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Research funding matters.

The hiring of thousands of federal firefighters has stalled amid a governmentwide freeze ordered by President Trump, just as agencies were beginning to ramp up staffing for the summer wildfire season, according to a firefighters’ union.

Paywall free, gift article of a continuously updating list of Trump’s first 100 days actions www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director? DUFFY: *walks away* (The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)

“All review panels, new awards and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis. NSF has created an executive order implementation webpage to ensure the widest dissemination of information and updates.”

Here is a page of NIH research highlights going back to 2007. Projects funded by NIH have given us progress against Parkinson’s cancer, Alzheimer’s, bipolar, H5N1, blood pressure, food allergies, infertility, MS, HIV, diabetes, depression, malaria, etc. www.nih.gov/research-tra...

Teen keeps absent mindedly opening tiktok and yelling random shouts of despair.

Please share with LA friends in need. đź’•

Get the facts before you share! gavinnewsom.com/california-f...

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Shoe change

Why have humans at all?

I’m on this incredibly long NYU email chain from a student to all 11K faculty and the responses—and even the existence of this chain are hilarious.

Little free library that’s also a working clock 💕

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Republicans: Americans are ready for a serious debate about the things that are killing our kids. Everyone: And, of course, you’re talking about the number one killer of children in this country, guns. We totally agree— Rs: SWEET JESUS, NO, I’M TALKING ABOUT VACCINES.

My new friend after all power went out on ACF and G trains and we had to walk out through the tunnels. Thanks @FDNY!

FYI you can use this page to bypass Google's AI search results (which, apart from being annoying, use a lot more energy than a regular Google search): udm14.com?fbclid=IwZXh...

This is the play, intimidate critics, try to silence them.

When I and Howard Zinn before me talk about the unexpected, we're mostly talking about things like the fall of the Berlin Wall or 9/11 or the Zapatista uprising. But we can now add to that list INFOWARS SOLD TO CORPORATE OVERLORDS OF THE ONION.