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12.10.2025 22:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
18.03.2025 21:50 β π 13060 π 6439 π¬ 106 π 275"The abuse of the word 'antisemitism' is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one."
15.03.2025 14:27 β π 2186 π 713 π¬ 54 π 36I think about this a lot in my town where we have a fantastic rail trail, but no on-road infrastructure. The rail trail goes downtown, but not to the office park, the mall, or several schools. Imagine how much more powerful it could be when actually connected to potential destinations.
03.03.2025 15:02 β π 80 π 10 π¬ 5 π 2NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
By @katherinejwu.com
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in βnearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,β
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts β more than 90% of its foreign aid programs β in defiance of the courts.
Hereβs a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. Theyβve saved millions of lives. π§΅
This is why the military's Chief of Staff was fired this weekend. (Fired by a guy whose relevant work experience was weekend anchor on Fox News). Listen to it, and then help rise to defend the America that produced this noble man.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=brQL...
Pritzker: If we donβt want to repeat history, then for godβs sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
20.02.2025 03:25 β π 34104 π 8865 π¬ 540 π 627New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
Governmentβs wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics.
Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.*
So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
15.02.2025 20:43 β π 19578 π 5750 π¬ 290 π 247How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when Trump announced his federal funding freeze.
12.02.2025 21:02 β π 3446 π 1268 π¬ 250 π 126Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
10.02.2025 16:16 β π 9450 π 2401 π¬ 344 π 83Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments
www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying heβs following βmajor crisisβ of βmass deportations;β takes on Vance saying βThe true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the βGood Samaritanβ
11.02.2025 11:53 β π 7725 π 1798 π¬ 287 π 1204Imagine if university presidents instead of cowering, called up their faculty too speak in a round-the-clock marathon across the nation about how their research serves every American who has ever faced illness and disease.
11.02.2025 11:20 β π 1422 π 309 π¬ 33 π 22Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals
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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them β βtheyβre studying the spit of lizards?!β β remind them thatβs exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
This is really good!
I'd encourage anyone who has been feeling overwhelmed, scared, and defeated by what's been happening lately to watch this latest video by Ezra Klein.
It explains very well what is happening, how to look at it, and gives you some basic tools for handling news as we go forward.
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elonβs attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
06.02.2025 02:07 β π 5263 π 2693 π¬ 120 π 192Of course itβs a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
As infuriating and outrageous as Trumpβs latest comments on annexing Gaza are, he is a master of distraction. He deliberately throws out incendiary statements, knowing they will dominate the headlines and divert attention from his dangerous actions at playβin this case, a power grab.
05.02.2025 16:38 β π 311 π 127 π¬ 21 π 9Even in the dark and cold, cycling in Utrecht (NL) never stops. For my new post I filmed the evening rush hour at a busy intersectionβhundreds of cyclists, smooth interactions, and barely a car in sight. Plus, an unexpected momentβ¦ Watch the video!
04.02.2025 23:00 β π 105 π 18 π¬ 2 π 2NSF is still freezing grants and reviewing for potential clashes with trumps edicts: terms such asβbroadening participationβ language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energyβ all flagged. This is insane, career wrecking and damaging for quality science π‘π§ͺ
04.02.2025 07:49 β π 149 π 85 π¬ 1 π 6list of banned keywords
π¨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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