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Imagine the western reaction if Iran had bombed a humanitarian aid ship trying to feed starving civilians. Imagine if Russian forces were caught massacring medical workers in ambulances. Imagine If China bombed an international humanitarian aid convoy in clearly marked vehicles.

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“Trump’s budget echoes Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which used propaganda to justify an attack on higher education, fueling a lost decade for Chinese research and a much longer period of damage to state capacity and innovation…”

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The @nytimes.com stopped reporting on the ongoing genocide and use of famine as weapon of war. But the genocide continues at a fast pace aje.io/gefbuy

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"My only “crime” is refusing to accept the slaughter of Palestinians, opposing war and promoting peace. I have simply insisted that international law must be respected..." ✊ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

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🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Absolutely a must watch youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

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RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."

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NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer. Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.

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Dr. Badar Khan Suri was ripped from his classroom, his family, and his life — all because he spoke out in support of Palestinian human rights. On May 1, @acluva.bsky.social, @ccrjustice.org, and our partners will be in court urging the Trump administration to free Dr. Suri.

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The architect of #NIH cuts is Russell Vought whose own daughter is alive today because of advances in treating cystic fibrosis, brought to us, to the Vought family, by NIH. 1/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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🚨 Our new study is live in The Lancet Microbe! “The impact of orthopoxvirus vaccination and Mpox infection on cross-protective immunity: a multicohort observational study” Led by @jaycrandell.bsky.social , Valter Monteiro and Lauren Pischel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread 🧵!

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You can’t make up stuff like that: “ the 4 year old, with stage 4 cancer, was removed without medication “

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“Pro Israeli mob harasses woman in New York with death to arabs chant” www.aljazeera.com/program/news...

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“In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender (and AI system) marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

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“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family’s lawyer said.” Thinking about the types of people who participated in this atrocity. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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If an ordinary folk causes damage they get sued and have to pay back every cent If Big Oil cause damage- you not only have to pay for the damage yourself, but fork out billions in subsidies to pay for Big Oil to cause even more damage next year

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'Not just a moral contradiction, it’s a legal failure' Yale University the latest top US institution to ban a pro-Palestine group, this time for protests against a visit by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gviry. Read here: aje.io/ash1pr

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UNRWA said Israel is inflicting "man-made" and "politically motivated starvation" on Gaza, as the UN’s World Food Programme reports that aid stocks in the besieged enclave are completely depleted. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/inrqdf

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"This is the longest closure the Gaza Strip has ever faced." The World Food Programme (WFP) says food stocks have been depleted in Gaza due to the ongoing closure of crossings into the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dn6a9h

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“We are being depleted.” The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for an eighth week.

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I’ve been keeping up with authoritarian countries for years and I swear I have never heard an Attorney General say something like this. The AGs role is to provide a veneer of legitimacy to what the autocrat is doing by couching it in the language of law. This is wild.

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War crime number 19,999 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/w...

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Beyond belief, what a disgrace we’re living in www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/c...

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Scientists discover that metallic minerals on deep-ocean floor produce oxygen—13,000 feet below the surface. So deep sea mining will not only obliterate marine life and destroy a critical carbon sink but also one that produces oxygen BAN DEEP SEA MINING phys.org/news/2024-07...

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Congrats to all involved! It fits well in our current times

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'Our work suggests that the crux of science’s current challenge is not lost trust, but rather misplaced trust in untrustworthy sources. High trust levels can be dangerous when they are invested in institutions & individuals that are misinformed or not well-intentioned.'

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A lack of support, including the Trump administration’s proposed and existing cuts to health insurance, research and special education, are the real challenges for individuals and families living with autism. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Representative Rashida Tlaib is the first Palestinian woman in Congress and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress. This Arab American Heritage Month, we celebrate leaders like Representative Tlaib who fight for our civil rights and liberties.

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"Ours may be a pernicious history, but the trajectory of genetics has been one that tends towards progress and equity" Excellent explainer from @adamrutherford.bsky.social on why racial groupings have no sound biological basis. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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The MacArthur Foundation isn’t complying in advance — it’s resisting in advance. This is the kind of courage and resolve we need to fight MAGA fascism.

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The latest Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed dozens of Palestinians, the territory’s health ministry said on Saturday.

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He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication Egregious. www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...

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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

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To make billionaires even richer 25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into 8, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

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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...

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A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

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America is facing a great national test — “of our Constitution, our institutions, our citizens — as President Trump ignores courts and sabotages universities and his officers grab people off the street,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

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Donald Trump believes he’s never wrong – and that’s exactly what makes him so dangerous. — #AJOpinion by Andrew Mitrovica ⤵️

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Last one for Tax Day – NOAA 🌊 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $21/year to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 💡 NOAA turns science into safety — for coasts, communities, & the climate. It helps safeguard lives, property, and ecosystems from rising seas and extreme weather.

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Apparently it’s working! Columbia is also waking up www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/n...

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Deixa eu desenhar: se a gente não correr muito atrás de proteger o meio ambiente, todos os biomas brasileiros estão em risco. Vão matar o último pé de pau-brasil e secar o último ribeirão para colocar gado no lugar. A pressão sobre o agronegócio tem que ser total agora. Ou morreremos sufocados.

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I highly recommend this inspiring new book by Nahum Ulanovsky! A plea for neuroscientists to embrace “Natural Neuroscience”: use emerging technologies to uncover meaningful behavior and neural representations in free-roaming animals exposed to real-world stimuli. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...

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Courage is becoming contagious, hopefully it will spread all over

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“Dissent is not grounds for deportation”. There’s no democracy without dissent. This government seeks only consent, and is trying to manufacture consent by force, threats, oppression. Not only by the traditional (media) way.

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