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fuck carrie underwood.
April 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education?

Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power.

Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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here's the incredible interview that @chrislhayes.bsky.social did tonight with the woman who was just fired as the pardon attorney at DOJ, liz oyer.

really, really, really worth watching:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnqv...
'So frightening': DOJ official fired over Mel Gibson gun rights request speaks out
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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microplastic particles can be small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier, and concentrations in the brain are higher than in the liver or kidneys, and rapidly worsening.
UNM Researchers Find Alarmingly High Levels of Microplastics in Human Brains – and Concentrations are Growing Over Time
University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers have detected microplastics in human brains at much higher concentrations than in other organs – and the plastic accumulation appears to be growing...
hscnews.unm.edu
March 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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It's #caturday and I support TF out of Ukraine
(sound up)
March 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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It’s gotten so bad we need a CHART to follow the whiplash firings and re-hirings 🤦🏻‍♂️
Who runs a company like this. Much less a country ??
March 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Just when you think they can’t like or respect us any less…
March 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy.

All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.
March 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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DOGE fired (then rehired) nuclear workers
March 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Jeez. This is absolutely appalling & shameful from Trump and Vance. President Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous ACTUAL dictator called Vladimir Putin
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Scientists often do not speak up because we deal with certainties and the whiplash of almost twice daily bulletins leaves many frozen with the uncertainty of the next assault . But one thing is certain. This is unprecedented. And the progress lost is unrecoverable.
www.usnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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More tragic news about NIH and NIH science. Grant system is frozen and intramural program is being slashed. All will claw back on treatments and cures for cancer and other human diseases. This can’t be what the public wants. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.

#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky

www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Firing #science experts from the federal government weakens our country’s ability to protect American lives.

Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
www.science.org
February 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"These kinds of shocks are going to lead to a mass exodus … for minorities in particular.”

For my latest @science.org story, I spoke with early career researchers who have been affected by the federal upheaval and are concerned about what it means for their future.

www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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After a lifetime on the frontiers of the fight against HIV, researchers can finally see the end of the epidemic in sight. But thanks to the Trump administration’s executive orders, it’s unclear when—or possibly even ever—this breakthrough medicine will see the light of day.
This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout
Lenacapavir, a twice yearly injection that prevents HIV transmission, was named the breakthrough medicine of 2024. But without US foreign aid dollars, its delivery to millions worldwide is under threa...
www.wired.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Say it with me now: This administration doesn't care about you.

#savescience
Major U.S. health agencies, including the NIH and the CDC, are firing thousands of probationary employees this afternoon.

Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi
Welcome to Trump Tracker: Probationary workers at health agencies being fired today
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February 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM