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👇🏻🆘😔 “When people ask me how bad all this is, our answer is usually ‘It’s worse than you think’”
Yes, pretty accurate situation
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New story: Abrupt policy shift on foreign awards
‘destroys NIH reputation’

from Research Professional News in the UK

Link to pdf here

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
May 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
They’re the same picture
May 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I will not soft-pedal my rhetoric or stop saying what I think. We need truth-telling, not cowardice and capitulation. We need informed communities and independent media. I hope you’ll join us and subscribe (free or paid). www.americaamerica.news
America, America | Steven Beschloss | Substack
Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency. Click to read America, America, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
www.americaamerica.news
May 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🇸🇰 Slovak PM Fico is furious after Estonia blocked his flight to Moscow for the May 9 parade.

“This is clearly a deliberate attempt to ruin my visit,” he ranted, complaining the delay wrecks his schedule.

His team is now scrambling to find another route.
May 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive.

In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him.

Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
May 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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We're at the very end of the dry season here in this part of Costa Rica and there are #butterflies everywhere at @tapirvalley.bsky.social

This is a Deep-Blue Eyed-Metalmark, a less-common and beautiful butterfly here.

#costarica #bugsky 🌿
May 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Lieutenant of the AFU, call sign "Alex," reports: No ceasefire on the Pokrovsk front. Infantry assaults continue relentlessly, with no breaks in between. The fight is ongoing.
May 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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npr.org NPR @npr.org · May 8
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public health.
Former CDC staff warn of "a five alarm fire"
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public health.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: Columbia University has agreed to a $750M settlement with nearly 600 patients of Robert Hadden, a former doctor who sexually abused them while working at the school.

A 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed how the school shielded the OB-GYN for decades.
Columbia Will Pay Survivors of Abusive Doctor $750 Million After ProPublica Revealed University’s Failures
The sweeping deal means the Ivy League school’s settlements will total more than $1 billion for over 1,000 claims of sexual abuse by former patients of OB-GYN Robert Hadden, who worked at the universi...
www.propublica.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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We must keep fighting to make sure every Social Security check goes out in full and on time, just as they have for the past 90 years.
May 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Last month was the 2nd hottest April on record globally (2024 holds the record). As usual, there is substantial regional variability in the location of these warm and cold departures.

Summary of the month at climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... using @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 data.
May 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Your School House Rock moment.....
May 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Breaking News: Robert Francis Prevost was chosen to be the first American pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. nyti.ms/3EUsnNI
May 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM