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SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources
The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
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It took since 1887 to build up the greatest biomedical research apparatus in the world. It’ll take a few ignorant dickheads a few months to tear its heart out.
Per a source (and similar post on Reddit, fwiw), NIH RIF plan may centralize and cut the number of institutes and centers by around half.
“This is the end of NIH as we know it.”
“This is the end of NIH as we know it.”
March 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It took since 1887 to build up the greatest biomedical research apparatus in the world. It’ll take a few ignorant dickheads a few months to tear its heart out.
February 28th is Rare Disease Day. A Rare disease affects fewer than 200,000 people in the US; that is 25-30 million Americans. Fewer than 5% of the 10,000 rare diseases have an approved treatment.The NIH is essential in the battle to find cures and treatments for these often neglected conditions.
March 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
February 28th is Rare Disease Day. A Rare disease affects fewer than 200,000 people in the US; that is 25-30 million Americans. Fewer than 5% of the 10,000 rare diseases have an approved treatment.The NIH is essential in the battle to find cures and treatments for these often neglected conditions.
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Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!
February 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!
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This is INSANE. Even if you think Zelenskyy was out of line or rude or whatever in the Oval, the US government is going to just throw the entire country of Ukraine under the (Russian) bus over this? Toddlers in kindergarten behave better, and more strategically, than this.
🚨The Trump administration is considering ending all ongoing shipments of military aid to Ukraine in response to Zelensky’s remarks in the Oval Office on Friday and his perceived intransigence in the peace process, per senior administration official
February 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is INSANE. Even if you think Zelenskyy was out of line or rude or whatever in the Oval, the US government is going to just throw the entire country of Ukraine under the (Russian) bus over this? Toddlers in kindergarten behave better, and more strategically, than this.
Just a reminder of the kind of man that Trump/Vance have allied us with.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Ukrainians in Bucha reflect on horrors and brutality suffered at hands of Russian forces
Some of the starkest images of Russian brutality in Ukraine emerged from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha last year. Ukrainian officials say 1,700 people were killed and 9,000 war crimes were committed there....
www.pbs.org
February 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Just a reminder of the kind of man that Trump/Vance have allied us with.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Dying is just one of the potential complications of measles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErfH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErfH...
What ANTIVAXXERS don’t want you to know about MEASLES
YouTube video by Back to the Science
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Dying is just one of the potential complications of measles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErfH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErfH...
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
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Thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who worked at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. were given 15-minute time slots to gather their belongings and were escorted out of the building by federal officers on Thursday.
February 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who worked at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. were given 15-minute time slots to gather their belongings and were escorted out of the building by federal officers on Thursday.
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Build the wall! Around DOGE!
February 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Build the wall! Around DOGE!
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A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.
Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas
As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated, local officials said.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.
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The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. https://buff.ly/42NeEl6
February 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. https://buff.ly/42NeEl6
Many in my rare disease community cannot get the care or diagnoses they need in their own communities. The NIH is a godsend for those with rare diseases and high medical debt. It takes time and effort to become a patient. Appts are being cancelled. Devastating!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
www.science.org
February 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Many in my rare disease community cannot get the care or diagnoses they need in their own communities. The NIH is a godsend for those with rare diseases and high medical debt. It takes time and effort to become a patient. Appts are being cancelled. Devastating!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The very definition of evil.
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The very definition of evil.
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So this is how this DOJ will operate. Actions and beliefs are deemed CRIMINAL if they are not in line with this Administration’s beliefs and platform.There is no criminal penalty for supporting or even continuing to apply DEIA principles.This is a muscle job. Corporations must stiffen their spines.
February 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
So this is how this DOJ will operate. Actions and beliefs are deemed CRIMINAL if they are not in line with this Administration’s beliefs and platform.There is no criminal penalty for supporting or even continuing to apply DEIA principles.This is a muscle job. Corporations must stiffen their spines.
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It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan
It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan
A foreign billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing
It’s one of the humiliations of our historical moment that the constitutional order has been…
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan
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For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.
February 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.
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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
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This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
They posted an update confirming it was from Trump's order. sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water
The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...
sjvwater.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
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“Is this something that has authorization and approval from the White House and specifically the president? Or is this Musk going rogue within the federal bureaucracy? He has no possible need for access to those systems.”
National security lawyer @bradmossesq.bsky.social, quoted in this piece:
National security lawyer @bradmossesq.bsky.social, quoted in this piece:
The awful news that Elon Musk clashed with a top Treasury official in an effort to access govt payment systems raises a crucial question: Did Trump authorize this, or not?
I talked to former officials who explain why this is a key question, and why it's so alarming:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
I talked to former officials who explain why this is a key question, and why it's so alarming:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One
Did Musk’s alleged effort to access the government’s payment systems have Trump’s blessing? Or was he going rogue? Either scenario is bad, but one’s a little worse.
newrepublic.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“Is this something that has authorization and approval from the White House and specifically the president? Or is this Musk going rogue within the federal bureaucracy? He has no possible need for access to those systems.”
National security lawyer @bradmossesq.bsky.social, quoted in this piece:
National security lawyer @bradmossesq.bsky.social, quoted in this piece:
How to create a public health disaster
YouTube video by Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Bobby lies about the 83 measles deaths in Samoa and his well-documented role in causing them.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
January 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Bobby lies about the 83 measles deaths in Samoa and his well-documented role in causing them.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
January 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
For those who are interested. This is just to the east of us -maybe 2 miles. Eastlake lake separates the residential neighborhoods (where we are) from a nature preserve area. The firefighters have done an excellent job.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/01/24/e...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/01/24/e...
Nearly 6,300-acre fire expanding east in Otay wilderness as nearly 700 firefighters fight back
Wind from the ocean pushed the Border 2 fire east Friday and the evacuation area expanded to include Dulzura and other rural spots east of Otay Mountain
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
For those who are interested. This is just to the east of us -maybe 2 miles. Eastlake lake separates the residential neighborhoods (where we are) from a nature preserve area. The firefighters have done an excellent job.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/01/24/e...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/01/24/e...
Have spent the day today and yesterday watching to see if we will need to evacuate because of the (6000+ acres) Border Fire 2. Weather is looking better and we have some of the best wild fire firefighters in the US if not the world. We are packed and ready to go if needed.
January 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Have spent the day today and yesterday watching to see if we will need to evacuate because of the (6000+ acres) Border Fire 2. Weather is looking better and we have some of the best wild fire firefighters in the US if not the world. We are packed and ready to go if needed.