Notices by (((Cindy Weinstein))) (cindyweinstein@zirk.us)

@GottaLaff

Right because anyone can be a librarian. Looking at Blanche's wikipedia page, the closest qualification to the skillset required by a librarian: completed 2 ironman triathlons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche

#Trump: "A friend of mine who is a businessman. Very very very top guy. Most of you would've heard of him. Highly neurotic. Brilliant businessman. Seriously overweight. And he takes the fat shot drug."

"The fat shot drug" is what you call #Ozempic when you have lost your words.

#Dementia
#Wordfinding

@Nonilex

"NIH—funded research helped scientists better understand cystic fibrosis, which led to Vertex Pharmaceuticals developing a cutting-edge treatment that Vought’s daughter Porter benefited from. In a 2021 Instagram post, Vought’s then-wife shared that the couple’s daughter had started Trikafta, a drug that has shown great promise in managing pulmonary issues associated with cystic fibrosis, which affects some 40,000 Americans."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/project-2025-vought-medical-funding/

"#LGBTQ+ youth who attend schools with an inclusive sex education curriculum report lower levels of depression and suicidality," explained the American Psychological Association in their amicus brief in support of the school district. Listening to the mean-spirited arguments from the right before the Supreme Court today, it's hard to shake the sense that this shame is the desired outcome."

https://www.salon.com/2025/04/23/too-late-to-opt-out-ultimately-cant-save-the-religious-rights-futile-book-bans/

#SCOTUS
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

"#Vance let slip what is likely the real reason for this crackdown when he claimed that foreign students are "bad for the American dream.' He argued that intl students are bad "for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t b/c their spot was taken by a foreign student.' Like Usha's parents? Radhakrishna “Krish” Chilukuri & Lakshmi Chilukuri moved from India to the U.S. in the late 1970s. She's a biologist & provost @ UCSD; he an engineer @ SDSU.

https://www.salon.com/2025/04/17/jd-vance-exposed-the-truth-about-on-foreign-students-hint-its-not-about-antisemitism/

"This is not, repeat not, a giant leap for womankind. This is an intergalactic episode of Real Housewives meets The Kardashians Go to The Moon. It’s a quick “getaway” for the billionaire set as six gal pals cosplay astronauts in tight blue Star Trek at their very own CosmicCon."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-sanchez-in-space-was-marie-antoinette-in-a-penis-shaped-rocket/

You're kidding right? Her work on cells and aging is a threat to US security? I guess that's true if it means longer lives for the fascists in charge.

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement has twice refused her lawyer’s petition for parole, contending that she is a flight risk and a threat to U.S. security."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-04.bfnF.GE0AwkQ814Ou

#KseniiaPetrova
#Gestapo
#ICE
#Fascism

So many great signs at #HandsOff rallies, but this is my favorite. "I like my government how I like my coffee, not in my vagina."

#USPol

#ICE is the #Gestapo: "On Friday, (3.7), while on a Zoom call w/an ISSO advisor who continues to reassure me that I was in legal status, ICE came knocking @ my door w/o a warrant. If I had been alone I would have opened the door. My roommate, an American citizen, recognized the knock as that of law enforcement. Given the lack of warrant she refused to let them in & repeatedly asked them to identify themselves; something they refused to do."

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-columbia-student-ranjani-srinivasan-after-fleeing-the-united-states-to-canada/

#USPol
#Ranjani Srinivasan

"The Executive Order (which is now subject to a temporary restraining order) should be permanently enjoined as a violation of core First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment guarantees, as well as bedrock separation-of-powers principles." -- From the amicus brief

Here it is with the names of the law firms that signed.

https://www.mto.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/63-1-Exhibit-1-Amicus-Brief.pdf

#USPol
#Law
#Resist

"This week, a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage. I’ll let that sit with you a moment."

https://jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-arresting-us-for-miscarriages

As @TonyStark would say, this assault on women's rights and bodies wouldn't be happening if people voted for Harris.

Today's cuts to #Alzheimers research coming up in Booker's filibuster. -- Thank you Senator #Cortez-Masto of Nevada for sharing the story of your grandmother who died of Alzheimer's. As you say, this is personal.

#EndAlz
#CoryBooker

I was struggling to come up with #3GoodThings and then I realized #Corybooker. In honor of him, here are my 3 things.

1. Cory Booker
2. Cory Booker
3. Cory Booker

You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

#NSF
#NIH
#USPol
#Science

This is a kidnapping. This is all of us. Who are these goons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFIs7OkzYY

#Fascism

"The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language." Emerson, "Nature," 1836

Thinking of this while reading all the lies in today's Congressional hearing.

#Emerson
#USPol

"One of many #Holocaust remembrance articles taken down as part of the Hegseth’s effort to rid Pentagon platforms of anything related to DEI. . . . Also removed was an article on Bea Arthur, the Jewish “Golden Girls” star who served in the Marines during World War II."

May the ghost of #BettyWhite haunt you fascists every day & night.
These are the people, I mean #Nazis, who say they want to protect Jews from #antisemitism? Give me an effin' break.

https://www.jta.org/2025/03/20/politics/holocaust-remembrance-pages-removed-in-pentagons-dei-purge

#USPol

From the #Nazis in DC who claim they are protecting Jews from #antisemitism. #NIH councils can meet but their research includes a religious lithmus test.

"Earlier this month, the Trump administration began demanding that international researchers funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention answer political questions, such as whether they work to “combat Christian persecution” or collaborate with communist governments."

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-council-meetings-back-questioning-scientists-slow-payments-niaid-trump-tracker

#USPol
#Fascism

Jasmine Mooney tells her story of being kidnapped by the US government. #ICE is the #Gestapo. We are all #JasmineMooney, #KhalilMahmoud, #Dr.RashaAlawieh, and the many others whose names we do not know.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

#Fascism
#USPol

More of this please. Much more. Christopher Eisgruber, President of #Princeton speaks up: "The attack on #Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. #Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/columbia-academic-freedom/682088/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxd-dIYlBRWpmLVXNH5Dyk7w&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#USPol
#Fascism