Latest comic: Climate Silence

#climate #climatechange #cop30 #media #journalism #uspol #oligarchy #climatecrisis

Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch

oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t…

#uspol

Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI.

^{Em Luetkemeyer (Oklahoma Watch)}

The government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history. sheril.substack.com/p/shutdown… #uspol

So why does the 21st disruption of federal funding since 1976 feel... normal?

Shutdown Before the Fall?

Why this routine "crisis" should serve as a warning.

^{Sheril Kirshenbaum (Unelected Representative)}

This week's comic on the US government shutdown

#cartoon #comic #uspol #ACA #healthcare #economy

No Kings rally in Evanston, IL, looking N, W and S.

A good time, peaceful, neighborly. Democracy.

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@indivisibleteam
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#NoKings #indivisible #rally #protest #democracy #USpol #politics

Assault on accessibility initiatives hits early career scientists hard

Trump administration cuts to programs supporting people with disabilities are part of broader assault on DEI

wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/… #Fascism #Ableism #HigherEd #Science #USpol

Latest comic: What does not belong?

#cartoon #comic #politics #democracy #firstamendment #monarchy #authoritarianism #uspol

With political violence on the rise, the question isn’t whether we can return to some imagined golden age of bipartisanship.

It’s whether we can rebuild the relationships that make democratic governance possible.

My new OpEd: thehill.com/opinion/congress-b… #uspol

The federal government has shut down. So why does the 21st disruption of federal funding since 1976 feel... normal?

We've spent decades dismantling the norms that made compromise possible in Congress.

This routine "crisis" should serve as a warning. sheril.substack.com/p/shutdown… #uspol

Shutdown Before the Fall?

Why this routine "crisis" should serve as a warning.

^{Sheril Kirshenbaum (Unelected Representative)}

Latest comic on the double-standards surrounding "civility" in the US

Subscription link in bio, on Patreon at jensorensen

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #authoritarianism #democracy

Obama at his best, talking about the Charlie Kirk killing and more.

An excerpt (sorry for the Bluesky link):
bsky.app/profile/lawrencehurle…

The full answer he gave to a question, including that excerpt, worth the almost 13 minutes to watch the whole thing:
youtube.com/watch?v=Vjs3mKcahd…

#Obama #CharlieKirk #uspol

"Amid massive cuts to US scientific research, the Science Foundation will raise public funds for transdisciplinary, discovery-based research!" nature.com/articles/d41586-025… #science #uspol

Congratulations to Maren Friesen, Venkatesh Srinivas & The Science Foundation team! Donate at science-foundation.org/donate/

Will the public support basic science? A new non-profit aims to find out

The Science Foundation seeks donations to fund ten $10,000 ‘what if’ seed grants.

^{Gewin, Virginia}

It’s almost like #Trump was a #Putin puppet!

#Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion in #USpol.

Latest comic: It's hard to imagine another country doing more damage to the US than what is being done from within

#uspol #cartoon #comic #science #oligarchy #authoritarianism

When I co-created Serving Up Science with the wonderful people at WKAR, we never imagined the reach our little show about #food and #science would have. We connected with classrooms, rural towns, big cities, and curious minds across the country - all because of public media. 1/2

cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-… #uspol

Recent comic: It's time to update the old binaries.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #science #humanrights

Multiple OSU wrestlers say in “Surviving Ohio State” that when they were subjected to serial sexual assaults by a team doctor, Jim Jordan (R-OH) wasn’t there for them.

Allegations that Jim Jordan ignored sexual abuse resurface in new HBO documentary
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio…

#GymJordan #JimJordan #RichardStrauss #GymKnew #Ohio #OSU #GOPLiar #GOPEnabler #USPol

HBO's ‘Surviving Ohio State’ has Jim Jordan again denying he knew about awful scandal

Multiple men who wrestled at Ohio State say Rep. Jim Jordan, then an assistant coach, knew they were being abused by a team doctor but did nothing to help.

^{Marilou Johanek (MSNBC)}

Latest comic: Facing the threat

#cartoon #comic #uspol #democracy

#Putin is very pleased with his puppet in the #WhiteHouse.

#Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion in #USpol to save #science in the #UnitedStates of #America.

Scientists and engineers ask questions that lead to discoveries we can’t yet imagine, sometimes even trillion-dollar breakthroughs. And yet today, we're systematically undercutting their work.

open.substack.com/pub/sheril/p… #uspol #science

The End of American Dominance

This Is How We Will Lose.

^{Sheril Kirshenbaum (Unelected Representative)}

A recent comic on the US giving international tourists the Big Brother treatment

#comic #cartoon #uspol #travel #firstamendment #privacy

National #Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office)

“There appears to be no plan for where the NSF staff will go.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/n… #uspol

National Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office)

I’m still trying to find out more about this. But as I do I just wanted to put it on your radar because it’s completely crazy and epitomizes the Trump…

^{Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

Analysis: “A New Line Crossed”: The U.S. Provokes Iran

"It's not clear if Trump himself understands this, but everyone around him knows they did not verifiably destroy the nuclear program last night."

Re "actually impacting Iran’s capabilities, the strike was largely symbolic."

But "it's the first time we're bombing a state [with] the capacity to inflict serious harm on Americans in the region.”

~Harrison Mann, fmr US army major

dropsitenews.com/p/iran-united…

#US-IranWar #USPol #EuroPol #UKPol .

“A New Line Crossed”: The U.S. Provokes Iran With Attacks on Nuclear Sites

Iran has now been forced to decide how to respond to U.S. attacks on its sovereignty.

^{Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)}

Interview: "Stop the War on Iran": 1,000+ academics Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza

"After Trump’s attack on Iran over the weekend, civil society leaders are organizing to demand an end to the violence."

"What this is doing is immiserating further the lives of ordinary people" ~Iranian-American scholar Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U, Chicago

democracynow.org/2025/6/23/ira…

#US-IranWar #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #AntiWarProtests .

Stop the War on Iran: 1,000+ Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza Genocide

After President Trump’s attack on Iran over the weekend, civil society leaders are organizing to demand an end to the violence.

^{Democracy Now!}

Interview: "Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East"

Although UN inspectors & U.S. intelligence assessments say Iran was not building nuclear weapons, Netanyahu wanted to drag Trump into its war on Iran.

"The danger now is that, having brought the U.S. into this, Israel will seek to go further up the escalatory ladder. It wants the chaos.”

~Daniel Levy, fmr Israeli peace negotiator

democracynow.org/2025/6/23/isr…

#US-IranWar #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #Trump #Israel .

Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Slams U.S. Bombing of Iran, Says Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East

“Netanyahu’s purpose was to drag Trump in,” Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, says of the U.S. attack on Iran. Over the weekend, the U.S.

^{Democracy Now!}

Interview: "They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence" Israel’s war on Iran

"The war on Iran feels eerily familiar – from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media."

Unpacking the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq War:

chrishedges.substack.com/p/the…

#Israel-IranWar #US #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #USImperialism #iraqWar #boughtMedia .

'They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence' Chris Hedges on Israel’s war on Iran | The Listening Post

The war on Iran feels eerily familiar – from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media. Chris Hedges joins us to unpack the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq War

^{Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)}

Netanyahu the opportunist

Netanyahu is living out the Zionists' (incl his daddy's) dream of expelling the Palestinians, wiping out all enemies, & fulfilling the "Greater Israel" project (see map ).

Zionists have been doing ethnic cleansing, slow genocide & stealing Palestinian land since imperial Britain gave them the go-ahead in the 1920s.

Pappé on Nakba
youtube.com/watch?v=vx0QUTui6G…

#Zionism #Nakba #Netanyahu #GazaGenocide #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement @palestine .

Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students.

Source: Economist, 2025 economist.com/science-and-tech… #science #uspol

Bottom line: the proposed NIH & NSF cuts alone would eventually strip at least $10 billion per year from U.S. output.

forbes.com/sites/johndrake/202… #uspol #science

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually

Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

^Forbes

A few takeaways from my research:

1 - Not one staffer said they’d turn to scientists first when facing a science-related question.

2 - Party leadership, lobbyists, and trusted friends-of-friends often have more influence than peer-reviewed studies.

3 - Scientists are unintentionally sidelining themselves by only engaging with one side of the aisle.

sheril.substack.com/p/what-sci… #science #politics #uspol

What Scientists Get Wrong About Congress

In policy conversations, relationships—over research—shape outcomes.

^{Sheril Kirshenbaum (Unelected Representative)}

“I listened to NSF staff say DOGE had the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications which had been systematically vetted by layers of subject matter experts.

Our closed-to-the-public deliberations were observed by Zachary Terrell from the DOGE team. Through his Zoom screen, he showed more interest in his water bottle & his cuticles than the discussion. Terrell..accessed the NSF awards system to block the dispersal of approved grants.“

time.com/7285045/resigning-nat… #science #uspol

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

^TIME

How do we make scientific voices more impactful in policymaking? Read my new article out today ⬇️

issues.org/information-flows-c… #science #uspol

“R&D” Means Something Different on Capitol Hill

Scientists need to learn how information flows to congressional staffers—and the crucial role they play in setting policy.

^{Jay Lloyd (Issues in Science and Technology)}

This week's comic: A dangerous invasion of warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds

#immigration #birds #cartoon #uspol #comic

The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy

“This isn’t about merit or budgets because NSF has a tiny imprint on the federal budget. This is all about controlling information and knowledge.”

forbes.com/sites/johndrake/202… #uspol

US is choosing to cede leadership in #science and innovation. On purpose.

The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy

The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

^Forbes