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NIH Research Grants Lag $1 Billion Behind Last Year’s: After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding research into treatments for deadly diseases. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

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A FOIA Files SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE Targets #FOIA Requests at Agency Under its Purview DOGE also wants to be notified when there’s any attempt at oversight from Congress, inspectors general, even the Government Accountability Office. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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NEW: Tesla’s board chair has sold most of her shares in the EV maker in the past year Robyn Denholm, who’s led the board since 2018, made $168 million months exercising stock options in the company, including sales worth $43 million last week #tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

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Every New Yorker right now 👀👀

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New: Second top NIH official abruptly leaves the agency. @owermohle.bsky.social and @levfacher.bsky.social have the story: www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/n...

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In light of humanoid robotics company Apptronik’s whopping $350M raise, re-upping my @forbes.com profile of the company from last year www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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Yoho is hardly a RINO (although he’ll probably be branded as one now).

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Zero abortions in Republican states? “Clinically dishonest,” says a public health scientist. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social, federal judges halt Trump’s cuts to NIH research payments, rural hospitals’ ongoing struggles, a major measles outbreak & more www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

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Musk’s DOGE Ally Has Demanded ‘Admin Rights’ To Critical Government IT Services (by @cfarivar.bsky.social) www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusf...

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All of Elon Musk's activity in Washington has significantly depressed Tesla's stock price. Musk, who was the first #billionaire worth more than $400 billion, has fallen tens of billions below that mark. @forbes.com @dereksaul2.bsky.social explains why www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...

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FEMA official orders staffer to ignore judge’s order and freeze funding on emergency preparedness, firefighting & etcetera

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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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In the latest Current Climate newsletter: ➡Federal water waste in California was ‘hydrologic insanity’ ➡️ the beekeeping industry is in a panic ➡️ GM's Mark Reuss on improving EV efficiency #water #agriculture #electricvehicles www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

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Five former Treasury secretaries in NYT op-ed: “We are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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AI chatbots are passing themselves off as therapists. New California bill wants to put an end to it www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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New — CFPB employees received an ominous email from Russell Vought a few minutes ago. “Employees should stand down from performing any work task.” Full text:

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The beekeeping industry is in a panic as a shocking number of bees die. 🐝 Commercial beekeepers saw well over 50% losses this winter. As California prepares for almond season, not enough bees could mean higher prices at the grocery store My latest @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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What happened to CDC's bird flu studies and why did they publish about wildfires instead? Sources tell us Trump officials are now wielding unprecedented control over agency's flagship scientific journal "The MMWR has lost its autonomy" www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

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USAID’s shutdown will hurt rural Americans: it purchased $2B in corn, wheat, soy et al from midwestern farmers www.startribune.com/usaid-shutte...

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🧵worth reading on universities’ “indirect costs” as Trump Admin slashes spending and squeezes medical research

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The beekeeping industry is in a panic as a shocking number of bees die. 🐝 Commercial beekeepers saw well over 50% losses this winter. As California prepares for almond season, not enough bees could mean higher prices at the grocery store My latest @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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In the latest edition of our healthcare newsletter, InnovationRx, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social and I look at: ⚕️ Elon Musk's war on USAID and its impact on health. 💊 Vertex Pharmaceuticals' new non-opioid painkiller 👨‍⚖️ The multitude of lawsuits against Trump's EO's related to healthcare And more.

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Some 67M Americans rely on Medicare www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social, Elon Musk’s war on USAID, lawsuits challenging Trump’s healthcare EOs, a new non-opioid painkiller, a key vote for RFK Jr., and more www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

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State Medicaid and Affordable Care Act programs have long struggled to connect with lower-income Americans to help them access care. Now some are trying an alternative approach: meeting them at the laundromat. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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If you work at CMS or have worked at CMS, and have any information on what is going on with DOGE, we @forbes.com want to talk to you. Signal amyfeldman.33

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In the AI goldrush, startups have raced to raise ever bigger rounds but one AI startup is going in the opposite direction - it’s using debt to buy out its VC investors www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

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🚨NEW🚨 As @elonmusk says he's going to shut down USAID, he hasn't mentioned that USAID spent $$$ on his Starlink tech over the last year. Or that SpaceX and USAID partnered to bring terminals to Ukraine, work that Musk said was instrumental in the war against Russia. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

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My colleague @ebakerwhite.bsky.social’s book on TikTok is coming out in the fall. You can preorder it now!

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Subrata was one of my first editors during my first stint at @forbes.com in the 1990s. A brilliant, kind man who mentored many. RIP, gone way too soon 💔 indiantelevision.com/mam/print/a-...

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Worth reading on the 6 young and inexperienced men (ages 19 to 24) aiding billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk’s government takeover. All hold nebulous titles at DOGE; most have connections to Musk, at least 2 have ties to billionaire Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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If you took everyone saved by USAid's immunization work and put them in the Superdome, it would be full. And require 37 more Superdomes. Each year. A look at what's at risk when Musk and Trump blindly rip through the government for applause. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Re-upping last week’s free @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social. Sign up to get it in your inbox every Wednesday www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

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Oh. 😳 A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline

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Last year when I was banging my head against the wall because of an issue with a bank, I reached out to the CFPB’s consumer hotline. It probably took them 10 minutes to resolve.

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DOJ, under orders by an official who was recently President Trump’s personal lawyer, is moving to purge the agency of people who investigated the effort by Trump’s supporters to storm the Capitol and effectively overthrow an election on his behalf. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

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🧵 worth reading

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Sad to lose @alexrkonrad.bsky.social on our team, but excited to see what he does next. You’ll definitely want to sign up!

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The purge begins: www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...

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“The point is to get these institutions to back down, back off, be quiet.” Read more from @usha.bsky.social, @mmolteni.bsky.social, and @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

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RFK Jr. made $100k from marketing MAHA, then transferred ownership of the trademark application to an LLC managed by Del Bigtree, an anti-vaccine activist who threw the MAHA inaugural ball www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Geo and CoreCivic, both of which are poised to make bank off Trump’s immigration crackdown, have been plagued by allegations of negligence and poor conditions. My @forbes.com colleague @thomasbrewster.bsky.social has the story

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If you need a break from everything, go see Flow. Or read about the real-life capybara www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social, RFK Jr. on the hot seat, the chaos at NIH and with federal research funding, new dosages for an Alzheimer’s drug, a major tuberculosis outbreak, and more www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

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My @forbes.com colleague @thealexknapp.bsky.social will be live-blogging the RFK Jr. confirmation hearing

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