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This is terrifying.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has returned from a trip to El Salvador where he secured an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality — including American citizens — offering to hold them in the country's sprawling maximum-security facility…
February 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is terrifying.
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DOOCY: Would Palestinians have the right to return to Gaza if they left during the rebuilding?
TRUMP: It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return
(A reporter can be heard yelling, "It's their home, sir!")
TRUMP: It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return
(A reporter can be heard yelling, "It's their home, sir!")
February 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
DOOCY: Would Palestinians have the right to return to Gaza if they left during the rebuilding?
TRUMP: It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return
(A reporter can be heard yelling, "It's their home, sir!")
TRUMP: It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return
(A reporter can be heard yelling, "It's their home, sir!")
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They include two federal holidays on the freeze list that honor Black Americans but leave alone all other federal holidays. Noted.
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
January 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
They include two federal holidays on the freeze list that honor Black Americans but leave alone all other federal holidays. Noted.
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Please believe this …
January 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Please believe this …
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
January 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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All 3 insulin makers have announced price increases ranging from 2000%-3000%
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
All 3 insulin makers have announced price increases ranging from 2000%-3000%
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Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.