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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

the only difference between this guy and uncle rico from napoleon dynamite is at least the athletic achievement uncle rico never shut the fuck up about was real

Striking baristas in Newton, MA holding picket signs

It's DAY NINE of our open-ended, national ULP strike - and we're not slowing down.

Show some love to our striking baristas in Newton, MA and remember: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS while baristas are on strike! ✊ #NoContractNoCoffee

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

“There were early concerns that fare-free travel would heap extra burdens on bus drivers, drawing homeless people or anything-goes behavior. Yet several drivers said that not having to ask passengers for payment or transfers has led to less friction with riders.”

Gift link re: Iowa City free buses!

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

Orlando, Tampa, most of the other cities in FL

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Alcatraz housed people who had been convicted of actual crimes. This is more like Alligator Auschwitz

Joni Ernst Is A Piece Of Shit | Defector Here’s a story in two parts, both of which will be crushingly familiar to you. The main character of our tale is Iowa (uh oh) Senator Joni Ernst, who held a town hall in her home state this past Frida...

I wrote another politics. defector.com/joni-ernst-i...

Put incompetent people in charge of important things and bad outcomes will happen

The vaccine is 97% effective

97%

Nothing is this effective in medicine

Nothing

This is not a serious person

There has been a significant reduction in the number of kids getting the flu vaccine over the past 5 years—a drop from 64% to 49%.

Consequently, there have been 216 pediatric flu deaths so far this flu season, the highest number since the swine flu 15 years ago (link below).

Vaccinate.

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

A beeswarm chart of canceled NIH grants showing the years into each project when the funding was pulled. Each dot represents a terminated grant and is colored by the number of publications associated with the project: none, one to four or five or more. The grants are separated into thee rows based on the award type (R01, U01, U54). RO1 research projects had the most terminations, which occurred at all stages of research, from the project onset to 7+ years in. Most grants were canceled short of the 4-5 year lifespan of a typical grant, and 40% of R01s had no publications at the time of termination. Projects that had been active for longer had more publications, suggesting that more findings are disseminated in the later stages of these grants.

In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su

is this child-poisoning mfer taking a victory lap?!? jfc we are so cooked

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.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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The party traitors who voted to censure Al Green: (one of them is @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social)...

French lawmakers back tax on ultra-rich proposed by Ecologist Party Supporters say the levy would tackle inequality in France, although some fear the effect on investment, business expansion and jobs.

France, again, has the right idea www.euronews.com/business/202...

See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world

Since RFK Jr just got confirmed today, I am taking this chance to share this wonderful @sciam.bsky.social piece on

The Staggering Success of Vaccines

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

A very beardy Jason Kelce in a brown tweed and houndstooth (?) suit

he looks like the two banshees of inisherin guys combined

lol

In 2003, HIV/AIDS was devastating Africa. There was almost no access to treatment, babies were being born with HIV at alarming rates, & life expectancy was plummeting.
PEPFAR, the largest-ever U.S. investment in fighting a single disease, saved over 25M lives. But its future is now uncertain.
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I used to be a hospital librarian it was my job to take the CDs and load them on the computers every 3 months

End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say (Gift Article) A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.

Cutting off all foreign aid and development assistance—which is less than 1% of US spending overall—won't save American taxpayers anything. It will cause millions to starve, and spur mass migration and terrorism as a result. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Black history is so rich man…… Whats yall favorite black history fact???

YouTube video by CBC News Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US.

Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪

We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

Kloster is a fierce partisan. While he was working as deputy general counsel at OPM in 2020, the Associated Press reported that “Kloster worked as an observer for the Wisconsin Republican Party on election night and was accused of yelling at election workers and police in Green Bay, a claim he disputes.” He was directly involved in efforts to legally challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election by working for a controversial, taxpayer-funded effort in Wisconsin that ultimately found no widespread fraud. Days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, he responded to a tweet raising a scenario that could spark a “civil war” with hand clap emojis between the words “Do it.”

The new general counsel for OPM—the office issuing all those deranged memos—is Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and a temporary restraining order for domestic violence who most recently worked for Matt Gaetz.

www.pogo.org/investigatio...