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You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that a lot of additional people will die because of this.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

What is the point of even holding these hearings even if every pick will be confirmed without issue? It's political theater and it's exhausting

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Googling “Constitutional Crisis“

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

This amounts to a rolling and eventually complete blockade of Congressionally appropriated, peer reviewed, and highly meritorious research to improve the health of all Americans. And to dismantle the biomedical research enterprise that’s led the world for decades and created wealth.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Contempt charges, when??

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

if i text you this just know you’re cooked

submitted 12 days ago • 133 comments

Serena Williams!

submitted 12 days ago • 230 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 13 days ago • 131 comments

NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more. Thanks to NIH, we have: 💉 Cancer immunotherapy ❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins 🩸 Insulin for diabetes Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.

submitted 14 days ago • 240 comments

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.

submitted 15 days ago • 133 comments

After an unprecedented pause of three weeks, the CDC has resumed publishing its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). However, three studies about bird flu that were supposed to appear in this edition, remain on hold even as the outbreak spreads.

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

submitted 15 days ago • 111 comments

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 17 days ago • 98 comments

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

submitted 17 days ago • 134 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 17 days ago • 1757 comments

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

submitted 21 days ago • 285 comments

Same exact thing.

submitted 20 days ago • 60 comments

So, at what point is there ground for an emergency injunction? Or, idk any action at all to curb this clearly rogue branch of our government?? You know, the checks and balances of it all...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 21 days ago • 4939 comments

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

submitted 23 days ago • 2851 comments

What a clown show. 🤡

submitted 24 days ago • 71 comments

this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

submitted 25 days ago • 383 comments

In the dead of night, an executive order slashing Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, funding for research, and other federally funded programs, was announced. Elected officials and institutions who have not released statements to fight back: YOUR SILENCE IS DEAFENING.

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

Trump just paused all federal spending to our communities. Why? He needs to free up money to give corrupt billionaires and corporations tax cuts. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are cheering him on. The golden age for the richest and the dark ages for working people.

submitted 25 days ago • 70 comments

Executive orders are not laws. They're directives and guidelines at best, the fact that nationwide so many agencies and organizations are choosing to comply is goddamn terrifying.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 36 days ago • 778 comments

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

submitted 31 days ago • 509 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 31 days ago • 610 comments

By intentionally naming Trump, TikTok is signaling its intention to be used as a tool to spread right wing propaganda. Extremely disturbing.

submitted 34 days ago • 44 comments

All of the pro democracy guardrails are gone. The democrats can’t defend their way out of a paper bag. The media has been overthrown by monied interests that support the incoming autocrat The American experiment is under threat like no time since the civil war

submitted 34 days ago • 26 comments

They couldn't even keep the charade going long enough to be believable, just blatant political theater, pathetic and transparent bootlicking yet there's so very many people out there who will lap this up. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

submitted 36 days ago • 789 comments

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

submitted 44 days ago • 458 comments

one of the most depressing realizations in politics is the day you understand that a lot of people would legitimately prefer to spend more money to make sure nobody “undeserving” gets a benefit than to make it accessible to everyone

submitted 48 days ago • 178 comments

It's concerning that some are trying to normalize RFK. Let's be clear: You can never find common ground with someone responsible for the death of children because they deliberately spread anti-science misinformation.

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

There are some who say “your life won’t change much when trump is President” and I get why they’re saying that in the sense that I’m well off and a citizen who was born here to parents who aren’t gonna be deported either, but all else aside fuck yourself, I have a conscience

submitted 47 days ago • 90 comments

tfw a book's twist genuinely catches you by surprise followed immediately by all the clues and sus behavior falling neatly into place👌👌👌👌💯👌👀👀👀👌👌 good shit

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

"just immigrate legally bro"

submitted 50 days ago • 88 comments

Honestly, mood.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible work 👇👇👇

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Well, when there's no money to be made in curing disease, what else can you expect

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Every conservative columnist right now.

submitted 75 days ago • 229 comments

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else

submitted 79 days ago • 203 comments