Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.

And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.

And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

4/20/2025

The #WomensHealthInitiative is an amazing, longitudinal study thats been following a set of women for over 30 years! I assume the "Women's" part is a big part of why it's been cut 😡
#WHI #Health #HHS #FundingCuts

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Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. nyti.ms/4iXMx8m

To nap like a cat

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted

The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA

NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

"Silencing Intellectuals is a Playbook for Dictators" The Heavy Weight of Uncertainty Facing Academic Research

Submitted a thing to voice my dissent. Resist people. Resist: storiesforunity.substack.com/p/silencing-...

After we published a public audit on Saturday, Elon Musk’s DOGE deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” wiping out an additional $4 billion in so-called savings that the group had claimed to secure for U.S. taxpayers.

America is standing up. Let’s keep the momentum going—more protests are planned for next week. Together, we can stop this coup.

Remember, the resistance won’t be televised.

Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

How much treason is the line????????? Congress! Grow a spine!!! This is a LAME duck presidency!!!

I spent two nights testing and modifying my science class at my kiddo’s school - 2nd graders. They will use microscope to look at sand and garden soil and test erosion.
Will do everything to keep that fire of curiosity burning for as many kids I can reach.
Can’t give up hope yet.

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current status of American science in two posts:
existential crisis vs transformative breakthrough

a metastable state that will collapse into one future or the other

A quote by H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief of Science journals, reads: "The weeks ahead may be the greatest test that the US scientific community has ever faced." The text is presented on a black background with white lettering.

"… it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community … that form the collective voice of science …," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4hR6ux0

At wooden center gym and saw this: do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - coach wooden
Good reminder

The resistance will bring down Musk and Trump. Congress, wake up before your power is gone. The GOP begging Trump to release money to their states is pathetic—stand up to this tyranny. Congress controls the purse strings.

This is very important and concerning. The NIH funding freeze is *still in place*. NIH can't issue new awards if proposals aren't approved by Council. OMB is using a technical work around to prevent these meetings from happening. NIH can't post meetings, so they can't actually have them.

When it is hard to focus, breathe and re-engage. Have you tried the 5 calls yet. Besides massive illegal layoffs, there is no council meeting scheduled yet on federal register: NIH funding is still not flowing despite prior congressional appropriations and approval. Please call your congressman.

JCI - Rapamycin Enhances CAR-T Control of HIV Replication and Reservoir Elimination in vivo www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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I dream of making a video/lesson one day laying out a bunch of fundamental research findings & having students guess which ones'll be useful. Green fluorescent protein found in jellyfish would be one. This would be another 👇 What's your fav basic science discovery that had unexpected applications? 🧪

"No single researcher, or even a group of researchers, could afford the upkeep on the equipment without the federal dollars tacked onto their grants to support it."

"Just because Elon Musk doesn’t understand indirect costs doesn’t mean Americans should have to pay the price with their lives." 🧪

Amongst all the chaos and while trying to stay angrily engaged, analyzing data, review and write papers and grants has been the best solace for me to stop myself from spiraling.

Higher ed organizations sue against Trump’s DEI orders The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.

The AAUP (American Association of University Professors) + others have filed suit arguing Trump's EOs targeting "DEI" in higher ed are illegal and unconstitutional.

Donate to the AAUP: bit.ly/3EqWFH9

Donate to democracyforward.org, legal group filing the suit: bit.ly/3Q5YQTa

#academicsky #edusky

🧪 @wired.com's coverage of the Musk/DOGE blitz through US government has been stellar. This report from @knibbs.bsky.social is an outstanding—and grim—look inside the chaos at USAID.

NIH eases freeze on grant reviews imposed after Trump communications pause Meetings of study sections and closed portion of councils back on track as agency also deals with diversity-related executive orders

The gears of the grantmaking machinery at NIH have begun moving again, after a 2-week standstill following a controversial ban on communications imposed by President Donald Trump. scim.ag/4aLQ0U6

Unions Sue to Block Musk’s Access to Treasury Payment Data The suit was the latest effort by unions representing federal workers to push back against Trump administration directives aimed at undermining the federal bureaucracy.

Unions representing federal workers sued the Treasury Department and its head, Scott Bessent, on Monday in an effort to block Elon Musk and his team from accessing the federal payment system.

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