Alicia Rizzo

They don’t care about their own MAGA base. They just want more money for their donor class.

It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode deficits

3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

#pulmsky #sciencesky #medsky

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

Government | Harvard University Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.

Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.

I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".

They even asked me my Gender.

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

he also had a horrible brain infection and is trying to defund all of infectious disease research. absolutely insane, all of it 🤯

Looks like someone isn’t going to meet the criteria for “fully successful” on his end of year review. That’s going to be tough to have in his eOPF when we RIF. 🥴

increasing failure of the administration to do its job

Pitt scholars urge resistance to Trump attacks on higher ed As the Trump administration makes demands of Harvard and other universities, local scholars and their allies asked Pitt to ‘stand up.’

Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight...

www.publicsource.org/national-day...

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This is our moment in history to stand.

This Friday!

Marching for science!!

Grab your lab coat and stand up for science!

A group of black emergency medical technicians from Freedom House are gathered for a group shot in front of an ambulance. Almost all wear white suits.

In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America’s first EMT service. Comprised solely of Black men and women recruited from the city’s Hill District neighborhood, the paramedics of Freedom House Ambulance became trailblazers in providing pre-hospital and CPR care.

Opinion | Censored Science Can’t Save Lives Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.

My colleagues and I have a piece out today in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

Great to be in conversation with such smart, thoughtful hosts @pulmpeeps.bsky.social, and with the brilliant @iwashyna.bsky.social. It’s even motivated me to get back on this app…

This is a picture of my son taken soon after he was born. I suffered from a very rare pregnancy complication. But thanks to physicians at the University of Michigan and a lot of US funded research, he was born healthy. Please post, who has Science Saved for you? #WhoScienceSaves #MedSky

American Thoracic Society | Advocacy The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…

Today, President Trump ordered the firing of federal employees who are still in their probation period. "The firing of federal employees will have immediate and adverse health consequences for the American public," said ATS President Irina Petrache, MD, ATSF. Read more: shorturl.at/nNegx

Mass. leads court challenge on Trump's cuts to medical research funding Over 20 states are suing the Trump administration over planned cuts to funding at medical and public health research institutions nationwide. The coalition of 22 state attorneys general is challenging...

The ATS applauds 22 state attorneys general in challenging NIH medical research funding cut. Friday's NIH action to cut life-saving medical research is prohibited by law. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n...