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ATTN: Since the White House only posted the Fact Sheet of his ~only the president and AG can say what the law is~ EO, I moved the email of the actual EO, which was sent to the press list from the Office of Communications, into a PDF and posted it.
NEW: Here is Trump's executive order purporting to end the independence of multi-member head independent agencies. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
ATTN: Since the White House only posted the Fact Sheet of his ~only the president and AG can say what the law is~ EO, I moved the email of the actual EO, which was sent to the press list from the Office of Communications, into a PDF and posted it.
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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Reminder: this is completely lawless
February 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Reminder: this is completely lawless
The parallels
"In hindsight, the first year may have been the entire ballgame — even if no one quite knew it at the time..."
Really good explainer by Zack Beauchamp here. Worth reading:
www.vox.com/politics/398...
Really good explainer by Zack Beauchamp here. Worth reading:
www.vox.com/politics/398...
Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.
Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.
www.vox.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The parallels
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They're not trying to make the government more efficient.
They're trying to break the government so they can enrich themselves.
Scott Walker did this in Wisconsin in 2011 with his union-busting "budget repair bill," which had nothing to do with budget repair.
Same con every time.
They're trying to break the government so they can enrich themselves.
Scott Walker did this in Wisconsin in 2011 with his union-busting "budget repair bill," which had nothing to do with budget repair.
Same con every time.
February 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They're not trying to make the government more efficient.
They're trying to break the government so they can enrich themselves.
Scott Walker did this in Wisconsin in 2011 with his union-busting "budget repair bill," which had nothing to do with budget repair.
Same con every time.
They're trying to break the government so they can enrich themselves.
Scott Walker did this in Wisconsin in 2011 with his union-busting "budget repair bill," which had nothing to do with budget repair.
Same con every time.
the point is not that it's fast -- the point it that it's systematic.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
February 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
www.mobilize.us
February 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
I won’t mock the regret. Coalition building requires open doors for people who realize they were wrong.
This Texas cop voted for Trump even though his undocumented father works in the fields. Now he's sad.
www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/t...
February 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I won’t mock the regret. Coalition building requires open doors for people who realize they were wrong.
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Someone tell him there is a Palestine,Texas before he gets confused again.
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Someone tell him there is a Palestine,Texas before he gets confused again.
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Dr. Peter Hotez is fighting false assertions that vaccines cause autism & the implausibility of vaccines causing autism based on studies showing how the neurodevelopmental process of autism occur before birth. We NEED believers in SCIENCE as head of HHS!
Thank you, Dr. Hotez for everything you do!
Thank you, Dr. Hotez for everything you do!
December 13, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Dr. Peter Hotez is fighting false assertions that vaccines cause autism & the implausibility of vaccines causing autism based on studies showing how the neurodevelopmental process of autism occur before birth. We NEED believers in SCIENCE as head of HHS!
Thank you, Dr. Hotez for everything you do!
Thank you, Dr. Hotez for everything you do!
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The greatest lie the devil ever told is that norms are the same thing as morals. Norms are contracts, and contracts can be broken by either party. If one party breaks a norm and the other still keeps it, all they are doing is abetting their own abuse under the auspices of certitude.
Thanks for your comment. But I don't think it should be a huge problem to explain and compare these pardon abuses as different actions on a negative continuum. Meaning what Biden did here is bad. What Clinton did was bad! What Trump has done and promises to do is really awful.
I respect your work on behalf of democracy, but I'm sorry, I must disagree on this issue. Pres Biden's pardon of his son is not in service of corruption, it's not a "henchmen pardon." It's nothing like Trump's pardons described in your linked piece.
December 2, 2024 at 4:27 AM
The greatest lie the devil ever told is that norms are the same thing as morals. Norms are contracts, and contracts can be broken by either party. If one party breaks a norm and the other still keeps it, all they are doing is abetting their own abuse under the auspices of certitude.
So helpful!
Three very helpful Bluesky add-on tools:
(updated with a preferred link)
* Find your old Twitter peeps on this platform:
sky-follower-bridge.dev
* TweetDeck equivalent:
deck.blue
* Delete old posts (skeets):
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(updated with a preferred link)
* Find your old Twitter peeps on this platform:
sky-follower-bridge.dev
* TweetDeck equivalent:
deck.blue
* Delete old posts (skeets):
bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup
November 18, 2024 at 12:48 PM
So helpful!
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We’re all going to die
November 14, 2024 at 9:25 PM
We’re all going to die