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This ridiculous union busting does nothing to help the early career researchers the NIH director claims to support. This is ridiculous.

Capitalism has lost its fucking mind.

‘How is he going to have the time?’ NIH staff voice concern as Bhattacharya takes on CDC role Scientists fear NIH director will be even more absent and leave key issues unresolved as he takes interim CDC lead

NIH employees were already worried that things weren't getting done under Jay Bhattacharya. Now that he's also the acting director of the CDC, they're worried even more about his fractured attention. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects."

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

“Question wording choices can swing opinion on immigration and trans rights by up to 60 points.”

‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication European regulators greenlight new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of an ancient burden

In today's good news a single dose drug for sleeping sickness that could completely change the elimination game. Dare I hope for eradication!
Acoziborole administered as a single oral dose was ~95% effective across both early and late-stage disease in RCTs.
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‘Very Real Barriers.’ Trans Voters in Texas Are Worried About Casting Their Ballots. Primary Election Day is Tuesday. And nonprofits that protect LGBTQ+ rights are monitoring what’s playing out at polling locations.

“Trans voters are left vulnerable to being outed, questioned, or turned away, which creates very real barriers to casting a ballot,” said Caleb Armstrong a transmasculine Texan who cofounded Local Queer Foundation.

@kitoconnell.com
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CBS News conducts a poll.

It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.

So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."

www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

Done Data Work? You Might Have Worked With the US Military Without Knowing. As data workers organize around the world, they need to push for change on what appears to be a major ethical oversight, writes Krystal Kauffman.

The AI boom runs on invisible labor, writes Krystal Kauffman, a research fellow with the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Underpaid workers in Kenya, the US, and beyond are unknowingly training intelligence systems. This isn't just an ethics problem—it's a consent problem, she says.

What a War Powers Resolution Vote on Iran Actually Means While Congress could narrowly pass a resolution, it would likely not have the two-thirds majority needed to overturn a Trump veto.

“The Constitution requires a vote, and your Representative needs to be on record as opposing or supporting this war."
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Ultra-Processed Protein Foods Coming at Us - ConscienHealth One ironic twist resulting from the new dietary guidelines will almost surely be a proliferation of ultra-processed protein foods.

Ultra-Processed Protein Foods Coming at Us conscienhealth.org/2026/03/01/u... via @conscienhealth.bsky.social

"...we see a proliferation of ultra-processed protein foods screaming out at us from grocery shelves and electronic media."

So much #protein hype. Reality: you are likely getting enough!

It’s not lost on me that this is happening during Ramadan and during fasting hrs.

Trump’s first-term Surgeon General speaks out against Trump’s current nominee for the job, Casey Means

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

The Trump administration’s favorite nuclear startup has ties to Russia and Epstein Also, Christian nationalism.

If you've ever wondered what kinds of nuclear companies the Trump administration has in mind to power all the AI data centers, I just wrote about one: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a rare event in the times we're living in that shocks me for its stupid cruelty.

It's very hard to live in this country without the ability to drive - the country was set up to be like that by the auto and oil industries.

Transition has absolutely nothing to do with the ability to drive.

‘We want to rebuild trust’: fired CDC workers form group to combat Trump’s war on science Former employees stepped up to create the National Public Health Coalition to advocate for public health after Trump’s cuts to the agency

Proud of our CDC colleagues at National Public Health Coalition. @firedbutfighting.bsky.social
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And all the current & former federal workers who are standing up and fighting for a better future for all of us. @27unihted.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

Bird snow angels🥰 #birds

I can't read this because it's behind a paywall, but if ChatGPT is trained on prior knowledge (which it is), then of course it would advise women to ask for lower salaries. Misogyny is baked into the historical data.

Trump wants you to forget that George Washington owned slaves But Philadelphians are standing up for history

The Trump Administration might fight to change the signs at the President's House commemorating slavery, but they can't change what happened at this place, or who it happened to.

Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are...syncing up?

In a study published today, researchers reported that the ideal conditions for major wildfires are now aligning across different parts of the world at more than double the rate they did 50 years ago.

@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4795...

It is a tragedy for public health & health research that the MAGA/MAHA hero Jay Bhattacharya, an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, runs the NIH & CDC

“It seems the one qualification for this job is rubber-stamping RFK Jr’s agenda. He has already proven himself very capable of doing so.”

After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Are we efficient yet?

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RFK "in a statement issued through a spokesman Wednesday night...said he supported the president." Drink whole milk, eat red meat, don't get vaccinated, and spray yourself with toxic weedkiller!!!

Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk. A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.

Sci-fi has always provided heady alternatives to everyday realities. But for the past few decades, a big chunk of sci-fi has gravitated toward dystopia, which, while valuable, can grow wearisome.

@clivethompson.bsky.social offers an exciting new literary genre to counter our despair.

"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie. ... Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills." Oh my god.

“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself

DHS axed its civil rights staff—and opened the door to a major lawsuit The agency is now barely pretending to follow disability law. Its former civil rights head says that makes ICE vulnerable.

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now.

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