Shaunna Scott

Don’t forget that young woman who rolled her eyes!

Republican plans to cap student borrowing could shatter an everyday profession One GOP senator said anyone paying more than $100K to go to med school is "making a huge mistake." But the median cost of attending one is more than double that for the class of 2025.

There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care.

It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors

Ummmm, no shit.

Iran's parliament votes to close Straits of Hormuz after US attacks The vote took place Sunday after the U.S. on Saturday evening hit three Iranian nuclear sites and significantly damaged the country's capabilities.

We're at the "find out" part:

"The Iranian Parliament has voted in support of closing the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most critical oil transit chokepoints"

www.newsweek.com/iran-parliam...

Take note.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

So, a Fox personality calls for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium and then it happens a couple of days later.
Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media.

Federal Judge Deems Trump Administration’s Termination of NIH Grants Illegal In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent…

After the judge deemed the NIH grant terminations illegal, he noted that the government’s practices were discriminatory:

“This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. … I would be blind not to call it out.”

One researcher's brave stand in the urgent defense of academic freedom • Louisiana Illuminator Academic institutions exist to challenge the status quo, not protect it. Tulane has the opportunity to reaffirm that mission. It must not squander it.

COMMENTARY: Lt. Gen. Russell Honoré on the "gag order" that led a Tulane Environmental Law Clinic researcher to resign: "When universities permit political or financial interests to muzzle scholars, they betray their core mission: the free pursuit of knowledge." lailluminator.com/2025/06/18/a...

Happy Juneteenth!

Opinion | I’m a Vaccine Expert. Here’s What Keeps Me Up at Night About Kennedy’s Policies.

When we talk about American abundance apparently we are talking about the abundance of diseases our government is going to let us get

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

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Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill | KFF KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their...

Want to dig into all the ways the Senate has ratcheted up Medicaid cuts relative to the House? We've got you covered.

www.kff.org/tracking-the...

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Senior Voters Are Turning Out In Force To Protest Trump—And Could Be Democrats' Secret Weapon Think voters get more conservative with age? Think again.

“OK, Boomer” just got flipped on its head. At protests across the country this past weekend, older Americans turned out in force, leading chants, waving signs and showing that resistance has no age limit. And their passion isn’t just inspiring. It might be what helps save democracy.

A CONTROVERSIAL “APPEAL to Heaven” flag that has recently become associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement and Christian nationalism was flown above the Small Business Administration (SBA) agency last week in Washington, DC.

I came here to say that.

The band playing "Fortunate Son" might have been the best part of the whole parade. In case you don't know the lyrics, here they are. A perfect gift for a flawed man.

Some think that it was on purpose—a silent protest.

The hypothesis is that they shambled on purpose as a silent protest.

Federal Judge Deems Trump Administration’s Termination of NIH Grants Illegal In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent month...

NEW: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s termination of hundreds of NIH grants was “void and illegal.”

He ordered funding for some of the grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months, to be reinstated.

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Bookmark this for when the mainstream media and Republicans (same thing) say "no one could have predicted ..."
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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

At least 15 people, including an American citizen, were killed and 114 were injured in a massive overnight attack on Kyiv, marking the deadliest strike on the Ukrainian capital this year. wapo.st/4408pJO

So unfair. This is the reality of our healthcare system. Subhuman business tactics

Free Market is when the entire country is owned by a handful of insane ravenous assholes who use the government to protect them from competition

Members of a women’s soccer team are lined up wearing tshirts that say “Immigrant City Football Club”

This is super cool from the NWSL team Angel City FC, which is based in LA. They distributed these tshirts at last night’s game.

Are you kidding me? I think if you’re rich enough to be at a donor event, you must be either evil or stupid.

Federal Monitor Slams NYPD Unit Whose Aggressive Policing ProPublica Exposed A report from a court-appointed watchdog details “troubling” conduct and “unconstitutional” stops by the Police Department’s Community Response Team — a unit championed by Mayor Eric Adams.

NEW: A court-appointed federal monitor has found that an NYPD unit championed by Mayor Eric Adams has been unjustly stopping and searching New Yorkers, almost all of them Black and Hispanic men, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.

By @ericumansky.bsky.social‬

Ewwww