Allison Stevens

This.

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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And we’d imagined it to be pretty bad. And they continue to get worse.

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

"We all benefit from science, and we all stand to lose if the nation’s research enterprise is destroyed."

Me too. It truly feels like we are under attack from within. The damage that has already been done to organizations and institutions is incalculable. Even if they began tomorrow with a process of trying to set everything right again, it would probably take a decade to fix what they’ve done so far.

The hearing for US Institute of Peace vs Kenneth Jackson et al with Judge Beryl Howell starting now. I'm listening via phone.

Breaking character: Check out this graph of polls for the 2025 Canadian elections. BLUE is conservative, red is liberal. Never seen anything like this. Some is Carney replacing Trudeau perhaps, but almost all is a reaction to Trump. (Earlier I described con as purple but it's more blue.)

So incredibly embarrassing.

The time for a spine Democrats who censured Rep. Al Green are as clueless as they are feckless.

“Trying to appeal to a voter who will congratulate you for scolding a member of your own party for peacefully protesting fascism is a losing game because that voter does not exist.”

Someone is making a profit out of the chaos and it is not you.

Like these men have ever given women’s sports a single thought before it suited their racist, hateful, misogynistic agenda to do so. Such a farce. We need to stand together and not let them try to drive a wedge between us!

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

fuck this guy and his publication.

A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.