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Foreign equity firm funding research at Harvard. Does MAGA not understand the implications of this?

I'm tuned into the follow up No Kings call. Jump on! #NoKings

DEI will prevail!. The value of immigrants is clearer to younger people.

Major U.S. health agencies face budget cuts, layoffs, and restructuring, impacting research and public health services, particularly in mental health and substance use disorder areas.

Dr. Richard Bresser's response to RFK's firing of vaccination experts.

Whatever you may think about RFK, this is long overdue. California led the way in 2023, other states have followed suit. Now we'll see if the states rights crowd will get behind this "overreach" by the "Federal government". There will be push back. Shall we poison our children for better profits?

A chronology of Abrego Garcia's life. I'll have to toss my Chicago Bulls hat!

If you haven't seen Leigh's latest rant, she has nailed this situation.

"Never yield" is trending in China.

If you not sure we're moving toward a dictatorship, you're not paying attention.

China is not a contractor to be stiffed on a bill. They cannot be bullied into settling. Trump cannot win this game with Xi. China's history from the warlords to Mao to today should tell us they play the long game and are willing to absorb economic and social pain that America is not.

#CanadaSky - this is a MUST WATCH. Short sweet & bang on!

Republicans call it dependency. Democrats call it giving a damn.

The job of the next President (and Congress) will be to rebuild trust with the rest of the world. Which Democrat is up to the task? Any Joe Biden's on the bench?

In theory this nightmare could end today:

This is what's wrong with America. Great article. "A pastor in Texas stood before his congregation and proudly announced that their school had the lowest vaccination rate in the state. With balloons and celebratory T-shirts, he praised their community for what he called “freedom of health.”"

Hope to see everyone out there today at a rally near you!

THEY’D BE SCREAMING IMPEACHMENT!

LMFAO

Is a reckoning at hand? Are some lawyers finally going to jail for contempt? Can we climb higher on that ladder?

The stock market has now lost over $9 trillion in value since Trump took office this year. $5 trillion of that loss has been in the past two days.

Great time to cut funding for research. Deja vu.

Way to go RFK, let's see which sycophantic toady gets this job.

Who can still think that the GOP cares about veterans? Are you listening Florida 1st?

Stefanik withdrawn, think they're worried about Florida? :)

Anything is possible.

Despite spending more on health care than every other high-income country, the US had comparably higher avoidable mortality, which includes deaths that can be avoided through timely prevention and access to high-quality health care. Data from WHO, no wonder Trump wants to cut ties.

Just finished Adolescence on Netflix. Brilliant, sad and terrifying. Must watch for parents of teenagers, especially boys. The parent's anguish is palpable. If you think this couldn't happen to your child, think again.

Hey Christians in these States, I encourage you to re-read Matthew 25:31-46 and call your Representatives. They doing this is YOUR name. I don't need to list the States, do I?

Thank you Rachel Cohen for living the principles. If you are a client of Skadden, consider your options for firms with more backbone.

The average American worker is feeling less confident about the economy and their career these days, below early pandemic levels. Source: LinkedIn News

This is just the beginning. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Show this to Trump supporters. "America’s 25 richest individuals found that they collectively paid an effective tax rate of just 3.4 percent on their total wealth gain from 2014 to 2018. Musk paid 3.3 percent, Jeff Bezos 1 percent, and Buffett just 0.1 percent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As the parent of a child with a disability (and there are millions like me) this article is a must read. Oh, and call your representatives! www.vox.com/policy/40359...

I have never witnessed anything so brutal. Zelensky had to sit there while two incompetent hacks, with no understanding of world politics, a failed businessman and an author, told him he had no cards. War as a poker game. Hopefully the world will be forgiving when this is over, if we all survive.

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." Grover Norquist

If your employer self insured, share this with your management. Your CEO doesn't realize they are getting ripped off on their pharmacy benefits. Here is how www.nasdaq.com/articles/elo...

Interesting data on Democrat, black and Gen Z consumers.

So scientific research should only study white men? tinyurl.com/532jn2pk

Hey rich guys, you do know the air filters on your bunkers are probably made in China, right?

Climate change is the existential threat that makes all other problems pale. The uber rich are trying to insulate themselves from it by building bunkers in Idaho. Good luck with that. theconversation.com/how-the-oil-...

About time. Have we learned nothing over the last 8 years? www.vox.com/trump-admini...

The rescission is not the end of the freeze. They are just telling us they intend to proceed with a cycle of Litigation Abuse where they continue doing what they want & pulling it back, but then continue doing what they want anyway.

Let's see more coverage of stories like this. There will be tens of thousands. Elections have consequences. There are links to X in here, please don't click them!

To MAGA men- the angry father whose love you never got.

Mark Cuban posted a TikTok video that he wants to support or invest in somebody who creates a TikTok replacement built on the bluesky AT protocol.