Ten reasons for modest optimism Friends,

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Opinion | ‘We’re Just Keeping Everybody Alive’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze Testimonials from around the world show that Trump’s foreign aid funding freeze has been damaging and chaotic.

“USAID is not a perfect agency,” writes @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social, the president of Refugees International. “No government institution is. But from the Green Revolution to humanitarian relief to the fight against HIV, it has built a more stable world while advancing U.S. interests.”

📣 Attention terminated CDC employees! "I was a fed" on Instagram shares stories of affected federal employees. We want to amplify CDC voices too (anonymously)! Our platform reaches ~100K.

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Also, this is the LOWEST Gallup approval rating for a new president at this point in his term EVER. Only Trump 1.0 comes close, but he’s already underwater. This matters! Keep the pressure on.

Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative Joe Gebbia is a board member at Tesla and is close to Elon Musk, the company’s C.E.O.

One of Elon Musk’s closest friends, a billionaire co-founder of Airbnb, is taking a role in President Trump’s administration to help Musk carry out his drive to slash the federal bureaucracy, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

I cannot tell you how absolutely devastating this will be to scientific discovery.

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For all GA voters. Time to call your representatives. Even if you don’t know or understand the differences in indirect and direct costs for federally funded research, this massive attack on research will hurt every Georgian.

February 7, 2024 Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to deman...

February 7, 2025

I’m here! Need to check in more often and still exploring the platform but here…

Welcome to my Bluesky page. It’s under construction!! 😅