A friend in Minneapolis who works for the state legislature told us “not widely reported is the fact that this guy also killed the victims' dog.” Waiting to hear back which person’s dog.

I have metastatic lung cancer & cuts are also causing chaos & delays for TIL (tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, an extremely promising immunotherapy that my dr has been talking about since my dx 3 years ago) clinical trial patients. Most clinical trial pts are out of options & time.

Many 100s came together for our tiny Appalachian town’s #HandsOff protest. #HillbilliesNeedNoElegy

Every House Republican but one voted to gut the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP). Every GOP Senator voted to cut the CDMRP by 57% too. When it came time to allocate those cuts, they decided that lung cancer research should go from $25m in 2024 to 0 in 2025. Are we great yet?

Psychopath murdered her 14-month-old dog Cricket.

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

Several European countries are offering a sort of asylum to American scientists who feel they can no longer do their work here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m 42 & have metastatic lung cancer. Meeting this week with leaders in the lung cancer research community & my patient group to discuss strategies for how we break into the general public’s awareness about what continuity of NIH funding means for our survival. Long shot but we’d love your help.

I have metastatic lung cancer & our patient group is discussing how we raise more public awareness, esp around federal research funding cuts. Most people don’t realize how critical continuity of federal grants are to our miraculous biomedical advances. Pls message me to discuss strategies further.

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

Lifelong active Dem from NC. I have Stage IV cancer & this CR cuts cancer research by 57% as you well know. It cuts FEMA relief as you well know. Millions of Americans need & expect you to fight, not capitulate.

Stand Up And Be Counted

A demand that biopharma NOT cozy up to the Musk-Trump administration

"by the time you can unequivocally point to things that have started going wrong in industry because academic research has been stomped flat, it will be far too late to do anything about it"

www.science.org/content/blog...

If you’re a federal employee who got an email from Elon asking what you did last week, reply, “Not as much ketamine as you did, fuckwad”

Yes

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

I love living in the United States, where I don’t even f*ck around but have to find out anyway.

Johns Hopkins sues federal government over NIH funds Johns Hopkins University joined several universities in a lawsuit on Monday evening suing the federal government over NIH funding.

The 🍊🤡 & Elmo really want Americans to suffer:
“The NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins”

Research saves lives. Call your senators today!

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

That will often be the case. But for folks with diseases like metastatic cancer, ALS, dementia, etc, without research there are not going to be critical advances to develop that actual medicine in the first place. For anyone. Imagine it being the mid-90s & AIDS research is gutted.

I have Stage IV lung cancer. I’ve never been mad at cancer: an impersonal biological event.

But I am furious with this Administration: gutting of medical research & elevation of unqualified sycophants to head our health agencies. 1000s of university research jobs will now be cut too.

“How many people need to leave Gaza?”

Trump (with Netanyahu): “All of them.”

VA patient died by suicide at top of hospital’s garage in Syracuse The veteran, a VA mental health patient, was wearing a transgender flag, a witness said.

A transgender veteran at Syracuse VA Medical Center died by an apparent suicide outside the top of the hospital’s parking garage Monday.

Witnesses said the person was wrapped in a body-length transgender pride flag.

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Many people are waking up today to the fact Trumps pause on medical research has stopped the clinical trials for cancer research and their only chance of living is put on pause by then President of the United States.

I have Stage IV lung cancer, which presently can be managed with treatments that last for a period of time but is incurable. I am probably alive today because of my targeted therapy, which was only FDA-approved in 2020. Our community depends on NIH research for our lives. I am frighted and enraged.

Thanks for sharing. I've submitted my response and shared this link with a PhD friend in the pharma industry who was invited by NIH's director to testify next month before DHHS about the importance of academia-industry drug development collaborations. That meeting was just cancelled indefinitely.

What the Hell Is Going on at NIH? Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the country’s largest public biomedical research funder: $40b annually.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This times a centillion.

Reading through replies here & really grasping how much of a weight the trolls on other platforms have been for years. The comments here are smart, funny & engaging - not to mention ACCURATE. Grateful for this community.

YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral 1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde

"There are gay, lesbian & transgender children in Democratic, Republican & independent families, some who fear for their lives."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...

Sent from my friend in Portland Maine on January 20, 2025. So many people across the country I love & am grateful for.

In solidarity with each of you, every day.