Darth McGee
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FDT has surrendered American dominance in biomedical research for purely political reasons. We will suffer the consequences of this betrayal of American science for decades to come. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
Trump has "shaken the hell" out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
FDT has surrendered American dominance in biomedical research for purely political reasons. We will suffer the consequences of this betrayal of American science for decades to come. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
This is not the future of the Republican Party, it's the party as it presently stands.
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is not the future of the Republican Party, it's the party as it presently stands.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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First, what is Laura Loomer's actual job?
Second, why do so many Trump officials seem to be podcasters, cable news yellers, and otherwise propagandists? Are any of them qualified beyond their ability to lie convincingly on video/podcasts?
Second, why do so many Trump officials seem to be podcasters, cable news yellers, and otherwise propagandists? Are any of them qualified beyond their ability to lie convincingly on video/podcasts?
If you endorsed and chose to work for a president who listens to a woman like this, you have to be prepared for the consequences.
No one forced you.
No one forced you.
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
First, what is Laura Loomer's actual job?
Second, why do so many Trump officials seem to be podcasters, cable news yellers, and otherwise propagandists? Are any of them qualified beyond their ability to lie convincingly on video/podcasts?
Second, why do so many Trump officials seem to be podcasters, cable news yellers, and otherwise propagandists? Are any of them qualified beyond their ability to lie convincingly on video/podcasts?
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Since the spring, federal agents have been patrolling government buildings in New York City, waiting to arrest migrants as soon as they step out of a courtroom, regardless of the status of their case.
When ICE Agents Are Waiting Outside the Courtroom
An asylum seeker and her children face the terrifying new reality of immigration hearings.
www.newyorker.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Since the spring, federal agents have been patrolling government buildings in New York City, waiting to arrest migrants as soon as they step out of a courtroom, regardless of the status of their case.
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Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: The White House’s campaign against the Congressional Budget Office is veering into the ridiculous.
What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.
What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.
Analysis | The White House’s disingenuous claim about CBO’s political leanings
What the White House calls a ‘verifiable fact’ is a nonsense fact.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: The White House’s campaign against the Congressional Budget Office is veering into the ridiculous.
What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.
What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.
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NIH is getting rotten to the core. If we have any reporters who follow us, this is our outcry to start looking into:
Andrew Nixon, Director of Comms at HHS
Laci Williams Deputy Director of Strategic Comms at NIH
Thomas Buckley, Director of Strategic Comms at NIH.
They’re the “let’s be clear” gang
Andrew Nixon, Director of Comms at HHS
Laci Williams Deputy Director of Strategic Comms at NIH
Thomas Buckley, Director of Strategic Comms at NIH.
They’re the “let’s be clear” gang
a man in a hat is screaming with the word heeelp written below him
ALT: a man in a hat is screaming with the word heeelp written below him
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June 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
NIH is getting rotten to the core. If we have any reporters who follow us, this is our outcry to start looking into:
Andrew Nixon, Director of Comms at HHS
Laci Williams Deputy Director of Strategic Comms at NIH
Thomas Buckley, Director of Strategic Comms at NIH.
They’re the “let’s be clear” gang
Andrew Nixon, Director of Comms at HHS
Laci Williams Deputy Director of Strategic Comms at NIH
Thomas Buckley, Director of Strategic Comms at NIH.
They’re the “let’s be clear” gang
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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
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Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
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Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.
C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.
We do not have an Administration, we have a criminal enterprise.
In January, Trump fired 19 inspectors general who root out fraud and corruption.
One of his picks to replace them is a GOP ex-congressman who allegedly violated House ethics rules.
Another resigned from a state job after allegedly mishandling taxpayer money.
"Drain the swamp."
One of his picks to replace them is a GOP ex-congressman who allegedly violated House ethics rules.
Another resigned from a state job after allegedly mishandling taxpayer money.
"Drain the swamp."
May 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We do not have an Administration, we have a criminal enterprise.
Dumpster says Afghanistan under the Taliban is so much better, Afghans who fled after helping the US military should go back. The crime they committed was trusting the US. Locals in the next US combat zone certainly won't make that mistake.
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Veterans recoil at Trump plan to end Afghans’ deportation protection
The Trump administration claims conditions in Afghanistan have markedly improved under Taliban rule. Those who fought in the war say that’s ‘laughable.’
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May 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Dumpster says Afghanistan under the Taliban is so much better, Afghans who fled after helping the US military should go back. The crime they committed was trusting the US. Locals in the next US combat zone certainly won't make that mistake.
wapo.st/4juOAAg
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
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May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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It’s not so much the digital space though that’s a pain, it’s the ppl behind the reports. It’s so laborious to data crunch, read and monitor relevant clinical trials to make clinical recommendations. These are MD researchers, MD/PhDs. It’s a labor of love honestly and that’s what’s irreplaceable.
May 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It’s not so much the digital space though that’s a pain, it’s the ppl behind the reports. It’s so laborious to data crunch, read and monitor relevant clinical trials to make clinical recommendations. These are MD researchers, MD/PhDs. It’s a labor of love honestly and that’s what’s irreplaceable.
NCI's PDQ predates the modern Internet by a good 20 years or more. It was initially available via fax, and then email. In 1998, it found a new home on NCI's nascent website, CancerNet.
Deeply saddened that the ENTIRE TEAM at NCI PDQ Cancer Information has been eliminated.
Our evidence-based summaries were updated throughout the year with the latest research and supported informed decision making between clinicians & patients with cancer across the US. 🇺🇸
Our evidence-based summaries were updated throughout the year with the latest research and supported informed decision making between clinicians & patients with cancer across the US. 🇺🇸
May 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
NCI's PDQ predates the modern Internet by a good 20 years or more. It was initially available via fax, and then email. In 1998, it found a new home on NCI's nascent website, CancerNet.
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“Donald Trump hates me because I fight hard, and I fight for free and fair elections. I insist on fighting for democracy in court, fighting for voting rights in court, and insist on telling the truth about what the outcome of the 2020 election was,” says lawyer Marc Elias. cbsn.ws/43btfGV
May 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Donald Trump hates me because I fight hard, and I fight for free and fair elections. I insist on fighting for democracy in court, fighting for voting rights in court, and insist on telling the truth about what the outcome of the 2020 election was,” says lawyer Marc Elias. cbsn.ws/43btfGV
Hmmm, abruptly shuttering the NIH lab that studies the scariest and deadliest infectious diseases. What could possibly go wrong? 🤔😐😑
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Hmmm, abruptly shuttering the NIH lab that studies the scariest and deadliest infectious diseases. What could possibly go wrong? 🤔😐😑
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
So this is what greatness feels like? Can't say I'm a fan.
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Temu and Shein customers in the US are reeling from tariff implementation | CNN Business
Rena Scott, a retired registered nurse in Virginia, usually has 10 to 12 active Temu orders at any given time.
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April 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So this is what greatness feels like? Can't say I'm a fan.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/b...
If you really want to understand the devastation that the administration is causing to America's biomedical research enterprise and the nation's health, I recommend watching this segment from John Oliver's show.
youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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April 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you really want to understand the devastation that the administration is causing to America's biomedical research enterprise and the nation's health, I recommend watching this segment from John Oliver's show.
youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...
“The Trump administration is working to destroy medical research as we know it.”
Sen. Patty Murray
Sen. Patty Murray
The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health
Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“The Trump administration is working to destroy medical research as we know it.”
Sen. Patty Murray
Sen. Patty Murray
The cancellation of the Women's Health Initiative will have a detrimental effect on the health of women everywhere.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The cancellation of the Women's Health Initiative will have a detrimental effect on the health of women everywhere.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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