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Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes.
The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.
That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.
That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.
Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects...
Abruptly terminating clinical trials...
Ignorant and evil
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Abruptly terminating clinical trials...
Ignorant and evil
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
March 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes.
The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.
That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.
That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.
Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects...
Abruptly terminating clinical trials...
Ignorant and evil
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Abruptly terminating clinical trials...
Ignorant and evil
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
www.theatlantic.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.
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I wrote for MSNBC about the grotesque irony of Trump stripping due process from innocent people while he himself gleefully exploits it to evade criminal accountability. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The grim irony of a convicted felon denying immigrants their right to due process
President Trump was afforded due process under the law. Many immigrants caught in his deportation blitz are being denied those same rights.
www.msnbc.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I wrote for MSNBC about the grotesque irony of Trump stripping due process from innocent people while he himself gleefully exploits it to evade criminal accountability. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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March 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...
Deportations: It's not where it starts, it's where it ends.
Just ahead of the hearing scheduled for 5 p.m.
joycevance.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...
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Lest ye forget.
Dump
Muck
Doge-bags, thieves
JD (is he alive?)
All the GOP sympathizers
Are fucking terrorists.
Dump
Muck
Doge-bags, thieves
JD (is he alive?)
All the GOP sympathizers
Are fucking terrorists.
March 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Lest ye forget.
Dump
Muck
Doge-bags, thieves
JD (is he alive?)
All the GOP sympathizers
Are fucking terrorists.
Dump
Muck
Doge-bags, thieves
JD (is he alive?)
All the GOP sympathizers
Are fucking terrorists.
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This morning, Joe Goldstein has an exclusive look at what research was cut when the Trump administration canceled $400M in federal funding to Columbia. It's not an exhaustive list because the folks at Columbia are still trying to figure out what was cut and what survived. But it's a start. 🧵
Trump Cuts Imperil Cancer, Diabetes and Pediatric Research at Columbia (Gift Article)
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This morning, Joe Goldstein has an exclusive look at what research was cut when the Trump administration canceled $400M in federal funding to Columbia. It's not an exhaustive list because the folks at Columbia are still trying to figure out what was cut and what survived. But it's a start. 🧵
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Important academic work was deleted from a site dedicated to patient safety because it mentioned the LGBTQ community, two Harvard Medical School professors said in a federal lawsuit filed in Boston on March 15.
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Harvard researchers sue the Trump administration for removing their work from public website
Their material was deleted from a site dedicated to patient safety because it mentioned the LGBTQ community, they said in the federal lawsuit.
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March 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Important academic work was deleted from a site dedicated to patient safety because it mentioned the LGBTQ community, two Harvard Medical School professors said in a federal lawsuit filed in Boston on March 15.
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Thank you all for the positivity last night. Walking into work with a smile.
Find the joy while facing the madness. Stay strong and #Resist.
Find the joy while facing the madness. Stay strong and #Resist.
March 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thank you all for the positivity last night. Walking into work with a smile.
Find the joy while facing the madness. Stay strong and #Resist.
Find the joy while facing the madness. Stay strong and #Resist.
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.
March 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.
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Fact-check: True
March 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Fact-check: True
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We survived the week!!!
Highlights:
- no VERA/VSIP yet.
- the FWS is amending competitive areas for a RIF but it’s not clear how.
- FWS was mentioned 2x in the President’s speech to Congress. He announced a name change to a refuge live (I have learned that was a surprise to the refuge involved).
Highlights:
- no VERA/VSIP yet.
- the FWS is amending competitive areas for a RIF but it’s not clear how.
- FWS was mentioned 2x in the President’s speech to Congress. He announced a name change to a refuge live (I have learned that was a surprise to the refuge involved).
March 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
We survived the week!!!
Highlights:
- no VERA/VSIP yet.
- the FWS is amending competitive areas for a RIF but it’s not clear how.
- FWS was mentioned 2x in the President’s speech to Congress. He announced a name change to a refuge live (I have learned that was a surprise to the refuge involved).
Highlights:
- no VERA/VSIP yet.
- the FWS is amending competitive areas for a RIF but it’s not clear how.
- FWS was mentioned 2x in the President’s speech to Congress. He announced a name change to a refuge live (I have learned that was a surprise to the refuge involved).
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From my DMs, check out this official press release from EPA.
It reads like it was written by an angry teenager. The pettiness of the Administration is filtering down. I am embarrassed about where we are.
To all the career EPA civil servants, you deserve better.
It reads like it was written by an angry teenager. The pettiness of the Administration is filtering down. I am embarrassed about where we are.
To all the career EPA civil servants, you deserve better.
EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars
www.epa.gov
March 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
From my DMs, check out this official press release from EPA.
It reads like it was written by an angry teenager. The pettiness of the Administration is filtering down. I am embarrassed about where we are.
To all the career EPA civil servants, you deserve better.
It reads like it was written by an angry teenager. The pettiness of the Administration is filtering down. I am embarrassed about where we are.
To all the career EPA civil servants, you deserve better.
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So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now.
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
March 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now.
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍
“Frequent, heavy recreational use—say, several times a week—has been linked to cognitive effects that last beyond the high, including impaired memory, delusional thinking, superstitious beliefs, and a sense of specialness and importance.”
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain
Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.
www.theatlantic.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“Frequent, heavy recreational use—say, several times a week—has been linked to cognitive effects that last beyond the high, including impaired memory, delusional thinking, superstitious beliefs, and a sense of specialness and importance.”
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
March 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
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The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.
March 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.
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Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.
March 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.
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Susan Perri, who bravely spoke at our town hall despite her battle with cancer, made her voice heard. She and millions like her will suffer if House Republicans cut Medicaid and Social Security. I’m honored to have her as my guest for tonight’s President’s Address to Congress.
March 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Susan Perri, who bravely spoke at our town hall despite her battle with cancer, made her voice heard. She and millions like her will suffer if House Republicans cut Medicaid and Social Security. I’m honored to have her as my guest for tonight’s President’s Address to Congress.
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Elon Musk shared a call from conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro urging Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of George Floyd.
March 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Elon Musk shared a call from conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro urging Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of George Floyd.