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VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.

Can’t afford your doubled or tripled Trump-care insurance premiums? No problem team Trump is getting rid of health care all together so you do t have to suffer from FOMO during your terminal decline.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Notes on NIH matters as the government opens up again A tweet from someone apparently positioned to know claimed the damage totals from the government shutdown amounted to 379 study sections postponed, within which 24,380 NIH grant applications were s…

Notes on NIH matters as the government opens up again drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/n...

On AF1 right now

This is a beautiful graphic from the great data graphics guru Edward Tufte

A memorandum from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, dated August 26, 2025. It is addressed to a redacted recipient and issued by Joseph A. Scallan, Chief of Staff, Office of the Administrator, FEMA.

Page 2 of a FEMA memorandum on administrative leave. The document advises confidentiality and directs questions to FEMA’s employee relations email.

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has just unlawfully placed signatories to the Katrina Declaration on administrative leave.

See the letter below…🧵

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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Well, most people don’t bother to discover that. They just keep talking

My quote of the day

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

🧵 by @lawofruby.bsky.social:

Candid and important remarks from Josh Gordon on the future of science in America. Tough road ahead

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

Full video here, originally shared by DW. What Jeremy says is exactly right—clear, urgent, and deeply important. Cuts to science affect everyone, sooner or later, everywhere. Illness knows no ideology, no borders. This concerns us all. Watch, reflect, share, discuss.

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'Where's our money?' CDC grant funding is moving so slowly layoffs are happening The state and local health departments that rely on CDC funding say the money is not coming in on time and no one can tell them why. Some are laying off staff.

The state and local health departments that rely on CDC funding say the money is not coming in on time and no one can tell them why. Some are laying off staff.

Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.

AP Story on Judge Young's ruling

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The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence?

Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue.

1/ A🧵on the danger.

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPublica what is being lost.

Few are telling this trainwreck's tale with as much rigor and passion as @anniewaldman.bsky.social‬ @ #ProPublica.

"[Trump] ...has terminated more than 1,450 [#NIH] grants withholding more than $750 million in funds."

Read the full piece zurl.co/fCpUU & join us to fight back.
#StandUpForScience

Trump's military parade will cost $25-45 Million dollars, while federal funding for science is slashed, public servants are fired, and life-saving programs are ended, presumably to save money. Got it. I'll be saying what I think about that at @indivisible.org #NoKingsDay tomorrow. #StandUpForScience

Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.

For Nature, women make up around 16% of corresponding authors who submit manuscripts — a percentage unchanged from 2018. Women comprise some 18% of corresponding authors who submit papers to Nature Communications and the Nature-branded research journals.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Demand for American degrees has already hit covid-era lows Trump’s war on universities could drive away America’s brightest import

America used to be the first choice for international students. Now the Trump administration is doing its best to push them away. It might succeed in hurting the Ivies, but it will hurt American innovation and competitiveness more

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Addendum: Matt makes a great point.

The research cuts both ways on Vance's claim about immigration's impact on social cohesion. But there's really no doubt that Trump II's policies completely undermine it among the broader population.

More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump:

Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

What if the frame was:
"Zero Republican lawmakers raised concerns to the corruption of the President's plan to accept a luxury plane from the Qatari royal family"

And the fact that the AG's last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar wasn't in the 13th graf

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Instead of stating simply that this is illegal, this story walks through the entire process of turning a gifted plane into Air Force One, as if the thing readers need to know about a bank robbery is the ins and outs of how the thieves plan to launder the money.

ATTENTION

New crowdsourced site collecting and sharing stories of public impact of research

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Take a look and consider contributing. Let's make this as powerful as possible!

Powerful new piece "Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH" from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social in The Nation...

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

In the new assault on foreign collaborations, can anyone explain what a subproject is? grants.nih.gov/news-events/...