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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

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Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

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The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 173 comments

President Musk and VP Trump's war on USAID will lead to 1.3 million more abortions. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

submitted 14 days ago • 765 comments

We were all gasping and then it was like…ohhhhhhh. Pretty big difference!

submitted 14 days ago • 193 comments

this makes the other settlements look like arms-length, good-faith transactions.

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“If the majority wants to vote now without looking into this matter, that’s fine…But if it doesn’t get aired now in the Senate, this question will get aired later in the courts. There is no way the genie of Patel’s candor is going back in the bottle.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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The DOGE anti-waste guys keep trying to find the Pentagon, but they accidentally turn off 395 at Crystal City. It happens to all of us.

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This is important — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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As I said to a reporter today: DOGE is not a management project, centered on efficiency; it is a political project, centered on shrinking the federal government and politicizing core functions.

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The Ocean Surface Is Warming Over 400% (>4x) Faster Than in The 1980s The team notes this is not a linear increase but an accelerating one. Full article: sciencealert.com/the-ocean- surface-is-warming-over-400-faster-than-in-the -1980s

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An interesting piece about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic… And the illusion that it is in the past. open.substack.com/pub/emilysdu...

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Tests under way in suspected Ebola outbreak in DR Congo The same DRC province reported an outbreak in 2022, which involved a new jump from animals to people. www.cidrap.umn.edu/e... Photo: NIAID/Flickr cc

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“Deport them all”, “White lives matter”: messages on signs in St. Albert this weekend held by losers making N*zi salutes. Don’t minimize this, Alberta. Call this shit out. Every time you see it. That means our political leaders too. I’m looking at you, Danielle Smith.

submitted 31 days ago • 61 comments

www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

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Still time to apply!

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Important conference on Long Covid in the Workplace - 28 February

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FINALLY we are seeing some pushback from SOMEBODY! Lawyer up, Donnie

submitted 32 days ago • 970 comments

#disability #LongCovid

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At LAX rn feeling pretty exhausted but happy after providing CME-accredited #LongCOVID, #MECFS and chronic #Lyme disease education to over 1000 physicians this week. This is going to be the rhythm for 2025: sharing what we have learned from research and clinical experience 1/

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

Most folks do not understand how far in advance the planning and logistics of NIH grants take. We prepare for months or years for these submissions for one of 3 cycles per year. This study section cancellation delays grants by at least 6 months when study sections are cancelled.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Here’s something I wrote last week that is maybe important.

submitted 33 days ago • 75 comments

🤣 😜

submitted 33 days ago • 450 comments

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

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UCAR and NSF NCAR join the ranks of other government-funded entities in closing their DEI offices. An expected but still awful event that will only hurt the atmospheric sciences and future innovation that widely benefits society. news.ucar.edu/133008/ucar-...

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Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Actuaries predict collapse of human civilization The UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries have produced a report that includes scenarios for collapse of large segments of human civilization within decades, if ecological overshoot and global heating are not reversed. www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's firehose of executive orders is meant to inundate you and make you stop trying to keep up. I encourage you to keep up. Keep reading. Keep watching.

submitted 35 days ago • 85 comments

This administration is the unholy offspring of kleptocracy capitalism and glorification of stupidity.

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