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Breaking — Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) has fired 1,000 probationary employees and put out a press release bragging about the money they’re saving.

submitted 14 days ago • 86 comments

public health is dead in America. in the next four years under RFK, many thousands or millions of americans will follow her into the grave.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

this is literally the entire budget for Medicaid btw. this is a literal death sentence for millions of people

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

Well what do you know? The Regime has just admitted that they must in fact follow a judge’s court order and release NIH funds to grantees. Thanks to @pinktweets.bsky.social for alerting me. popular.info/p/breaking-n...

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 19 days ago • 1025 comments

All this administration does is put every single nonprofit and institution into a trolley problem of either sacrificing trans people or hurting everyone else by eliminating federal funding. It won't end with us. They'll do this with every minority until it's only white men who are left.

submitted 20 days ago • 65 comments

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 23 days ago • 1420 comments

“We at the American Journal of Public Health have no interest in following the president's prohibitions on language," said Georges Benjamin, MD, publisher of AJPH 👏👏👏 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 25 days ago • 164 comments

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

submitted 25 days ago • 353 comments

My letter to ASM leaders that I sent is too long to be posted here, so I'm going to post highlights in case anyone else needs information for their letter. 🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Mass protests in Indiana as hundreds stepped up to stand against tyranny. The demonstrations were sparked after Trump collaborator Gov. Braun signing an executive order, directing law enforcement to aid ICE ethnic cleansing operations. #3E #USprotests #ICE "Who's the criminal? Donald Trump!"

submitted 25 days ago • 189 comments

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 25 days ago • 819 comments

I just need you to understand the degree to which every columnist and pundit claiming they just wanted to "follow the science" or have more research on trans kids is just remarkably full of shit

submitted 25 days ago • 42 comments

Authors need to refuse to comply. I mean the whole-ass CDC should've refused to comply in the first place, but here we are.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

ah cool, an archive of all CDC data before they tampered with it

submitted 25 days ago • 39 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 27 days ago • 503 comments

someone forgot to scrub the author metadata in OPM memos... www.404media.co/opm-memos-to...

submitted 31 days ago • 25 comments

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

submitted 31 days ago • 1475 comments

NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.

submitted 31 days ago • 18 comments

the depressing thing about what's happening and to come is how fucking unnecessary all of it was. no war forced us into this, no massive recession. bunch of bored morons pushed the "break everything" button because of the man on the tv and the people on their phone told them, and people will die.

submitted 31 days ago • 72 comments

Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity Trump: Trade war! Colombia: OK Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights Colombia: Good. Was that so hard? Trump: They gave in!

submitted 32 days ago • 148 comments

legitimately our best case scenario for the next four years is that Trump gets pushback, backs down and declares victory the more times that happens the better for everyone also it demonstrates once again the value of pushing back on absolutely everything

submitted 31 days ago • 77 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 31 days ago • 1092 comments

"A brief pause" my ass. Their goal was always to cripple science. The danger posed by this administration cannot be overstated.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I was one of 12 microbiologists scheduled to fly to Seattle in the first week of February, to attend a workshop onboarding the FDA surveillance testing method for C. sakazakii. "Was" is the key word. I already had plane tickets. The conference was already paid for. The clear goal is disruption.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

yes, again it's very murky what the south african bigot who openly supports white supremacist politicians and spreads white supremacist memes all day on his white supremacist friendly platform meant with the DOUBLE white supremacist hand gesture at the inauguration of a white supremacist president

submitted 37 days ago • 13 comments

20 years ago I knew a guy who worked part time, minimum wage, as a dishwasher. He was able to afford rent and a car (both shitty but functional), concerts, weed, etc. It's interesting to think of how that kind of dirtbag lifestyle is mostly just gone.

submitted 73 days ago • 158 comments

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

submitted 73 days ago • 1126 comments

To all the people upset about Luigi Mangione being made into a folk hero. Now you know how we felt when you made Kyle Rittenhouse into a hero.

submitted 78 days ago • 1210 comments

Can we say the quiet part out loud: BlueSky can ban Gazan refugees who haven't even posted anything but not Jesse Singal who never shuts the fuck up because one of these people is a famously litigious turd a small startup isn't ready to beef with and the other is just a humanitarian crisis.

submitted 78 days ago • 16 comments

We had one, it was called Black Lives Matter and since then we had the most virulent counterreaction to any movement since Reconstruction

submitted 80 days ago • 58 comments

Counterpoint: Do

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submitted 80 days ago • 124 comments

"Luigi Mangione" is like a name J.K. Rowling would make for an Italian wizard.

submitted 80 days ago • 49 comments

Correct. Truman tried to create a national healthcare system around the same time that European nations were making theirs. It was killed by Dixiecrats because it would have required integrated hospital facilities.

submitted 84 days ago • 164 comments

Can I make the smiley face emoji bigger? 😁😁😁😁😁 www.advocate.com/business/blu...

submitted 85 days ago • 22 comments

Hey, you know what would keep billionaire Health Insurance Company CEOs from getting randomly assassinated on the street by angry disgruntled citizens? Universal Single Payer Healthcare like they have in civilized countries

submitted 84 days ago • 51 comments