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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

since she was 8 months old www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:

Yes, I'm a climate reporter. But the story of how the Trump admin's moves are threatening science & research is bigger than climate. So I spoke w/economists, physicists, sociologists, computer scientists, health scientists, and climate researchers for this piece: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

Been thinking about the craziness that must be @lynchmegan.bsky.social's life this week!!!!

Beginning to uncork our new package... on college! Higher education, as its existed in last 40 or so years, is being dismantled. What's next? My boss @bradstone.bsky.social had the idea of going to the top: asking college presidents about their impossible jobs www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

In 2022 (the most recent year for which we have comprehensive data), 52 people—an average of one per week—perished in Customs and Border Protection custody. How many immigrants will die under the second Trump Administration?

THE WHITE VAN is going to be a movie, co-written by @patrick-hoffman.bsky.social !!! deadline.com/2025/03/the-...

Another kind of special taskforce, abusing its authority!

The family was on their way to the doctor www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

The Trump administration has again suddenly cleared out all the migrants it sent to the US Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, ostensibly with final deportation orders. But this time it flew everybody back to the USA -- without an explanation. w/ @charlie_savage www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS!!!!!!

"Records show Jaimes was booked in St. Clair County Jail, but with no criminal charges and an immigration hold." His family didn't know he was detained until they saw it on Facebook. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

We're probably less than a week away from the "Violence against Tesla Owners Act" which makes Telsa drivers and their families a protected class.

Crushing dissent, one car dealership at a time

Military aid and military intelligence in exchange for a ceasefire. 🤡

I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System. This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine. Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.

Investors today:

@laurensmiley.bsky.social goes with a former Boeing employee to the FBI. And the DOJ. And the FAA. And the SEC. Great portrait of a whistleblower www.wired.com/story/boeing...

utter carnage:

A team of doctors fled Al Qadmus hospital on foot through the woods yesterday, fearing execution. The vast majority of the injured and bodies they received were civilians, one doctor said -- almost all had gunshot wounds. "Entire families are being wiped out." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?

Feels like a turning point www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

So no food and no water. Got it

All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.

Exclusive: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links reut.rs/4ivfaZA

I have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Alright well…at least they finally did something funny

The reality is the market is only off about 6% from peak and merely back to where it was in November. It's not crashing. Investors have not soured on Trump. (Feels like an underreaction to me but if you one of those who is counting on investors to save the country, it ain't happening yet.)

Trans… genic. Trans.. genic. Trans. genic. Trans.genic. Transgenic is the word and concept you are looking for.

First order of business at FAA? Putting up more Starlinks. Big changes to the system that makes air travel safe, from @jasonleopold.bsky.social, Allyson Versprille, and Kelcee Griffis www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Five years ago, I was about to start work again after having a kid. But then, less than a month later, I was about to spend two weeks inside an apartment in some kind of surreal nightmare, one that pales next to so many other New Yorkers' surreal nightmares www.thecut.com/2020/04/a-fa...

Been wondering about this...

"Jax noted that while he's never admitted to using cocaine in the past, he believes Bravo fans 'could kind of tell that I was on something' during his 10+ years on reality TV." www.eonline.com/news/1414300...

There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.

One notable moment was when Elle Reeve said that Richard Spencer didn't mind being called a loser & a fraud. But when she said she was more athletic & could run faster than the guys in his little army he got pissed. Reeve said this concern about aesthetics is paramount with the men in this world.

The other thing that surprised me was that so many people really did buy into the idea that Musk is a genius and therefore uniquely qualified to execute Trump's vision bsky.app/profile/elle...