Sarah W

I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

At a time when we have literally never needed them more.

The head of the FCC (presumably in the process of changing its name to the Ministry of Truth) would like to remind you that we no longer have free speech here in the US(SR), and you should not report any information that might upset Dear Leader

Uhhh the IDF has detained Brad Lander abc7ny.com/post/ny-10-c...

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I'm glad I no longer teach in a state that has fallen under the control of the American Taliban and its censors www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...

This campaign is worker powered. Thank you to the Sheet Metal Workers, CFA, CSEA, my own union, Young Democrats, Project Super Bloom, and all of our community volunteers who walked with us today. One door. One conversation. One voter at a time. That’s how working people build change.

“If OpenAI and Anthropic really want to help advance science, there is one obvious way they can do so: They can spend a tiny fraction of their vast fortunes to fund the kind of humble but essential research that’s increasingly starved for resources.” 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

Overnight, a small ICE Air jet (max 16-18 passengers) landed in Yangon, Myanmar, marking the fourth deportation flight to the country. The flight originated in Mesa, Arizona, with the journey lasting approximately 24 hours.

Me, talking to future children: When the internet started, it was a place to worship cats. That was good. We had forums. Those were good. Then they ruined it. They ruined it all

Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.

#tdih 1958, Gov. Orval Faubus closed all Little Rock, Ark. public high schools for one year rather than allow integration to continue. He ordered HS football games to go on. Teachers were fired for NAACP membership. More ⬇️including documentary. #Reparations www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/li...

"Our new Office of Metascience will rigorously assess the effectiveness of new initiatives, scaling what works and retiring what does not." 🙄 www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-lea... Our age of science is collapsing.

"GoldenTicket to empower individual reviewers to champion proposals that may not survive panel consensus, surface ideas too divisive for committee consensus, attract reviewers by empowering them to exercise independent judgment" = MAGA "reviewers" w/ a pass to fund shoddy MAGA research. Right?

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Resignation / warning posts from Anthropic and openAI researcher who just quit bc “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Seems fine and normal. (I downloaded and logged in to the awful place to read this so you don’t have to)

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Teach-in: How to Fight Back Against Trump's Secret Accreditation Weapon. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/teach...

A Nazi salute from a far-right activist at an AfD election celebration following the party’s victory. @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

Great stuff in KC. ⚾️ @chaoskat.bsky.social

"If the proposed Treasury rules become policy, risk-averse schools will further eliminate programs to fix historic inequities, and there will be fewer students of color in US colleges and universities." "That’s clearly what the president intends." @victorerikray.bsky.social states it plainly:

🚨 YOSEMITE 4,497 letters. That's the only reason anyone outside the Park Service knows this deal exists. Add yours and let's find out what 5,000 does: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

“My life should not suddenly become more valuable because I am an American citizen — and yet, that’s exactly what has happened. The attention my family has received is a reflection of my passport, not the righteousness of my fight”

Also, if you're in any way associated with Yale, please sign the Stand Up for Yale petition telling McInnis not to cave to Trump! actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

This is Matt Bradley's news package of armed Israeli settlers assaulting him, his colleagues, and a Palestinian woman, as shown on the NBC Nightly News Instagram page Monday night.

feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Good decision that undermines Marco Rubio's appallingly broad claims that he can deport people if he dislikes their speech.

⚠️ CHILDREN IN CHAINS 🧒🏽⛓️ 🧊✈️ KANSAS CITY: A shackled man watches above as two boys climb the stairs to join him on an ICE flight (GlobalX – N319NV) Friday to Louisiana 👀

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

Canada has recruited dozens of academics from American campuses as the United States cracks down on prestigious institutions. https://cnn.it/4xyvuRC

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

More people should be able to afford college. Learn what you can do to help! emergency-campaign-to-support-higher-education.solidarity.tech/september-vi...

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

While Target has stayed silent on ICE’s ongoing operations in MN, its own hometown.,communities across the country are fighting back, shopping local not Target for back to school This is our ad in the NYT today.

School’s in. Target’s out. This back-to-school season, America’s unions join @aft.org in asking families to shop locally instead of at Target, when possible—and put their dollars behind businesses that stand with our communities. https://www.shopsmart.aft.org/

Join Stanford law and medical school professors in a conversation about escalating pressures on universities (and their humans!) via the federal government, and what we can do about it. August 27, 5-6pm Pacific. bit.ly/CardinalCour...

Stanford alumni can provide Cardinal Courage against politicized attacks. Join us online Thurs Aug 27 @ 5pm PT: Academic Freedom on the Brink: A Conversation with Stanford Faculty. Register at bit.ly/CardinalCourageConversation w/ @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @hankgreely.bsky.social + Bryant Lin

Amazing that there are still university administrators who think that bootlicking will save them. www.vanderbilt.edu/declaration/