Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion - EUROPE SAYS Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion

Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion

https://www.europesays.com/2009702/

Pope Ghosts JD Vance at Vatican, Sends Top Cardinal to Lecture VP on Compassion Pope Ghosts JD Vance…

Moment of clarity today in the Senate where Republicans sided with big banks & against customers. Higher fees, lower transparency.

Now it goes to the House - so call your Member of Congress to ask how they’ll vote!

Indirect Cost Cuts Could Gut University Research How Will Universities Respond? What Are the Implications?

Thankful that the former Provost of Purdue has a Substack 😍

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10 more reasons for modest optimism Friends,

Is there a word for severe pessimism as modest optimism?

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Live updates: Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow up President Donald Trump has cut short talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he and and Vice President JD Vance berated the Ukraine’s leader in the Oval Office.

Donald Trump is treating the destruction of a democracy as a political show — throwing Ukraine to the wolves and doing a favor for Putin.

It's shameful and dangerous.

I've been to Ukraine, as have many Senate Republicans. I hope they speak up. Millions of lives are at stake.

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Trump and Vance ATTACK Zelenskyy in Oval Office and Align U.S. with PUTIN

Today's Oval Office spectacle wasn't about showing strength, it was about surrendering to Putin. Trump and JD Vance have completely sold out America.

Watch @therickwilson.bsky.social n react: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6_m...

Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for.

They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."

Trump credit card freeze sparks alarm at health agencies “Cost efficiency” order could block travel, supplies for labs and patient care

A new White House freeze on using government-issued credit cards is the latest shock for federal scientists, potentially affecting everything from conference travel to needed purchases for clinical care or lab work. scim.ag/4hV9oRb

Love this

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so!

Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.

NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

I’m a constituent and a voter, and I’m calling today because I’m outraged by the Trump administration’s funding pause. It’s blatantly unconstitutional, and in violation of anti-impoundment laws. It undermines the government’s status as a contractual counterparty, eroding trust and our ability to accomplish things as a society. It cripples our universities, freezes over a third of state budgets, and stalls the clean energy transition and manufacturing investments, and indeed the whole economy. And ordinary people who depend on services like Medicaid will suffer. Please take action to prevent Trump from usurping Congress’s power of the purse.

Called my 3 Congressional offices.

I don't think you can draw cause and effect here (full investigation by NTSB and other apporpriate entities is warranted), but it does show the administration's lack of interest in managing deadly risks.

It has now officially been confirmed. We have reached the singularity

“The administration’s pause of all federal funding and grants until it could make sure “DEI” had been purged out of them cut everything from Meals on Wheels, a food delivery program for shut-ins, to education, local law enforcement, and the Medicaid on which programs for the elderly depend.”

Medicaid Portal That Provides Federal Funding to States Stops Working, Officials Say The outage at least temporarily jeopardized payments the federal government makes to state programs, and sowed uncertainty for patients, doctors, hospitals and others.

The online portal through which state Medicaid departments receive federal funding stopped working Tuesday, according to state officials. The outage at least temporarily jeopardized payments the federal government legally owes Medicaid programs, which serve tens of millions of low-income Americans.

Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle lawsuit from Trump after suspending his accounts Meta said Wednesday it would pay $25 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the social media company’s decision to suspend Trump’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, ...

How to pay a bribe without saying you're paying for a bribe Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle lawsuit from Trump after suspending his accounts
Meta suspended Trump’s accounts in 2021 after the Capitol attack by Trump’s supporters.
#News&Politics

Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices “During your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 19 other lawmakers told the president in a letter.

Has Trump lowered the price of groceries? No. Instead, he's focused on renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Today, my colleagues and I gave him a list of things he could do right now to start to lower the prices of eggs.

I wonder how Rep Senator Tim Young is feeling right now. The Revenge Tariffs from Columbia are really bad for our farmers (and also bad for Colombia. 96.7 % of their corn for livestock comes from the USA )

Again I think this ends fast. But it’s interesting

www.legistorm.com/stormfeed/vi...

Was hoping I wouldn’t have to dust off this gem again.

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About 27% of our coffee comes from Colombia. (Which is Colombia's 4th biggest category of exports to US).

I think they are actually a bigger share of cut flowers than coffee, but I'm still looking for numbers.

www.ers.usda.gov/data-product....

One of my friends is a postdoc at the NIH and she has shared how bad this is for health related research. SMH

I remember the old days when Fox said it was Biden’s fault.

Trump’s ban on funds to ‘promote gender ideology’ could threaten hundreds of NIH research projects Sweeping executive order likely to be read broadly, experts predict

Fear and uncertainty dominated conversations this week among those doing NIH-funded research involving people who are transgender, gender fluid, nonbinary, or otherwise gender minorities. scim.ag/3Ce2Tto

Thank you for taking the leap and sharing how we can use this platform more 💙. I’m done with playing into the pockets of billionaires.