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It's so weird to me that Republicans brag about being "pro-babies" and don't give a shit about kids dying from preventable causes (i.e. being shot in schools or from diseases that should have been already eradicated by vaccines).
May 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It's so weird to me that Republicans brag about being "pro-babies" and don't give a shit about kids dying from preventable causes (i.e. being shot in schools or from diseases that should have been already eradicated by vaccines).
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Chronique | Personne n’est plus satisfait des 100 jours de Trump que le président russe.
Les 100 jours de Poutine
www.ledevoir.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Chronique | Personne n’est plus satisfait des 100 jours de Trump que le président russe.
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This sign hits hard because it’s real. When they come for the truth-tellers, the rest of us are left in the dark. If we don’t defend journalism, we won’t know what to defend next.
#FreedomOfThePress #TruthFirst
#FreedomOfThePress #TruthFirst
April 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This sign hits hard because it’s real. When they come for the truth-tellers, the rest of us are left in the dark. If we don’t defend journalism, we won’t know what to defend next.
#FreedomOfThePress #TruthFirst
#FreedomOfThePress #TruthFirst
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We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.
April 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.
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The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.
April 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.
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Dramatic rise in fake political content on social media as Canada prepares to vote
Dramatic rise in fake political content on social media as Canada prepares to vote
Report finds over a quarter of Canadians exposed to ‘more sophisticated and more politically polarizing’ fake content
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Dramatic rise in fake political content on social media as Canada prepares to vote
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DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.
Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
April 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.
Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
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These are not detainments—they are kidnappings.
These are not deportations—they are human trafficking.
These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps.
Language matters.
This is fascism.
These are not deportations—they are human trafficking.
These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps.
Language matters.
This is fascism.
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
These are not detainments—they are kidnappings.
These are not deportations—they are human trafficking.
These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps.
Language matters.
This is fascism.
These are not deportations—they are human trafficking.
These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps.
Language matters.
This is fascism.
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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.
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 8:40 PM
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.
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The latest from the Project 2025 playbook? Trump's budget proposal is aiming to eliminate all funding for Head Start, which serves over 750,000 kids. This would devastate families and communities already hanging by a thread.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Exclusive: Trump budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start
The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to low-income families.
www.usatoday.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The latest from the Project 2025 playbook? Trump's budget proposal is aiming to eliminate all funding for Head Start, which serves over 750,000 kids. This would devastate families and communities already hanging by a thread.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
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"Across the nation, universities are eliminating or rebranding DEI offices to avoid federal scrutiny. SIU isn’t backing down."
Great story by Molly Parker about a school with much less $$ than the universities we typically see in the news.
www.propublica.org/article/regi...
Great story by Molly Parker about a school with much less $$ than the universities we typically see in the news.
www.propublica.org/article/regi...
A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural regi...
www.propublica.org
March 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Across the nation, universities are eliminating or rebranding DEI offices to avoid federal scrutiny. SIU isn’t backing down."
Great story by Molly Parker about a school with much less $$ than the universities we typically see in the news.
www.propublica.org/article/regi...
Great story by Molly Parker about a school with much less $$ than the universities we typically see in the news.
www.propublica.org/article/regi...
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🚨Extremists in Congress are attacking your right to vote. Next week, the House will vote on the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it harder for millions of citizens to register to vote by requiring proof of citizenship. Tell Congress to vote NO on this destructive bill. act.nwlc.org/a/save-act?m...
Tell Your Representatives: Vote NO on the SAVE Act
An attack on voting rights is an attack on our democracy.
act.nwlc.org
March 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚨Extremists in Congress are attacking your right to vote. Next week, the House will vote on the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it harder for millions of citizens to register to vote by requiring proof of citizenship. Tell Congress to vote NO on this destructive bill. act.nwlc.org/a/save-act?m...
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As a candidate last year, Trump promised “to unleash the power of American innovation” to super-charge U.S. scientific research.
He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.
NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a candidate last year, Trump promised “to unleash the power of American innovation” to super-charge U.S. scientific research.
He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
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Exclusive: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has frozen nearly $10 billion in disaster aid as it scrutinizes two programs for potentially helping undocumented migrants.
FEMA blocks $10B in disaster aid over immigration concerns
The move is part of a wholesale review of 56 FEMA programs to ensure they meet President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement efforts.
www.politico.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Exclusive: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has frozen nearly $10 billion in disaster aid as it scrutinizes two programs for potentially helping undocumented migrants.
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David Geier is NOT a vaccine skeptic.
Stop calling him that.
He is an anti-vaccine activist and a predator.
He spent years illegally treating children with hormone blockers, claiming it would “detox” autism caused by vaccines.
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Stop calling him that.
He is an anti-vaccine activist and a predator.
He spent years illegally treating children with hormone blockers, claiming it would “detox” autism caused by vaccines.
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David Geier is NOT a vaccine skeptic. Stop calling him that.
Letting him head an “investigation” into vaccines and autism will legitimize his decades of lies and illegal medical treatments that harmed children.
news.immunologic.org
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
David Geier is NOT a vaccine skeptic.
Stop calling him that.
He is an anti-vaccine activist and a predator.
He spent years illegally treating children with hormone blockers, claiming it would “detox” autism caused by vaccines.
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Stop calling him that.
He is an anti-vaccine activist and a predator.
He spent years illegally treating children with hormone blockers, claiming it would “detox” autism caused by vaccines.
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Musk is rapidly pushing forward the privatization of space and satellite operations that have long been managed by the NOAA. DOGE has acquired confidential data from NOAA’s competitors—an alarming development that has further cemented SpaceX’s dominance in the space and satellite industry.
March 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Musk is rapidly pushing forward the privatization of space and satellite operations that have long been managed by the NOAA. DOGE has acquired confidential data from NOAA’s competitors—an alarming development that has further cemented SpaceX’s dominance in the space and satellite industry.
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Abduction of a Tufts student in broad daylight by an American plainclothes gestapo drunk on power. This is a student from Turkey, who has been disappeared. Even her attorney doesn't know where she is.
THIS. IS. NOT. ACCEPTABLE.
THIS. IS. NOT. ACCEPTABLE.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Abduction of a Tufts student in broad daylight by an American plainclothes gestapo drunk on power. This is a student from Turkey, who has been disappeared. Even her attorney doesn't know where she is.
THIS. IS. NOT. ACCEPTABLE.
THIS. IS. NOT. ACCEPTABLE.
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Republicans and DOGE are attacking public broadcasting, claiming it's "wasteful" and promotes an "agenda."
But spending on public broadcasting is just 0.01% of the federal budget — and funding has bipartisan support.
This is part of Trump's bigger war on an educated public.
But spending on public broadcasting is just 0.01% of the federal budget — and funding has bipartisan support.
This is part of Trump's bigger war on an educated public.
March 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Republicans and DOGE are attacking public broadcasting, claiming it's "wasteful" and promotes an "agenda."
But spending on public broadcasting is just 0.01% of the federal budget — and funding has bipartisan support.
This is part of Trump's bigger war on an educated public.
But spending on public broadcasting is just 0.01% of the federal budget — and funding has bipartisan support.
This is part of Trump's bigger war on an educated public.
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The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by, says Arthur Caplan
https://go.nature.com/3XS8xc4
https://go.nature.com/3XS8xc4
Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
go.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by, says Arthur Caplan
https://go.nature.com/3XS8xc4
https://go.nature.com/3XS8xc4
Real and irreversible consequences of defunding research and its support. Project 2025 calls research part of the leftist agenda, but the preservation and amelioration of life should be everyone’s agenda.
My latest from inside NIH as well as universities that get its funding. I think it is important to say clearly what moves like this will actually do to people.
Destructive Banality: NIH Indirect Costs Move Sounds Boring, Could Kill You
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Real and irreversible consequences of defunding research and its support. Project 2025 calls research part of the leftist agenda, but the preservation and amelioration of life should be everyone’s agenda.
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As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
February 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
Really think about how twisted this all is.