AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL FANONE Fundraiser for INDIVISIBLE PITTSBURGH and INDIVISIBLE REGENT SQUARE with Michael Fanone speaking, Q & A, and signing copies of his book.

If you’re anywhere near Pittsburgh on Friday night, come out to Braddock to hear Michael Fanone. He put his life on the line for people like me and he still isn’t giving up. See you there.
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Q: "Do you think that Donald Trump should be deposed by this Committee?"

Hillary Clinton: "Absolutely."

"Donald Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers … That is behavior that fits a pattern if one were looking for a pattern."

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

US Department of Education hangs Charlie Kirk banner outside DC building Banner has sparked criticism as Kirk was a polarizing figure who made incendiary and often racist and sexist comments

This is what fascism looks like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...