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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 7 days ago • 611 comments

this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

submitted 8 days ago • 307 comments

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

submitted 8 days ago • 1292 comments

Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...

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Of all the awful stuff in this reprehensible bill, the fact that your children stop being considered dependents at SEVEN may be the most horrifying detail.

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

submitted 10 days ago • 647 comments

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 days ago • 1528 comments

NOAA announced Thursday that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. cbsn.ws/4iUkkyp

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Scenes are repeating across the United States, passersby and local residents confront & resist Trump's ICE regime troops as they’re spotted kidnapping their neighbours. The regime continues its campaign of ethnic cleansing, appearing at homes and businesses masked and without warrants. #3E #StopICE

submitted 11 days ago • 1001 comments

This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them. They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.

submitted 12 days ago • 1241 comments

Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial A combination shot would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against Covid and the flu at the same time. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments

FOTUS has banned over 350 WORDS, they’re being scrubbed from Federal documents. Words like “breastfeed,” “autism,” “discrimination, “immigrants.” Every American should be concerned…we have an authoritarian destroying the USA. Speak up if you’ve been silent #Voices4Victory pen.org/banned-words...

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

submitted 11 days ago • 1029 comments

NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Not only are they ignoring climate change—they’re trying to cover up the cost. Shutting down NOAA’s disaster tracking so we can’t see the BILLIONS it’s costing us? This ain’t solving the crisis—it’s hiding it.

submitted 12 days ago • 707 comments

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

submitted 13 days ago • 2742 comments

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

This will surely help American's health status. Not. www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

submitted 15 days ago • 706 comments

Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

submitted 15 days ago • 135 comments

RFK Jr. went on Fox News and lied through his teeth. He said they weren’t cutting critical research. Terminated grants so far have included studies on cancer, Alzheimer’s, HIV, and tuberculosis. Ohio researchers lost funding for kidney disease and TB projects. This guy doesn’t care about health.

submitted 15 days ago • 860 comments

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

submitted 33 days ago • 78 comments

Read this excerpt of an interview with Jay Bhattacharya, new NIH director. And do not miss the last graf. Via @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

This weekend, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya praised the Trump admin for "bringing back academic freedom," saying researchers at NIH who disagree w him are still free to publish. Kevin Hall resigned due to censorship at NIH, incl being told to remove his name from a paper mentioning health equity.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

For decades the NIH has led a public health campaign credited with saving thousands of babies from dying in their sleep. The administration's cuts come as sleep-related infant deaths have been rising.

submitted 16 days ago • 67 comments

NIH laying off hundreds more staff, including the cancer research institute. The US is now a country in full self-harm mode. www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

White House official confirms Trump had conversation last night with Enrique Tarrio at Mar-a-Lago last night as Trump was walking to his dinner table On social media, Tarrio said Trump told him to thank the J6ers

submitted 17 days ago • 88 comments

This is kinda hilarious: Trump officials are stocking up on toilet paper and food in anticipation of shortages caused by Trump’s own trade wars. I only wish they’d tell their boss about their newfound hoarding instead of only leaking to @swin24.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 days ago • 64 comments

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

#ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory They're stealing our tax dollars in broad daylight. The HHS has redirected $500 million for COVID vaccine research to a flu vaccine project linked to Trump's former acting head of the NIH, bypassing the usual review procedures. www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-f...

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

House GOP votes to allow ICE to deport even US citizens! They voted AGAINST protecting citizens from unlawful detention. Demand your Senator stop this: bit.ly/hellorep. Join us in the streets for May Day to defend democracy: www.FiftyFifty.one @meidastouch.com @ericswalwell.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 235 comments

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

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New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency. Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

submitted 23 days ago • 274 comments

People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

Pharmaceutical companies will not fund cancer cure research. There’s no profit in curing cancer, only treating it. That’s why the NIH is needed. To fund the unprofitable research that makes our lives better.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr. As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“ #SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

Good and deserved pushback by cancer researchers re: NIH budgetary nonsense

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Two STAT story about NIH and lost funding... www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

These two at the helm of the NIH is a crime against humanity.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Last week the Trump administration fired another 8 immigration judges. One judge was fired in the middle of an asylum hearing and had to walk off the bench before the hearing was over! There are now nearly 50 FEWER immigration judges than when Trump took office!

submitted 24 days ago • 90 comments