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People have been asking for action items. Yes!

There is one very important action for everyone for the next 10 days: Demand your Senators bring the Senate to a halt. Maximal obstruction.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Getting out of DOGE? Federal agencies given deadline to come up with plans to exit DC ‘You go around Washington and see all these buildings with the Department of Education. We want to move education back to the states, where it belongs,’ Trump said at a Cabinet meeting

Also this. Please Please Please, if you’re a fed who would be affected by this (or if you just care in general- you should there will be wider impacts) call your representatives!
Federal offices should stay put.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

💥ATTENTION FEDS💥
All the termination letters going out that we've seen use "inadequate performance" as the reason for termination. SAVE YOUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. Tell your friends who aren't on bluesky! Probationary employees can't be fired for "poor performance" if their performance is not poor

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

This has to be stopped. Like, tonight.

Wyoming’s First Human Bird Flu Case Confirmed - Wyoming Department of Health Wyoming’s first case of H5N1 avian influenza in a human has been confirmed in a Platte County older adult, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). The woman represents the third confirmed...

A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with #H5N1 #birdflu, WY's health dept announced Friday. Likely exposure was to backyard poultry. Wyoming said #CDC confirmed the infection, though CDC did not add it to its H5 page today. Not clear if this is B3.13 or D1.1. health.wyo.gov/wyomings-fir...

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

Yes. This is the message that every scientist should be getting out right now: “Trump/Musk are killing cancer research” — it’s a political slam dunk.

Public pushback is what can stop them now. Please help 🧪. Scientists are in all 50 states, including in red areas.

Some other reports say that agencies have a hard deadline of Tuesday at 8PM to fire probationary employees. Some agencies affected by the “purge” so far includes USDA, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Department of Energy, Veterans Affairs, Department of Education, and OPM itself. (Not and exhaustive list).

When I said "At least you're not one of the Sackville Bagginses" he said "I have no need of silverware".

The young bagger dude at Kroger had a nametag that read 'Baggins'.

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.

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. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

On reflection, some analysis of the Trump NIH funding cuts tonight.

1. The indirect rates are unequal. But they’re not very unequal. Harvard 69%, Wayne State 55%, Texas A&M 54%, Vanderbilt 58%. Some of this variation is justified based on cost-of-living in different places.
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White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

Hurrah! It'll take a while.

Who wouldn't want a purring bedroom?

Well, I guess I'm here now.