@lfitter.bsky.social
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Purports to exempt. None of this has ever had the requisite paperwork done. #TrumpAndPaperworkMan
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...
Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs
Financial markets have been roiled since President Trump imposed stiff tariffs on China, where Apple and other tech companies make many of their products.
www.cnbc.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Purports to exempt. None of this has ever had the requisite paperwork done. #TrumpAndPaperworkMan
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...
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Exactly
Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.
April 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Exactly
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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...
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A very, very good question.
Is there any link between the Trump admin’s “deal” with El Salvador and Bukele’s plan for a “Bitcoin City,” which was going to be scaled back in order to receive loans from the IMF — and Trump admin’s plans to use gold reserves to buy Bitcoin?
Or all just coincidence theweek.com/business/eco...
Or all just coincidence theweek.com/business/eco...
The collapse of El Salvador's bitcoin dream
Central American nation rolls back its controversial, world-first cryptocurrency laws
theweek.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A very, very good question.
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I cannot overstate how despicable the Mahmoud Khalil case is
The Government concedes he hasn’t broken any laws
But they assert he can be deported for his past, current or even EXPECTED beliefs
All based on the sole determination of Marco Rubio
Who is apparently now the head of the Thought Police
The Government concedes he hasn’t broken any laws
But they assert he can be deported for his past, current or even EXPECTED beliefs
All based on the sole determination of Marco Rubio
Who is apparently now the head of the Thought Police
April 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I cannot overstate how despicable the Mahmoud Khalil case is
The Government concedes he hasn’t broken any laws
But they assert he can be deported for his past, current or even EXPECTED beliefs
All based on the sole determination of Marco Rubio
Who is apparently now the head of the Thought Police
The Government concedes he hasn’t broken any laws
But they assert he can be deported for his past, current or even EXPECTED beliefs
All based on the sole determination of Marco Rubio
Who is apparently now the head of the Thought Police
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April 12, 2025
April 12, 2025
It was just 20 days ago—on March 24—that editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported that the most senior members of the Trump administration discussed a military strike on the Houthis i...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
April 12, 2025
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
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"The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields—but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are for-profit."
#medlibs 📚
www.science.org/content/arti...
#medlibs 📚
www.science.org/content/arti...
DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library
“We can’t do science without these,” one researcher says of the hundreds of journals no longer accessible
www.science.org
March 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields—but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are for-profit."
#medlibs 📚
www.science.org/content/arti...
#medlibs 📚
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Today, we sent a letter warning the new Institute of Museum and Library Services acting director not to cut library programs required by federal law. www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
March 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Today, we sent a letter warning the new Institute of Museum and Library Services acting director not to cut library programs required by federal law. www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
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Good news from Colorado: A U.S. District Judge ordered a school district to restore library books they banned by next week, prohibiting the district from further restrictions on access to books that the school board objects to politically.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
#UniteAgainstBookBans
www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries
The order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”
www.denverpost.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Good news from Colorado: A U.S. District Judge ordered a school district to restore library books they banned by next week, prohibiting the district from further restrictions on access to books that the school board objects to politically.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
#UniteAgainstBookBans
www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
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I'm at a meeting at my public library. It is a community garden orientation, and plots are very cheap. Volunteer hours are used for maintenance and growing food for soup kitchens and the community. The org is supported by a local non profit.
This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them
This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them
March 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm at a meeting at my public library. It is a community garden orientation, and plots are very cheap. Volunteer hours are used for maintenance and growing food for soup kitchens and the community. The org is supported by a local non profit.
This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them
This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them
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They don't want SS to go away. Their intention is to privatize it so oligarchs can take a slice of every penny you put into the "retirement wealth fund" they plan to create. Don't you just love P2025.
Your money, here.⬇️⬇️⬇️
Your money, here.⬇️⬇️⬇️
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
They don't want SS to go away. Their intention is to privatize it so oligarchs can take a slice of every penny you put into the "retirement wealth fund" they plan to create. Don't you just love P2025.
Your money, here.⬇️⬇️⬇️
Your money, here.⬇️⬇️⬇️
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It's a scary time
March 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It's a scary time
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Another strong woman speaks
the TRUTH…
the TRUTH…
March 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Another strong woman speaks
the TRUTH…
the TRUTH…
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These NIH funding cuts threaten research happening in Delaware on heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke recovery, & more.
This is what this administration is focused on. Not lowering your household costs.
This is what this administration is focused on. Not lowering your household costs.
Delaware’s innovation pipeline could be at risk with new NIH funding policy
With a proposed cap on indirect costs for NIH grants, Delaware's life science sector could be hit the next generation of start-ups and researchers.
delawarebusinesstimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
These NIH funding cuts threaten research happening in Delaware on heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke recovery, & more.
This is what this administration is focused on. Not lowering your household costs.
This is what this administration is focused on. Not lowering your household costs.
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February 16, 2025
February 16, 2025
The sixty-first Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for talking about international security policy, took place from February 14 to February 16 this year.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
February 16, 2025
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
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"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'
A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."
A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."
A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along
In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a bellwether for public health disasters.
www.latimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'
A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."
A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."
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Let’s try something. We here at @altnih4science.bsky.social want to boost descriptions of NIH-funded science.
If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost.
We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪
If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost.
We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪
February 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Let’s try something. We here at @altnih4science.bsky.social want to boost descriptions of NIH-funded science.
If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost.
We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪
If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost.
We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪