Mona KaMo
@drmonak.bsky.social
Pedi ICU doc, mom, amateur gardener
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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Last night, Senate Republicans voted to allow tax cuts for people making over $100 million per year.
❌And $500 million per year.
❌And $1 billion per year.
❌Then they voted against tax cuts for big corporations.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
❌And $500 million per year.
❌And $1 billion per year.
❌Then they voted against tax cuts for big corporations.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Senate Democrats on Billionaire Tax Cuts
YouTube video by Senator Amy Klobuchar
youtube.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Last night, Senate Republicans voted to allow tax cuts for people making over $100 million per year.
❌And $500 million per year.
❌And $1 billion per year.
❌Then they voted against tax cuts for big corporations.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
❌And $500 million per year.
❌And $1 billion per year.
❌Then they voted against tax cuts for big corporations.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
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Morgan Stanley is stepping in to support Tesla amid its declining share price, framing the drop in sales as a positive development. This move is part of a broader effort by billionaires to control the narrative in pursuit of tax breaks.
March 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Morgan Stanley is stepping in to support Tesla amid its declining share price, framing the drop in sales as a positive development. This move is part of a broader effort by billionaires to control the narrative in pursuit of tax breaks.
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Imagine that. 💰
March 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Imagine that. 💰
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UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company
UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company
The insurer and its law firm denies a doctor’s online claim that it refused to cover care for a cancer patient.
fortune.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Facts matter. All these cuts will cost us more than they save in real money, not to mention peoples lives
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
February 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Facts matter. All these cuts will cost us more than they save in real money, not to mention peoples lives
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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
www.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
February 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:
- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more
#NIH #MedSky #research #science
- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more
#NIH #MedSky #research #science
February 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Indirect expenses don’t mean waste or money not spent well
Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic.
This is devastating
This is devastating
These overhead rates are negotiated. Lowering it unilaterally to 15% is another way to destroy science in the US. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Indirect expenses don’t mean waste or money not spent well
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Hey just a PSA:
Weapons grade loser and limp 🍆 busybody Oklahoma State Rep Dusty Deevers is using this chaos to hide passing a law to make writing, reading, selling, owning, & sharing romance novels a felony.
#authors #writer #booksky #amwriting #amreading
Weapons grade loser and limp 🍆 busybody Oklahoma State Rep Dusty Deevers is using this chaos to hide passing a law to make writing, reading, selling, owning, & sharing romance novels a felony.
#authors #writer #booksky #amwriting #amreading
February 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey just a PSA:
Weapons grade loser and limp 🍆 busybody Oklahoma State Rep Dusty Deevers is using this chaos to hide passing a law to make writing, reading, selling, owning, & sharing romance novels a felony.
#authors #writer #booksky #amwriting #amreading
Weapons grade loser and limp 🍆 busybody Oklahoma State Rep Dusty Deevers is using this chaos to hide passing a law to make writing, reading, selling, owning, & sharing romance novels a felony.
#authors #writer #booksky #amwriting #amreading
What a horrible person
Rep. Rich McCormick defends the potential impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch.
More: nbcnews.to/4hd6LKl
More: nbcnews.to/4hd6LKl
February 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
What a horrible person
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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If you think going on strike = not being able to pay your bills… we get it. But many of us aren’t able to pay them comfortably NOW.
That’s why we’re:
🪧 not going on strike until our goal of 3.5% of the US Population joins us.
🪧 working diligently w/ partners & donors to amass a strike fund!
That’s why we’re:
🪧 not going on strike until our goal of 3.5% of the US Population joins us.
🪧 working diligently w/ partners & donors to amass a strike fund!
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... via @statnews.com
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
If you think going on strike = not being able to pay your bills… we get it. But many of us aren’t able to pay them comfortably NOW.
That’s why we’re:
🪧 not going on strike until our goal of 3.5% of the US Population joins us.
🪧 working diligently w/ partners & donors to amass a strike fund!
That’s why we’re:
🪧 not going on strike until our goal of 3.5% of the US Population joins us.
🪧 working diligently w/ partners & donors to amass a strike fund!
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Family values huh?
Rep. Rich McCormick defends the potential impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch.
More: nbcnews.to/4hd6LKl
More: nbcnews.to/4hd6LKl
January 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Family values huh?
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During the debates over the Constitution, George Mason warned that the president should not have pardon power lest he pardon crimes advised by himself. James Madison replied that the great security against such an abuse would be Congress's power to impeach and remove him. (Uh-oh...) [Sasha Volokh]
Time to Impeach Yet?
Reading The Debates in the Several State Conventions (as one does), I see the following: Mr. GEORGE MASON: . . . You will please, says he, to recollect
reason.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
During the debates over the Constitution, George Mason warned that the president should not have pardon power lest he pardon crimes advised by himself. James Madison replied that the great security against such an abuse would be Congress's power to impeach and remove him. (Uh-oh...) [Sasha Volokh]
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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you