Melissa Chaikof

Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.

🚨WHOA!!! What a powerful moment.

"I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, but tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel."

Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel and stop caving to authoritarian censorship! Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they ...

Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back.

Exactly this

Health Cuts Would Result in Fewer Drugs for Americans, Budget Office Reports

This will have a devastating effect on medical research, including Usher 1F research. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

She hoped key research could help save her eyesight. Then the Trump funding cuts came Jessica Chaikof says research into gene therapies could someday save her eyesight. But she worries cuts to federal research funding could mean that therapy won't be ready in time.

NPR’s story shows just how deeply the funding decisions affect real lives—and the progress of life-saving science. Craig LeMoult of WGBH in Boston profiles Jessica Chaikof's hope for a cure for Usher 1F and her concern that the federal funding cuts to Harvard threaten Usher 1F research.

Urgent request for support - Usher 1F research needs your help now more than ever! usher1f.org

Repurposing a blood pressure drug may prevent vision loss in inherited blinding diseases NIH studies in animals show reserpine protects retinal-neurons necessary for vision, especially in females.

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Retinal cells discovered that could repair vision loss | PET Stem-like cells have been discovered that might enable retinal repair.

A previously unreported population of human stem-like cells capable of regenerating retinal tissue and potentially promoting vision recovery has been identified.

Retinal therapy may restore lost vision Researchers have successfully developed a novel drug to restore vision. The treatment method restores vision through retinal nerve regeneration.

The research team successfully induced retinal regeneration and vision recovery in a disease-model mouse by administering a compound that blocks the PROX1 (prospero homeobox 1) protein, which suppresses retinal regeneration. Furthermore, the effect lasted for more than six months.

NIH researchers develop eye drops that slow vision loss in animals Treatment shows potential to slow the progression of human degenerative eye diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa.

Researchers at the NIH have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of retinitis pigmentosa.

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Please contact your senators and representative asking them to stop the Trump administration from blocking medical research. NIH funding is at a standstill, which threatens Usher 1F research and all medical research.

Regeneron gene therapy improves hearing in 10 children with rare form of hearing loss Regeneron’s investigational gene therapy has been tied to | Regeneron’s investigational gene therapy has been tied to notable hearing improvements in 10 of 11 children who were treated for a rare gene...

"Regeneron yesterday reported good results with their gene therapy program for children with mutations in otoferlin. 10/11 children had hearing improvement. This is life altering for these children and validation to what we are trying to do with Usher 1F."
Usher 1F board member Frank Gentile, PhD

USA should not be short staffing nor short funding the FAA and Traffic Controllers America is the wealthiest nation in the world. We can and should have a fully staffed flight control system and a fully funded FAA. A politic that would consider tax cuts for the wealthy so they can t...

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Stop the Political Takeover of the Kennedy Center - Protect Free Expression This is censorship, plain and simple. Our national cultural institutions should be free from political interference that targets specific art forms or communities. When the government starts banning c...

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Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

Save USAID: The Greatest Agency You Never Knew The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was created by President Kennedy in 1961 in a spirit of optimism and global collaboration and as a…

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Drugmakers seize on biomarkers to test the FDA's rare disease shift For the first time, the FDA will consider whether to approve a trio of drugs for tiny patient populations based on trials that are using biological signals as outcomes, rather than a placebo compariso...

"It’s a crucial moment not just for the three companies and the drugs, but also a chance to remove what’s long been seen as a major roadblock to developing treatments for ultra-rare disease populations."

THE ASK This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity. DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN TRUMP'S AGENDA Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how: 1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely. 2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process. 3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze. 4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down. 5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues. No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have. Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Over the last nine days, the house has been out of session while the Democracy is sold for parts.

Would have been nice had the Democrat come back on their own and sued, yelled, stood up, etc. Anything but stayed home

Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

Lawmakers are gonna need to do a hell of a lot more than hold bullshit hearings that amount to nothing.

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The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening?

In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.

Call it what it is.

Egg prices are way up. Medicaid and cancer research are shut down.

Just what people voted for.

Here's what current Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to say about USAID in the past.