This is exactly how Putin became one of the wealthiest men in the world. He got a cut of every major industry. That's exactly what is going on here.
JFC.
Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.
I’m sure the billions of dollars he pockets from his defense contracts with the Pentagon have nothing at all to do with shilling for Trump’s illegal war. He sure seems to support regime change as long as he’s making money off it. Pathetic.
The U.S. is being terrorized by ICE, not Iran.
The NIH budget was basically the same in 2025 vs. 2024. This massive decline in health research funding was driven by *administrative* choices.
Good story from Vox on falling numbers of new and competitive renewal R01 grants.
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If you're a service member being ordered to prep for deployment for the War in Iran and you have moral and/or ethical misgivings on all this, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the G.I. Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Have you been asleep for a year? What is “legal” is immaterial now. The regime loses legal case after legal case after legal case and keeps right on doing what they want.
“The leftover money from those terminations went to the US Treasury, not back to NIH.”
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
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If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats
🧪 New from incoming LSI faculty Claire Bedbrook & Ravi Nath, from @brunetlab.bsky.social's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
One $16k NEH grant at a research library can change the life of a scholar forever while adding to our shared knowledge of history and culture. These depositions will drive me mad
Hey guess what Wonder Bread Slice’s company is doing!
They are buying up nursing homes.
These white supremacists with no empathy will be in charge of caring for at least some of the elderly in our population.
Let's be clear: banning mifepristone = a national abortion ban.
Mifepristone has been safe, effective and FDA-approved for 20 years.
Extremists won’t stop until abortion is banned everywhere. I'll keep fighting to pass my Women’s Health Protection Act to restore the right to abortion nationwide.
Shame on Senator Tuberville: Keep New York City out of your bigoted mouth.
This Jewish New Yorker is proud that we elected our first Muslim mayor. (2/2)
if i were running dem party comms, all our people would today be talking about the president having a dance party while our soldiers are being shot at while gas prices go through the roof
National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026
I like it that college newspapers absolutely have this asshole's number: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
"There were no books"
The disparities here are astonishing.
Lots of relevant factors here, but access to healthcare and state/local policies/regulations clearly play a significant role.
TL;DR: Who you elect to state and local government matters, folks.
The paper is worth a read.
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March weather: realizing my BR window that I opened last night bc it was so hot outside this week (above 80) is now letting snow in
Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.
ALL these guys hate women & are on the “Repeal the 19th” train.
We all spend hours upon hours writing and submitting grants, many of us spend hours and hours reviewing grants, but has anyone in my network actually received an NOA or funding for a *new* project in the last 6 months or year? The fact that NIH doesn’t appear to be releasing any funds is 😬😢💔.
While we’re worried about the war, the Epstein files, drone attacks in CA…
Josh Hawley and Republicans are taking this moment to push legislation to strip FDA approval for Mifepristone
The assaults on Americans are coming from inside the house.
@democracydocket.com I hope the next generation of Democrats have guts. Republicans said they would not see the Supreme Court Justice in an election year, they lied. Republicans said they would not get rid of the filibuster, they lied. It's time to be unapologetically Progressive when that day comes
"Not only has an ex-DOGE bro been accused of running around with the social security information of every American on a flash drive, he also may have the ability to edit and manipulate data at the Social Security Administration at will.”
Let that sink in...🤬
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As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.
Science funding is an investment. For every $ invested in the NIH, we get $2.56 return. Beyond this, it supports years of sustained support for next generation scientists. Also, 99% of FDA approved drugs came from NIH funded work.
It is also important to fund work in non-human model systems.
