Lisa Schiff

Lisa Schiff

@lschiff.bsky.social

Co-founder, #DefendResearch (https://defendresearch.org); librarian (ret). Some things I care about: social justice; defending libraries, education, & research; information equity. All posts/thoughts my own. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981

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Ryan Enos
@ryanenos.bsky.social

Wild and revealing interview with Steve Bannon about Trump's attack on universities. ""Universities, Bannon said, are the only reason that Democrats are “able to compete with us.”" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/27/n...

bostonglobe.comSteve Bannon urges Trump to turn the heat up on universities - The Boston GlobeEven after funding cuts, visa restrictions, and other challenges to higher ed, the MAGA media influencer thinks the right has "missed a golden opportunity."

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DuckDuckGo
@duckduckgo.com

Samsung users: notice anything new since the One UI update? Google just hardwired itself onto your home screen. Even if you chose DuckDuckGo.

Lisa Schiff
@lschiff.bsky.social

Gov #censorship disrupts the research system & creates real harm, especially in public health. A new report by @researchconsulting.bsky.social & @defendresearch.bsky.social provides the evidence & surfaces the patterns, which we can use to demand an end to these actions. tinyurl.com/2xy79598

tinyurl.comFrom anecdote to evidence: Mapping the impact of US government action on public health research – Kudos: Growing the influence of researchOctober 27, 2026 Report finds threats at every level of the research system, from tampering with the research record to conditioning funding and policing what researchers can say, and sets out recomm...
Research Consulting@researchconsulting.bsky.social

Public data, stable funding, academic freedom: research depends on all three.Our new report with @defendresearch.bsky.social examines how US federal action is undermining these foundations, and what research organisations everywhere can do to protect them. buff.ly/AIEE70g

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#DefendResearch
@defendresearch.bsky.social

US government #censorship of research creates harm at every level. A new study by @researchconsulting.bsky.social, in partnership with #DefendResearch, identifies these patterns of threat, so we can more effectively advocate to end these government actions. tinyurl.com/4aankxta

defendresearch.orgFrom anecdote to evidencePRESS RELEASE From anecdote to evidence: new study maps US federal censorship of public health research October 27, 2026 Report finds threats at every level of the research system, from tamperi...

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elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social

We need to be way angrier than we are. I'm all for adopting the framing from the End Times Fascism book, namely that these people - the techbros - are traitors to the human race.

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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

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The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social

“Yeah I did it again, bitches. Fuck you, I like these dinners.” @billmaher lashes out, defends himself for having dinner with Trump again. He says Trump had good etiquette, never lost his temper or yelled… How nice! Imagine being this far up your own ass.

Lisa Schiff
@lschiff.bsky.social

This dismantling of the knowledge ecosystem across *all* disciplines is what we at @defendresearch.bsky.social have been working to mobilize resistance to. We have lots of resources to help folks with this! defendresearch.org #academia #history #HSS

defendresearch.orgHomeSign the Declaration to #DefendResearch.
Paul "Bismillah c'est les ténèbres" Cohen@paulecohen.bsky.social

the pipeline that trains researchers in the humanities and many of the social sciences is in the process of being dismantled we are at risk of cutting off the social reproduction of knowledge and cultural production in a whole host of fields vital to human flourishing

Lisa Schiff
@lschiff.bsky.social

I just got deselected from a survey asking for my opinion about things in San Francisco because choosing that "things are not going in the right direction" put me in a "demographic" they already had heard enough from!!! Someone needs to retake survey design 101!!!

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BWJones
@bwjones.bsky.social

These guys spent a whole year’s cost of a biomedical research grant just to harass a senatorial candidate.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

theguardian.comMichigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-SayedTimmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed

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Oliver Willis
@owillis.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you call somebody from that part of the world 'Mohammed,' you're about 65% sure to get it right. So if you have any problem with names, just call the guy Mohammed, you'll probably be right."

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Pretty Khemyst
@prettykhemyst.blacksky.app

First of all, its Dr. Martin Luther King. Secondly, Dr. King was became one of the most hated men in America when spoke out against Vietnam AND began organizing the Poor People's Campaign. I would STRONGLY suggest that you read his book: Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community.

Sandy Hendry@sandyhendry.bsky.social

Martin Luther King was much more successful than Malcolm X for example. Before that, there was no need for a bloody civil war in most countries that abolished slavery. Just votes. Independence can also be bloodless. Gandhi in India, Walesa in Poland, Mandela in South Africa. The list is long.

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Dr. Jack Brown
@drjackbrown.bsky.social

"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world." Paul Farmer

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

mississippifreepress.orgKohen Wiley Shooting ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi AG SaysThe police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s…

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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social

This story

Bolts@boltsmag.org

Advocates for people with incarcerated family say prisons often cancel visits for what they deem is excessive contact with loved ones. “There are so many other experiences like that where just a simple hug or a peck is constituted as excessive contact.”

boltsmag.orgThis New Law Will Make It Easier for Californians to Visit Family in Prison - BoltsFamilies of incarcerated people have long faced arbitrary denial of visits and harassment by prison staff. They advocated for reforms that passed last week.

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Kelton Minor
@keltonminor.bsky.social

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

ACLU@aclu.org

By terminating research grants like Kelton's to censor views it doesn’t like, the NIH is blocking scientists from work that would advance public health for all of us. We're pushing back. Tell Congress to demand the NIH restore the grants and stop its censorship campaign at aclu.org/nih_censorship_

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Bill Kristol
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

No Kings. No Courtiers. No Oligarchs.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action. This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.

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Hannah Bowman
@hannahnpbowman.com

Our city can't afford services because we're spending all our money on policing and lawsuits and settlements related to policing (this was always the point of "Defund the Police"):

Joey Scott@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social

I wrote a very similar story last year, but focused on settlements related to civil rights violations. There's more room for a deeper dive but no grants yet to cover it. lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...

lapublicpress.orgInside LAPD's nearly $400M settlement crisis that's bankrupting LATaxpayers are covering civil rights violations and officer misconduct while basic city services face cuts—and a new audit could reveal whether LAPD is doing anything to stop the pattern.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH
@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

Lisa Schiff
@lschiff.bsky.social

Yes, indeed! #DefendResearch and fight #censorship! Thank you to this scholar and @aclu.org! Find out how many of us have been organizing resistance at defendresearch.org!

defendresearch.orgHomeSign the Declaration to #DefendResearch.
ACLU@aclu.org

By terminating research grants like Kelton's to censor views it doesn’t like, the NIH is blocking scientists from work that would advance public health for all of us. We're pushing back. Tell Congress to demand the NIH restore the grants and stop its censorship campaign at aclu.org/nih_censorship_

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Amy Maxmen, PhD
@amymaxmen.bsky.social

Under RFK Jr, the US is exporting our dangerous antivax movement by launching an unethical clinical trial in W Africa. The US gov't is putting money towards this dangerous, utterly uncalled for experiment -- while cutting life-saving aid elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

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American Historical Association
@historians.org

Presidential records belong to the American people. Today, the AHA and American Oversight will urge a federal appeals court to uphold an order requiring the White House to comply with the Presidential Records Act. Alex Levy explains what's at stake in the video.

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Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social

Just absolutely sick. An army that stands by and watches as its countrymen beat up farmers and journalists. Incredible bravery by the kids and fellow journalists who rescued my former colleague Heidi Levine

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers trying to gather their autumn olive harvest. Heidi Levine, a veteran photographer for The Post, was also knocked her to the ground, kicked repeatedly and stripped of her camera and phone.

washingtonpost.comIsraeli settlers attack Palestinians and Washington Post photographer in West BankThe settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.

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Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

Replying to @gregpak.net

If you see ICE or have any other trouble when you vote, call 866-OUR VOTE. For help in other languages, go to 866ourvote.org . * A real person will help you and get it on record. * Document everything on video, safely. * Use the Hands Off Our Vote toolkit. We have a plan! linktr.ee/wewillvote

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Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

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The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social

P.S. Thiel wrote this in 2009 — right after Obama won🤔

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Feels like we don’t talk enough about how Peter Thiel, who puppeteers JD Vance and funds Trump, has written that he “no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible” We are literally being run by people who oppose our very system of government. www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...