N.I.H. Cuts Likely to Curtail Study of Climate Change’s Health Effects The N.I.H. has indicated that it will stop funding research on the topic. Scientists said that would make it harder to protect people.

The NIH will stop funding research on health effects of climate change, even as the growing severity of climate change stands to make those effects more severe.

I talked to researchers — who haven't been told if this policy will cancel their active grants — about what this means for our health. 🧵

When you blame marginalized groups for the rise of racists like Trump, you're no different than the racists who voted for Trump... because guess who they blame for the way they voted...

A man was sent to El Salvador due to 'administrative error' despite protected legal status, filings show Kilmar Abrego Garcia "was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error," a Monday court filing said.

DEVELOPING: A man was sent to El Salvador due to 'administrative error' despite protected legal status, filings show

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Politico: Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world

We knew that you don't title “Houthi PC Small Group” if it was the first time.

This is an egregious pattern that makes it clear:

These people obviously cannot keep our servicemembers—or any of us—safe.

Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.

Val Kilmer has died at 65

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country WASHINGTON—According to a new report published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, you live in a deeply embarrassing and barely functional country. “Our latest research and statistical analysis show...

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart Why Can't We Have Nice Things with Ezra Klein | The Weekly Show

Full conversation here ⬇️:
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Soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63 The star, who had been in the Sequence before solo hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died from her injuries in Alabama Singer Angie Stone, known for her hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died at the age of 63. A representative for the singer confirmed to…

Soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63

Great book. Read that in 2020.

A black and white still of actor Peter Boyle as The Monster trying to eat soup with actor Gene Hackman as The Blind Hermit in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

YouTube video by RHINO Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song (Official Video)

Roberta Flack
1937 - 2025

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

How Trump’s Directives Echo Project 2025 President Trump attempted during his campaign to distance himself from the right-wing blueprint to overhaul the federal government, but many of his administration’s actions so far have mirrored it.

More than 60 major moves that President Trump and his administration have made in his first 23 days, including executive orders and agency memos, have aligned with proposals in the Project 2025 blueprint, according to a New York Times analysis.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2025 CONTACT Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon. The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen. “Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.” “Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide. On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals. "Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse. “The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

Incredible news!

The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.

The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.

ACLU statement here:

Trump Officials to Put Almost All U.S.A.I.D. Workers on Leave A notice posted on the agency’s website, which had gone dark over the weekend, said that nearly all of its global work force would be put on administrative leave by Friday.

Breaking News: Nearly all of the 10,000 workers at U.S.A.I.D., the U.S. global aid agency, will be put on leave by the week’s end, an official memo said.

What to know about the El Salvadorian mega-prison Trump has promised to send U.S. prisoners The U.S. cannot deport American citizens and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said from Costa Rica that "we have a Constitution" but called the offer very generous.

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and imprisoned citizens to the tiny Central American nation, which has suspended some basic rights as it battles powerful street gangs.

Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the "Riviera of the Middle East" under U.S. ownership.

UPDATE: Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the “Riviera of the Middle East” under U.S. ownership.

Chappell Roan performing ‘Pink Pony Club’ at the #GRAMMYs .

Doechii joins Cardi B and Lauryn Hill as the only women in #GRAMMYs  history to win Best Rap Album.

Spot on @ninaturner.bsky.social spot on

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Transgender issues aren’t “a distraction.”

They are the main event for the GOP.

They hate us enough to hurt everyone.

Giving up Meta for a week has been more difficult than giving up alcohol for a month so far. I deleted Twitter a while ago and this has been an ok substitute. Didn’t care for Threads. Also considering buying Tequila to sit on before tariffs kick in. What cold and strange times we’re living in.

These fake Christians wouldn’t know Jesus if he came down from heaven and died on a cross for them…

The President and this judge are lying. Outlawing Birthright Citizenship is a violation of the 14th Amendment. Though I’m sure Trump doesn’t support due process, equal protection or banning insurrectionists from office either. Is the again in MAGA pre Civil War & pro slavery?