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More details on censorship at the CDC from @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social: Trump officials at HHS, and acting CDC Director Susan Monarez, refused repeated requests by career health officials to publish the completed research on bird flu in the MMWR, officials say.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

The US has cut off money for support of newly resettled refugees already in this country. It has paused resettlement of new refugees in serious danger, yet is going to allow white people connected to racial apartheid to come here as refugees?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

submitted 16 days ago • 178 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 15 days ago • 158 comments

NIH (other agencies presumably to follow) is unilaterally dropping negotiated indirect cost rate agreements and imposing a standard 15%. If this stands - and it probably violates contract law to do so - it’ll blow giant holes in the budgets of research universities grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

human extinction exhibition

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.

submitted 16 days ago • 3753 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 4328 comments

For those who say Elon Musk’s neo-Nazi ideology is just a troll and not a deeply held belief, I give you the reality of what happens when you give him this kind of unchecked power. This is who he is, and it’s also who he associates with. Essential we discuss it as it is instead of whitewashing.

submitted 19 days ago • 52 comments

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

submitted 20 days ago • 1567 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 19 days ago • 505 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1330 comments

bruh. this is what’s gonna be holding federal funding hostage. what the shit.

submitted 19 days ago • 201 comments

Folks the single number one thing you should demand from your Senators when you are making calls is that they start objecting to unanimous consent. It only takes a single Senator to do it and if they start objecting, it will grind Trump's fascist takeover to a halt.

submitted 22 days ago • 66 comments

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

submitted 21 days ago • 707 comments

Am I the only one noting that after demonizing China for years, Trump seems to be letting them off lightly, while going full tilt against Canada? Is it Musk's business interests? Have Chinese players been buying Trumpcoin?

submitted 22 days ago • 406 comments

Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry. You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

submitted 21 days ago • 132 comments

Like many faith leaders in NJ's houses of worship, Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale said he's alarmed. The Reformed Church of Highland Park had relied on a church's special status as a sanctuary--off-limits to federal agents. But Donald Trump has rescinded that policy. www.njspotlightnews.org/video/trump-...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Langston Hughes

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

A good summary worth sharing #ItsACoup

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Another opening for someone to take to court

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

@corybooker.com you voted to confirm Scott Bessent, Bessent handed access to DOGE/Musk enabling their ongoing coup. You owe us action now, you bear responsibility. Do better. Signed a longtime loyal Democrat.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A haiku USAID has no web site any more. But there are tariffs.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

submitted 21 days ago • 741 comments

A haiku: FBI leaders demand lists of agents who enforced the law

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

The government’s job is not to redefine science or contest scientific findings.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Since my illustrious co-author is not on social media these days, may I suggest... www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

submitted 22 days ago • 1297 comments

Here is something you can do right now

submitted 24 days ago • 50 comments

This is awful.

submitted 30 days ago • 24 comments

Disgusting, unacceptable, and totally unnecessary to comply with Trump's recent EO. That last point really matters -- Rutgers didn't need to do this. It just wanted to play it safe, curry favor, etc. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #Rutgers #racism

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

"The scientist in me is in disbelief at how stupid it is. How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 30 days ago • 451 comments