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Our other story this AM:
The NIH Fellows United union has voted to endorse the Bethesda Declaration, an open letter signed by over 500 current and former agency workers decrying the Trump administration’s policies and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership.
The NIH Fellows United union has voted to endorse the Bethesda Declaration, an open letter signed by over 500 current and former agency workers decrying the Trump administration’s policies and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership.
NIH Fellows Union Endorses Bethesda Declaration Criticizing Agency Leadership
“So far, the director has been unwilling or unable to deliver on his promises.”
www.importantcontext.news
June 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Our other story this AM:
The NIH Fellows United union has voted to endorse the Bethesda Declaration, an open letter signed by over 500 current and former agency workers decrying the Trump administration’s policies and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership.
The NIH Fellows United union has voted to endorse the Bethesda Declaration, an open letter signed by over 500 current and former agency workers decrying the Trump administration’s policies and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership.
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i know we're numb but it seems not great that an executive branch official is on a Russian asset's show spreading conspiracy theories about American elections being rigged
June 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
i know we're numb but it seems not great that an executive branch official is on a Russian asset's show spreading conspiracy theories about American elections being rigged
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BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.
"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."
Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."
Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
June 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.
"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."
Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."
Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
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Truth. Poverty alleviation is prevention.
Do you want lower rates of "crime"?
Do you want increased childhood development and well-being?
Do you want lower rates of homelessness?
Do you want to reduce overdose deaths?
Do you want these things cheaper than ever?
Then give people housing, food, schooling, medicine, and support, for free.
Do you want increased childhood development and well-being?
Do you want lower rates of homelessness?
Do you want to reduce overdose deaths?
Do you want these things cheaper than ever?
Then give people housing, food, schooling, medicine, and support, for free.
June 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Truth. Poverty alleviation is prevention.
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There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.
June 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.
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OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!
June 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!
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""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..."
www.wnep.com/article/news...
www.wnep.com/article/news...
Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
www.wnep.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..."
www.wnep.com/article/news...
www.wnep.com/article/news...
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Stephen Miller is deliberately choosing to focus more resources on non-criminals—and thus away from dangerous criminals. Law enforcement insiders have leaked word of their anger over exactly this. https://trib.al/BRXNDsI
Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!
trib.al
June 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Stephen Miller is deliberately choosing to focus more resources on non-criminals—and thus away from dangerous criminals. Law enforcement insiders have leaked word of their anger over exactly this. https://trib.al/BRXNDsI
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He has already lied under oath during Senate hearings. There is no reason to let him speak. Read him his many lies and misdeeds and don’t let him escape accountability like he always has. More American children have died from measles under his tenure than have in more than the past 30 years combined
Rewording my earlier post.
RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress.
I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good.
If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?
RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress.
I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good.
If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?
June 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
He has already lied under oath during Senate hearings. There is no reason to let him speak. Read him his many lies and misdeeds and don’t let him escape accountability like he always has. More American children have died from measles under his tenure than have in more than the past 30 years combined
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Data for Progress finds 50% of voters support "Medicaid Work Requirements" but only 38% support a "Medicaid Job Loss Penalty" - with 53% opposing GOP plan.
Framing matters and Dems should use "Job loss penalty" or similar when talking about GOP bill
www.theframelab.org/how-job-loss...
Framing matters and Dems should use "Job loss penalty" or similar when talking about GOP bill
www.theframelab.org/how-job-loss...
June 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Data for Progress finds 50% of voters support "Medicaid Work Requirements" but only 38% support a "Medicaid Job Loss Penalty" - with 53% opposing GOP plan.
Framing matters and Dems should use "Job loss penalty" or similar when talking about GOP bill
www.theframelab.org/how-job-loss...
Framing matters and Dems should use "Job loss penalty" or similar when talking about GOP bill
www.theframelab.org/how-job-loss...
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🤰 Among pregnant women, those who get COVID are more likely to die or end up in the ICU. And their babies are more likely to be born too soon or too small. (BMJ Global Health Paper here: gh.bmj.com/content/8/1/...)
Adverse maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an individual participant data meta-analysis
Introduction Despite a growing body of research on the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy, there is continued controversy given heterogeneity in the quality and design of published studies...
gh.bmj.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🤰 Among pregnant women, those who get COVID are more likely to die or end up in the ICU. And their babies are more likely to be born too soon or too small. (BMJ Global Health Paper here: gh.bmj.com/content/8/1/...)
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🆘 Our work over the past few years has shown that COVID-19 in pregnancy is a serious problem that requires serious public health and medical consideration.
May 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🆘 Our work over the past few years has shown that COVID-19 in pregnancy is a serious problem that requires serious public health and medical consideration.
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Everyone in ICUs during COVID has haunting pregnancy stories: tenuous patients, emergency intubations, crash C-sections. Even after 5 years of immunity from vaccines and past infections, COVID harms placentas and pregnancy outcomes. Undermining vaccine confidence only endangers pregnant people.
May 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Everyone in ICUs during COVID has haunting pregnancy stories: tenuous patients, emergency intubations, crash C-sections. Even after 5 years of immunity from vaccines and past infections, COVID harms placentas and pregnancy outcomes. Undermining vaccine confidence only endangers pregnant people.
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Because free speech.
May 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Because free speech.
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The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid
Breaking news: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ending his agency's recommendation that healthy pregnant women and healthy children receive the coronavirus vaccine.
RFK Jr. ends covid shot recommendation for healthy children, pregnant women
Currently the vaccine is recommended for all people over 6 months of age.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid
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This is absolutely terrible. Not only are pregnant women immunosuppressed but their physiology also puts them at increased risk for more severe disease. Shameful.
Is flu next? Also pregnant women are immunosuppressed and have always been on the list of high risk. This is beyond comprehension
RFK Jr. ends covid shot recommendation for healthy children, pregnant women
Currently the vaccine is recommended for all people over 6 months of age.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is absolutely terrible. Not only are pregnant women immunosuppressed but their physiology also puts them at increased risk for more severe disease. Shameful.
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The man on the left wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine *last week* that pregnancy is a one of the medical conditions that increases the risk of severe covid and thereby warrants vaccination.
Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
![screenshot from twitter:
Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy
Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again
[video of RFK Jr flanked by on left by Marty Makary, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and on right by Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreihsslbl3un52tvdmk2estvtow42trcflc4qb2f73de54c662oclue@jpeg)
May 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The man on the left wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine *last week* that pregnancy is a one of the medical conditions that increases the risk of severe covid and thereby warrants vaccination.
Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...
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I should add, now is a really good time to get on PrEP, get on DoxyPEP if eligible,use condoms and make sure you and your sexual partners are tested.
We will see a rise in STIs ( we already were in a crisis situation before the cuts).
This will get worse. Please see below for PrEP resources
We will see a rise in STIs ( we already were in a crisis situation before the cuts).
This will get worse. Please see below for PrEP resources
If you ever wonder how indiscriminate cuts affect your life, here's today's example. I consulted on a case of disseminated gonococcal infection. These isolates used to get automatically sent to cdc for testing and nationwide tracking. The lab was shut last month.
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
HHS closes CDC lab that tracks STIs, alarming experts
The Trump administration has shut down a CDC laboratory dedicated to tracking STIs, which experts said could weaken the country’s ability to keep an eye on drug-resistant infections, including g...
www.healio.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I should add, now is a really good time to get on PrEP, get on DoxyPEP if eligible,use condoms and make sure you and your sexual partners are tested.
We will see a rise in STIs ( we already were in a crisis situation before the cuts).
This will get worse. Please see below for PrEP resources
We will see a rise in STIs ( we already were in a crisis situation before the cuts).
This will get worse. Please see below for PrEP resources
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Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!
based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right
May 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!
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Well well.
A letter sent to Repub Senators a few days ago said “if the [contract cuts] move forward it will be newsworthy. And you cannot say that you did not know.”
And now a firing of an NIHer working w/ patients, reported on Reddit.
Blame R Senators: call them if you’re their constituent.
A letter sent to Repub Senators a few days ago said “if the [contract cuts] move forward it will be newsworthy. And you cannot say that you did not know.”
And now a firing of an NIHer working w/ patients, reported on Reddit.
Blame R Senators: call them if you’re their constituent.
April 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Well well.
A letter sent to Repub Senators a few days ago said “if the [contract cuts] move forward it will be newsworthy. And you cannot say that you did not know.”
And now a firing of an NIHer working w/ patients, reported on Reddit.
Blame R Senators: call them if you’re their constituent.
A letter sent to Repub Senators a few days ago said “if the [contract cuts] move forward it will be newsworthy. And you cannot say that you did not know.”
And now a firing of an NIHer working w/ patients, reported on Reddit.
Blame R Senators: call them if you’re their constituent.
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Lol i posted this a month ago and I was right. No more federal inspection of dairy but trying to remove red dye 40 from foods
Those people weren't talking about making sure that your food is free from e-coli. They just want red-dye 40 out of breakfast cereal. They don't care if you die from eating romaine. Shit, they WANT raw milk to be legal.
remember when some people were like "well I disagree with rfk jr on vaccines but at least he's going to make food safer"
April 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Lol i posted this a month ago and I was right. No more federal inspection of dairy but trying to remove red dye 40 from foods
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Look, the people who helped the Jews got sent to camps, too, so this stands to reason
“Some officials say U.S. citizens who criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals.”
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
April 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Look, the people who helped the Jews got sent to camps, too, so this stands to reason
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At RFK Jr’s direction, HHS plans to cut the National Suicide Hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
At RFK Jr’s direction, HHS plans to cut the National Suicide Hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.