Notices by inquiline (inquiline@assemblag.es)

Anyone USians interested in a Novavax booster, the current batch expires at end of April (1) and FDA is messing with approving them out of EUA (2). So if you want a Nvax booster I'd do it sooner than later
(1) https://ask.gov.sg/moh/questions/cm2lj3dfc00cw9apohkwtk1m4

(2) https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-04-04/fda-delays-final-approval-of-novavax-covid-vaccine

#CovidIsNotOver #Novavax

"The data analytic tools now being used to scour social media were enhanced during the Biden administration, a former Biden administration DHS official said. But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended." 🤔
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-task-force-scouring-foreign-students-social-media-rcna198532

I've been saying for a while that degrowthers are essentially right; it's simply a matter of choosing whether we want more planned & managed degrowth versus a more chaotic version organically happening due to planetary boundaries & climate chaos

I confess I did not foresee this Secret Third Thing

"ICE Makes Another Student Disappear—and No One Knows Why. Federal immigration officials have abducted another international student"
https://newrepublic.com/post/193253/ice-iranian-international-student-alireza-doroudi-alabama

"it appears the Trump administration is quietly targeting even more students for deportation and doing so in a way that is taking universities and the students themselves completely by surprise"
https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east

#PolicingTheCampus #uspol #academia #HigherEd

Stop me before I reply to my colleague who's complaining about how conservative students don't "feel safe" to express their views

Rubio says they've stripped 300 people of visas for protesting on behalf of Palestinians

I still think we need to know more about the pipeline of the info leading to these arrests. Is it all being fed to them by motivated antagonists, or are they doing intel of their own?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/state-department-visas-pro-palestine-protesters

#PolicingTheCampus #uspol

The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only about 100 comments so far.

Please comment if you're in the US, and boost
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability

#uspol #healthcare #trans

@skinnylatte I feed the albatross all day long at work too and let me tell you, its appetite is unceasing

Ok we got one (1) R1 saying something, at last!

"we will stand up for Berkeley's values and defend them to the very best of our ability."

Was that so hard??

#HigherEd #Academia #UCBerkeley

I've been unable to caption this all day. Welcome to my local paper

I wound up with a lot of theorists of social movements in my mentions yesterday. This is for the people who said Tesla protesters are not accomplishing anything because they're not being sufficiently "disruptive" standing on the roadside

Kick 'em where it hurts (in the empire)
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fuel-supplier-refuses-u-s-warships-over-ukraine/

Another thing to note in the "why aren't USian's protesting" discourse:

This is the geography for a lot of the country. (Even so, people *are* showing up!)

#TeslaTakedown

Wish there was a better symbol for solidarity against violent incursion than a nationalist one

It's not all bad news, keep making noise: Children’s Hospital LA reverses ban on gender-affirming hormonal therapy after weeks of protest
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/02/trump-transgender-executive-orders-la-hospital/

@AnarchoNinaWrites Definitely no need for reply or acknowledgment, but I'm sorry you're in this (all these) situations. Fuck. hope you get some comfort, can't/won't sugarcoat how much everything sucks tho ❤️💛

You could read the story but you don't really need to (LA Times):

"Cute" story about how a possum ate most of a chocolate cake and wound up needing medical attention has a bizarre twist:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/cranky-opossum-lands-in-hospital-after-eating-costco-bakery-item/ar-AA1z5c2E

@MediaActivist Thank you. If information dissemination were so irrelevant to the struggle, they would obviously not be trying so hard to gain control of our options for doing this