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Schumer and Jeffries are complicit by their silence, and AWOL from their responsibilities and commitments. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

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My neighbors. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/06...

The potential impact of the Trump administration policies on health research in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/b...

NIH scientists stand united. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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READ THIS... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Knowledge is power... open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

CoryBooker said “the problem today we have to repent for is not just the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, but also the appalling silence and inaction of the good people. This is the time Americans have to step up and let their voices be heard.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time,” Bonica writes. “The key difference? Whether people mobilized.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

@nehapathak.bsky.social thank you and @medpagetoday.bsky.social for this interview, hope others find our discussion about plastics and health helpful. www.webmd.com/podcasts/202...

With Trump having literally ‘sold the farm’ with his China tariff fiasco, farmers and ranchers will regrettably have decreased demand from China - they have filled their needs by products from other countries.

The moment due process rights are applied selectively, rights become privileges and the Constitution is no longer in effect for anyone.

Veterans know about trust - how trust is given and how trust is earned. Our nation continues to face a crisis of trust - and all of us can and must take action to change that.

This!

At least 12" for the U.S. coastline in the next 20 years, but alas, I'm sure the current administration will stop measuring it and then, of course, it won't happen. Got a Mortgage???? Guarantee you, your insurance company is measuring it!!!!!

Go Sox!

Check out our new book - Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics - now available for preorder.

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This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

As a scientist, I'm absolutely gutted. All people will experience the destruction of the scientific community in very short order. I'm so sorry for that... open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

The price of capitulation. Shame on the NSF. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

Marco Rubio is a curse on the traditional and mostly effective role the US has had in global outreach. China will quickly fill the void, and the result will be a much less secure US.

Hey Bill Maher - this sounds like your dinner with Trump! Heil Trump! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Seriously, these are the words of a Christian?! Really?!

Yes, a nasty little gang of 6 yr old bullies.

Read. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Better a relevant species than an extinct irrelevant one (pseudo dire wolf)

Read this… April 9, 2025 (Wednesday) open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

READ. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

I don’t do this often and promise not to make a habit of it, but just this once: WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!!!!

"Wisconsin law forbids anyone from offering or promising to give anything of value to an elector in order to induce the elector to go to the polls, vote or refrain from voting, or vote for a particular person," the lawsuit says.

Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow. She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

Other than Bernie and AOC, where the HELL are the DEMS!!? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

This columnist will be similarly panned as was Goldberg, and the former works for a conservative paper in the UK.

Poor Pitiful Pete...

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."   The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

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We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Judge Hollander: Govt maintains DOGE is not an agency. If that's true, she goes on, then DOGErs cannot be detailed to agencies: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...