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A note of hope: after the McCarthy scare era, with the Blacklist, and some of the same tactics we are living through today, came 40 years of incredible progress.

It is always darkest before the dawn. Keep hope.
July 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Why do people ask on social media to clap for them? It's not funny and it's not cute.
June 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Small things that make a big environmental difference:

- shopping locally
- eating a few plant based meals a week
- riding your bike
- not having your wedding attended via 100 private jets
- composting
June 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.
June 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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BREAKING

On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders

On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM