Britta
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Britta
@brittahelen.bsky.social
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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...
www.thecrimson.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance
Dr. Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.
www.wsj.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It's always a good day to remember that literally every Confederate general was literally a traitor.
March 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
March 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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“If we’re not studying the problem sufficiently, and then there are other federal funding cuts to serve the populations that are being harmed, we’re really undermining the work at multiple levels.”
Domestic violence and maternal mortality are rising. The NIH just defunded a project to study both.
A lead researcher thinks the $400,000 grant was canceled because the project had “equity” in the title.
www.motherjones.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
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February 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Given that the word "women" is on the NSF list of words that flat a proposal for rejection and "men" is not, that seems to be the case. As a women's health researcher this is obviously enormously troubling.
February 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM