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U.S. Cancels Bird Flu Vaccine theonion.com/u-s-can...

❤️ Amazing character.

#GoodSky : a hashtag for feel good news.

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

In this country we have education institutions so highly respected and lauded that *royal families* of foreign countries send their kids there. For all our flaws, this level of reputation among many U.S. institutions makes this country the most prosperous on the planet. apnews.com/article/belg...

Immigrants make our country great.

AXIOS: Trump's move on Harvard "could hurt America's economy by reducing the number of startup founders. .. ".. Around 44% of U.S. unicorn companies — startups valued at $1 billion or more — are founded or cofounded by immigrants .." @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Democrats are missing two members who died in office.

Im 29 this yr, born 1996. This office is young enough to be my big sister.

This is violence. This is horrific. I don’t know how I’m supposed to survive in a world that is actively out to kill me.

The House reconciliation bill would penalize states to the tune of $92 billion if they use their own funds to provide health care to undocumented immigrants. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Dr. Megan Ranney, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, about the recent HHS actions: “We are not experiencing reform, we are experiencing destruction.” @meganranney.bsky.social

We—ALL of us of every political persuasion—will pay for generations.

… and Molly is not alone. More than $2.6B of ongoing research has been canceled (with much more this week, at Harvard). With each cancellation: We are losing so much knowledge. Losing the next generation of scientists. Losing our ability to protect our health, both now & for the future. 🧪🩺😷

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

Ya'll, this is very bad.

If there was a way to put tariffs on select states and people, he absolutely would do that.

New sign to tap

Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it. If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why? Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

When somebody whose immunocompromised child couldn’t get a booster is driven to act out their rage after that child comes to harm, I don’t wanna hear even one “not like this.” These people are enacting murder as public health policy. They are making their own beds.

movies and all other “informational sources” produced abroad are constitutionally protected from tariffs. it’s called the Berman Amendment and it was instituted in the last gasp of the (last) Cold War to protect information/culture imported from “adversarial” states. try again!

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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

I'm seeing alot of "celebs spending 75K a ticket while we can't afford xyz.." talk so this bears saying: The Met Gala is a fundraiser for the Costume Institute and the celebs don't pay for tickets (or, usually, their looks). They're invited by the fashion houses or publications that buy tables.

Enjoy!

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

Generally speaking, I think pleas for shared sacrifice work better if we’re attacked by another country’s leader, not our own.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters Out theonion.com/politic...

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers theonion.com/ice-ope...

Please read this.

Any young guys looking for examples of manly men doing manly men things: This is what it looks like. Just a total testosterone beast. 100% masculine energy.

Jessica Tarlov made a comment that one of 47's philosophies is that there are no need for friends, everything is a transaction. Apropos for nothing: Your life becomes easier, more fun, and more prosperous when people simply like you. The same is true for countries.

Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.

This “big, beautiful, bill” is a big bad disaster. Even if you aren’t one of the 2.6 million Michiganders on Medicaid, you WILL be impacted. Hospitals, senior centers, and more depend on Medicaid funds. Losing that = huge cuts to services and staffing. EVERYONE will feel it.

Harrowing stuff from @cnewman.bsky.social, lawyer for Abrego Garcia family: In his talks with civil society in El Salvador, they tell him: "You've gotta stop Trump. You still have checks and balances in your country. We don’t anymore." On the pod, he's so good: newrepublic.com/article/1944...

"you can always say 'no'."

Chief causes for economic uncertainty in 2025 #1Trvmp tariff & trade policies #2 Global policy shifts caused by #1 #3 Supply chain disruptions caused by #1 #4 Rising inflation expectations caused by #1 ...I could go on

At this point "Abolish ICE and prosecute every officer who helped with deportations" is the moderate path

Stock market aside, if you’re wondering how the rest of the economy is handling Trump’s tariff disaster, let’s take a trip down COVID lockdown lane. China-US freight voyages cancelled - May 2020: 50 April 2025: 90

Harvard Medical School's finances are in a precarious place as it prepares for impending layoffs, sweeping cuts, and calls for a “long-term, sustainable” shift in the way it operates amid the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.