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How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

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“This is a digital coup, embedding itself into the core I.T. infrastructure of federal agencies with little oversight…This isn’t just unauthorized access -- it’s a full-scale redirection of the government’s digital nervous system into the hands of an unelected billionaire.”

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Trvmp's administration is already collecting data on all Americans Palantir, the data analysis company founded by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel has been hired This is 1984-level stuff. And far, far beyond what Orwell imagined www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 1303 comments

Unconscionable lack of planning.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

RFK & Dr. Oz want to relocate ostriches w/bird flu to Florida. They say it's an opportunity to study infected birds in a natural environment. Biosecurity, anyone? I remember when that was their stated reason for closing the top BSL4 lab studying dangerous pathogens. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Hey parents. You know how we all said we'd do anything for our children. Now is the time of anything. Their futures are being destroyed. From lack of education to piss poor medical care to shit jobs and cheat of an economy. They will die younger than our generation. This must be stopped.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Give me a break, Musk is not leaving because his scheduled time is up The litigation held him accountable, & for that & other reasons he became politically unpopular & a liability He lost. Democracy won. Only one round of the fight but a biggie!

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 3 days ago • 450 comments

BREAKING: HHS just killed a $600M Moderna contract for pandemic flu vaccines. The platform: mRNA—the fastest we have against threats like H5N1. The reason? RFK Jr.’s skepticism. The risk? Deadly delays when the next pandemic hits. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m... #BlueSky #MedSky #SciSky #IDSky

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

If Trump ends the contempt power of judges with his “big, beautiful bill,” no one will be able to stop him. A future Congress would need the power of the courts to enforce their investigations, subpoenas, and laws. It would be the end of American democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

Doctors, who rely on a contraception team's guidance at the CDC, will no longer have access to the team's updated critical research. My latest discusses the shocking and deadly impact of leaving doctors and women without any new, credible data. shero.substack.com/p/cdc-cuts-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse.

submitted 3 days ago • 160 comments

“If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to “reevaluate” longstanding pediatric vaccines. It is now.” www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jrs-wa...

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

🚨 🚨 Discrimination Time Machine A 🧵 So, I ventured up to the Ohio Statehouse yesterday to testify against the terrible SAVE Act equivalent — SB153 — that is now before the Ohio Senate. Thank you to so many other democracy champions—of both parties—for speaking out 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

🎺🚨👀 WATCH TODAY: over 200 climate scientists and meteorologists (including NOAA and NASA veterans) are hosting a 100-hour livestream starting today at 1 PM ET, exploring how DOGE is impacting weather & climate science. Trailer: youtu.be/-Go-RCg3AjI Watch: wclivestream.com/watch

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Genuinely glad Russell Vought’s daughter got the NIH-backed medicine she needed. ❤️‍🩹 Now he’s trying to defund the very programs that made it possible—for everyone else. 🙃💉 Life-saving science for me, austerity for thee. Cool plan, Volde-Vought.

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RFK Jr. just broke precedent—overruling CDC advisors to drop COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy kids & pregnant women. No hearings. No new data. Just a 58-second video. This, despite peer-reviewed studies showing the vaccine reduces complications for #BlueSky #MedSky #ObSky #NurseSky

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

submitted 6 days ago • 332 comments

"In a month, Afghans may be deported back to the government that remains allied with al Qaeda. We asked for their help... and at infinite personal risk, they gave it. Then we offered our help, giving them a safe place to live—and now we’re going back on our word." www.thebulwark.com/p/this-memor...

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

Among 1,900,146 pediatric patients, SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with higher risk of new-onset chronic kidney disease stage 2 or higher and chronic kidney disease stage 3 or higher in children without preexisting kidney disease.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Shameful— they have sold their souls for money

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

41% of babies’ births are covered by Medicaid. 49% of children are covered by Medicaid or CHIP. 62% of long-term care residents in nursing homes are covered by Medicaid. 35% of people with disabilities are covered by Medicaid. HANDS OFF MEDICAID.

submitted 8 days ago • 96 comments

Tax cuts for the few, healthcare cuts for the many www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 209 comments

Harvard just flipped the switch. They’re not teaching you the Constitution for fun. They’re teaching it because your rights are being gutted in real time while you scroll memes and vote for your own executioners.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

“COVID vaccines reduce the risk of becoming sick, developing long COVID and becoming hospitalized, for everyone. COVID continues to spread and cause harm. Limiting access to vaccines is an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.” - me in @huffpost.com

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.” www.instagram.com/reel/DJ_0Sj0...

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

Today is the last day to submit a comment to the FDA demanding the right to choose a Covid vaccine/booster for yourself and your family. You can submit anonymously and it only takes a few minutes. They’ve changed course in the face of public outcry before, so make your voice heard!

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It's the largest Medicaid cut in history. It would throw 14 million people off their healthcare. Grandparents will be kicked out of nursing homes. Mothers will pay out of pocket for giving birth. People with disabilities will lose care. All to fund tax breaks for the rich.

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“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

submitted 9 days ago • 541 comments

Totally hate everything in this budget— thanks for not representing your constituents Congressman Mike Carey. 220,000 people in our district depend on Medicaid— 81,200 are kids, 25,300 are disabled, 15,600 are Seniors. Most who can work do work already.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The FDA is giving folks TWO DAYS to comment on this! Go and make your voice heard now: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

youtu.be/zIRiLXPlCTw?... Brilliantly broken down and explained. Please watch as AOC explains the actual waste, fraud, and abuse of the healthcare industry in 5 minutes. I just love her to death.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

The GOP's "big, ugly bill" is actually a $1.2 TRILLION attack on working Americans. $500 BILLION cut from Medicare. $700 BILLION slashed from Medicaid.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Under the watchful eye of the fascist anti-vaxxers, Americans under 65 without “preconditions” are losing access to Covid vaccines We barely test. We have no clean air. No mandatory masking in healthcare. Some areas have mask bans This is a policy of forced infection. Two days left to speak out!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I just posted a comment on the plan to limit who can get covid boosters. You still have two days to help us swamp them with demand to be allowed to get our shots if we want to. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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