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Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by President Trump.

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They just want to erase everyone who isn’t a straight white man They are pieces of shit. Hegseth orders renaming of ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/p...

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so in other words they are achieving their goal of re-segregating American organizations (that were never all that integrated to begin with but even a little bit was too much)

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What world does bitcoin want to build for itself? I spent last week at the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas trying to find out: defector.com/what-world-d...

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What world does Bitcoin want to build for itself? defector.com/what-world-d...

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@propublica.org is continuing to follow what has happened in the wake of the destruction of USAID. By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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#OpenSource This is the way.

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It's hurricane season.

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It's fun, in your fifties, to read scales like this that top out at 35 ☠️

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bidens staff wasnt mean to the media at all. they, like most democrats, were far too accomodating

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30% of American jobs do not offer health benefits, and 49% of employed workers can’t afford healthcare without going into debt. Trump’s cuts to healthcare are trading American lives and prosperity for more tax breaks for billionaires.

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Color me whatever but I think is instructive for people to really understand the dipshit ideologies that are powering this regime

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It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.

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It's not just Trump. Every Republican is like this.

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Please listen to the UN General Secretary.

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So gun laws do work.

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We are all gonna die.

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Here it is, hot off the press. Paperback edition of my book drops tomorrow. You can find it at your local bookstore or order it here. www.barbaramcquade.com

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Every time my freelance duties involve an American Government textbook I wonder how anyone teaches this stuff anymore. Yes, this is completely accurate and no longer remotely describes how our government functions. They all feel like history textbooks now.

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"The Standard declined to comply." Media companies shouldn't blur the faces of ICE and other agents rounding up immigrants—and citizens! Good on the @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2025/05/29/i...

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"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

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Hey, so that’s a headline you don’t love to see.

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Remember when Joe Biden was so senile he let a tweaking apartheid elf go through all your IRS, Social Security, labor & healthcare data for 125 days?

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There's a fascinating tic in conservative psychology: an utter inability to admit that "shit happens". Every right-wing person I know has a bedrock belief that if something bad happens to you, you MUST have done SOMETHING to deserve it.

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Too many liberals think “people already know” what the parties stand for. The last few elections have made very clear not only do people not know, but if the other guy tells them what you stand for in the absence of you saying anything they’re going to believe his lies.

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It's the third anniversary of Depp v. Heard. Not here to relitigate it for my readers, who are smart folks and get that it was a farce. But I'm looking back because, in retrospect, it predicted Trump's win. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/06/02/j...

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