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This joke post I saw on Reddit is actually a really great illustration of the importance of starting your Y axis at 0

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FYI: Social security and Medicare Part A are self-funded through payroll taxes not general income taxes. So these aren’t part of the discretionary budget process, so they aren’t included in the annual budget negotiations in spending bills.

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Medical science is a public good that benefits us all and so it depends on federal funding. Without public investment, critical research that drives future medical breakthroughs—yet lacks immediate commercial return—will slow, shrink, or disappear entirely.

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Re-sharing – now without the editorializing! “On Friday, Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs, a decision faculty members say was made after programs had already accepted students.”

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An md phd student rides his bike across Boston in the dark and snow, as his only transportation, living in a 6 person graduate house. Many phd students live in subsidized housing. Post-docs live in old creaky buildings without AC. These researchers are not rich and their ages range from 21-30+.

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Both my daughters work in NIH funded research labs: one is an unpaid undegrad researcher and the other a paid researcher (masters) at $23/hr.

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Several Democratic lawmakers were denied entry to the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering.

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FROM CNN: The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to US elections, a source familiar tells CNN. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

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NEWS UnitedHealth has retained Claire Locke, one of the top defamation law firms in the country, to issue threats of legal action over social media posts about the insurer’s refusal to provide coverage to patients. Full Story: https://bit.ly/410Vw1T

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Exclusive: Federal workers have filed an emergency motion requesting a restraining order to disconnect the DOGE server that's being used to conduct Trump's "deferred resignation program." The workers had previously accused DOGE of illegally bypassing a mandated privacy audit. By me at @wired.com:

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this is exactly what i’m getting at when i see these people have no understanding of civil society. they do not seem to conceptualize other people as having agency whatsoever.

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I really don’t think it’s happenstance that pretty much every remaining institutional safeguard broke down within 15 years of Citizens United

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They’re going to bring down prices by allowing big grocery stores to surreptitiously raise prices. Got it.

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Are you in? See you Monday on YouTube. YouTube.com/@MeidasTouch

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This article highlights why more “crazy motherfuckers”are likely going to kill more extremely wealthy, “heartless, motherfuckers.” Society has reached the tipping point on inequities. Especially those leaving the masses to suffer and die. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

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Damn Cancer

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Fantastic essay. Damn.

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the really disheartening thing about the prevalence of scams is that instead of talking about it like a public policy problem, we all act like it’s on every grandma to stay vigilant

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@lkedwards.bsky.social hi!

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The difficulty of this formation could easily be overestimated … it just happens

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Glad to be here!

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