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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit

this should not be controversial 🫠

Not pro-life.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Powerful words here from Gov Josh Shapiro…..

Bari Weiss Crosses Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Picket Line This week, Bari Weiss, the controversial new right-wing head of CBS News, crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to participate in a front-page puff piece that painted her as a scrappy “Pitts...

Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl".

The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News.
paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?

in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

a large wave in the ocean is breaking ALT: a large wave in the ocean is breaking

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ALL 3 PA DEMOCRATIC STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE BEEN RETAINED OVERWHELMINGLY!

DEMOCRATS WILL MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE SUPREME COURT!

Pennsylvania!!

A cutthroat game of infectious disease trivai at the #MIDAS2025 student group meeting. Looking forward to a discussion with @jeremymberg.bsky.social.

It's day 2 of MIDAS 25 and we are excited for a long day of amazing talks scheduled. Click the link below for today's schedule.
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Jonas Salk administering the polio vaccine to a child. Photo source: The New Atlantis.

#ResistanceRoots

Jonas Salk was born on this day in 1914 in New York City. He is best known for developing the first safe and effective polio vaccine, one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. He famously refused to patent his vaccine or seek any profit from it. /1

Remembering the Pittsburgh #TreeofLife synagogue shooting victims on the seventh anniversary of that horror. May the killings END.

Zichronam Livracha - May their abiding spirits belvong guides for us all...

The flame of a candle with words above it reading: "Seven years ago today, 11 Jewish people were murdered in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. May their memories be for a blessing. Joyce Fienberg, 75 Richard Gottfried, 65 Rose Mallinger, 97 Jerry Rabinowitz, 66 Cecil Rosenthal, 59 David Rosenthal, 54 Bernice Simon, 84 Sylvan Simon, 86 Daniel Stein, 71 Melvin Wax, 88 Irving Younger, 69." A logo for Bend the Arc: Jewish Action appears at the bottom.

Today, we remember the 11 beloved Jewish community members who were murdered at a synagogue in Pittsburgh seven years ago.

May their memories be a blessing and may their families be comforted.

I really appreciate Veena's perspective on this. University bosses who get on board the Trump train now are making short-term decisions to protect themselves, while exposing their students to substantial harm in the short term and themselves to significant legal liability in the future.

More:

Government shutdown means many CDC experts are skipping a pivotal meeting on infectious disease An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts can’t participate.

Just another normal HHS week: CDC researchers cannot present work at an annual Infectious Disease conference in (checks notes) Atlanta. As a CDC researcher put it:

“It appears to me that HHS’s goal is to prevent the dissemination of scientific information. It’s insane.”

apnews.com/article/infe...

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

The PA Supreme Court has stood up for our rights —protecting access to birth control, contraception, and prenatal care.

Vote YES to RETAIN Justices Donohue, Dougherty & Wecht

Freedom is on the ballot!
👉 vote.pa/register

#PACourtsMatter

NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.

This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing.

undark.org/2025/10/09/o...

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This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

MIT

Pleased to see my alma mater stepping up when it counts.

My statement on the two-year anniversary of the horrific Hamas terrorist attack against Israel and Netanyahu's ongoing war against the Palestinian people:

marrazzo is one of the most respected and accomplished physician scientists/public health experts in the world

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

I just supported @ww2.kqed.org.web.brid.gy and @npr.org to the tune of a few lattes per month. You can support your local station and NPR now, too - now more than ever, we need trusted sources of news and information outside corporate control and right-wing influence

appreciating federal workers, especially those at the NIH, NSF, and other agencies that fund their science. Hope that an agreement is reached that brings them back to work and protects Congress' authority to direct federal spending.

Needed to take a bit of a social media break for personal reasons, but hopping back on say:

At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc.

While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS! Fight for the peopler Shut it dow Iithe GOP won't concede! We will not live on our knees!

Don’t let them lie to you!
The GOP controls the House, Senate, and White House.

If the government shuts down, it's because they chose to shut it down rather than pass a budget that serves the American people. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
🗣Kickoff! 11/4/2025 🧵1/2

1. CA: Prop 50 Ballot Initiative

2. PA: State Supreme Court Justices Retention

3. NJ/VA: State General

4. NYC: Mayor

⬇️More info on each in reply

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly