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Ratner predicts the appointment of Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to un-scare them," he says.

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An important point to keep in mind.

submitted 9 days ago • 633 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2291 comments

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

submitted 9 days ago • 2091 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 9 days ago • 1251 comments

Well said, @jamellebouie.net youtu.be/aBVGmDaQRbE

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CDC’s public health associate program (PHAP) was destroyed this weekend. All trainees terminated. PHAP stations young public health workers in state, local, territorial, and tribal health departments to train in and provide technical assistance for surveillance, communications, lab work, and more.

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Firing probationary employees is senseless. Probationaries are: -New to their position -Make lower salaries -Recruited to bring in new talent -Far LESS likely to be dogmatic They're being fired because they have fewer protections. Not because this will improve government efficiency or cut costs.

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Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Data scientist Elena Moseyko said Trump’s mass federal layoffs “traumatized my kids.” A former Dept. of Education employee called the firing process “cold and cruel.” This isn’t just about numbers—it’s about people’s lives being upended.

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This is the clearest photo ever taken of Venus. 🔭 🧪

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 10 days ago • 2110 comments

We don't yet know the extent of the damage done to our workforce. We continue to receive reports of past, ongoing, and future terminations. Public servants being let go chaotically with little warning. Those who remain face overwhelming workloads and wonder what acts they will be ordered to commit.

submitted 11 days ago • 124 comments

Microplastics have been found just about everywhere scientists have looked. Now scientists are trying to determine their effects on your health https://go.nature.com/4hXvhyT

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If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed. We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose. Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in

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Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics. “American institutions [including science institutions] continue to underreact” to what is happening. Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 11 days ago • 1166 comments

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

submitted 11 days ago • 519 comments

This example of a White social worker working mostly with Black veterans is a really great illustration of how training related to race provides tangible skills for federal employees www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

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Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/lovecensorsh...

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Right now, DOGE is saying that any new hires have to be approved by their office. In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring. What about now? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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40 Workers, 14 Desks—Trump’s Office Mandate Is a Disaster A federal employee says her office has 40 people sharing 14 desks. Others are scattered across buildings 30-40 miles apart. A FEMA worker summed it up: “Everybody is miserable.” Wasted time, no productivity—who benefits from this chaos?

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

submitted 11 days ago • 1691 comments

Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

So yeah, even after a bunch of accidents that highlighted FAA staffing shortages they still went ahead and fired FAA staff. They don't know what they are doing.

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

Well, the news dump for NIH this weekend was a Saturday evening news dump. We are hearing about scores of talented scientists and staff being fired via email tonight.

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Yes, and this is super-important. People don’t know what’s happening. Most of the country has no idea that American science — cancer cures — are being shredded. They really don’t know! The job of all scientists 🧪 in this moment should be to get the word out.

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World's sea ice falls to record low 🧪❄️ www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves. For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender. A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984. www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

submitted 11 days ago • 914 comments

“We have an obligation to give hate no safe harbor and to stand up to what my dad used to say is the greatest sin of all — the abuse of power.” President Biden, eulogizing President Carter. Two incredibly decent men.

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 11 days ago • 2814 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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At some point, flu was going to be worse for Covid than kids. This may be the year. 😥

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Rise n' Resist, folks! That is all.

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Grateful that @cbcnews.ca is covering how those of us living in Canada (even Americans like me) are contributing to preserving vital US government data before the Party can purge it. (Also shout out to my amazing US-based collabs @niema.net & @charlesgaba.com) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Ukraine won’t accept a US-Russia deal made behind its back. Zelensky: “We, as an independent country, simply will not accept any agreements without us.” Yet Trump calls Putin first, while his team signals Ukraine won’t regain its 2014 borders. Whose side is the White House on?

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Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity, a strategy used in countries with authoritarian governments, in the US, and won't show editor IP addresses in response to Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and certain government departments.

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I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

submitted 14 days ago • 345 comments

RFK Jr was confirmed. There is a lesson here for the future. The only chance that science had to stop RFK was a public relations strategy—to mobilize enough of the public that people not paying attention to politics would learn that he is a disaster. We failed at that. Let’s fix it and do better. 🧪

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“The researchers found that their approach, which uses signals stored within circulating cell-free DNA sequence data, had 80% sensitivity at predicting whether a pregnant individual would experience preterm preeclampsia or not.” #ReproSky #ObGynSky #Preeclampsia 🧪 newsroom.uw.edu/news-release...

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We are hearing today that NIH is restarting issuing grant awards — that is, for awards already approved by council, or renewals that normally happen as matter of course, money will start going out. Caution, though, before we interpret this as a win... 1/ 🧪

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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