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Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

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European perspective for Americans.

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Reuters: Elon Musk, the billionaire behind President Donald Trump's efforts to shrink the U.S. government, threw his support behind a bill that would consolidate antitrust enforcement at the U.S. Department of Justice, stripping that authority from the Federal Trade Commission.

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It’s horrifying that it’s come to this, but as someone with a deep affinity for Europe I feel moved seeing that continent come together to try to save itself in the absence of any meaningful aid from the totalitarian regime that’s in the midst of taking over the United States through an illegal coup

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Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges. Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”

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America just imported career rapists and human traffickers. That’s what it’s come to. I’m seething. How many ways can this administration tell women they’re completely worthless?

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1/ The nascent Tesla boycott movement got me thinking back to the 80s anti-apartheid movement. How it took off and literally changed the world. If the South African apartheid regime could be brought down, perhaps one South African oligarch could be? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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FYI @cameronbarr.bsky.social is a man of ethics and quality and innovation. The kind Bezos is repelling now.

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Former Wash Post top editor Cameron Barr severs ties to the company He writes that Bezos’ revamp marks an “unacceptable erosion of its commitment to publishing a healthy diversity of opinion and opinion” www.linkedin.com/posts/camero...

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Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

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Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now. abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....

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YES MCARTHUR FOUNDATION! (Not thrilled that "the Crisis" is the exact same term I used in my "dystopian" novel to refer to the thing that turns the world "dystopian," but... if the shoe fits)

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In 2012 I published a paper that estimated that global measles mortality had dropped from 500k to 139k from 2000 to 2010. Last year, after doing this every year for 12 years, we estimated that measles deaths had further dropped to 107K. Every death due to measles is preventable.

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More destruction at VA. They want to erase all research data that helps improve quality of care, suicide prevention and more.

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What did Chief Justice John Roberts do on Wednesday night? "We don’t know the ultimate outcome in the case yet, but it did give the Trump administration what it wanted: not to issue the [State/USAID] payments on Wednesday."

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I had so much to say about Jessica Reed Kraus that I kind of forgot a really important point. She was selected to receive the “Epstein files” but she’s a proud defender of Ghislaine Maxwell. Like, it’s one of her longstanding positions

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NEW: Dept. of Ed. launches anti-diversity snitch portal. Also: Moms for Liberty now speaking for the Department of Education

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Looks like Elon Musk or his puppet Donald (aka POTUS) has told the Founding Fathers “You’re All FIRED!”

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"…DR Congo's government says the Rwanda-backed rebels are seeking to exploit the eastern region's vast mineral wealth." So basically what the US is trying to do in Ukraine then.

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NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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my superpower for predicting things? paying attention to what people with power say and do

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Someday my grandchildren will ask me about how the local tradition of traveling to Montreal every Indigenous People's Day Weekend to get shots started.

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In all seriousness: Stock up on masks now.

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Musk explicitly says he wants to turn America into El Salvador where a strongman has consolidated power, undermined judicial independence, harassed journalists, and suspended constitutional rights

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Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

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This note that Jeff Bezos just sent to Washington Post employees about the opinion page is leading Post employees to speak out publicly. Reporters like Jeff Stein (who is on the news side) say that if Bezos starts to interfere with his work he will quit immediately.

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In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

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Bezos bends the knee. Pathetic.

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Wow. So the new free market WaPo is going to excoriate Trump on tariffs, abortion, cronyism and attacks on lgbtq+ Americans. Tough, tough, tough. Next time they should endorse a candidate like Kamala Harris who was on the right side of all those issues

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I'm still doing this, that's why there are a bunch of book quote posts in a row:

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Worst press secretary ever? Unprepared, easily rattled, deeply unserious, doesn't understand media or journalism, no issue knowledge at all, stamps feet daily - and acts like a minor Trump relative pissed off at a Mar-a-Lago waiter.

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The Department of Government Efficiency is not efficient—randomly changing numbers. Almost like a diversion to cover up fraud by the Trump administration. They’re slashing services for the people but leaving Musk’s federal contracts untouched. One day, the truth will come out—and it’ll be shocking.

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Fight like a mother 💪🏻

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"Depression" is the word that comes to mind. As in "economic depression"... ...a "Great Great Depression."

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I think it’s fair to say Trump will be the first president to deliberately crash the economy upon taking office.

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I heart Tina Smith.

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Trump asking Democrats in Congress to fund his crime-spree administration because his own party cannot untie its shoelaces is a pretty good rewrite of the old joke about the man who killed his parents then asked for clemency because he was an orphan.

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Trump tried a seizure of power in 2021. It didn't work, because he relied only on a violent mob. The military and FBI stayed loyal to the Constitution. This time, with approval of the Republican Senate, Trump has installed anti-constitutional putschists at FBI, DoD, and Pentagon

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Never thought I would see a headline like this…

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