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CARTER: The Adolescent Trial Network for HIV intervention received a stop work order that shut down research at 14 sites where 7 studies were being conducted. Were you aware of that? RFK JR: As far as I know, we haven't cut any clinica-- CARTER: I'm telling you by your own records you are

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submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

submitted 11 days ago • 77 comments

The neuroscience of misinformation and ways to counter it www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead."

submitted 12 days ago • 2240 comments

These are the times that try men’s souls.

submitted 14 days ago • 640 comments

My first thought this morning, before I had even gotten up, was: “God I hope no US Marine shot an American on American soil last night”

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 18 days ago • 382 comments

The headlines are freaking out but nothing about EMTALA itself is rescinded. EMTALA enforces the most basic of emergency care tenets. We will assess and stabilize because that is what we do.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Trade policy update.

submitted 29 days ago • 51 comments

These people are legit monsters. Absolute failed-state shit that they have these jobs.

submitted 30 days ago • 22 comments

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

submitted 33 days ago • 114 comments

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

submitted 33 days ago • 197 comments

RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views

submitted 43 days ago • 1460 comments

MURPHY: You've read the SCOTUS decision. Does it not require you to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia? NOEM: The Trump admin is complying with all court orders M: You're a defendant in the case!... the discussion ends when SCOTUS rules 9-0... that is incredibly chilling for balance of powers

submitted 49 days ago • 238 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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submitted 49 days ago • 146 comments

An inflatable saluting Elon Musk for a Tesla Takedown protest today in Boston, MA. 💪💪💪💪💪💪

submitted 54 days ago • 23 comments

I had to upload the clip here because it's frankly insane. Possibly the most insane trump clip yet. His brain is pudding

submitted 58 days ago • 297 comments

To be clear, nothing - NOTHING - Joe Biden said 4 years, including his debate meltdown, comes anywhere close to the insanity, unreality, unhingeness, of Trump repeatedly insisting - even when the interviewer is letting his crazy lie pass - that it was a real image of his knuckles

submitted 58 days ago • 219 comments

Sometimes you just need the liberal party of a foreign government to win an election to feel something

submitted 59 days ago • 10 comments

Congrats, Canada!

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever I'm tempted to think that a new thing seems too complicated, I read newspaper articles about pizza from the early 1950s.

submitted 229 days ago • 20 comments

This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

submitted 61 days ago • 343 comments

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

submitted 65 days ago • 2108 comments

The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 71 days ago • 62 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 73 days ago • 987 comments

I have no respect for ANY athlete that visits this White House. You are unAmerican if you do so, as is anyone who supports or enables this administration. Let me repeat that. You actions are in direct opposition to the Declaration of Independence.

submitted 80 days ago • 598 comments

submitted 85 days ago • 52 comments

For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.

submitted 86 days ago • 394 comments

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

submitted 86 days ago • 846 comments

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

submitted 86 days ago • 334 comments

I will write / speak more on this at some point. But honestly, for Black people and other targeted people of color under this administration — If you can leave this country and have the means /skills / connections, I’d start making plans to get out.

submitted 87 days ago • 28 comments

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

submitted 87 days ago • 605 comments

This seems not good.

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

submitted 90 days ago • 326 comments

I always hated the "this is the greatest country in the world" refrain, but it is striking to me that the things they are killing in government — an unrivaled scientific research enterprise, incredible public lands, etc — are some of the only things that made such a statement vaguely defensible.

submitted 103 days ago • 34 comments

a better way to invest in the future would be to tax these people at 90%, producing no appreciable effect on their incentives or lifestyles, and using the money to feed children www.bloomberg.com/features/202... www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate: Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC. (Feel free to add others in replies)

submitted 91 days ago • 749 comments

A "chilling" new level of political interference: NIH's solicitations for grant proposals will from now on be reviewed to check if they align with Trump's priorities. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @sarareardon.bsky.social)

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

if you work hard, study, apply yourself, and get good grades, you too can witness the collapse of everything we hold dear

submitted 92 days ago • 13 comments

So, which is it? If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained. And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.

submitted 92 days ago • 633 comments

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

submitted 92 days ago • 1604 comments

Politics affects everyone.

submitted 97 days ago • 31 comments

I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

submitted 97 days ago • 253 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 97 days ago • 874 comments