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April 15 is the one-month anniversary of the signing of the FY25 continuing resolution, which slashed the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) budget by 57%. Devastatingly, funding for all epilepsy-related programs in the CDMRP was suspended. No new funding is planned for FY25

Texas legislators fight it out. thetexan.news/issues/socia...

We can have Chinese iPhones but not prescription medicines that are life and death. 🤬😱

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Excellent. Harvard files suit to protect their free speech. All universities unite. apple.news/AS7zrOFvlRVC...

What is going to happen? Are drugs going to be tariff exempt because seizures meds are often made out of the country as are other critical meds.

Facebook is finally good for something. Stole this:

Older woman at the car wash today: “I want to remodel my kitchen but things are going to be more expensive and everything is just so unstable right now.”

Wow! Duke. You have outdone yourself. This issue is my kind of great. 👍

“I didn’t want anyone to have the country but me so I decided to break it.” A bit of paraphrase ….

This DEI subtext attack on our universities to crater them is eating ourselves from the inside out. Universities grow our future thinkers and drive our research for health, technology and public policy. Glad some universities are fighting back in the courts.

Harvard has sued the Trump administration stating any discrimination is actionable under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and to take funding on basis of discrimination claim is illegal.

Presser with Salvadoran Pres: Trump said the negotiation are going well b/n Russia and Ukraine but facts are bombing intensifies.

💥 Some "cave to the loudest voices demanding a step backward. Some have quietly dismantled their DEI..." Costco "held its ground, recognizing that diversity and inclusion aren’t just buzzwords; they’re essential to a thriving workplace and a successful business." www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Billie Jo Armstrong. Always brilliant lyrics/vocals.

“You can turn away, and you can ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do it at your own peril," Bernie Sanders told the crowd at Coachella last night during a surprise appearance. New @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump conducts his presser like a kindergarten circle time. It’s just embarrassing. duck, duck, goose. 🪿

Trump is clearly campaigning against CNN. And they are run by a conservative board. The republicans apparently want to quash any semblance of fact even if it comes from a favorable news source.

Trump’s stream of consciousness talking is extremely alarming. He can’t seem to do deductive reasoning anymore. He does flow of thought like my 94 year old uncle. If you ask him a question, he has rehearsed answers but can’t respond to the question. Sounds good at first but reasoning is not there.

Now Trump is talking about his cognitive test at a press conference. He is really crazy. This is paranoia and narcissism combined to create a ridiculous result. It’s clear others are running this country. He does stream of consciousness reasoning which is not conducive to deductive reasoning.

Trump: “No one’s an angel but Putin would never have started this war against Ukraine if I was President.” Biden, Biden, Biden.

Trump to Salvadoran Pres: “Do you allow your men to box women.” Pres: “No. That’s physical abuse.” Trump basically relied: “The liberals here want men to box women.”

When Trump holds a press conf like today with Salvadoran President, he rambles on about unrelated subjects and can’t even remember the real number facts. The Sal, President: “Those numbers are fantastic. How come they aren’t in the news?” Trump: “Because the news lies, fake facts.”

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

This is really, really bad.

"Trump cannot assuage the bond market. He cannot convince it that he is 'normal' and should be given the benefit of the doubt. He cannot scare it into submission. He cannot bribe it. The bond market is not like the Supreme Court or Paul Weiss or Columbia."

Can you guys open these articles? Hope so. Apple News is worth the subscript. apple.news/AH9oz8a9QT8a...

Great news here! apple.news/AiZckEd-zTZe...

Li Chen. A very talented and exciting comic writer. New book out now. Order from her website or Amazon, but not Amazon. 😘 kids 8-10, that’s most of us.

Even grade school kids know: If you threaten them but don’t follow throw with the threatened punishment, they never believe you again and the bad behavior is reinforced.

While looking damn good in it!

If you have any doubt about where we are, the DoJ has suspended one of its top attorneys because he admitted in court that the government’s deportation of Abrego Garcia wasn’t supported by any evidence he’d been provided by the administration. You can’t tell the truth if you work for this bunch.

BREAKING: Judge McFadden has *granted * the AP’s injunction against the White House’s ban on access to the Oval Office and East Room.