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More on Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith:

➡️ He said that the descendants of slaves should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners

➡️ He urged Congress to make J6 a national holiday

➡️ He called for Trump’s birthday to be made a national holiday (“MAGA Day”)

Sandwich

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Next time these people talk about government regulations stifling industry and costing jobs, invite them to choke on a bag of dolphin dicks.

Republicans just collapsed a multi-hundred-billion dollar industry because it competes with some of their donors.

Note that layoffs in Pharma are very common and happen for a variety of reasons. I haven't looked into it but Moderna is likely due current FDA/NIH political attitude towards vaccines and mRNA.

Reports also that Moderna may lay off 10% of workforce starting today

Merck will lay off 6,000, reducing workforce by 8% in cost-cutting purge Merck will reduce its workforce by approximately 6,000 employees in “some areas of our global workforce,” the New Jersey drugmaker told Fierce Pharma. | Merck will reduce its workforce by approximatel...

Merck to lay off 6,000

"After 25 years of work by NIH researchers, the drug nitisinone has received FDA approval for the treatment of alkaptonuria."

Man who shut down the largest collective effort by America to help the most vulnerable people in the world, condemning millions to death, suggests that his businesses will save them donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

"Downing Street sources claimed the prime minister was also warned about the optics of spending £150,000 on a treehouse."
June 2022

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woody and buzz lightyear from toy story are standing next to each other with the caption smoke everywhere ALT: woody and buzz lightyear from toy story are standing next to each other with the caption smoke everywhere

Bring an N95 or KN95 mask if you are headed to ASP this weekend and have asthma/sensitive lungs. The midwest is smothered in smoke from the Canadian wildfires right now.

u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal: "She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment [sparkly picture of coal]

struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age

Read this

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder. COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

GitHub - lh3/longdust: Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome - lh3/longdust

Longdust, a new tool to identify highly repetitive STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions (LCRs). Similar to SDUST but for long regions.
github.com/lh3/longdust

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Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

2 ICs the President's Budget asked $0 for

Also, great, they say he and "some donors" will pay for it.

Are they going to pay to maintain and staff it?

It would be the entire building in the forefront

Yep.

White House, not White Palace

I thought there wasn't enough money for cancer research?