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SNAP benefits will not be provided to families in Pennsylvania in November, affecting over 200,000 people across Allegheny and Westmoreland counties.
@pghcitypaper.com put together a helpful list of organizations providing food assistance around Pittsburgh: www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/with-...
@pghcitypaper.com put together a helpful list of organizations providing food assistance around Pittsburgh: www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/with-...
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
SNAP benefits will not be provided to families in Pennsylvania in November, affecting over 200,000 people across Allegheny and Westmoreland counties.
@pghcitypaper.com put together a helpful list of organizations providing food assistance around Pittsburgh: www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/with-...
@pghcitypaper.com put together a helpful list of organizations providing food assistance around Pittsburgh: www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/with-...
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Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Colon cancer is on the rise in younger adults, and recent research suggests a microbe may be partially to blame 🦠
youtube.com/shorts/YDmRu...
youtube.com/shorts/YDmRu...
Colon cancer is on the rise in younger adults #shorts
YouTube video by bioZone
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August 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Colon cancer is on the rise in younger adults, and recent research suggests a microbe may be partially to blame 🦠
youtube.com/shorts/YDmRu...
youtube.com/shorts/YDmRu...
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Latest CBO analysis of the full distributional effects of the Trump budget (the "One Big Bill") just landed. They blew out the budget, see how big of a slice you got.
www.cbo.gov/interactive/...
www.cbo.gov/interactive/...
August 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Latest CBO analysis of the full distributional effects of the Trump budget (the "One Big Bill") just landed. They blew out the budget, see how big of a slice you got.
www.cbo.gov/interactive/...
www.cbo.gov/interactive/...
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LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
August 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
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America under GOP rule.
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
America under GOP rule.
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The mission of the NIMHD is "to lead scientific research in humans to improve minority health and reduce health disparities in the United States and its territories."
Let me put this as delicately as possible:
Fuck off, you white supremacist asshole
2/2
Let me put this as delicately as possible:
Fuck off, you white supremacist asshole
2/2
July 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The mission of the NIMHD is "to lead scientific research in humans to improve minority health and reduce health disparities in the United States and its territories."
Let me put this as delicately as possible:
Fuck off, you white supremacist asshole
2/2
Let me put this as delicately as possible:
Fuck off, you white supremacist asshole
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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PO just confirmed that our 5th percentile R01 is not getting funded. Past NCI Payline at 4 percent. Cant believe it.
July 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
PO just confirmed that our 5th percentile R01 is not getting funded. Past NCI Payline at 4 percent. Cant believe it.
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📣PROTEST ALERT!📍Pittsburgh, join us TUESDAY, JULY 15 at Forbes & Bigelow blvd for a rally & march!
Trump & fossil fuel execs arrive at Carnegie Mellon for Energy & AI Summit, using CMU to boost their image while selling out PA’s future.
Students & locals say: not on our campus, not in our name.
Trump & fossil fuel execs arrive at Carnegie Mellon for Energy & AI Summit, using CMU to boost their image while selling out PA’s future.
Students & locals say: not on our campus, not in our name.
July 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
📣PROTEST ALERT!📍Pittsburgh, join us TUESDAY, JULY 15 at Forbes & Bigelow blvd for a rally & march!
Trump & fossil fuel execs arrive at Carnegie Mellon for Energy & AI Summit, using CMU to boost their image while selling out PA’s future.
Students & locals say: not on our campus, not in our name.
Trump & fossil fuel execs arrive at Carnegie Mellon for Energy & AI Summit, using CMU to boost their image while selling out PA’s future.
Students & locals say: not on our campus, not in our name.
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Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
July 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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Imagine reading this statement from the NIH 6+ months ago.
NIH statement, per @ryanequinn.bsky.social: "There is no Federal funding for unvetted woke 'research' at Columbia. Any minimal disbursements that presently exist are for specific measures, including to wind down the grant entirely."
June 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Imagine reading this statement from the NIH 6+ months ago.
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Did you know many Pokémon are inspired by real animals? We’ve collaborated with ecologist Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick @kellyrabbit.bsky.social to bring you a series of pokemon videos. Stay tuned for the first episode coming soon!
Any guesses for our first featured Pokémon?
Any guesses for our first featured Pokémon?
June 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Did you know many Pokémon are inspired by real animals? We’ve collaborated with ecologist Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick @kellyrabbit.bsky.social to bring you a series of pokemon videos. Stay tuned for the first episode coming soon!
Any guesses for our first featured Pokémon?
Any guesses for our first featured Pokémon?
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Powerful statement by Sen. Alex Padilla.
Please notice that anytime senators or representatives try to conduct oversight, they’re blocked.
In this case, a sitting US senator was tackled to the ground and handcuffed—for asking a question.
Where the hell has Chuck Schumer been on this?
Please notice that anytime senators or representatives try to conduct oversight, they’re blocked.
In this case, a sitting US senator was tackled to the ground and handcuffed—for asking a question.
Where the hell has Chuck Schumer been on this?
June 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Powerful statement by Sen. Alex Padilla.
Please notice that anytime senators or representatives try to conduct oversight, they’re blocked.
In this case, a sitting US senator was tackled to the ground and handcuffed—for asking a question.
Where the hell has Chuck Schumer been on this?
Please notice that anytime senators or representatives try to conduct oversight, they’re blocked.
In this case, a sitting US senator was tackled to the ground and handcuffed—for asking a question.
Where the hell has Chuck Schumer been on this?
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The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
May 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
www.politico.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
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“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far.
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
Atul Gawande on Instagram: "“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false.
So far, 190,000 children and 90,000 adults have died due to the dismantling of USAID (even assuming...
9 likes, 0 comments - atul.gawande on May 24, 2025: "“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false.
So far, 190,000 children and 90,000 adults have died due to the dismantlin...
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May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far.
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
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I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school
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More than half of the 1500 research grants that NSF has terminated in the past month under orders from President Donald Trump’s administration aimed to bring groups historically underrepresented in science into the mainstream. scim.ag/4jYhB8e
NSF’s grant cuts fall heaviest on scientists from underrepresented groups
Projects to broaden participation were cut disproportionately—and were often led by Black scientists, women, and those with disabilities
scim.ag
May 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
More than half of the 1500 research grants that NSF has terminated in the past month under orders from President Donald Trump’s administration aimed to bring groups historically underrepresented in science into the mainstream. scim.ag/4jYhB8e
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"… the withdrawal from DEI … will harm productivity and economic growth in the United States as well as impede U.S. companies’ ability to compete globally," writes Rohini Pande in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. scim.ag/43nBlLB
May 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"… the withdrawal from DEI … will harm productivity and economic growth in the United States as well as impede U.S. companies’ ability to compete globally," writes Rohini Pande in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. scim.ag/43nBlLB