Rachel Widome

This is starting to add up...

A Facebook memory post from 16 years ago where I asked if there was a sleep snake sweepstakes.

I wish I could ask me to explain myself

Blumenthal (D-CT) Blunt Rochester (D-DE) Booker (D-NJ) Duckworth (D-IL) Gillibrand (D-NY) Heinrich (D-NM) Hickenlooper (D-CO) Kaine (D-VA) Lujan (D-NM) Markey (D-MA) Merkley (D-OR) Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Ossoff (D-GA) Padilla (D-CA) Sanders (I-VT) Schiff (D-CA) Schumer (D-NY) Smith (D-MN) Van Hollen (D-MD) Warren (D-MA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

Only 23 Dems voted against confirming former Congressman Marc Molinaro, an opponent of public transit, as Federal Transit Administrator.

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Help I keep thinking male baristas are actually called baristos

Yeah yeah everyone keeps talking about building walls at the borders but how about building a giant air filter at the US's northern border? This is a legitimately good idea and I will not be taking any questions

Now this could be due in part to the fact that the oldsters send texts that are like e-mails, that contain 3 questions and 2 action items within one text.

I think some youngsters think of texts the way some people think of e-mail, like oh I got a text, I should respond to it in the next few days...

“The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the US at a level not seen since Japanese internment,” [said] Carrie Lee, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund… “We don’t want the military doing law enforcement. It absolutely undermines the rule of law”

It’s super bleh

Yeah this person told me he almost grabbed them but then realized he didn’t want to be the guy holding the bolt cutters if the cops happened to show up

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Rewriting history: Smithsonian removes Trump, the only president impeached twice, from its exhibit about impeachment. "Only three presidents have seriously faced removal," the exhibit now says referring to Johnson, Nixon and Clinton @janaykingsberry.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

(When he turned back to check out what exactly was going on the would-be thief ditched his bolt cutters in a bush and ran.)

Double lock your e-bikes, guys. Someone I know saw a dude trying to cut a lock off an e-bike on UMN’s West Bank today. In the middle of the day, in plain view!

Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows

New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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States with two Democratic senators voting YES:

GA
HI
IL
MA
MD
MN
NM
RI
VT

(If there is any Big Tobacco money or support behind that it’s prob a violation of the Master Settlement Agreement.)

Whoa, just googling that guest. Whew.

Yes, this is my question too

Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.

Now do Bhattacharya

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

Russell Vought wanted to shut down all extramural grants from NIH in this current fiscal year, putting stop to ALL research across the US. Someone in the White House had better sense. But Vought is a dangerous man, who will stop at nothing to destroy science in America. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Normalizing | Clarke & Esposito Impact Factors return to “normal”, NIH’s public access policy begins, AI court rulings, Wiley's mojo

We wrote about this last month in @brieferyet.bsky.social and are working now to compile a list of publisher policies www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/no...

Cretin. Sometimes when I think about Saint Paul I’m like ooo sounds like a nice place! Then I bike over the river, hit Cretin and I’m like dafuq…

Trump administration halts, then releases, NIH research funding The decision temporarily froze $15 billion in federal funding, according to one senator. It came as Trump officials wrestle over federal spending levels.

The whiplash continues: the WaPo now reports that OMB halted, and then hours later unhalted, these NIH funds.

I'll be watching for any sign of NIH fund restriction this week and will post as soon as I hear more.

Know what's going on? DM me on Signal (mkozlov.01). You can stay anonymous.

Senior White House officials intervened to scrap the OMB effort to halt funding to the NIH, reports @nidhisubs.bsky.social, who broke the story for the WSJ

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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

Really, really bad. And really, really mystifying in its blatant disregard for science, medicine, health, education, etc.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

😂

I can confirm the news. Leadership received an email today saying

"NIH has received the full-year apportionment from OMB, but it contains a footnote that limits our obligations. At the moment, ASFR has interpreted this footnote to permit NIH obligations only for salaries, administrative expenses...

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

The NIH can’t award ANY grants to outside researchers under new WH restriction, reports @wsj.com.

The pause came in the form of a footnote from OMB Director Vought, in a document that doles out federal funds to the NIH.

Prelude to rescissions, especially after his comments over the weekend?

Vinay Prasad departs the FDA Vinay Prasad, a top FDA official, is out after less than 3 months on the job.

Vinay Prasad, who was named to replace Peter Marks as head of #FDA's biologics division, is out.
Extremely short tenure.
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