"I'm frankly horrified that we are here having a discussion about important clinical decisions without any clinicians, and no offense to my colleagues, but not a single one of us should be engaged in this." - @repdexteror.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing news of our initiative... we are an interdisciplinary team of researchers from U of Maryland, UPenn, and Georgia Tech + more whose aim is to communicate the impacts of federal cuts on science and health research nationwide. Full explainer thread here:

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here’s something interesting

This makes me sad on so many levels.

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So they flew Kristi Noem to an El Salvador prison for a photo opportunity, but they want us to believe that they are concerned about waste, fraud, and abuse. Sure you are.

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

Under section 12.11(1m)(a)(2), it’s a crime to offer “anything of value” to “any elector” to induce them to “vote or refrain from voting.”

DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ helped cybercrime group.

One of the most prominent members of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) team once supported a cybercrime group that boasted about trafficking stolen data and stalking an FBI agent.

Our judges are under threat — not just politically, but physically. And instead of defending the rule of law, GOP lawmakers are inflaming the situation.

This is dangerous. It’s un-American. And it needs to stop.

What’s going on in our country is horrifying

🧵“We must not allow the beliefs of an administration hellbent on glossing over the achievements of minority and marginalized veterans [erase] the service of some of our most patriotic Americans.” @repmarktakano.bsky.social
We choose to share their stories. #DemsWillNeverForget
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
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US added to the global human rights watchlist due to declining civil liberties.