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It’s been wild to see so many headlines about the firings at the Joint Chiefs of Staff and none of them explicitly saying “Trump fired the one Black person and the one woman so he could have an all white male Joint Chiefs”

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

Have been thinking this also. Put it in the headlines, put it in the first post of the thread.

submitted 26 minutes ago • 0 comments

Please add any info you have. The judge ruling on the indirect cuts wanted evidence of irreparable harm…well here is.

submitted 31 minutes ago • 0 comments

The MAGAs are really, really blatantly firing a ton of women in the federal government and military for the crime of being women, and it is embarrassing when people ignore or downplay this.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

From a source at NIH, some grants may be nixed because the investigator’s bio sketch mentions DEI-related activities, even if the science itself has nothing to do with it.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 249 comments

been struggling with the idea that all of human history, all of the destruction, the suffering, the brutality, the razing, the pillaging, the salting of the beautiful fields of this planet has all led up to this. guys burning down everything built over that ruin just so they can do a coy nazi salute

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

I said what I said.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

We wanted to know what the average Black person thinks of Donald Trump. So we asked the communications director of the Houston Young Republicans, who grew up in a mixed race family in a majority white Long Island suburb.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

Here's why reporters should question HHS' explanation that the vaccine advisory meeting ACIP is delayed to give the public time to comment. This agenda was supposed to be open for comment starting Feb 1. But comments were closed. See the federal register document.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

My research group is well funded, and I'm terrified. All scientific labs run on slim margins, typically 12-24 months from running out of $. NIH is not reviewing proposals right now- the wave of labs shutting down is looming closer. All scientists are anticipating a major precipice. Options? 1/5

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Americans HATED Jan. 6. That the political opposition wasn't able to harness that and turn it into a lasting defeat of Trumpism will be one of the defining stories of the 2020s, if not the century.

submitted 2 days ago • 113 comments

so much of yesterday’s future was built with the VA, NIH, and other federal funded research and protections the current admin is destroying because they don’t care if they make our future worse

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Working on an RPPR today and wondering...will there be anyone left at the NIH to review it?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

unbelievable fucking cowards, powerful and protected men willing to give away their birthright of democracy out of fear

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

It looks like 8/8 study sections that were scheduled to begin today have been cancelled: www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Mike Lawler is supposed to be one of the most "moderate" members of the House GOP. There are no moderate Republicans in Congress anymore. Sadists, cowards, and/or enablers - all of them.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

I saw this over and over again when dating in SF. So painful to have someone explain the problems with our healthcare system TO ME, an actual doctor with actual experience working in the system.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

They lie. They lie over and over again and Republican senators with “concerns” vote to confirm them anyway.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Public comment genuinely matters. Courts will overturn rules based on an administration not responding to substantive comments.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Hostile Government Takeover It's a bop

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Certain Senators will profess to being shocked, but of course they shouldn't be. RFK Jr has a long track record. He is who he is & will aim to deliver the agenda of the anti-vaccination movement. Outbreaks won't take a pause. apnews.com/article/chil...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

“I never thought antivaxx policies would be put first in MY state,” sobs man who single-handedly cleared the way for antivaxxers to dictate health policy for the entire country

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

This is an administration led by people who view numerous other people here and abroad as human dirt. That’s it. An objective analysis of the matter

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

Want a glimpse of the future? www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

The cruelty and callousness of what the US government is doing here, the pain it is inflicting, the waste of time and energy and taxpayer money, the risks it is creating are just staggering… #IDsky 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

In Texas, 22 children and 2 adults have become ill with measles in a community where the vaccination rate among kindergartners is only 82%. Nine have been hospitalized so far and the outbreak continues to grow. The anti-vax movement harms children. Period. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

I was so embarrassed having to tell my colleagues in Uganda that yes, I did expect RFK's confirmation despite his insane anti-vaccine beliefs and lack of expertise, because the Republican party is craven and values fealty to Trump above all else. I'm sad I was correct.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I still can't believe he was confirmed.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

An AIDS denialist is now HHS Secretary, making them the most powerful AIDS denialist since Mbeki presided over this disaster in South Africa as a result of the lies of Peter Duesberg, Harvey Bialy & others (who RFK Jr calls "heroic healers" in his 2021 book). No amount of power can make them right.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This is why his promises not to undermine vaccines don’t ring true for me — he was undermining them in his very confirmation hearing.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

like a fucking SNL skit

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It’s almost like ignoring viruses makes the situation worse

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

I don’t understand why everyone’s shocked that Rubio lied. If you are willing to work for Trump, you are by definition willing to lie.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"I suspect that the assault on U.S.A.I.D. is a test run for an offensive against a lifeline for poor people here in the United States — Medicaid" @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Please post the locations you are targeting for #TeslaTakedown protests this Saturday! I'm getting outreach from major media interested in covering these demonstrations, so let's let them know where they can go to hear your voice. If you are in NYC, LA, Chicago, or DC, please sound off below 👇

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

I mean I think the obvious answer is that no, Americans have no idea what this means for their lives the "oh shit what have we done" turn we're all hoping for is simply not going to happen until the material ramifications become clear we are going to have to touch the stove

submitted 10 days ago • 158 comments

They’re doing the meme

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

submitted 10 days ago • 95 comments