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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

good GOOD (this whole thread is stunning)

To the scientists who shared their work and kept pressure building against the Trump Admin for 100 straight hours: thank you for your relentlessness. We owe you a future of climate safety.

We’re waiting, JD.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Stephen King knows horror better than anyone.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/31/m...

Trump hands Dept of Interior to Russia-linked oil exec: "... given sweeping powers to overhaul the department that manages public lands "...hasn’t divested his investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest" apnews.com/article/hass...

for those who just watched the segment, here's the piece

Whoever made this deserves a medal.

No words www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

@pamkeithdc.bsky.social

THIS THIS THIS THIS

“Why did burning girls matter in Vietnam but not in Gaza?” The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War, writes @jehadabusalim.bsky.social for Zeteo, but a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire. Read/share/subscribe:

Never forget #hiswords

youtu.be/RFzHg-9HEIg?...

"The report in question was neither peer-reviewed nor published in a medical journal..." www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

On gun policy, Trump was dreadful during his first term, but he’s vastly worse now. The “forced reset triggers” issue is part of a dangerous pattern of the administration's radical and regressive steps. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Here are the 16 Dems. I don't know what to tell you, folks. It's bad. Alsobrooks Blunt Rochester Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.

Georgia went blue in 2020. Then it went back red. With a race for governor and Senate set for 2026, Georgia Democrats need to reach out to the voters that have propelled them before, says @staceyabrams.com. “We've got to start showing people again why democracy exists.” #Velshi

@drneilstone.bsky.social #medsky

www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...

Trump's first-term corruption seemed huge, but it's already been dwarfed by the ongoing, unchecked festival of domestic and foreign corruption four months into in his second term. Blame the Supreme Court and the Republican Congress. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-unqu...