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submitted 22 hours ago • 22 comments

Death rates in pregnancy DOUBLED during 2020-2021, and there are mountains of evidence showing COVID infection leads to significantly worse outcomes for pregnancy & baby. There are also mountains of evidence showing COVID vaccination has no adverse effects on pregnancy or baby but does protect them.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Fun fact: The plane delivering the 59 white Afrikaners from S. Africa was paid for by American taxpayers, including black and brown people, some of whose relatives have been trafficked to offshore prisons with no due process.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

It’s not medical advice to advocate for vaccines when you head the nation’s largest public health agency and it’s your charge. Arguably, however it is (very bad) medical advice when you promote useless interventions such as budesonide, vitamin A, clarithromycin as a false equivalent to vaccines

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

once again feel like the media could solve 90% of its credibility and trust issues by putting a big sign that says DONT PRINT LIES IN THE NEWSPAPER in the newsroom and occasionally looking at it

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

A baby's life was saved thanks to a custom gene-editing treatment that was made just for him and designed to fix his precise mutation. The therapy was built on decades of federally funded research, and could one day treat millions. But advances like this are at risk due to science funding cuts.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

submitted 9 hours ago • 166 comments

The guy spent the weekend swimming in sewage maybe he’s not the best person to lead an agency focused on health

submitted 14 hours ago • 316 comments

RFK Jr. just claimed that NIH-funded research “almost certainly” caused the COVID19 pandemic. This is a lie.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 1 day ago • 598 comments

I think it's pretty important to just keep underlining that a Democrat just beat the longest serving Republican mayor in the country in red Omaha after the GOP went all in on transphobia. there is zero evidence that anti trans bullshit is an electoral winner.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

DeLauro nails it. This is illegal impoundment. Every last dollar that was appropriated by Congress for the NIH that has been "saved" needs to spent on its intended purpose: scientific research for the benefit of the American people.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Baldwin to RFK Jr: "You cannot tell us that you want to make America healthy again when you are willfully destroying programs that keep children safe and healthy from lead poisoning ... the entire staff has been fired"

submitted 1 day ago • 411 comments

this fucking psychopath has no business leading the agency responsible for the nation’s health. it’s ridiculous!

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

I’m headed to Capitol Hill today with @asbmb.bsky.social to talk to lawmakers about the value of basic science. The asks for FY26: 1️⃣ $51.3B for NIH 2️⃣ $9.9B for NSF 3️⃣ $9.5B for DOE Office of Science #ScienceServesUsAll #ASBMBAdvocates

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Take note, Pete Hegseth: this middle-aged mom is what a “warfighter” looks like.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

There was one thing RFK Junior said today that made a lot of sense so I’m gonna share it:

submitted 1 day ago • 230 comments

“Quizzed?” He has literally done more to protect the measles virus from criticism than he has to protect American children from dying from the measles virus under his tenure. This freak should never know peace for the rest of his life. 67 US Senators could have him removed from office TODAY.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

What does treason look like in its purest form? The orange felon saluting and bowing to the murderous Dictators of Saudi Arabia, the same people who planned/funded the 9/11 attacks as well as ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

submitted 1 day ago • 303 comments

a torrent of dangerous gibberish

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey... Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have to travel through Newark." gizmodo.com/transportati...

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

CBP has seized a legal permanent resident musician from an OUTBOUND international flight and detained him, his bandmates report. A person just about to voluntarily leave the country. www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?

submitted 1 day ago • 746 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 1 day ago • 1597 comments

We finally agree.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

NSF grant terminations are disproportionately affecting underrepresented scientists. 58% of canceled grants have women PIs, despite making up only 34% of awards. 17% of canceled grants have Black PIs (versus 4% of the pool). Hispanic and disabled PIs are twice as likely to have NSF grants canceled.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Moskowitz: "Donald Trump said he's not cutting Medicaid. That's what he's been saying, and yet Republicans come with almost $800 billion of Medicaid cuts, which is what Democrats have been talking about for the last five months. There are members here who have said they're not gonna cut Medicaid."

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

We just wrapped 18 hrs of debate on the GOP Tax Bill. Their plan is clear: 1) add tripwires around Americans accessing their health care 2) count on people to FAIL to keep up w/ paperwork 3) funnel the 'savings' (aka lost health care) to the ultra wealthy through tax giveaways

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Fascinating!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Amateur legal analysis: this is a clear equal protection/title IX/title VI violation and the way you should intent is the executive order targeting DEI and showing that DEI was targeted because of the belief it served these groups

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump -- who insists that college students voicing sympathy for the Palestinian people are "siding with terrorists" -- says it's fine for him personally to accept the bribe of a $400,000,000 luxury jet from the Middle Eastern nation that long funded Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

If you do only one thing, keeping political sway out of science and other agencies is the one action to take. Go online and make a comment. The sheer volume of comments WILL make a difference.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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submitted 2 days ago • 535 comments

It's official. I filed a Senate Resolution of Disapproval. RFK is CLEARLY in violation of his constitutional oath. He must resign.

submitted 2 days ago • 743 comments

If I die on my way back from Michigan into EWR next Wednesday, please politicize it

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments