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Scoop: Acting NIH director tells employees to ignore Musk-directed OPM "justify your existence" email. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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A lot of really good ideas here. We need to get organized and get pro-active! Being reactive puts us far behind.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The only entity from the campaign promising to privatize public services was Project 2025 and Trump said he wasn't affiliated with it. You cannot claim a mandate to do something you lied saying that you wouldn't do it

submitted 5 hours ago • 38 comments

Purging the military seems bad February 22, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...

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private servers, you say?

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2040 comments

This guy wants the AfD to win in Germany. He wants Pierre Poilievre and the CPC to win in Canada. I don’t know about you, but given the devastation and fascism he’s doing everything he can to create in the United States and beyond, I wouldn’t vote for someone this guy likes in a million years.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Elon just sent us all an email demanding a 5-bullet progress report by EOD Monday. FEDS please hold for Altgov guidance. Meanwhile, help us draft our report: 1. Held convos without pronouns 2. Practiced Roman salute 3. Checked genitals in bathroom 4. Burned all books 5. Threw out all spoons

submitted 23 hours ago • 82 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 213 comments

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

submitted 1 day ago • 362 comments

He nails it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1543 comments

Maine gets a lot of flak for Susan Collins but deserves kudos for Gov. Janet Mills taking a stand for trans rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1998 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 1 day ago • 300 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 447 comments

This is a brilliant article which I am glad someone has finally written. It's clear that the value is in the data and the potential to coerce is part of that value. Normally you can rely on governments to honour their side of the bargain. But when a third party gets in, all bets are off.

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 2 days ago • 2452 comments

Ocasio-Cortez is doing the best job of any member of Congress that I can see of speaking to the people, giving them hope and resolve and an action plan; of using her position in Congress to maximum leverage; of leading. I'm immensely impressed with her.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

Just a reminder that the HPV vaccine literally PREVENTS CANCER and the series can be started as early as 9 years of age.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Anecdotal European stuff: I have spoken to a few Italians about the US “situation” lately and all are pretty much asking themselves the same question: where are the American opposition leaders? Where are Obama, Harris, Biden? Their absence is as horrifying as the acts of the current administration.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

1/ Being an infectious disease expert in the U.S. today feels like standing in the eye of a storm. Science should be our shield, but instead, we’re under attack, our expertise disregarded, our funding slashed, and public health increasingly politicized. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Climate change is real. There are only three options: 1. Reduce climate-damaging pollution 2. Adapt to unavoidable climate impacts 3. Suffer. By denying and misrepresenting the science and by cutting science and disaster funds, Trump and the Republicans have chosen the third option.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

another thing every other president in history would be impeached for just happened

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 1550 comments

February 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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"the silencing of science and health-related communications through suppression or erasure of information, and the corresponding silence by many in the fields of biomedicine and public health, deserve special consideration." "The free exchange of ideas is essential to scientific progress" @jama.com

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 859 comments

Exactly. It’s supposed to have redundancies and failsafes. It’s supposed to provide key functions.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

For whatever it may be worth, I'm a fan of JB Pritzker's work. And right now, he's an elected Dem saying "we don't have kings in America and I don't intend to bend the knee to one" when far too many motherfuckers are auditioning for Vichy roles

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 3 days ago • 3442 comments

Trump ends a federal committee focused on long covid. The HHS committee, which had yet to meet, was set to have a focus on health equity. Asked about Trump’s decision, the White House said the committee was ill-defined and cited its planned $800K cost. More: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 2880 comments

Holy shit we must protect this man at all costs

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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