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Jenny
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Science/Tech 🤖 Reader 📖 Sometimes Writer ✍️ Cartomancy 🃏
Remembering when this guy really wanted some seeds. Must not have been any left on the ground! #quail #wifibirdfeeder
September 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Issues of preference vs. fundamental morality.
March 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
news.harvard.edu
March 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I stand with Ukraine.
March 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.
March 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This moment is going in the history books as the moment the US became irrelevant as a global power and ushered in the start of world war 3.

Zelenskyy exposed the traitors.
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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⛔️NO PUBLIC COMMENTS ALLOWED—RFK Jr. announced plans to strip public participation from business that HHS conducts, despite pledge of “radical transparency” at HHS. The statement said HHS would rescind its longtime practice of giving members of the public a chance to comment on the agency’s plans.
March 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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DECIMATION OF SCIENCE—Trump WH has announced it will slash NIH indirect grant support across the board to 15%… from previously 50-70% for big universities. ➡️This is what normally keeps the lights on & subsidizes tuition at major scientific institutions.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...
NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science
The NIH said Friday night that it would slash support for indirect costs on all existing and future grants to 15%
www.statnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This is so good! This is what is happening in a hospital basement near you 😜 #medicallab youtu.be/ZFo1-P8O7kI?...
Medical Laboratory Science - Brickfilm Documentary
YouTube video by Good Brickfilms
youtu.be
February 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.
January 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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This...🤷🤷🏾‍♀️
January 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
From the anti-consumption subreddit: The Great American Protest 2025 #anticonsumption #protest #facebookisdone #activism www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsum...
From the Anticonsumption community on Reddit: The Great American Protest - Edited
Explore this post and more from the Anticonsumption community
www.reddit.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Looking for leaders!
January 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
January 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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"California paid in a lot more [to the federal government] than it got back — $83 billion in total. So did Washington state and much of the Northeast. Most red states were in the reverse position, getting much more from DC than they paid in return."
In Praise of California
It has its flaws — what place doesn’t? — but it plays a big role in America’s greatness
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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A pregnancy center can bill Texas $14 for distributing diapers that cost the center just over $.25. And before parents can get those diapers, they must take a class that the center can bill the state $30 for each hour of class a client attends.

with CBS News
(Published July 2024)
How a Texas Program Funnels Millions to Anti-Abortion Groups With Little Accountability
Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas leads the nation in funding for crisis pregnancy centers. The system is meant to help growing families, but it’s riddled with waste and lacks…
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January 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My snuggly hamster Olive 💖
January 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The urge to buy new things is manufactured by design. Companies trick consumers into constantly wanting more to line their pockets. Not only is this unethical, it's unsustainable. But what if there was another way? Returning to the practice of fixing things - The Right To Repair bit.ly/4gGrmpM
January 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Deleted any meta social media accounts I had left this morning. Been off twitter since “the purchase”. Happy for the existence of Bluesky 🩵
January 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM