Missy Baron
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Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
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April 7, 2025
April 7, 2025
Major indexes on the stock market began down more than 3% today when, as Allison Morrow of CNN reported, a rumor that Trump was considering delaying his tariffs by three months sent stocks surging upw...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
April 7, 2025
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Unfortunately, a lot of Americans are about to find out what happens when U.S. public health infrastructure is destroyed. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Unfortunately, a lot of Americans are about to find out what happens when U.S. public health infrastructure is destroyed. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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March 31, 2025
March 31, 2025
On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William Henry Seward wrote an astonishing letter to President Abraham Lincoln.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
March 31, 2025
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This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
March 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
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March 5, 2025:
March 5, 2025
In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
March 5, 2025:
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February 26, 2025
February 26, 2025
This morning, Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought and Office of Personnel Management acting director Charles Ezell sent a memo to the heads of departments and agencies.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
February 26, 2025
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral.
A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed.
apnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral.
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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
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February 8, 2025
February 8, 2025
Yesterday the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration announced a new policy that will dramatically change the way the United States funds medical research.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
February 8, 2025
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February 7, 2025
February 7, 2024
Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to deman...
open.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
February 7, 2025
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February 6, 2025
February 6, 2025
The U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
February 6, 2025
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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
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Excellent writeup about how CDC (and now NIH) are interfering with the scientific freedom that good science depends on.
This part is right on. The publication restrictions are new. Prev clearance processes were lightweight and **done by scientists**. At NIH, often scientific directors did that. 1/
This part is right on. The publication restrictions are new. Prev clearance processes were lightweight and **done by scientists**. At NIH, often scientific directors did that. 1/
February 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Excellent writeup about how CDC (and now NIH) are interfering with the scientific freedom that good science depends on.
This part is right on. The publication restrictions are new. Prev clearance processes were lightweight and **done by scientists**. At NIH, often scientific directors did that. 1/
This part is right on. The publication restrictions are new. Prev clearance processes were lightweight and **done by scientists**. At NIH, often scientific directors did that. 1/
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February 3, 2025
February 3, 2025
I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
February 3, 2025