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$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
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September 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (Gift Article)
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
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July 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3

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June 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness."

Thousands of scientists disagreed.

We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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June 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I am deeply concerned by reports of the Administration's decision to halt operations at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick—a critical federal lab dedicated to researching high-risk infectious diseases such as Ebola.
HHS stops work at Fort Detrick lab that studies infectious diseases
Work at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick has been ordered to stop by the National Institutes of Health, officials confirmed on
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May 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.

Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.

If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research.

NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department.

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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department. A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop research activities. According to an email viewed by WIRED, the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, Maryland was told to stop all experimental work by April 29 at 5 pm. The facility is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and is located at the US Army base Fort Detrick. It conducts research on the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases that are deemed “high consequence”—those that pose significant risks to public health. It has 168 employees, including federal workers and contractors. The email, sent by Michael Holbrook, associate director for high containment at the Integrated Research Facility, says the lab is terminating studies on Lassa fever, SARS-Cov-2, and Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, a rare but lethal mosquito-borne disease that has been reported in several Northern US states. “We are collecting as many samples as is reasonable to ensure these studies are of value,” he says in the email. “We have not been asked to euthanize any animals so these animals will continue to be managed.” Holbrook did not respond to an inquiry from WIRED. The email says representatives from the Department of Homeland Security were padlocking freezers in BSL-4 labs, those with the highest level of biosafety containment used for studying highly dangerous microbes. Only about a dozen BSL-4 labs exist in North America. These labs work with the viruses that cause Ebola, Lassa fever, and Marburg, types of hemorrhagic fevers. The Integrated Research Facility is one of few places in the world that is able to perform medical imaging on animals infected with BSL-4 agents. “The sacrifice to research is immense,” says Gigi Kwik Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, on the closure. “If things are unused for a period of time, it will cost more money to get them ready to be used again.” The facility’s director, Connie Schmaljohn, has also been placed on administrative leave, according to the email. Previously, Schmaljohn served as a senior research scientist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. She has more than 200 research publications and her work has led to several clinical trials of first-of-their kind vaccines. Schmaljohn also did not respond to an inquiry from WIRED. In an emailed statement provided to WIRED, Bradley Moss, communication director for the office of research services at NIH, confirmed the halt in research activity. “NIH has implemented a research pause—referred to as a safety stand-down—at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick. This decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture, prompting this research pause. During the stand-down, no research will be conducted, and access will be limited to essential personnel only, to safeguard the facility and its resources.” Moss did not elaborate on the nature of the personnel issues, and said he did not know how long the research pause would last. Staff have not received an anticipated reopening date. The research pause is the latest disruption to federal science agencies after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced at the end of March that 10,000 people across the vast federal health agency would lose their jobs, including those at the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mass layoffs are part of a restructuring plan being carried out by President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
May 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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According to an email viewed by WIRED, the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, Maryland was told to stop all experimental work by April 29 at 5 pm.

It has 168 employees, including federal workers and contractors. “The sacrifice to research is immense."
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD‬: "RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there."
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Next Pandemic we won't be ready.

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RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
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May 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Opinion | Truths to Remember in a Time of Lies (Gift Article)
Chaos and disorientation are the goals here. But we know what’s going on behind the curtain.
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March 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Come together, right now | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
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March 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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worth a read! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change (Gift Article)
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.
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February 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Great interview by @keithedwards.bsky.social with Arielle Kane, a high performing government employee who was fired by the doge minions. Contrast this with our mediocre president, who was at Daytona 500 today on taxpayer dollars.
keithedwards.bsky.social Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · Feb 16
A government employee went mega-viral after she SPOKE OUT against Musk's firing on HIS OWN APP.

Now she's coming on my channel to share her story.

Interview premieres at 7:00pm on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQx...
February 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Monday morning:
1) Senate needs to convene and address the #DOGE espionage attempt to disarm our nuclear armaments by firing staff re: DOE/NNSA www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
And, 2) address serious breach of classified NRO data and suspend Elon Musk’s contracts ASAP. abcnews.go.com/US/agency-da...
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Hahahaha. I love it. Anyone here that is indigenous and can help with the pronunciation? I’d love to use this in every. single. one. of. my. classes. #ProudBlue #DemsUnited #democrat #democrats #Blue_Crew #Antifascist #Resist #Science #ProEducation #Environment #nationalembarassment #FOTUS
A post, name was cut out, that shows a picture of the Gulf of Mexico renames to the indigenous word. The text reads, “The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl". It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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#science #federal #resist #usa #politics
fpwellman.bsky.social Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · Feb 2
I am not a marching guy.

Having said that it’s time to peacefully and loudly fill the streets.

Let them know we do not accept this. Any of it.
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Ha. Yup! #ProudBlue #DemsUnited #democrat #democrats #BlueCrew #Blue_Crew #BLM #Antifascist #ProChoice #LGBTQ+ #Resist #Science #ProEducation #Environment #nationalembarassment #orangefelon #FOTUS
A simple post by Mohammad Sara reading “If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States”
January 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Preach @aoc.bsky.social #ProudBlue #DemsUnited #democrat #democrats #BlueCrew #Blue_Crew #blacklivesmatter #BLM #Antifascist #ProChoice #LGBTQ+ #BlueCrew #Resist #BLM #Science #ProEducation #Environment
December 7, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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The heroes we need. Support and protect our National Parks. #resist #theresistance #science #sciencematters #lolno
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Nov 27
Throwback to the March for Science—an inspiring day standing up for facts, progress, and the importance of evidence-based policy. #MarchForScience #ScienceMatters
November 28, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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#resist #science #DEI #stem
February 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM