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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

submitted 17 days ago • 880 comments

House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.

submitted 38 days ago • 50 comments

Sounds... efficient? "There are no more civil servants now than there were in the late 1960s, even as the population they serve has grown by two-thirds." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 44 days ago • 27 comments

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 43 days ago • 74 comments

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating

submitted 44 days ago • 42 comments

*credit card* debt? he’s carrying more than a million in fucking *credit card debt*?!? that’s even fucking stupider than at least 50 fucking percent of every other stupid and dangerous thing he believes, that’s “would be broke 5 years after winning the lottery” stupid

submitted 43 days ago • 97 comments

“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

submitted 43 days ago • 88 comments

How many Americans rely on Medicaid or CHIP in *your* Congressional District? PLEASE SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE. ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL INFORMATION. CHARLES GABA IS AMAZING!

submitted 44 days ago • 25 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 48 days ago • 1324 comments

Today: On how all the normalizing is about (in part) fear of facing the grief & loss that this moment demands. But people have been up against harder, and faced it down. This is new terrain, but we can do this. It's time for you to become the leader you seek. We must figure this out together.

submitted 62 days ago • 12 comments

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

submitted 60 days ago • 188 comments

Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46 For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)

submitted 60 days ago • 61 comments

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 60 days ago • 47 comments

Joint statement from the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Fraternal Order of Police on Jan. 6 Pardons. Read and share it with others.

submitted 60 days ago • 234 comments

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submitted 68 days ago • 473 comments

“The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which, um, advises the government on Medicare payments, estimates that last year Medicare Advantage cost taxpayers $83 billion (!) more than those enrolled would have cost under traditional Medicare.”

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

submitted 94 days ago • 2660 comments