Ben Parrott

For-profit insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are defrauding taxpayers out of $80 billion a year.

HHS Secretary Kennedy claims he wants to "clean up corruption" while he is doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies.

That sounds like the real "waste, fraud, and abuse."

Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist?

RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate

Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

* They want us fearful & demoralized;
* They want us horrified at their cruelty;
* They want us to forget due process;
* They want us to accept their inhumanity;
* They want us to believe we are subordinate to them;
* They want us exhausted, so rest when you need to and come back stronger. #Resist

This seems like a really strong campaign launch video. No idea her other policy positions, but an impressive first impression.

The same guys trying to demonize government workers as useless bureaucrats who just lounge around all day on the taxpayer dime are complaining on television about how hard it is to work in the government

CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

“America First” Will Destroy U.S. Science The U.S. government has sought to restrict immigration under the “America First” doctrine. These policies severely harm American science by stripping it of talent and eliminating a major driver of its...

25 years ago, I came to Stanford on a J1 visa and worked so hard to be worthy of that privilege. Today, I lead Immunology at Mount Sinai and I am the one who feel privileged when brilliant international trainees chose to join us.

“Cutting basic science doesn’t save money.”

NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane!

If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.

My advisor @baym.lol pointedly speaking with WBUR.

“I think that reason is a pretense. I think that this is an attack on Harvard as a symbol of academia in the United States.”

GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit The figure is expected to intensify a national debate over spending and tax levels as President Donald Trump tries to push the legislation through Congress.

GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit

But, on the other hand, it will kill many children.

DeLauro nails it. This is illegal impoundment. Every last dollar that was appropriated by Congress for the NIH that has been "saved" needs to spent on its intended purpose: scientific research for the benefit of the American people.

Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden

Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered

He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office

And he's going to keep using it after he leaves!

Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

The Framers were so wise to write a constitutional clause saying "no foreign presents or emoluments whatsoever, except if you hold them through a foundation that you control & whose property is available for your personal use, in which case, NP & BFD: YOLO!"

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

True story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway

Federal police are becoming the standing army the Founders warned us about.

It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.

NEWS: I just led 112 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration on their funding freeze of the National Science Foundation.

Cutting off NSF funding threatens vital research, stalls innovation, and risks ceding global scientific leadership to China.

"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%."

Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.

if you’re describing MAGA culture as “masculine” you’re misunderstanding what it means to be a man

NSF paid marc andreessen's salary when he was writing NCSA Mosaic, then let him walk with the concept (and code, maybe? I forget) and start Netscape.

This is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it.

#withoutNSF we won’t learn what might have saved us

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Has anyone noticed that the Republican discourse about North Carolina’s storm recovery vanished after the election? Nothing. Not a peep from them.

Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK!

Crazy how that works!