Anna Parkes
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Anna Parkes
@lovelifechronicles.bsky.social
Love life. Love working out. Love discovering that I'm wrong, again. Love this world. Love connecting people with what they love.
April 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Of the 10,000 USAid employees in the US and abroad, only 15 remain.

Employees posted overseas were told they had 72 hours to request their preferred departure date.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Trump Live Updates: Law Firms Sue Over EOs, JD Vance Visits Greenland
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Today’s daily painting is to say thank you to all Canadians who fought the good fight to make Canada and indeed the world a better place. It won’t be in vain.
February 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Caroline Kennedy urges Senators to reject her cousin RFK Jr’s nomination

“Bobby preys on the desperation of parents of sick children — vaccinating his own children while building a following by hypocritically discouraging other parents from vaccinating theirs,”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...
Caroline Kennedy Urges Senators to Reject RFK Jr. for Health Secretary
In a harsh letter to lawmakers considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for health secretary, Ms. Kennedy called her cousin unfit for the job and a “predator” who led family members to addiction...
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Per NBC's chicago affiliate, ICE says this was not them, that it was Secret Service:

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/s...
January 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...
🧪 #publichealth #neuroskyence
Call your people in Congress: Protect the NIH, CDC, and FDA. Congressional operator connects you to your senators' and representative's offices: (202) 224-3121
Takes 2-3 minutes to leave a message with an idealistic young staffer.
Trump Administration Temporarily Mutes Federal Health Officials
Scientific meetings were canceled, and research data on the bird flu outbreak was delayed, amid confusion over the directive.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Think of this man as you close your eyes. Not DJT. Goodnight 🌙💙
January 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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I see that Melania chose to wear her Hamburglar hat to honor the criminals in the nation--and next to her.
January 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM