Exclusive | How Trump and His ‘Gold Guy’ Are Redecorating the White House The president is making the world’s most famous residence more like Mar-a-Lago, his gilded Florida club.

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Trump’s Oval Office Is an Interior Designer’s Nightmare Has he never heard of negative space?

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Amid the 10,000 job cuts so far this month at the U.S. health department, the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health — responsible for projects aimed at spotting trends in tobacco use and preventing it — is effectively shuttered. The greatest gift to the tobacco industry in the last half century.

The evil at your door The deportation action as regime change

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Vitamin A has been shown to reduce measles mortality in populations with a high prevalence of undernutrition and vitamin A deficiency. That’s generally not the case in the U.S.

The answer is yes. Absolutely, yes.

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

“Whispering Clouds” acrylic on 8x8” gallery wrapped canvas.

 
A Lethal Mystery Illness Spread in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response
Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.(Wired)

Data show that only 89,000 people over 98 received Social Security payments in December 2024….not the millions over 150, as Trump stated.

Rubio has always fought for the Ukraine. Do you think he might be regretting taking on Secretary of State? I’m sure he worries for his and his family’s safety should he step down.

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.

Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.

World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.

Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

CellyBlue - I Do Know This! on Substack Watch until the end

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The organization RFK Jr formerly led is actively putting information out stating that the measles vaccine is to blame for this outbreak, not declining vaccination rates.

It’s a lie.

The measles vaccine is both incredibly effective and very safe.

His rhetoric is responsible for these realities.

I’m glad I canceled my subscription.

a fair question, concisely stated

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at the E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals.
Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.

VA Research Funding Slashed Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan

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If you look at official HUD webpage, the press release is just a long list of Fox News and NewsMax hits claiming that the agency is engaged in massive fraud.
We are witnessing the merging of private and state media.
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Super disappointing but it shouldn't stop us as reviewers from hammering grants and manuscripts that don't consider sex as a biological variable. We don't (...shouldn't) need an NIH mandate to do good science.

(But come on seriously this is so frustrating)

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If you feel this way, you're not along. And together, we're going to keep the Republic. Pass it on.

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DHS’ Kristi Noem says her pro-Trump ad campaign was Trump’s idea According to the Homeland Security secretary, her department is airing pro-Trump television ads at his direction.

Noem said the president told her, “I want the first ad, I want you to thank me..."

Noem then claimed, “I said, ‘Yes, sir, I will thank you..."

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