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YouTube video by LastWeekTonight RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

💣The Carpet Bombing of HHS 💥

It's hard to describe how America's health agencies have been bombed and shelled in the past few months, but John Oliver is a good start. 🧵

The Very Idea of LGBTQ Health Is Under Attack The Trump administration has canceled millions of dollars in grants to study disparities affecting the well-being of the community. Valuable research has been lost.

With these cuts, the Trump administration is denying the existence of disparities affecting nearly one in 10 Americans, while conveniently ensuring there’s no paper trail proving the harm caused by its policies targeting the LGBTQ folks. Full piece (no paywall): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

New lawsuit filed today in Massachusetts aginst NIH from many state Attorneys General

First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process

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BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.

This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

“During Donald Trump’s first term, he made it a goal to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. by 2030. That priority has fallen by the wayside in the second Trump administration, with the termination of a number of grants related to HIV in the past week”

www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/n...

NIH cuts halt 24-year program to prevent HIV/AIDS in adolescents NIH terminated grants for a program studying how to diagnose, treat, and prevent HIV and AIDS in adolescents

5 yrs ago, Trump made it a goal to eliminate HIV

Last week, several grants that would help w/ that were terminated, incl. a big study on adolescents

ft. @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drjenellstewart.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @scott-delaney.bsky.social 🧪

www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/n...

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@maddow.msnbc.com So many devastating cuts to research from NIH. Please elevate coverage of the termination of the Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN). This vital research network has been active for nearly 30 years and has resulted in saving the lives of thousands of US youth.

Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you

Who is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya? Trump’s pick to lead the NIH faces Senate confirmation hearing As director, Bhattacharya would oversee the nation's top medical research agency, which is set to undergo drastic changes.

NBC News story about NIH Director nominee...Not a great fit for NIH and, perhaps, a destructive agenda.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Dolly and Carl's 50th Wedding Anniversary Dolly Parton and her husband of 50 years, Carl Dean, celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary with a special second wedding ceremony.

dollyparton.com/front-porch-... RIP Carl Dean

Republicans don't care about you.

Trump Costs America Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.

trumpcostsamerica.com

Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library - NewsBreak Dolly Parton has called on Indiana’s governor to reverse course on plans to do away with her popular “Imagination Library” program. The country singer, wh

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How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

I saw a statement posted on linked in by Monica Bertagnolli. Not sure if this is what is referenced.

Judge John D. Bates of the D.C. Federal District Court has ordered the CDC to temporarily restore pages removed from its website to comply with Trump’s executive order barring references to race, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What The NIH Cut To Indirect Cost Payments Could Cost Red States The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants will cost ten red states more than $1 billion.

Here are the losses red states will face w/ Trump's assault on NIH's indirect costs.
TX: $310,282,120
OH: $171,355,609
TN: $133,514,022
MO: $131,590,159
FLA: $123,982,436
IN: $68,925,255
AL: $46,642,500
UT: $45,974,847
IA: $36,986,835
SC: $33,368,620
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.

GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.

Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

NIH declares 15% indirects. This will decimate research universities. Budgets will be cut by 70%. Science in the US going down hill in this administration. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It’s nearly impossible to describe how severe a cut this is for universities.

And all through executive action. The university lobbyists, that they relied on to recruit bipartisan support in Congress for so long, have no traction here.

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Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...

ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS.
Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here.
Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply.

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

"Just since Donald Trump’s election, Musk’s personal net worth has grown by far more than the entire annual budget of U.S.A.I.D., which in any case accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget."

What Can The Worst Person In the World Do With Access to NIH's Grant Software System? Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Here's my latest on the very grim happenings inside NIH

Goes without saying for scientists:

This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas?

#scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 🧪🧑‍🔬

NEW from inside NIH: I am hearing that a “young” DOGE staffer now has access to eRA, the software system used to track/administer all NIH grants.