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We are at the mercy of a cabal of incredibly rich, incredibly stupid people

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Never in my most pessimistic moments did I expect the response to modern biotechnology saving countless lives in a pandemic to be a powerful elite captured by a conspiracy theory and dismantling our defenses against the next one out of some misguided notion of revenge

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Today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted to defy the federal court ruling that blocked the executive order against providing gender-affirming care for patients under 19 and violate the Code of Virginia. Discrimination isn’t just wrong; it’s illegal. They’ll undoubtedly be sued.

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UVA is facing major existential threats but the BOV is deciding to focus its time on whether it should deny healthcare to children dailyprogress.com/news/local/e...

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Protest, Cville, VA: UVA Rotunda, Friday, Feb 21 starting 8:45AM; in response to special BOV meeting abt GAC for #transyouth Please sign petition, contribute testimony, &/or show up if you can! #LGBTQVA #cville #charlottesville #UVA #universityofvirginia #virginia #transgendernews

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Getting a lot of people killed would be one way to bring down the price of eggs

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Charlottesville: The UVA Board of Visitors is hosting a “special meeting of the full board” this Friday, Feb. 21 from 9:30-11:30AM to discuss and possibly restrict gender-affirming care at UVA medical facilities for those <19 again despite the executive order being blocked twice in court last week.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Amazing letter to the editor by Dr. Nadkarni in the Washington Post about UVA’s suspension of gender-affirming care.

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Well I guess I’m letting 2 cats out of the bag over here, but if anyone is interested in local politics, I’m running for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors! The official announcement is coming next Tuesday morning with a press conference, but this train is moving! sallyforsupervisor.com

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We’re good here

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The UVA Board of Visitors has called a special meeting this Friday at 9:30am to discuss gender-affirming care. While they won’t be taking testimony, show up and make your presence known! bov.virginia.edu/meetings/febru… Contact the Board of Visitors: ☎️ 434-924-7081 📧 [email protected]

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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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Let’s say, for the sake of argument, you got into an exchange on Twitter with the next NIH director in which you called him an idiot. Which service would you use to delete your tweets?

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

I’m assuming the painting of Dr. Vivian Pinn was temporarily removed in order to make it somehow more spectacular, but this is an awkward time to be taking down pictures of Black women scientists

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One example (of thousands) where EIS was invaluable: 2023, a rare fungal outbreak at a paper mill infected workers CDC EIS helped trace the source, stop the outbreak, and informed future prevention efforts Now multiply that by 100+ responses every year #PublicHealth 🔗 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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Twenty thousand years of this, seven more to go

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UVA should never have abandoned patients, but it’s good they’re providing care again

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In #Virginia, VCU Health and CHKD — if they haven’t yet — need to follow suit. Immediately. “At least one health system — the hospital affiliated with the University of Virginia — said it would resume providing services that had been paused under the order.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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The cruelty and callousness of what the US government is doing here, the pain it is inflicting, the waste of time and energy and taxpayer money, the risks it is creating are just staggering… #IDsky 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

A lot of people are really pissed off we tried to keep them alive through a pandemic www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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I’m relieved that I have been diligent about only advancing neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda in my personal time www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

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Damn right

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Miyares fights for cancer and against Virginians

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Virginians -- since our AG Jason Miyares didn't sue, the judges order doesn't apply to us. He's up for re-election this year...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I should only get benefits from living in a society. If I also have obligations that's communism

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The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

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Poor Rev. Bayes has had his name attached to more tendentious nonsense than anyone in history

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In Virginia— NIH AWARDS FUNDING: $664M JOBS SUPPORTED: 7,684 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $1.73B

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Not to get too intense about everything going on but it is really an ideology of death run by evil skeleton people who drink from a dread altar of blood

submitted 14 days ago • 75 comments

Well I think I’ll make myself several old fashioneds and toast the cool ideas and side projects I’ll never get to do.

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Honestly didn’t predict we’d bankrupt medical schools as the boomers were retiring. Another own goal as they say grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.

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Well, it was nice having a School of Medicine while it lasted. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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