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Pregnant women are also the ideal targets because they're so anxious not to do anything that has a chance, however small, of hurting their baby. There's a whole industrial complex aimed at making them more anxious that Trump is tapping into.
September 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Um, why?
September 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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There we are
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I get the sense people may have forgotten or missed some of the details of allegations against Ghislane Maxwell but they’re considerably more awful than I at least had expected and we’re about to do refreshers on all of them
July 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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An NIH employee back in April mapped out the Vought plan that is playing out now. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
When that surplus comes to public attention, the Democratic legal and political world is going to strongly push NIH to get the money out the door to avoid impoundment. That is the unconstitutional action where the executive branch unilaterally decides to leave money unspent. But at that point, in mid- to late-summer, Trump can throw up his hands and say that there are not enough reviewed grants, enough time, and enough remaining employees to do that spending. And that's where Republicans in Congress can come in and finalize a big NIH budget cut. Using the rescission process, which requires only a simple majority in the Senate, the Republican majorities in the Senate and House can vote to return the unspent funds. That will avoid impoundment and lop billions off the NIH budget. That new shrunken NIH budget for this year (FY25) could then be used by Republican-majority appropriators as a benchmark to set the NIH budget at this new smaller level for next year (FY26) and future years. (Good explainer on rescission if you want to dig deeper).
July 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM