john-conway.bsky.social
@john-conway.bsky.social
Physicist, dad, grandpa. Interested in science, politics, genealogy, photography…
The ICE Gutstapo…you heard it here first!
October 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

This is tough to watch but will show you what we are up against, for real.
1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives (ft. Mehdi Hasan)
YouTube video by Jubilee
www.youtube.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Go read through this. They HATE poor people, they HATE the idea that we need to mitigate climate change, they could not care less about our environment, and they want huge tax giveaways to corporations and the rich. Millions will lose health care. Deficit explodes.
www.congress.gov
May 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Bwa hah ha! Pope almost slapped him the other day.
JD Vance is dreaming.
May 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Anyone else have "political fairy smut" on their bingo card?
May 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You really can't make this up...
The American public and our very democracy is at the mercy of some incredibly stupid people.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Who are the functionaries carrying out the destruction of the NIH? The Gang of Four: Memoli, McElroy, Schnabel, Bhattacharya. There are others, but these men play major day-to-day roles, they are the implementers, the enforcers, the true believers. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH
Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.
www.thenation.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Somehow I don't think we've reached peak Orwell yet...
The fascist never ends with this regime
Trump Declares High-Speed Internet Program ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’

Trump denounced the Biden-era Digital Equity Act as “woke handouts based on race,” raging in a social media post against a broad effort to improve high-speed internet access.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
May 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
www.science.org/content/arti...

Every dollar the US spends on science comes back eightfold in the economy. But no, let’s just take the economy out in the back yard and shoot it in the head.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Do we know that there were no cellphones in the purse?
Ordinary people should ask themselves: What kind of person carries $3000 cash in their purse?

Taking the risk of losing $3000 cash is NUTS from the start!

This is another data point suggesting the PERSONNEL hired by trump have serious problems.

#USDemocracy
The man who allegedly stole the handbag of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem used an alarmingly simple method to grab the Gucci purse, which was loaded with cash, according to security footage reviewed by Secret Service investigators.
April 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This can not stand.
Makes no sense. Trump=anxiety

Taking federal grants from Princeton climate program that...."...promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as “climate anxiety,” which has increased significantly among America’s youth"

www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Will there be anything left of American science when Trump is done? 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants
Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal
www.science.org
April 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Breathtaking stupidity.
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.

By @arthurallen202.bsky.social

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
He really needs to lay off the ketamine.
March 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Listen to this (read the titles) all the way through. Our world has changed.
Listen to Claude Malhuret, formerly with Doctors Without Borders and now a center-right politician who gave this extraordinary, fiery and inspiring speech March 4 on the Senate floor in Paris.
Yes, we shall prevail.
#DemsUnited #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
youtu.be/j51HZncBvEI
"We Are Fighting Against a Dictator Backed by a Traitor" – A French Senator Speaks Out
YouTube video by Dustin Unnerstall
youtu.be
March 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So four out of nine Supreme Court justices think it's fine if the President simply overrides Congressional appropriations as he sees fit.
March 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Since many if not all of here at BlueSky are against disestablishing the government, does that make us antidisestablishmentarians?
March 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
People don't understand what a trillion is. If we eliminate a trillion dollars of spending per year, then millions of people will lose their jobs.
March 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Please: EVERYONE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO LISTEN!!! You have to hear this. Then put a Ukrainian flag on your profile.

snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
March 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM