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NIH grants plummeted $2.3 billion in Trump’s first months, as federal-academia partnership crumbles www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t... via @statnews.com
NIH grants plummeted $2.3 billion in Trump’s first months, as federal-academia partnership crumbles
The NIH has scaled back its awards of new grants by at least $2.3 billion since the beginning of the year, a STAT analysis shows.
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May 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Ultimate Surveillance State; China eat your heart out

More creepy activities designed by creepy people with good & creepy motives. The slow creep of authoritarian rule is in full swing with homeland oligarchs at high command, and 2-steps ahead of the law 😠😡🤬

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DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
www.wired.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
🤭 Musk’s DOGEshit bots searching for ‘DEI terms’ strike again - Enola Gay you’re fired 🤖

An overreaching Musk and an inept President playing with the tariff wand waging war with longstanding allies and secret calls to murderous dictators 😠😡🙄 @maddow.msnbc.com

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War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts m...
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March 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
DOJ Scandals Abound: Retaliation, Retribution & Revenge leads to Indignation and Resignation at Trump’s Injustice Dept. Scandals on the left of DJT, scandals on the right - stuck in the middl

First 3, now 6 top U.S. prosecutors resign over order to drop Eric Adams case

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3 top U.S. prosecutors resign over order to drop NYC Mayor Eric Adams corruption case
The acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two top Justice Department officials in Washington, D.C., resigned after the case against New York City's mayor war order dropped.
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February 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Low Carbon Energy Sector Employs More Than Fossil Fuels: More than 400,000 jobs created in the low carbon sector since passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Wind & Solar are the least expensive forms driving electric energy for the past decade.

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Time to Wake Up 296: Looters and Polluters
YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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February 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Level of concern 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

“We were fortunate that during our tenures in office no effort was made to unlawfully undermine the nation’s financial commitments. Regrettably, recent reporting gives substantial cause for concern that such efforts are underway today.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Musk’s DOGE teen “plumber” was fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets

Coristine bragged on Discord about retaining access company after being dismissed. He said that he had “access to every single machine at Path Network.”

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Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
www.bloomberg.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Always a fav of the Arts community… not

Trump would replace philanthropist David Rubenstein, who held the post for 14 years but signaled that he will move on after September ‘26. Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter plans to step down at the end of the year.

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Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center
The president intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive approach toward the arts.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
and speaking of self-destruction

Tesla sales plunge 63% in France, -59% in Germany, -44% and -38% in Sweden and Norway, and -42% in the Netherlands

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Tesla sales slump in five European markets in January
Tesla posted lower sales across five EU countries as competitors with newer models gained and polls show public opinion souring on CEO Musk.
www.usatoday.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
What never ceases to amaze me is how intelligent and superior the messianic MAGA own the libs Judeo-Christian tea partying fascist sycophantic spineless GOP think they are and how fast they OD on their power trip and it all unravels via selfish destruction means

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A Late-Night Call Between Trump and Bannon
Steve, we need to talk about Elon.
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February 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sistas are doin’ it for themselves

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Larkin Poe - "Little Bit" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Larkin Poe
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February 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
President Pump & Dump, Mark $uckerberg, Elon “$ieg Heil, mein Führer” Must and Jeff Pay-2-Play Bozos - face the people’s music

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The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time
From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power
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January 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM


“His love of improvisation equaled his respect and appreciation for composed music from every century and every part of the globe… it flowed through him in a stream of consciousness bringing his personality to whatever music he was immersed in at the moment.”

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Warren Haynes Pens Eulogy For The Band's Garth Hudson: "The Last Piece Of The Puzzle Is Gone" [Video]
Warren Haynes remembered The Band multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson in a eulogy featuring a number of personal anecdotes.
liveforlivemusic.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"No 'national injustice' occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election," Judge Beryl Howell.

"No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," said Judge Tanya Chutkan…

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DC judges slam Trump pardons as 'revisionist myth,' 'will not change the truth' of Jan. 6
Federal judges in the D.C. district court have remained essentially silent while signing off on the hundreds of now-dismissed cases that for years crowded their dockets.
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January 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM