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Oh my. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Trump didn't just fire the four-star generals. He's also removing the JAGs for the Army, Navy and Air Force — critical positions that ensure enforcement of military justice. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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President Trump fired the country’s senior military officer on Friday after weeks of turmoil at the Pentagon, injecting politics into selecting the nation’s top military leader. By Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper and Jonathan Swan www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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My five-year-old is a super fan and we love the building projects . . .

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“The new administration has, both in broad strokes and in rather backroom bureaucratic ways, stopped the processes by which the N.I.H. funds biomedical research in the nation,” said Vaughn Cooper, a microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh. Via Ben Mueller/NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Now the texts are rolling in about people who got reinstated. This is wild.

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📣 Impact: About four hours after this article was published online, Dr. Yee said he received a call from the F.D.A. to restore his job. He plans to return Monday morning. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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Despite court orders, NIH grants have dropped 56% since Inauguration Day, delaying critical research. Federal court hearing today... Great reporting from @kileykoscinski.bsky.social from @wesa.fm, a local @npr.org station #PublicHealth #EpiSky www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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🧵 Sometimes as a journalist you let go of breaking a story first. When it's this important, you work until you can get the faces and voices of those affected. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out USAID told me it can’t release documents via #FOIA due to “recent developments” Meanwhile, a memo I obtained sent to DHS FOIA officers this week directs them to “maximize transparency” when processing FOIA requests www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed by Trump in 2020 in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.

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Scoop: The Trump administration on Thursday cut protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States, putting them on track to be targeted for deportation this summer, according to government documents and an official with DHS. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Oops. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u... @aatishb.bsky.social @ethansinger.bsky.social

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FDA Food chief on his decision to leave FDA: “The secretary’s comments impugning the integrity of the food staff, asserting they are corrupt based on falsities, is a disservice to everyone." Jim Jones had just hired food-chemical safety staff, who were laid off. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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FDA staff are getting the axe this evening. If you're one of them, you can reach me at [email protected]. I can keep your name confidential, just hoping to get a feel for who has been cut. DMs here fine, too. Pic for the algo.

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NEW: N.I.H. medical research grants are ⚠️ $1 billion dollars ⚠️ behind this point hit last year -- and hundreds of millions behind prior years amid Trump administration chaos. w/ @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

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RFK Jr confirmed as HHS Secretary. Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, was the only Republican to vote against confirmation. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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Sen. Cassidy pressed RFK Jr. on a study finding no link between autism & vaccines. RFK Jr. cited a new study that shows "the opposite." We found that it came from a vax-skeptical ecosystem including the author, editor of the journal & financier. GIFT link: nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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NEW: RFK Jr. said a new study linked vaccines to autism in his confirmation hearing. We found that the study's author had a hard time getting it published. Then he got help from Andrew Wakefield, who is famous for the first debunked study linking the the two. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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President Trump has been in office less than a month, and Elon Musk’s vast business empire is already benefiting — or is now in a decidedly better position to benefit. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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The freeze on NIH indirect cost cuts is now nationwide: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/h...

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Trump acknowledges he would have to clear unexploded ordnance to redevelop Gaza, but U.S. troops are prohibited by law from doing humanitarian demining missions and the State Dept. issued a global stop-work order to all the demining groups it funds www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

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The latest --- Funding cuts are stopped in CA, IL, NY, MD, WI, NJ, etc... but not in PA, GA, AL, MO and others... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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Breaking -- the judge in Massachusetts granted the restraining order to stop the NIH grant funding cuts.

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AGs for 22 states - inc. some that voted for Trump - sued to stop $4BN in NIH grant funding cuts on medical research. A White House spokeswoman called them "DEI Deans’ slush fund" dollars, but others say the studies could save lives. w/ @sherylnyt.bsky.social GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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NEW: Attorneys general from 22 states are suing HHS and NIH over the cuts to research funding. Scholars have said these cuts will be devastating to cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and other research. Lawsuit is here: coag.gov/app/uploads/... NYT update is here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u... @rmac.bsky.social @stacycowley.bsky.social

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NIH Cuts update: Alabama politicians beginning to speak up, given UAB is state's top employer: www.al.com/news/2025/02... And Stanford says this will cost them $160M: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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NEW: With $4 BN in NIH funds set to start going away Monday, a Nobel Laureate & others detail the impacts. Musk called the $ a "ripoff," but others discuss how NIH $ helped extend the lives of those w/ cancer, cystic fibrosis and congenital heart disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

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NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research. #Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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Moving defense of childhood #vaccines by Vanderbilt vaccine expert Kathy Edwards in JAMA. Stunning that so many people fear the tools that prevent children from dying and being maimed, rather than the pathogens that resurge when vaccine use declines. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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NEW: A "DEI Watchlist" group backed initially by Heritage & Stephen Miller's NGO called for the firing of 'radical' government employees who study things like .. protecting healthcare facilities from climate disasters. w/ ⁦@sherylnyt.bsky.social @sharonnyt.bsky.social @fahrenthold.bsky.social

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Sources keep telling me that we .. The New York Times .. are the last institution standing. "You have a big job to do," the say. It feels very heavy. That said, please support legitimate, sourced, reported news. And talk to us. You can find me at [email protected]

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Breaking: On a party line vote, the Senate Finance Committee approved the nomination to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run HHS. The vote goes to the Senate floor. More updates here - www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Pres. Trump has "Truthed" in advance of the vote for Mr. Kennedy, noting the dramatic rise in autism. Expert we talked to, though, said vaccines do not appear to be a driver, but rather a mix of genetic and environmental causes that need more study . . . www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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You can watch LIVE as Senate Finance votes on nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the nation's top health agencies: www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/ope... If he passes out of committee, the vote goes to the Senate floor.

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"The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 Environmental Protection Agency employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/c...

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Spotted on X (via @sherylnyt.bsky.social). Is a key swing vote on RFK Jr. trying to tell us something?

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I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night. Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar. I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below. What an immense loss

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