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Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas
Fire her. Blood on her hands.
Fire her. Blood on her hands.
July 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas
Fire her. Blood on her hands.
Fire her. Blood on her hands.
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Alexandria Declaration coming out from courageous NSF staff.
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...
I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...
I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...
National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration
The new declaration echoes similar efforts from NIH and EPA.
www.importantcontext.news
July 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alexandria Declaration coming out from courageous NSF staff.
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...
I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...
www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...
I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
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Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
zurl.co/XiAxu
EPA places staffers who signed ‘dissent’ letter on leave
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is placing staffers who signed a letter of dissent against the Trump administration’s actions and policies on leave. The EPA says it has placed 1…
thehill.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
zurl.co/XiAxu
Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
zurl.co/XiAxu
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“You can get a other job, but you cannot get another soul”.
"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."
Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“You can get a other job, but you cannot get another soul”.
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Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3
apnews.com/article/nih-...
apnews.com/article/nih-...
June 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3
apnews.com/article/nih-...
apnews.com/article/nih-...
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“Health concerns are a universal human concern,” @jeremymberg.bsky.social told CNN. “The NIH system… has been unbelievably productive in terms of generating progress on specific diseases.”
www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StandUpForScience
www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StandUpForScience
NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies | CNN
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump...
www.cnn.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“Health concerns are a universal human concern,” @jeremymberg.bsky.social told CNN. “The NIH system… has been unbelievably productive in terms of generating progress on specific diseases.”
www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StandUpForScience
www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StandUpForScience
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Share broadly: deep thanks to all those signatories (and beyond) working to pursue discoveries in medical research in the face of threats to careers and academic freedom.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies | CNN
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump...
www.cnn.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Share broadly: deep thanks to all those signatories (and beyond) working to pursue discoveries in medical research in the face of threats to careers and academic freedom.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
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It is historic. Federal workers rarely dissent so publicly like this. Please stand behind NIH employees now— they are fighting to save American medical research from Trump and DOGE and MAGA extremists.
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
June 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It is historic. Federal workers rarely dissent so publicly like this. Please stand behind NIH employees now— they are fighting to save American medical research from Trump and DOGE and MAGA extremists.
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"This topic is not so trivial to be left to the instincts of commentators paid by the word or media outlets seeking the next titillating headline."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
May 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"This topic is not so trivial to be left to the instincts of commentators paid by the word or media outlets seeking the next titillating headline."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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"No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue"
- Harvard President Alan Garber
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
- Harvard President Alan Garber
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands for deep changes
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
www.npr.org
April 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue"
- Harvard President Alan Garber
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
- Harvard President Alan Garber
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
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The richest Americans have survival rates similar to the poorest in northern/western Europe.
That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM
Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...
www.nejm.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The richest Americans have survival rates similar to the poorest in northern/western Europe.
That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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From a source at NIH:
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
April 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From a source at NIH:
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
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Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
t.co/LeABrGqDei
t.co/LeABrGqDei
April 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
t.co/LeABrGqDei
t.co/LeABrGqDei
Must read interview to Steven Levitsky (author of book How democracies die) www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky: "Right Now, the U.S. Is Ceasing to Be a Democracy"
Donald Trump is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state, argues Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die." And he is using an unexpected twist in the autho...
www.spiegel.de
March 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Must read interview to Steven Levitsky (author of book How democracies die) www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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NOOO!!!!!! Eric is one of the most caring people I’ve ever met and cares deeply about access to human genetics and genomics education. He has a passion for empowering mentees and the next generation
I’M LITERALLY LOSING MY MIND
I’M LITERALLY LOSING MY MIND
The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.
Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute
The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.
buff.ly
March 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
NOOO!!!!!! Eric is one of the most caring people I’ve ever met and cares deeply about access to human genetics and genomics education. He has a passion for empowering mentees and the next generation
I’M LITERALLY LOSING MY MIND
I’M LITERALLY LOSING MY MIND
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Much will be written about how 4 PhD students and a PhD –Colette Delawalla, Sam Goldstein, Emma Courtney, Leslie Berntsen & JP Flores – organized @standupforscience.bsky.social to
unite scientists in the US and worldwide. Now let's keep the momentum going to defend science!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
unite scientists in the US and worldwide. Now let's keep the momentum going to defend science!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
March 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Much will be written about how 4 PhD students and a PhD –Colette Delawalla, Sam Goldstein, Emma Courtney, Leslie Berntsen & JP Flores – organized @standupforscience.bsky.social to
unite scientists in the US and worldwide. Now let's keep the momentum going to defend science!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
unite scientists in the US and worldwide. Now let's keep the momentum going to defend science!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.
Your new allies: www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...
www.cnn.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.
Ormai siamo alla follia...
NEW:
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO."
From an interim guidance shared yesterday with the Influenza Division of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO."
From an interim guidance shared yesterday with the Influenza Division of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Ormai siamo alla follia...
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I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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This thread shows how close US is now getting to a constitutional crisis - as opposed to constitutional drama.
Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.
Things are coming to a head.
Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.
Things are coming to a head.
HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.
February 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This thread shows how close US is now getting to a constitutional crisis - as opposed to constitutional drama.
Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.
Things are coming to a head.
Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.
Things are coming to a head.
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
February 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
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Protests are taking place all over the country tonight against cuts to vital federal services. Here in Washington, people are marching to SpaceX’s offices demanding Musk be ousted from the government.
February 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Protests are taking place all over the country tonight against cuts to vital federal services. Here in Washington, people are marching to SpaceX’s offices demanding Musk be ousted from the government.
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"The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening."
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system
People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...
www.bmj.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
"The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening."
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
www.reddit.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”