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Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.
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During a House hearing last month, VA Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer Charles Worthington said REACH VET “has used AI algorithms to identify over 130,000 veterans at elevated risk, improving outpatient care and reducing suicide attempts.”
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
Who Left the Federal Workforce www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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“We are in purgatory—not having enough resources to do our jobs, and not knowing what the vision is for the agency moving forward. Leadership by utter neglect.”
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
RFK Jr. likes to wax nostalgic about how “healthy” America was in the 1960’s. He bases this on one datapoint, the prevalence of obesity.
But let’s dip our toes into reality. In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now
⬇️ 300k fed employees or about 1 in 8 😔
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
This sounded so familiar and sure enough, Medical Properties Trust was also involved in the near collapse of Watsonville Community Hospital. See calmatters.org/health/2024/08/private-equity-health-care
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One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
On C-sections, intraoperative pain, and how patients and providers are working together to solve this problem
The Retrievals, Season 2 www.nytimes.com/article/seri...
“…new scholarship program that will fully fund master’s degrees for at least 50 students with significant experience in the public sector, including the military.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
17.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH.
These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures.
How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
A new paper shows that pediatric deaths in the US are significantly higher than in comparable countries, but what is driving this?
“Premature births, sudden unexpected infant deaths, congenital anomalies for infants; firearms, motor vehicle crashes, substance use, and homicide for ages 1-19”.
NO KINGS DAY was not a dour, dismal acknowledgement of certain defeat, as much as it was a joyfully defiant dance party of pissed off people who haven’t let a minority movement of misery make them in capable of jubilation.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/id-lost-a-...
In March, VA officials across the US warned that their cancer-tracking databases were no longer being updated. Officials in the Pacific Northwest noted DOGE had marked its contract to maintain a cancer registry for “immediate termination.”
By @ericumansky.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
“Faith is when you…think that, well, America is exceptional and everything will work out in the end. And hope is when you observe and participate in the thing that carries out the truth...hope is connected to action…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
“…federal agencies have lost some 135,000 to firings and voluntary resignation, with another 150,000 in planned reductions.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...
Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH:
❌15% reduction in new therapies
❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T
❌loss of $51B in economic output annually
All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.'
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“(This) isn’t just about my friends’ losing their jobs. It’s about our entire country losing faith in the importance of expertise that’s wielded in service of the greater good.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/o...
“I mean, out of 59,000 dead names…the niece of Ray Delgado shows up when I’m touching his name?” Mr. Marlantes continued. “You gotta say that’s not just coincidence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u...
My ongoing request:
If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.
NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...
NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
Please check in with your fed friends. It's kinda stressful here
You’re fired
You’re rehired
You’re refired
You’re staying but your team is fired
Your team is staying but your funding’s cut
You’re moving across the country, maybe
Restraining order 🛑
Restraining order against the restraining order 🔙
This was a delightful read. Still wrapping my head around how GLP-1s and LASIK were invented tho🦎🥽🤯 #savescience
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
“I hope that the judge rules Wednesday that I can be released, so I can return to my lab. There is a data set that I’m halfway finished analyzing. I want to go home and finish it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
White House budget fact sheet, proposing unprecedented cuts to programs related to international aid, research, education, health, human services, labor, commerce, small businesses, and more, while dramatically increasing the budget for defense and homeland security.
They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.
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“Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you cannot have trust. The only government that exists without trust is a dictatorship,” Ressa said. “But beyond that, we don’t have a shared reality. Democracy happens in a shared reality."
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
One would think that VCs…would be the most forceful champions of…universities, given how much these institutions have fueled our careers and fortunes. Instead…the industry have turned their backs while the government chaotically terminates funding for this work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Figure. Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Pregnant People With Opioid Use Disorder in Tennessee, 2010-2021
From JAMA Health Forum: Buprenorphine treatment during pregnancy for opioid use disorder was associated with significantly improved maternal and infant outcomes compared to no treatment. #PAS2025
https://ja.ma/3EyF00J
“There is a noxious misunderstanding of what “essential’’ services mean…Is the suicide prevention hotline..up and running if veterans…might not even get through…? In a dystopian view of the world, none of this is essential. In a humane one, all of this is wrong.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/25/o...
