Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Checks out …

"Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/
(#paywalled)

"My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project [#HGP]...All of that work, like so much else at #NIH, is currently being dismantled...The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future."

#DefendResearch #Medicine #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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Trump is trying to get everyone to talk about something other than that bill currently in the Senate. Please try to keep conversation on that bill.

Let’s just hope it’s not all a distraction so the senate can pass the big beautiful bill on Friday night

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NEW: Harvard asks for a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from barring its international students from entering the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Roughly 73 square miles of homelands have been returned to the Yurok, more than doubling the tribe's land holdings, according to a deal announced this week.

https://apnews.com/article/yurok-tribe-land-back-salmon-restoration-california-57632c4170995a0067eb89dbeb080f80

From JIMENA:
Sontinuity: The Tree and the Web

The scientific study of sound explains how Sephardic Jews have been able to transmit tradition and culture over time despite a history of traumatic rupture.
By Vanessa Paloma Elbaz

More than just a written reflection, this piece includes audio recordings that allow readers to experience the musical traditions discussed — a rare opportunity to not only read about heritage, but to hear it come alive.

Click below to read and listen to this unique exploration of Sephardic memory through sound:
https://www.distinctionsjournal.org/the-tree-and-the-web/

#Mazeldon #Jewish #Judaism #Sephardi #Mizrahi #MENA #JewishMusic

And this is why having American aviation communications rely on Starlink was always a terrifying idea

@AlliFlowers @swilua.bsky.social

Good point. I suppose he'd have to buy himself a country. I mean, that worked so well for him last time, when he bought *checks notes* the United States of America.

Trump invites Chancellor Merz to Washington and then characterizes the fall of Nazism as "not a pleasant day" for Germans.

Merz then has to correct him, and explain that the fall of Nazism was a good thing.

Seriously, why do intelligent people keep visiting the Oval Office of humiliation?

https://youtube.com/shorts/4gJBR7WCb_U?si=yN48e-8cPAYtQkxt

Where’s the lie?

German Chancellor Merz sets the record straight after Trump tries to draw moral equivalence between Russia and Ukrainian actions: "Ukraine is only targeting military targets. Not civilians, not private [property], not energy infrastructure. This is the difference."

#PopeLeoXIV plans to canonize Peter To Rot, a village catechist from #PapuaNewGuinea who was murdered by the Japanese in 1945 for his faith. The Japanese were losing #WW2 and blamed the Catholics for holding worship services and praying. He was eventually imprisoned and then murdered when he refused to stop holding services or praying. His early canonizations show me that #PopeLeo is taking a stand against #Fascism in all its forms. https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=7611

“Having a senior official placed in any #InspectorGeneral’s office who reports to the agency head, in this case #DNI, would undermine the entire construct of #independence that is integral to the IG’s #oversight mission,” said Mark Greenblatt, a former #Trump-appointed Interior Department inspector general & former chairman of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity & Efficiency [#CIGIE].

#law #corruption #Project2025 #USpol

Keep 'em coming

Via Democracy Docket:

NEW: A coalition of immigrant rights groups sue the #Trump administration to block it from paying El Salvador to imprison hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who were removed from the U.S. without due process, claiming the agreement violates federal law.