The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

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With DOGE embedded across agencies, the government has access to any information you’ve shared. Support one another. Stand with your community. That’s what America was truly founded on.

Warning: ICE is planning 30 days of immigration raids across Los Angeles County. If you or someone you know may be impacted, now is the time to set up a support system, identify a safe place, and stay alert.

Solidarity with Los Angeles!

#50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #LosAngeles

Swasticops

I guess Stephen Miller ordered the invasion of CA while Trump was out partying!

Crying Over Elon, Trump Sends Troops to L.A. Coincidence?

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

The church did NOT appreciate his post

THIS

Some officials question whether Trump truly needs a traditional National Security Council. They say they are seeking ways to serve Trump himself, rather than the White House as an institution. A National Security Council staffed with mid- to senior-level policy experts might not be part of the equation for a president who thinks he is his own best adviser and is deeply skeptical of conventional wisdom on world affairs, they say.

This paragraph is gonna be my nightmare fuel for the next three years and eight months (2/2). www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Public Comment Toolkit The Trump Administration issued a new policy that would make it easy to fire hundreds of thousands of federal employees and replace them with political loyalists. This would make it easier to weaken our national security and dismantle the medical and Social Security benefits, clean water and safety regulations that took America out of the 1800s. We can stop them. Use this guide to submit a comment by May 23 How: Trump’s Office of Personnel Management is required to solicit public comments before the policy takes effect. OPM must review the public comments and respond to significant comments 2. If OPM does not follow these steps, federal courts can stop the policy. Commenting is your opportunity to make your voice heard and fight against this dangerous policy before it harms millions of Americans. Comments helped fight previous policies and can do so again: For example, Health and Human Services proposed reducing certain Medicare reimbursements for health care providers. Commenters pointed out errors with the studies cited by HHS. A court struck down the HHS rule because of the issues pointed out by comments. 3. What the policy does Removes civil-service protections from a new category of federal employees called Schedule Policy/Career. P/C employees become at-will workers. They lose their right to challenge terminations or appeal reclassification to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Allows agencies to identify and recommend "policy-influencing" roles into Schedule P/C. Gives the President sole authority to reclassify federal employees as P/C and removes their ability to challenge reclassification. Why it matters. Makes mass firings between administrations more likely, which weakens government expertise and efficiency. Politicizing government functions weakens continuity and the delivery of public services. The policy will remove safeguards for those refusing to break the law in favor of partisan outcomes.

Want a tangible way to resist? Here's your homework.

Follow the instructions in this super guide from our amazing friends at @fedworkersunited.bsky.social to comment by May 23 on the proposed Schedule F rule, which would remove civil service protections for a huge swath of the federal workforce.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Operation Panhandle Dialer

🚨. This Isn't a Drill!

We have a real opportunity to FLIP a U.S. House Seat in #FL01... But only if we show up!

Gay Valimont is in the ring. Now she needs us in her corner. Let's throw some punches by phonebanking - for our future! 👊

📞 SIGN-UP HERE! ⬇️

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America. Where women can die from a miscarriage and kids can die from measles.

Because apparently only the contributions and acts of bravery of white men are worth honoring.. . . . .I feel like there is a word for that🤔

Caving to Trump's demands, Columbia University says it will ban mask-wearing Enforcing such an order while allowing exceptions for health can be a dicey matter.

Columbia University has agreed to terms set by the Trump administration in order to retain its federal funding. This includes a mask ban, and it’s unclear whether and how health exceptions would be implemented for people who, for example, are immunocompromised.

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

This is the common perception of the average Chinese person after talking with Americans on Red Note. Not to mention, they think it's insane that we work 2+ jobs and sell plasma to pay bills. How does this make you feel?
#AmericanDream #RedNote #WorkingPoor #Taxes #China #UnitedStates

Musk steps up criticism of judges, offers $100 to voters who will do the same Musk’s political group America PAC is offering $100 to Wisconsin voters who sign a petition against “activist judges,” ahead of a pivotal state Supreme Court race.

Elon Musk stepped up his criticism of judges who ruled against the Trump administration, donating to lawmakers who support impeaching them and, through his political action committee, paying voters to sign a petition against those he calls “activists.”

Remember, if your voice didn't matter, then they wouldn't try to shut us up.
Be loud.
Take up space.
Don't budge.

Dr. Francis S. Collins, a renowned geneticist who led the NIH for 12 years, announced his retirement from both the institutes and the fed government. In his parting statement, he delivered a pointed yet measured message regarding the Trump admin’s decision to dismiss hundreds of NIH employees.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

It is a non-stop source of amazement how invisible misogyny remains to white men, who even now--after the highly respected Coast Guard Commandant was fired for being female & turfed out of her home with 3hrs notice--STILL write about MAGA & the purges of the federal gov as driven only by racism.

Being an empowered womyn in this country right now is not without risk. But everything worth it always has risk.
BE POWERFUL!

Thank you Mr. Data for helping us humans fight the Nazis!!

Remember, despite everything, the Democratic party still absolutely refuses to build its own culture or social media ecosystem. Because they wouldn’t be able to control the messaging. So we will keep losing. Thank you, our intellectual and strategical betters! (as determined by them!)