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Today I’m leading 152 House Democrats in challenging Trump's devastating cuts to life-saving NIH research grants. Congress—not Trump—controls federal spending. Trump must do his job, “faithfully execute” the laws and stop violating the Constitution to undercut public health.

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AP Story on Judge Young's ruling apnews.com/article/nih-...

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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

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Vaccines save lives!

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“No Kings Day”: A compilation

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it is Illegal to not enjoy this. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Support science? Ever gotten sick? Know someone who has gotten sick? This is for you. 👇🏽👇🏽 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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ATL United!

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In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

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No one likes the idea of living through violent social upheaval but do you prefer the idea of spending the rest of your life with your head down? watching neighbors vanish? wondering who's next? I don't at a certain we owe ourselves and everyone who comes afterwards a tall glass of courage

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Megabill would cost poorest households $1,600 a year, boost richest by $12K, according to Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper.

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Better save a copy of this now

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1/3 Listen to Masha Gessen, a journalist & expert on authoritarianism, warn we are entering “the most dangerous phase” normalization in the decline of democracy. This is the stage when repeated violations of democratic norms—actions that once shocked us—become part of everyday life.

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This Saturday there is a Nationwide "No Kings Protest" because America has no king. Exercise your first amendment rights at a location near you www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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These recommended pediatric and adult vaccine schedules reflect ACIP guidance, and were archived on Feb 18, 2025. 🚨 If you- or your kids are behind for any reason, get caught up now. Parents: cancer-preventing HPV vax is approved for all kids 9 yrs and up. Please don’t miss out on this protection.

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Also this! CDC workers walk out, join former employees in protest calling on RFK Jr. to resign Source: Axios Atlanta share.newsbreak.com/di720n84?s=i16

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"We call on members of Congress from both parties who care about their constituents to defend NIH’s critical role in lifesaving research." NEW op ed published today by Carol Greider, Nobel Laureate, Argye Hillis, Neurologist @ John Hopkins, & Todd Wolfson, Anthropologist @ Rutgers & AAUP President.

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New opportunity to help sustain global health research re-fund-global-health.vercel.app

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Protesters take to CDC over abrupt firing of entire vaccine committee

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~134 NIH grants worth of money so that soldiers can sleep on floors and stand around buildings

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By 2037, the US is expected to face a shortage of 187K physicians, including 87K primary care physicians like internists & pediatricians. The Trump plan? Cut student loan programs for medical students and training programs for pediatricians. Rural communities will be especially affected. Really?🤔

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RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

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Are you effing kidding me with this In an unprecedented move, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. removed all 17 members of the CDC's expert panel of vaccine advisers, citing conflicts of interest www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

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From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

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Mark your calendars! Please join a rally on Monday, June 9, 2025 at main entrance of CDC Chamblee Campus and or rally on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at main entrance of CDC Roybal Campus. Share image below. Stand up for science. Stand up for public health. #saveCDC #WeArePatriots

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Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅

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A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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"The scientific research base of the United States of America is the research university. We made that decision 80 years ago. We don't have a Plan B." — Condoleezza Rice

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Spot on depiction

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I can only imagine what Musk must feel like, having his federal funding for critical work ripped away by someone who doesn't even really understand what he does.

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NIH SRAs, POs, and staff are super heroes!!!

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This kind of clear, direct explanation of what’s happening is basic journalism and yet it’s surprising to hear it stated so forthrightly in this mealy-mouthed era.

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"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."

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I would hope that, by this point, university leaders who are still "negotiating" with the administration have their eyes wide open about the fact that these negotiations are all in bad faith.

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Musk's legacy won't be rockets to Mars – it will be starved children.

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It seems somewhat quaint that you think there are necessarily going to be large numbers of continuing grants…

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Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

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Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

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In a move that could bring future research on HIV vaccines to a near halt, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases notified researchers today that it will not renew funding next year for two major consortia in the beleaguered field, Science has learned. scim.ag/4jpUm5W

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