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I’m looking for books With an Ilona Andrews vibe. Any recs? #booksky

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www.ft.com/content/8778... Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

i understand the framing, which is about RFK jr lying to a senator to get senate approval but RFK jr also lied to the american public just completely unacceptable for a public official and senator bill cassidy is not the only one who should take action for being lied to

submitted 12 hours ago • 64 comments

I'm filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration to end the illegal takeover of a CalGuard unit, which has escalated chaos and violence in LA. Donald Trump's violation of the U.S. Constitution is an overstep of his authority. We will not let this stand.

submitted 17 hours ago • 287 comments

Anti-ICE protesters in front of the federal building in downtown Los Angeles.

submitted 11 hours ago • 83 comments

Credit where due: Newsom’s team found one, count it, one other example of when this statute was used in the past. To deliver the mail.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Immigration is good, actually.

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

whenever i see Common, i just

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration cannot force grant recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive federal grant funding. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

I'm a dual citizen and a product of the US scientific training mechanism - I am proud to be a signatory on this letter supporting my colleagues and friends at NIH, and denouncing the wholesale destruction of the US health science environment.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I can’t stop thinking about the courage it took for NIH employees to sign this strong, clear letter dissenting from the disastrous actions of this administration. If they can stand up, so can the rest of us.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Glad to see some scientific society leadership stepping up to endorse the #BethesdaDeclaration

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NIH is cutting research on mRNA vaccines. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya signed a petition calling for a halt on the vaccines & said many people view it as a "bad platform." But in 2021 he wrote a white paper praising the technology as an example of the type of breakthrough science NIH should fund.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

submitted 10 hours ago • 152 comments

If you have not signed please do. If you have signed try to get several others to sign TONIGHT - NIH Director testifies before senate appropriations at 10am ET - lets make sure they know how many people are angry about what has been done to NIH

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Sylvester’s “background singers Izora Armstead and Martha Wash would later get their own fame as disco sensation, The Weather Girls (1982’s ‘It’s Raining Men’) in their own right.” www.vice.com/en/article/t...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

And as I always harp on when this comes up— not just cervical cancer! HPV causes penile cancer, anal cancer, head and neck cancers. It is important for people of every gender to get the vaccine, and in the US you can get it up to age 45

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Protesters being arrested in Dallas now

submitted 10 hours ago • 589 comments

I urge others to similarly support our patriots at NIH who use their training and talents to improve human health and position the US as the world’s leader in biomedical discovery, innovation and technology development 🙏

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Lots going on, but this is big. White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

submitted 10 hours ago • 46 comments

"which negatively impacted me"

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Just bringing this one from @jamellebouie.net in 2020 back (gift link)

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

submitted 11 hours ago • 150 comments

Kudos to the brave NIH staff who show up for work every day. Who decided to speak truth to power even as their jobs could be at stake. I signed. We can get the number of signers up to the millions to show that we care about the future of NIH and research in this country.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I told my wife about the accommodations national guardsmen are getting in LA and she said it’s like the Fyre Festival of troop deployments

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

This election is in your hands. But only if you’re registered to vote in New York City. The deadline is Saturday. zohranfornyc.com/vote

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

My friend and fellow DPH member Bruce Mirken just published this excellent piece on the media’s sanewashing of RFK Jr., which has brought us to this terrible era in public health. Well done, @BruceMirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy. 48hills.org/2025/06/the-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

wow they really DID NOT like diversity supplements 👀

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

"cosmic injustice" 🫠🫠

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Doechii speaks out against use of the military against protesters in LA during her acceptance speech at the #BETAwards

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

I think Miller, Trump, etc. believe that deep down, all white Americans hate immigrants & want the country to be rid of them like they do. They simply do not comprehend that so many of us not only value immigrants & the cultural diversity they bring to our communities, but will protect them.

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

UPDATE: One of the two FTC commissioners Trump purported to fire in March, Alvaro Bedoya, resigned today because he hasn't been paid since then and, he wrote, "I can no longer afford to go without any source of income for my family." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

submitted 14 hours ago • 37 comments

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

everybody gotta decide they want to remain free and alive more than these freaks want crypto surveillance orbanism and eugenics

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments