Ice cream social
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How to talk to babies.
September 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
How to talk to babies.
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Whether it’s freaking out about the new Cracker Barrel logo or some other bogeyman, remember this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
August 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Whether it’s freaking out about the new Cracker Barrel logo or some other bogeyman, remember this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
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The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
July 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.
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Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...
Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut
Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday
www.statnews.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...
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Listen to this mealy-mouthed non-answer about the billions in CANCER RESEARCH funding Trump's budget chief is illegally blocking.
Clinical trials have been cut short. Research is shutting down. We're talking irreparable harm.
Keep speaking up until they get this money out.
Clinical trials have been cut short. Research is shutting down. We're talking irreparable harm.
Keep speaking up until they get this money out.
BRENNAN: Are you going to release the cancer research funding?
RUSS VOUGHT: We're gonna continue to go through the same process that we have gone through with regard to the Dept of Education & we will release that funding when we are done
BRENNAN: The WH budget does call for a $18b cut to NIH
RUSS VOUGHT: We're gonna continue to go through the same process that we have gone through with regard to the Dept of Education & we will release that funding when we are done
BRENNAN: The WH budget does call for a $18b cut to NIH
July 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Listen to this mealy-mouthed non-answer about the billions in CANCER RESEARCH funding Trump's budget chief is illegally blocking.
Clinical trials have been cut short. Research is shutting down. We're talking irreparable harm.
Keep speaking up until they get this money out.
Clinical trials have been cut short. Research is shutting down. We're talking irreparable harm.
Keep speaking up until they get this money out.
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Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference.
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
“Johns Hopkins has not merely preserved its discriminatory DEI framework — it has entrenched, expanded and openly celebrated it as a cornerstone of its institutional identity,”
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
Conservative group files complaint against Hopkins medical school
America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference.
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
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🚨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.
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This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨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.
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This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
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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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New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy.
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP
President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy.
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,” one researcher said.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.
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The part every strategist around the world is stressing right now is that really no one has gamed out "What if America didn't even have it's own empire interests at heart?" as part of the strategy.
All the usual rules of negotiation & deterrence work on people who understand what they might lose.
All the usual rules of negotiation & deterrence work on people who understand what they might lose.
March 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The part every strategist around the world is stressing right now is that really no one has gamed out "What if America didn't even have it's own empire interests at heart?" as part of the strategy.
All the usual rules of negotiation & deterrence work on people who understand what they might lose.
All the usual rules of negotiation & deterrence work on people who understand what they might lose.
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt
The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
February 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt
Chet Baker on a rainy day in the end of the world.
February 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Chet Baker on a rainy day in the end of the world.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
Cutting indirects is telling scientists to do science without buildings, equipment, electricity, and any support staff. These are your hospitals and colleges, your friends and children. And it’s only week three.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Cutting indirects is telling scientists to do science without buildings, equipment, electricity, and any support staff. These are your hospitals and colleges, your friends and children. And it’s only week three.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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Get in Dorks, we are going protesting.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
February 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
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A guide on how to sabotage fascism in the workplace. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184...
It was written by the CIA during WW II. University faculty worked on this their whole lives. Its uncanny as a description of faculty meetings & faculty behavior. Here are some examples of advice to workers:
It was written by the CIA during WW II. University faculty worked on this their whole lives. Its uncanny as a description of faculty meetings & faculty behavior. Here are some examples of advice to workers:
February 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A guide on how to sabotage fascism in the workplace. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184...
It was written by the CIA during WW II. University faculty worked on this their whole lives. Its uncanny as a description of faculty meetings & faculty behavior. Here are some examples of advice to workers:
It was written by the CIA during WW II. University faculty worked on this their whole lives. Its uncanny as a description of faculty meetings & faculty behavior. Here are some examples of advice to workers:
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it is, effectively, a view that nothing should be done to solve any problem if there might be a trade-off somewhere for someone who you could code as “marginalized.” it is just anti-government conservatism with a different aesthetic!
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
it is, effectively, a view that nothing should be done to solve any problem if there might be a trade-off somewhere for someone who you could code as “marginalized.” it is just anti-government conservatism with a different aesthetic!
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I don't think we are supposed to individually prepare ourselves 3x meals a day every day for our whole lives I think we're supposed to have community and sharing
January 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I don't think we are supposed to individually prepare ourselves 3x meals a day every day for our whole lives I think we're supposed to have community and sharing
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Sweet Jesus, this is why we need local newspapers. If you don't subscribe to yours, do it.
Decided to join bluesky since my story is blowing up here- thanks everyone who's read it! Update: Amazon contacted Ms. Scott-Windham and is now giving her time off with pay.
An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
January 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Sweet Jesus, this is why we need local newspapers. If you don't subscribe to yours, do it.