@mullenbach
Asst Research Scientist, School for Environment and Sustainability | Research Program Manager, Michigan Sea Grant, University of Michigan | she/her 🏳️🌈 | Urban environmental justice, climate adaptation, homelessness
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Another pro wrestler with better politics and a more clearly articulated moral stance than 99.9% of elected officials
This is so funny because the assignment where I require students to use chat gpt inevitably ends in a class discussion about how AI is worse than they thought & has a lot of problems. & then AI submissions for other assignments stop after because students realize they’re better off without AI.
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
Cross the Wolverine tribe at your peril
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
“'Teach them how to use it ethically' is a line that ignores the impact of AI on the planet our students will inherit from us. It must ignore this because—setting much else aside...—AI’s environmental abuses alone mean there is no such thing as ethical AI use in most classrooms."
CNN homepage with How Trump managed to get his much-needed China trade win in big letters and then a separate article in small letters saying Trump's China trade breakthrough might be enough to avoid self-inflicted recession
As an example of how much the media is failing the nation I present to you the first thing you see on CNN right now
It’s fun watching people who don’t teach the ethics of scientific practice discover how many of our regulations exist because of Very Bad Things That Happened Before the Regulation Existed.
Trump gutting the Science that Built American prosperity
thinc.blog/2025/04/27/t...
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
Goal:
Crush universities
Need a policy tool:
Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights.
Need a violation to allege:
Use the Jews!
Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us.
bsky.app/profile/cram...
The surest way to protect our Constitution is to act like we still have one.
The surest way to lose it is to act like we don’t.
I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
The Trump administration wanted to control the most basic aspects of the university, including what is taught and who is hired. The wanted to turn Harvard into a fancy version of Trump University. And when Harvard said no, Trump used publicly funded research as a hostage.
Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference.
The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.
FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
You should be able to record yard work as a workout in Strava
Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true.
One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.
This image shows a colorful quote graphic with a yellow, blue, and orange border design. The main text is set against a cream-colored background and reads: "We just want to serve the population that we serve. We want to enrich lives and provide information and resources so everyone has access, it's really as simple as that. And this takes away that access." The quote is attributed to Carol Dawe, Director of the Lakeland Library Cooperative, whose name and title appear at the bottom of the graphic. The design has decorative elements including what appears to be a small blue/light colored shape near the top of the graphic and a wavy green border at the bottom.
The executive order attempting to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services puts statewide services like MeL (the Michigan E-Library) & MeLCat (the catalog that allows patrons from participating libraries to borrow materials from all over Michigan) at risk.
Read more: buff.ly/jrYdzN5
I can’t emphasize enough that cynicism is a dictator’s best friend. Stay outraged. Believe in and work for democracy.
Just completely ignoring the whole field of leisure studies 🫠
