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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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“Highly paid insiders at the NIH.”
😂😂😂
MAGA people sometimes show their whole asses.
Senior NIH scientists could get a job paying 2x or more in the private sector. But they accept lower pay, and give up ability to start/advise companies, because they believe in America.
😂😂😂
MAGA people sometimes show their whole asses.
Senior NIH scientists could get a job paying 2x or more in the private sector. But they accept lower pay, and give up ability to start/advise companies, because they believe in America.
Project 2025:
“Funding for scientific research should not be controlled by a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders at the NIH, many of whom stay in power
for decades. The NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken.“
In case you were wondering why this is happening.
“Funding for scientific research should not be controlled by a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders at the NIH, many of whom stay in power
for decades. The NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken.“
In case you were wondering why this is happening.
April 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“Highly paid insiders at the NIH.”
😂😂😂
MAGA people sometimes show their whole asses.
Senior NIH scientists could get a job paying 2x or more in the private sector. But they accept lower pay, and give up ability to start/advise companies, because they believe in America.
😂😂😂
MAGA people sometimes show their whole asses.
Senior NIH scientists could get a job paying 2x or more in the private sector. But they accept lower pay, and give up ability to start/advise companies, because they believe in America.
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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
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This is a very good idea.
👇👇 Any Senators or members of Congress willing to “go to the NIH campus in Bethesda and follow the doge kids around?”
👇👇 Any Senators or members of Congress willing to “go to the NIH campus in Bethesda and follow the doge kids around?”
This was nice but it won't drive news. @smith.senate.gov @baldwin.senate.gov etc should have gone to the NIH campus in Bethesda and followed the DOGE goons around
Roundtable this Wed at the US Senate, on how Trump and Musk are killing research like cancer and Alzheimer’s research.
2:30pm Eastern. There is a livestream.
This would be better in primetime and produced for TV, like the Jan 6 Committee did.
But it’s a good start from @baldwin.senate.gov.
2:30pm Eastern. There is a livestream.
This would be better in primetime and produced for TV, like the Jan 6 Committee did.
But it’s a good start from @baldwin.senate.gov.
March 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is a very good idea.
👇👇 Any Senators or members of Congress willing to “go to the NIH campus in Bethesda and follow the doge kids around?”
👇👇 Any Senators or members of Congress willing to “go to the NIH campus in Bethesda and follow the doge kids around?”
Somehow the following two things are true:
- most actual scientists cannot read my work for free, and there are strict rules about when/whether I’m allowed to send a copy of my work to an interested fellow scientist
- Mark Zuckerberg can just steal it and use it to train his AI tools for profit.
- most actual scientists cannot read my work for free, and there are strict rules about when/whether I’m allowed to send a copy of my work to an interested fellow scientist
- Mark Zuckerberg can just steal it and use it to train his AI tools for profit.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Somehow the following two things are true:
- most actual scientists cannot read my work for free, and there are strict rules about when/whether I’m allowed to send a copy of my work to an interested fellow scientist
- Mark Zuckerberg can just steal it and use it to train his AI tools for profit.
- most actual scientists cannot read my work for free, and there are strict rules about when/whether I’m allowed to send a copy of my work to an interested fellow scientist
- Mark Zuckerberg can just steal it and use it to train his AI tools for profit.
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The reasoning is bullshit.
The true reasoning is “We, Trump/MAGA political strategists, have determined that the most politically palatable university to attack first is Columbia, and we want other universities and the public to stay quiet while we do this.”
They’re coming for you next.
The true reasoning is “We, Trump/MAGA political strategists, have determined that the most politically palatable university to attack first is Columbia, and we want other universities and the public to stay quiet while we do this.”
They’re coming for you next.
March 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The reasoning is bullshit.
The true reasoning is “We, Trump/MAGA political strategists, have determined that the most politically palatable university to attack first is Columbia, and we want other universities and the public to stay quiet while we do this.”
They’re coming for you next.
The true reasoning is “We, Trump/MAGA political strategists, have determined that the most politically palatable university to attack first is Columbia, and we want other universities and the public to stay quiet while we do this.”
They’re coming for you next.
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The 400 wealthiest people in the US pay the lowest income tax rates of anyone. Which is where a lot of our problems come from. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/o...
March 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The 400 wealthiest people in the US pay the lowest income tax rates of anyone. Which is where a lot of our problems come from. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/o...
This is terrifying.
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is terrifying.
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Yes. Journalists should note this:
Every science or tech student, age 5-35 today, is looking at the destruction of their career prospects due to Trump and Musk.
We should be interviewing those students and talking about the impact to their lives.
Every science or tech student, age 5-35 today, is looking at the destruction of their career prospects due to Trump and Musk.
We should be interviewing those students and talking about the impact to their lives.
Every one of my friends is asking “do I even have a career going forward”
“Our next generation of researchers are now poised on the edge of this cliff, not knowing if there’s going to be a bridge that’s going to get them to the other side, or if this is it”
Musk and Trump are blowing up science careers for every STEM student.
Musk and Trump are blowing up science careers for every STEM student.
March 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Yes. Journalists should note this:
Every science or tech student, age 5-35 today, is looking at the destruction of their career prospects due to Trump and Musk.
We should be interviewing those students and talking about the impact to their lives.
Every science or tech student, age 5-35 today, is looking at the destruction of their career prospects due to Trump and Musk.
We should be interviewing those students and talking about the impact to their lives.
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Columbia called the cops on students— *like trump wanted*— & this is how Trump responds.
One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply?
Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.
One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply?
Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.
Trump administration cuts $400 million in federal funding to Columbia
<i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>
www.columbiaspectator.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Columbia called the cops on students— *like trump wanted*— & this is how Trump responds.
One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply?
Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.
One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply?
Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.
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I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
March 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
I have this exact question about a recently-submitted grant that should have been reviewed by an IC-specific panel…
Another question is what happens to the applications that have already been submitted in response to funding announcements that were to have been reviewed in the institute review branches. Will a new review system be set up in a timely fashion or will these programs be abandoned for this year?
21/n
21/n
March 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I have this exact question about a recently-submitted grant that should have been reviewed by an IC-specific panel…
It’s almost like it’s a bad thing when private equity owns our health care. 🙄
ICYMI: House Health Committee Chair Dan Frankel (D., Allegheny) is vowing action after a private equity backed medical firm announced plans to close two remaining Crozer hospitals in suburban Philadelphia.
March 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It’s almost like it’s a bad thing when private equity owns our health care. 🙄
Our health care system is the worst.
Health care is so expensive that 31 million U.S. adults, or 12%, had to borrow a total of $74 billion last year to obtain medical care, new data shows. That includes people with health insurance, making such numbers even more troubling.
www.cbsnews.com/news/health-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/health-...
Americans borrowed $74 billion last year to cover their health care costs
For millions of Americans, paying for medical care often means going into debt, new data shows.
www.cbsnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our health care system is the worst.
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Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
www.huffpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
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Most PTs have no idea of the amount of work that *thousands* of volunteers are doing for them every year around the country. Our profession has so many people who are good to the core. Come see what your state chapter is all about.
February 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Most PTs have no idea of the amount of work that *thousands* of volunteers are doing for them every year around the country. Our profession has so many people who are good to the core. Come see what your state chapter is all about.
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We are having the worst flu season in 15+ yrs & staring down an avian flu threat that has already spread unchecked in other mammals and taken American life
Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage
Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage
FDA cancels vaccine advisory committee meeting to select next year’s flu strain for no reason open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...
I just don't get it . It's like they want to hurt people
I just don't get it . It's like they want to hurt people
FDA cancels vaccine advisory committee meeting to select next year’s flu strain for no reason
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee of the FDA was supposed to meet next month to choose what strains of flu would be included in next season’s flu vaccine but the meeting ...
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We are having the worst flu season in 15+ yrs & staring down an avian flu threat that has already spread unchecked in other mammals and taken American life
Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage
Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage
Terrible.
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Terrible.
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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."
February 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
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Dear scientists at US universities: Trump/Musk continue to freeze your grants. NIH is not reviewing grants nor funding them in council. This is a backhanded, legal method to effectively stop NIH grants.
See thread and linked article.
Are we going to “keep our heads down” about this?
See thread and linked article.
Are we going to “keep our heads down” about this?
This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪.
(We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.)
Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings.
Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/
(We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.)
Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings.
Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal.
Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.
All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.
All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
February 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Dear scientists at US universities: Trump/Musk continue to freeze your grants. NIH is not reviewing grants nor funding them in council. This is a backhanded, legal method to effectively stop NIH grants.
See thread and linked article.
Are we going to “keep our heads down” about this?
See thread and linked article.
Are we going to “keep our heads down” about this?
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are messing with your Medicare benefits.
Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices.
Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators.
That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.
Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices.
Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators.
That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.
Health Workers Think DOGE Is About To Backfire, Big-Time
Mass layoffs have hit departments whose literal purpose is to save money or improve health outcomes.
www.huffpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are messing with your Medicare benefits.
Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices.
Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators.
That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.
Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices.
Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators.
That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.
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i'll just add that completely gutting our science, technology and medical research and trying to destroy our universities is a very weird way to counter chinese aggression and influence
February 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
i'll just add that completely gutting our science, technology and medical research and trying to destroy our universities is a very weird way to counter chinese aggression and influence