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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

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This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

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Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why. Here is what this means:

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I'm not directly affected by this, but how grim to see a tiny agency, supporting museums and libraries across a vast country, delivering enormous social benefit, now lying on a chopping block at the mercy of such empty people. Solidarity with colleagues overseas.

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NEH and IMLS have very small budgets but the impact of the work these agencies do is felt literally everywhere in the US, including in many of the places that voted for Trump.

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America, I hope that you appreciated public libraries and museums and the services they provided. The end of these federal services begins the disintegration of interlibrary loans, databases, ebooks, programs, and much more. www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

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This is where we're headed. Deporting migrant workers and filling their jobs with teenagers who might as well work long hours and stop caring about school, because even if they want to go to college, they'll have no way of getting the aid they need to attend. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Detainees died due to starvation or dehydration. ICE murdered them.

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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Meanwhile… Russia is eyeing talks with the Trump administration about re-establishing a significant diplomatic presence in the US as an opening to rebuild its spy network in the West, current and former US officials say. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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Somehow feel certain that the story lines of “where’s the Fort Knox gold?!?” and “let me show you this crypto reserve” are going to have a cliffhanger crossover event

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

Wtaf? When is anyone going to stop this vandalism? Are we going to lose every single public good in this country?

submitted 34 days ago • 23 comments

The backlash to all this grotesque absurdity better be ruthless and unforgiving when it finally comes.

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NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

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Heartbreaking, maddening, unhumane & unconscionable. Sending would-be asylees to concentration camps in countries they aren't from - confiscating their phones - leaving them to die and with no alternative for fleeing to safety. From the @apnews.com apnews.com/article/pana...

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Coming out in May 2025 and available for pre-order from Liverpool University Press: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... Very excited to share the cover with you all.

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“.. We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days ... “The transatlantic alliance is over.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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UNREAL CRUELTY. Completely senseless.

submitted 44 days ago • 72 comments

Sanctions lifted in 3...2...1...

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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 42 days ago • 529 comments

A smorgasbord of bigotry, corruption, sociopathic behaviors, to keep us all busy putting out these fires while the terms of the Helsinki surrender are finally ironed out. Cool, cool. It's giving Berlin Conference 1885, except that this time Europe is also on the carving block.

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#GiftArticle from the SDUT for reporting on the layoffs of my 115 staff colleagues at the San Diego Rapid Response Network/Jewish Family Services migrant shelter. We were a NAT’L MODEL & #WelcomedWithDignity legal migrants 24/7 for 7 years. 🤬💔🎁 www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/15/s...

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I'm thinking of all the online HR tutorials I've had to endure, warning me about hackers and cons and all the different kinds of phishing and smishing and how I could be held liable for exposing sensitive PII, and it turns out that all the hackers had to do was walk into the Treasury and take it.

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A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

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The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 54 days ago • 101 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

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Yesterday, a bankruptcy judge blew up the Alex Jones settlement with Sandy Hook families. That judge, Christopher Lopez, runs the country's true deep state: a bankruptcy court where corporations routinely wriggle free of accountability. Incredible report from Moe Tkacik: prospect.org/justice/2025...

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Yes, everyone is correct. They're not advocating for a "strict meritocracy." Affirmative action is over. They're now suing over the very presence of Black people and Latinos in elite education and white collar careers. They're advocating for resegregation. Call it out every time.

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It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms: asm.org/Articles/202... web.archive.org/web/20250114... #MicroSky

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Hacking the Federal Government in broad daylight with no consequences. 🤔

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Any other person would be arrested…

submitted 58 days ago • 1171 comments

Hostile Takeover: “Department of Government Efficiency” Hijacks The Federal Government www.avindman.com/p/hostile-ta...

submitted 59 days ago • 337 comments

"No one ever thought this would happen" is dishonest and journalists not pointing that out are doing you all a disservice. Many people said word for word this would happen. You just didn't respect those people. And you need to be honest instead of the feigned surprise for sympathy.

submitted 59 days ago • 104 comments

Legacy media has bowed down and will obey. That is what there is to know. Support pro-democracy, independent media.

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