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"And while the full scope of the cancellations is not clear, people in the field whom I consulted said the number of affected organizations could reach 2,000."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-take...
Trump Takes Another Blowtorch to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service
Potentially $2b was just cut from a key HHS agency with bipartisan support.
www.thebulwark.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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For those who are on safer supply and not diverting their medications they should be able to continue with receiving carries. Making them go into a pharmacy 3 times a day or more could make them stop going, which would destabilize their lives.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
B.C. to require safer supply medications to be taken under supervision
Change follows considerable scrutiny and political pushback on the program
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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This.
October 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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💊 New antibiotic class

Scientists have developed Novltex, a new antibiotic with strong activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria like MRSA. It’s cheaper to make and highly effective in lab tests.

🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#SciComm #Antibiotics #AMR 🧪
Novltex: A New Class of Antibiotics with Potent Activity against Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens─Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation
Increasing spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria demands antibiotics that combine potent activity with scalable synthesis. Novo29 (clovibactin) is promising but suffers from low yield (1%), dep...
pubs.acs.org
September 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers:

“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
September 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Why is it nearly impossible to buy something as simple as TCP (antiseptic) in England at the moment?
September 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Flat-out, complete, utter bullshit.
Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”
September 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Someone just sent me a bunch of examples of these. Apparently the site is flooded with them.

There's gotta be a story behind all of these.
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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This is entertaining and should be widely circulated in the UK
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
August 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Bertrand Russell wrote this over 100 years ago, in 1923. Hasn't aged a day.
January 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM