Ford/Widasky

This smokescreen by this Administration is wild. Having just walked the streets of DC two weeks ago (completely safe) and then you factor in all the White House upgrades, it’s clear as day that he’s trying to wall off the Capital for when he decides to FULLY coup. Wake. Up. People. It’s here.

This is figure 5, which shows the therapeutic efficacy of a plaque-evading lithium salt.

Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/47mxemu #medsky 🧪

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New Executive Order Gives Trump Greater Control Over Science Grants President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that will give him and his political appointees unprecedented control over grants from the NIH, NSF and other agencies.

New Executive Order Gives Trump Greater Control Over Science Grants

Here’s my coverage of this in @forbes.com

🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science

www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

A new hormone arrives in the middle of the night Nature Medicine - Jeffrey Friedman recalls the heady excitement when his group discovered leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite.

Great vacation read in @natmed.nature.com: Jeffrey Friedman reflects on the electrifying 3 AM moment that led to leptin’s discovery; which ultimately linked fat mass to appetite regulation and reshaped obesity research: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪

NPR obtained bodycam footage showing Jared Wise beating police officers on Jan. 6 and yelling “kill ’em” as rioters attacked.
He now works as a senior adviser in Trump’s DOJ.

“Back the blue,” right?

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

The climate crisis is real, but this Administration is actively changing information to prevent the public from knowing the truth. This is a five alarm fire. Congress must investigate it immediately. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 More on the Government Accountability Office Finding that the Administration has Illegally Withheld NIH Funds

Nature’s bioengineers at work. 🦪 🧪

#Oyster #Ocean #Biology

Release the files NOW!

She pretty well summed it all up 👇👇👇👇👇

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share this far & wide. MISINFORMATION at CDC is spreading throughout our country & most people have no clue. Please stay updated & bookmark this page for your health & well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

#BetterInAUnion
#UnionStrong

Grok is growing on me.

I propose a sad toast …
To PBS and the frog that led us to the rainbows of our youth.

Cooper leads first public poll since jumping in North Carolina Senate race The former governor is six points up in what will be one of the most competitive Senate races in the country next year.

Roy Cooper (D) is leading by six points in the North Carolina Senate race.

@roycoopernc.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

#TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpsteien #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein #TrumpEpstein

🧪EPA new report “Sea level rise is not accelerating. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be good for plant growth. The computer models used to predict global warming tend to exaggerate future temperature increases.” Their new job is Gaslighting the public!

After 60 minutes and Stephen Colbert I have deleted Paramount app. Not going to support cowards.

Before people decide to take the word of RFK Jr. about childhood vaccines they need to take a stroll around a pre-1950’s cemetery and look at those family plots with children’s gravestones.

Quantifying effects of solar power adoption on CO2 emissions reduction Analyzing the impact of solar power adoption on CO2 reduction targets provides key insights for policymakers and stakeholders.

☀️Solar cuts CO2 fast

A new study found that a 15% rise in US solar power cuts CO₂ emissions by 8.54 million metric tons annually, 12% of the EPA's 20-year reduction goal.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SciComm #ClimateAction 🧪

2/ "We don’t need a Dem majority. We don’t need criminal charges. We have the authority and the obligation to remove this entire unelected, illegitimate regime.

"What YOU can do—circulate this Substack to everyone, ask them to do the same. We the People are the media until they decide to step up."

Remember that chilling line from, I think it was Gangs of New York, “We can always hire half the poor to kill the other half.”
How much money are they giving to ICE again?

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Nationwide Protest --- Be There

Understanding the success and failure of online political debate: Experimental evidence using large language models Adjusting tone, justification, and compromise improves online debate quality but does not change political attitudes.

💬 What improves online political debate?

A new study used AI to test what makes political talk better. Tone, reasoning, and compromise helped; partisanship did not. Minds did not change, but conversations improved.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SciComm #Democracy #AI 🧪

They'd rather go home than face the truth.

Ruben Gallego