Urge Your U.S. Senator to Oppose Steep Budget Cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)! The Senate Appropriations Committee is considering the Administration’s request to cut NIH funding by nearly 40 percent for its fiscal year 2026 budget which could harm critical, lifesaving work at th...

Urge Your U.S. Senator to Oppose Steep Budget Cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)! www.congressweb.com/NORD/267?fra...

What to Know About the Kids Online Safety Act What to know about the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, which has been reintroduced and has a second chance.

THEYRE AT IT AGAIN
CALL YOUR REPS, WE HAVE ANOTHER BILL TO KILL

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it will be difficult but we're going to need a fairly radical shift in online norms over the coming years as censorship and puritan crackdowns continue to worsen. absolutely no more listing your age, mental illnesses and all your kinks on your profile. the era of shutting da fuck up is here

well this should settle any lingering doubts about how much he knew

Zenith Festival with artwork based off the movie Sinners 🔥 🎶

Ref. @saucefunk.bsky.social
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#mtg #sinners #vampires

‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version Max will debut Sinners in the U.S. on Friday July 4, when viewers will be able to watch it two ways: by 1) streaming the exact theatrically-released version, and 2) choosing Sinners in Black American Sign Language (BASL). It’s the first time a streaming service has interpreted a film into BASL, Warner Bros. says.

‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version

The Subway Is Not Scary Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

"You sound real corny being scared of the subway."

Yeah so NIOSH was in charge of making sure corporations weren’t mass producing respirators that don’t actually keep particles out and calling them good.

Those of us who rely on respirators are now going to have to research the hell out of them.

A screenshot from the CDC website showing that the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer is closed

The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr.

NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.

There have been ongoing efforts to reduce animal research, as there should be at NIH. There was a similar statement issued by former director Bertagnolli.

But it differs in subtle but important ways. Worth comparing.

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A good summary:
RFK doesn't care if kids die because of measles but is willing to use mice as a wedge issue.

I really really want to stress that novovax is the covid vaccine preferred by a lot of people in the disability advocacy space. Disability advocates have pushed hard to maintain access for this vaccine that's not as well known as Moderna or Pfizer, but is better tolerated by a lot of people

Folks knowledgable about the long history of these conditions are showing that RFK Jr. is a giant clown, so I’ll just add that by 1999 (26 years ago), the world knew enough about them that two of Rob Schneider’s clients in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo suffered from them (Tourette’s and narcolepsy).

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

The measles surge in the southwest is now the SINGLE LARGEST OUTBREAK since 2000 and the United States is now at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

rfk jr should put some funds into figuring out his whole deal. get a team on it. like why does he love dead animals so much? is this just what happens if a guy loves dead animals so much and it never costs him anything socially? and why does he look like a haunted animatronic they found at the dump

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:

An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.” Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges. “I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’” Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.” The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside. “I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.” Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.” There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.” About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.

Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

Can confirm that our IMLS docs were removed after our grant was terminated. The whole awardee search functionality disappeared. Mess

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

Touching grass is not enough I need to run from a bee

if we were so good at sports u would expect every women's professional roster would be jam-packed w a disproportionately high amount of trans women to get an edge. instead there's like one of us in a league and we get 12th and everyone gets mad at us anyway

Cancer is so partly so vicious bc treatment, when possible, requires destruction of the human body, thru chemo, radiation, surgery. Research at NIH was revealing a different path: harnassing the power of the human body--as found in its immune system--against the cancer. That research is gone, now.

free RATs ordering guide (HHS) How to bulk order free rapid tests from the government & FAQs: You do NOT have to be an official organization (no requirement to be a 501c3, school, or anything else). You don’t even have to be a mut...

If you or your mutual aid group want to get some of that federal stockpile of COVID tests, you can order them for free. Minimum is 300, unclear what the max is! my local clean air group just did this and they arrived quickly:
docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Thank you!

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

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My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example