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Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year. Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year. Capitalism kills.

submitted 11 hours ago • 42 comments

In a head-spinning pair of announcements on Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health told staff that it would lift its monthslong freeze on all research funding to Columbia University — then reversed its reversal, emails show. New from me: www.chronicle.com/article/colu...

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

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GOP: Our budget will reduce the deficit CBO: It'll increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion GOP: But with greater growth, it'll pay for itself CBO: Accounting for growth it's $2.3 trillion GOP: ... CBO: Also, more debt raises interest rates, so the true effect is $2.8 trillion.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

For the younger people out there, "mongoloid" is the slur which used to be used for individuals living with Down Syndrome. By the 1970s, this wildly offensive term was being phased out of our culture. And yet, here we are.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

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Brad Lander--comptroller of the city of New York, and one of the leading mayoral candidates--has just been arrested by masked federal thugs. @bradlander.bsky.social www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

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Everything that is happening and will happen with Iran is a direct consequence of Trump’s first-term decision to shit on American diplomatic credibility by impulsively shredding a hard-won nuclear agreement.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 2 days ago • 142 comments

Beyond devastating. The cruelty and idiocy of this ban is mind-numbing. So many brave men and women, serving their country honorably in uniform, purged from the ranks because of the president's vile, unvarnished bigotry. My heart breaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Impoundment remains illegal even though the administration is trying to normalize it and numb us to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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This is the politicization of law enforcement. It's not about "immigration," it's about demonizing cities and winning elections

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 3 days ago • 326 comments

Two of the three states with the largest population of people in the U.S. illegally are the red states of Texas and Florida. Trump, notably, does not name their cities when calling on ICE to execute more aggressive immigration raids. He does, however, name LA, Chicago and New York.

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.

submitted 3 days ago • 441 comments

can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

submitted 4 days ago • 172 comments

My wife is a Democratic State Senator in Vermont. My mind reels at the idea that people like her, who dedicate so much time & energy to serving the public, are being targeted by homegrown terrorists, encouraged by the federal government to treat political opposition as an enemy to be eliminated.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

At yesterday's protests in Atlanta, police arrested the respected journalist Mario Guevara—clearly ID'd as press and, crucially, known for tirelessly documenting ICE abuses—for livestreaming their crackdown. He was booked on charges of "obstruction" and "pedestrian walking on or along" a roadway.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

So it’s just going to be every cops everywhere now that uses excessive force upon people and violates their constitutional rights. This is Charleston, SC and they did this for all of 10 people just exercising their first amendment.

submitted 3 days ago • 1145 comments

A right-winger -- a registered Republican, a Trump voter, an evangelical anti-abortion activist -- assassinates a Democratic official. Republicans respond by blaming the left. Democrats respond by blaming ... no one.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 5 days ago • 227 comments

Suffolk County, home to Boston, has a population of 750,000. A lot of ppl came from afar for this one.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

submitted 4 days ago • 308 comments

🎶 it’s like raaaa-aaaainnnn on your fucking parade

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok

submitted 4 days ago • 442 comments

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

San Diego #NoKings

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

Trump has not only symbolically condoned political violence, he's materially enabled it with the powers of his office by officially pardoning the traitors against America of the January 6th insurrection. Every other unhinged right-wing lunatic can see that and do the math

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The scariest domestic political news yesterday

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

If this is true, this is an astounding crime

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Gift link: Trump shifts deportation focus, pausing raids on farms, hotels and eateries www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 79 comments

NIH APPLICANTS: Your application will be WITHDRAWN BEFORE REVIEW if you have an international collaboration and do not include a Foreign Justification. Normally this could be provided after review as JIT but NOT ANYMORE. You have been warned.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Friends- it is 2025. Can we stop with the term "vaccine skeptic" to describe people openly hostile to vaccines and whose views are not based in evidence? That is not skepticism. That is denialism.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Some light in our darkness.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

We've had exactly one GDP reading since Trump became President and it showed the economy contracting.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

4 Democrats didn’t vote and another 3 Democratic seats are vacant due to member deaths Four Democratic absences (Correa, Beatty, Randall and Norcross) and the deaths of Grijalva, Turner and Connelly left the Democrats down 7 votes as the bill passed by 2. Two Republicans also didn’t vote.

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

BREAKING: The head of FEMA's storm response center has resigned amid a leadership exodus at the agency.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

The wife of an Albuquerque man witnessed federal immigration agents use what she described as unnecessary force in a recent arrest in the South Valley, causing him to be hospitalized. Now, after returning to ICE custody, no one knows where he is. sourcenm.com/2025/06/11/i...

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

NEW: After firing expert scientists on the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, RFK Jr. has named their replacements. The new committee contains many figures known for spreading disinformation about vaccines and COVID including Robert Malone and Martin Kulldorff. This is bad.

submitted 7 days ago • 69 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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I'm happy to announce the latest release of the GlobDB, available at globdb.org. The GlobDB is a database of "species dereplicated" microbial genomes, and as of release 226 contains twice the number of species-representative genomes (306,260) than the latest GTDB release.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

"There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits..."

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments

If any Democratic president used a military audience as partisan prop, Republicans would melt down. The press would melt down. It was considered unthinkable until Trump showed R's and the media that oligarchic rule was within their reach.

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Trump’s attempt to chill dissent with militarized escalation isn’t working: “What it’s done is drive so many new people to the No Kings website looking for a way to show up peacefully against this autocratic overreach.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Join us on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

Speaker of the House calling on a sitting governor to be "tarred and feathered." Just unconscionable rhetoric. Unconscionable. It's hard to have a democracy when one of the two major parties refuses to treat the other as legitimate and capable of governing.

submitted 8 days ago • 83 comments