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How was this contract awarded??!

submitted 15 days ago • 760 comments

What is going on here? Why does MAGA hate cancer research? The Trumpists don’t look at a specific budget item or topic - they are engaged in a comprehensive assault against what they have identified as their enemy. In response, we must also develop a holistic view of their political project.

submitted 17 days ago • 61 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 18 days ago • 1086 comments

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

submitted 19 days ago • 98 comments

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

submitted 19 days ago • 185 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 20 days ago • 1150 comments

i mean, in my entire life, the democrats have had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate for exactly 8 months total (between Al Franken being seated in July 09 and Scott Brown taking Ted Kennedy's seat in Feb 2010) and they used it to pass the largest expansion of the welfare state since the 60s

submitted 22 days ago • 56 comments

The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 25 days ago • 643 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 24 days ago • 105 comments

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 26 days ago • 168 comments

If you do not need to mainline US politics for your job, I strongly recommend not cooking your brain in live news updates unless you enjoy the feeling of professional energy vampiricism, anxiety and constant rage-baiting. And charge your phone away from your bedroom.

submitted 26 days ago • 16 comments

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

submitted 27 days ago • 146 comments

i mean, dems are saying the things we want them to say. warren's saying it. jefferies is saying it. wyden's saying it. omar's saying it. AOC is saying it. it's not landing on the front page of any major news website, but they're saying in plain language what's happening here.

submitted 28 days ago • 74 comments

Find it very annoying that in light of the horrible shit that’s happening to trans people in the US, the narrative of cis progressives is still “he won’t stop at trans people!!” when it is actually bad even if he did stop there as trans people are, in fact, people

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 33 days ago • 244 comments

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

submitted 33 days ago • 25 comments

this really is "just asking questions" laid bare. there's no basis to ask the question. you're only asking because you have a preferred outcome that is contrary to all of the evidence.

submitted 34 days ago • 36 comments

It's time for Democrats to vote no on Trump everything. All nominees, anything else. You are otherwise empowering a fascist whether some nominees are better than others. Only your base will remember who you confirmed or didn't confirm--and you will need the base next year.

submitted 34 days ago • 24 comments

This is a Washington-savvy analysis that I think is naive about Trump & authoritarianism. Trump isn’t “seeking to stem… fallout.” Confusing orders aren’t mistakes; they’re the method. We’ve seen this throughout history; & it is a fundamental Trumpist rhetorical method.

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

I hope every Democrat in Congress understands there can be no deal, under any circumstances, that attaches conditions to disaster aid. Once you let them set that precedent, they’re going to use it to fuck with your state too.

submitted 35 days ago • 122 comments

There are also entire literatures on how aliens built the pyramids. Plenty of stupid and mendacious ideas have equally stupid and mendacious literatures supporting them. -OS

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Respectfully (and I genuinely mean this), I’ve never heard a single regular person ask for “bipartisanship.” That’s inside nonsense. They want things to work. If the other party refuses to work for people, be the ones who will. Fight for people. Make it plain who isn’t, and who THEY’RE for.

submitted 42 days ago • 284 comments

Remember McConnell and his buddies when Obama was elected? Where they decided their only strategy was to be obstructive and disruptive? I'm all for Democrats doing that now. Spend the next four years pushing back and being obstructive, full stop. We do not give in to fascism.

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

submitted 51 days ago • 407 comments

If Democrats and liberals are constantly messaging it doesn’t allow right wing messages to dominate and in some cases it completely overwhelms them. People arguing that this is a hopeless case are giving a pass to Democrats and the wider left for not actually trying and that sucks.

submitted 83 days ago • 27 comments

Post a PERFECT album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana or Pearl Jam

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform

submitted 87 days ago • 186 comments

Just ask them who won the 2020 election. Any nominee who doesn’t say Biden without hemming, hawing, or qualifying is — and should be!- an automatic no.

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Please arm yourself with knowledge. Birthright citizenship is not a policy choice it is a constitutional imperative (14th Amendment). It can no more be signed away by Executive Order than the First Amendment.

submitted 86 days ago • 143 comments

Kash Patel apparently runs a "America First" clothing line. "Tired of seeing your money go overseas?" reads a product page. "Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People t-shirt." Shirt appears to be made on Next Level blanks ... which are made in Central America and Haiti.

submitted 91 days ago • 744 comments

If trans rights are unpopular then the only solution is to fight to change that. Because if your solution involves my kid not being able to use the bathroom in schools, federal buildings, congress … you’re dead to me.

submitted 102 days ago • 14 comments

no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta

submitted 103 days ago • 204 comments