NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more.

The entire operation has been eliminated.

Motherfuckers. And I don't even like Comey.

Michael Eisner @Michael_Eisner Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The “suspending indefinitely” of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one’s political or financial self-interest.” By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.

Interesting

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Voters overwhelmingly said yes to Sound Transit 3 in 2016. The mission is clear: build the damn trains.

Cost challenges are real, but we need to keep projects moving. The longer we wait, the more it costs.

Sound Transit & this region have overcome challenges in the past. We’ll do it again.

The public supports this. Light rail is highly popular politically -- it polls better than almost anything else, including a return of the Sonics. So that's not the challenge. No, the challenge is political. We need our local electeds, but in particular our state leaders, to step up and help.

These idiot white-supremacists have always been part of the national mix, as @hcrichardson.bsky.social has written about eloquently.

But the rest of us have fought against them, and beaten them.

We have to do that again.

They are what America can sink to. We are what America hopes for.

Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT

Just going to point out that it's Trump, not Harvard, trying to ban Israeli students from the campus.

(As well as Jewish students from Canada, the UK, France, etc.)

Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Lead to 51,000 Preventable Deaths Each Year Annual cuts to Medicaid would average $70 billion — roughly the same amount the wealthy will save in tax cuts.

Health experts came out with a new analysis yesterday concluding the MAGA murder budget will lead to 51,000 preventable deaths from its health care cuts - every single year.

"Want to walk? Use a park, loser."

We are Harvard researchers. Trump’s cuts are endangering lives The president’s funding cuts at the university will harm cancer patients, ALS sufferers and 800 babies and toddlers, academics warn

“The Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only 2 years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by Trump.”

Everything suffers and everyone dies, so why not strive to make our time here, together, as warm, as compassionate, as caring, as kind, as good as it possibly can be?

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has expressed deep concern over the health of American children, describing them as the "sickest generation" in US history.

100 years ago, 1 in 3 kids died before reaching the age of 5.

Another example why over-reliance on AI is foolhardy. 👇🏾💻 #ai #chatgpt #maha

Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables.

Come on world, this IS possible!
And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉

(graphic from grid.iamkate.com )

Faculty here are doing their research and speaking out. Here's one resource: a compendium of many ways federally-funded research has made all of our lives better.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

I took an Uber ride in Hood River in May. You could check the App and see if they cross the bridge.

PLEASE DO THIS

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation A Girl Looking at a Physics Model TAKE ACTION Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work. Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

www.savensf.com

This can't be said enough. The narrative is quickly becoming but universities need fed funds, when it should be that the fed govt needs universities. NCI/NIGMS funding to Harvard/MIT supported research that led to the discovery of Herceptin, a cancer drug that has saved 3 million lives to date! 🧪

Please share this I want everybody know they have a lifeline