🧪 #ScienceSky and #AcademicSky: We’re trying to learn more about the real-life scope and impact of the Trump administration terminating NIH grants.

Here's how you can help our reporting 👇

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“Let’s be clear: Shrinking the IRS will not lower your tax obligation,” a group of former IRS commissioners writes. “Aggressive reductions in the IRS’s resources will only render our government less effective and less efficient.”

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important
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USAID Directors abroad are telling their employees that they have “lost contact with Washington” and that they are "on our own.”

Not only is this USAID shutdown illegal, it’s also a mess. This mess, caused by Trump and Elon, will kill people. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how
we would’ve spent that $$: Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
🏈Shipped 29K tons of American food on American ships instead of letting it rot. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the
minerals that fuel our world youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid
#standwithUSAID

lon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how
we would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in
Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how
we would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people,
reducing mass migration youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID