NIH Vigils
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We commemorate and mourn the losses resulting from cuts to funding, programs, and people that have been both discriminatory and indiscriminate. We gather every Saturday at 10 am at the Medical Center Metro station at NIH in Bethesda. Opinions are our own.
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NIH Vigils
@nihvigils.bsky.social
· Aug 6
No matter how your week is going, we’ll save a spot for you at NIH Vigils.
Laugh, cry, renew your oath of office.
Then get honks from cars and the occasional bus.
Saturdays at 10 am
Medical Center Metro Station
Laugh, cry, renew your oath of office.
Then get honks from cars and the occasional bus.
Saturdays at 10 am
Medical Center Metro Station
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Bowhead whales live twice as long as humans, and have a unique DNA repair mechanism to avoid cancer. Novel research w U Rochester in collaboration with the Inuit in Alaska.
🧪#cancer
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🧪#cancer
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A bowhead whale's DNA offers clues to fight cancer — NPR
Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the bowhead whale.
apple.news
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Bowhead whales live twice as long as humans, and have a unique DNA repair mechanism to avoid cancer. Novel research w U Rochester in collaboration with the Inuit in Alaska.
🧪#cancer
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🧪#cancer
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
DOGE is not gone, just embedded like ticks in every agency and following orders from Russell Vought
DOGE is not gone, just went a little undercover. But hundreds of thousands of civil servants are gone.
I’m seeing a comment from an OPM official that DOGE is disbanded reported in Reuters get picked up by other outlets, but the only thing that is real is the appropriation logs, don’t say it’s over until it stops being reported here: openomb.org/search?term=...
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE is not gone, just embedded like ticks in every agency and following orders from Russell Vought
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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
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Some additional updates to deadlines have been released for grant submissions that fell during the shutdown
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-012: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations NOT-...
grants.nih.gov
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Some additional updates to deadlines have been released for grant submissions that fell during the shutdown
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
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More amazing work on exactly why we do not consider AltNPS as a member of #AltGov. Thank you, @adenng.com for this incredible work that you are doing! You and @altwatcher.bsky.social keep us on our toes, and that’s as it should be. 🫶🫶🫶
Part 2 of my deep dive into AltNPS. We look at the phenomena and full shady history of AltNPS accounts as a whole, some of the more problematic fallout of unchecked idolatry, and the dangers of misinformation in fandoms. And maybe finally answer, "Who is AltNPS?" (Credit in 🧵)
youtu.be/ZKvsoHqvJbc
youtu.be/ZKvsoHqvJbc
Who is AltNPS? (Part Two)
YouTube video by Aden Ng
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
More amazing work on exactly why we do not consider AltNPS as a member of #AltGov. Thank you, @adenng.com for this incredible work that you are doing! You and @altwatcher.bsky.social keep us on our toes, and that’s as it should be. 🫶🫶🫶
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The keywords in the Congressional statement are "illegal orders".
If the order is legal, it just be followed. No one is arguing that.
If an order is illegal, such as shooting unarmed civilians, a service member is obligated to decline.
"Just following orders" is not a legal defense at trial.
If the order is legal, it just be followed. No one is arguing that.
If an order is illegal, such as shooting unarmed civilians, a service member is obligated to decline.
"Just following orders" is not a legal defense at trial.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The keywords in the Congressional statement are "illegal orders".
If the order is legal, it just be followed. No one is arguing that.
If an order is illegal, such as shooting unarmed civilians, a service member is obligated to decline.
"Just following orders" is not a legal defense at trial.
If the order is legal, it just be followed. No one is arguing that.
If an order is illegal, such as shooting unarmed civilians, a service member is obligated to decline.
"Just following orders" is not a legal defense at trial.
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Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
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This is very much the best of #NIH.
Not everything NIH has done in the past has been perfect, but it's been a lot of serious and thoughtful people dedicated to the mission of improving public health. ❤️
Not everything NIH has done in the past has been perfect, but it's been a lot of serious and thoughtful people dedicated to the mission of improving public health. ❤️
Carl created a seat for this loudmouth HIV activist at Strategic Working Group of the Division of AIDS when it didn’t have community rep focused on prevention. Meant groups I repped helped set policies & funding for 5 global research networks. A true mensch. Huge loss, along with Jeanne Marrazzo.
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is very much the best of #NIH.
Not everything NIH has done in the past has been perfect, but it's been a lot of serious and thoughtful people dedicated to the mission of improving public health. ❤️
Not everything NIH has done in the past has been perfect, but it's been a lot of serious and thoughtful people dedicated to the mission of improving public health. ❤️
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NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
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This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
The payment system has now been fixed!
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The payment system has now been fixed!
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
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Soooo we got some of the expectations for SSA Field Offices(FO) today for FY26, and now I’m drinking tonight, so before I dive into that, let’s talk about what Frankie FiServ and his merry band of vile miscreants that run SSA are expecting of their employees this year 😐😐😐😐
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Soooo we got some of the expectations for SSA Field Offices(FO) today for FY26, and now I’m drinking tonight, so before I dive into that, let’s talk about what Frankie FiServ and his merry band of vile miscreants that run SSA are expecting of their employees this year 😐😐😐😐
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Russ Vought has once again escalated his illegal CFPB shutdown by ordering CFPB cases to be transferred to the DOJ. It’s time for Congress to impeach and remove Russell Vought from power. nteu335.org/2025/11/20/c...
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Russ Vought has once again escalated his illegal CFPB shutdown by ordering CFPB cases to be transferred to the DOJ. It’s time for Congress to impeach and remove Russell Vought from power. nteu335.org/2025/11/20/c...
Montgomery County’s “Burger Coach,” who fed us at the No Kings NIH Vigil Rally, will be co-sponsoring a community event for Feds and science 2-5pm Sunday Rockville Science Center www.instagram.com/reel/DRSg3fA...
Please share!
Please share!
Coach Asif “Trey” Rahman on Instagram: "🚨Come down to the @rockvillesciencecenter this Sunday from 2:30-4:30 for special smashburger event!! We are partnering with Rockville City Council member @izola...
Come enjoy a smashburger and support a great cause at the Rockville Science Center on Sunday, November 23, 2025, from 2-5 PM. Benefits for STEM education and resources for current and former federal e...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Montgomery County’s “Burger Coach,” who fed us at the No Kings NIH Vigil Rally, will be co-sponsoring a community event for Feds and science 2-5pm Sunday Rockville Science Center www.instagram.com/reel/DRSg3fA...
Please share!
Please share!
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Leavitt: Why aren't you talking about what these members of congress are doing to encourage violence…. They're literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members not to follow lawful orders
Reporter: Actually they said illegal orders.
Reporter: Actually they said illegal orders.
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Leavitt: Why aren't you talking about what these members of congress are doing to encourage violence…. They're literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members not to follow lawful orders
Reporter: Actually they said illegal orders.
Reporter: Actually they said illegal orders.
Our driving patterns are being monitored, and we may be picked up and arrested for basically no reason.
In case you still think everything is fine and we have nothing to worry about.
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In case you still think everything is fine and we have nothing to worry about.
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious
abcnews.go.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Our driving patterns are being monitored, and we may be picked up and arrested for basically no reason.
In case you still think everything is fine and we have nothing to worry about.
abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...
In case you still think everything is fine and we have nothing to worry about.
abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...
FASCISM AND ITS SYMBOLS ARE BEING ACCEPTED INTO US MILITARY
Thats the headline
Thats the headline
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM