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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a new webpage that will help carry out President Donald Trump’s plans to create a national voter registry and shape who can vote in the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DHS posts ‘Citizenship Lists Portal’ to advance Trump’s anti-voting order
It’s the latest sign that the federal government is hurtling forward with Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
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A bombshell whistleblower complaint, submitted to Sen. Richard Blumenthal's office, reveals that the U.S. Postal Service allegedly kept building a new system to restrict mail-in ballots even after federal courts ordered it to stop it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySb4...
BREAKING: Whistleblower Leaks Trump's Secret USPS Scheme
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Six percent of Texas’s voters—over 1.2 million people—have had their voter registrations suspended, and many might not even know about it.
leftylady.bsky.social@leftylady.bsky.social · 2w agoTexans, if you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it! trib.al/OP3mVj5
The Republican governor of Wyoming has asked the state attorney general to "start looking into" the conduct of Trump Justice Department election observers deployed to the state for last week's primary election — calling the behavior of observers "aggressive" and "irregular."
Wyoming Governor Asks State Attorney General to Investigate DOJ Election Observers
Republican Gov. Mark Gordon called the observers’ conduct during last week’s primary ‘aggressive’ and ‘irregular.’
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Trump has wrecked many iconic D.C. sites, and now he’s taking an axe to trees in East Potomac Park, including historic cherry trees. I’ve heard from so many locals who hate this, but all Trump's people care about is appeasing his massive ego. This is awful.
Trees are coming down by the dozen as Trump’s D.C. golf makeover nears
The president’s promised overhaul of the East Potomac course has not officially begun, but tree removal has already been taking place for weeks.
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The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
Miami Herald@miamiherald.com · 2w agoLast month, U.S. officials warned Haitian authorities to expect an increase in deportations following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow President Donald Trump to end Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status designation even while litigation challenging the termination continues in the courts.
This is just amazing. You would think that Texans would want to get back to that level.
John Abramson@johnabramson.bsky.social · 2w ago
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Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports
2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.
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Iran relies on China to buy most of its oil. Beijing has established an elaborate system to move the sale proceeds around the world without triggering U.S. sanctions. But Washington so far has proven reluctant to confront Beijing over its support for the U.S. enemy. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
U.S. Squeezes Iran but Avoids Targeting Its Biggest Lifeline: China
Washington’s fresh campaign to economically isolate Tehran stopped short of directly penalizing the country that has enabled Iran to withstand years of American pressure.
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt.
Matt Grossmann@mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 2w agoNSF is substantially reducing grants, zeroing out many SBE subdivisions, & withholding the funds to spend next year on central initiatives: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Never let them forget: They hunted the vice president to kill him. They built a gallows on the Capitol lawn. They assaulted police officers with flagpoles and bear spray, and they tried to seize the presidency for Donald Trump.
Why are financial markets apparently unconcerned about U.S. solvency? The clear implication is that the markets expect Democrats to do what they’ve done repeatedly in the past: clean up the fiscal mess Republicans left behind. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-are-b...
What Are Bond Markets Telling Us?
Interest rates are up — but don’t panic
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The message for Democrats is clear: Don’t let the Very Serious People do what they did to Obama, using scaremongering about a debt crisis to block a progressive agenda. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-case-a...?
The Case Against Bond Market Panic
Don’t let the Very Serious People undermine a progressive agenda — again
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Moderna and Merck said on Wednesday that a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma was in a late-stage trial. “I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work with other types of cancer.” - Robert Langer www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Moderna, Merck vaccine cuts recurrence and spread of melanoma, raising new treatment hope
Moderna and Merck said on Wednesday that a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma in a late-stage trial, a major success in a new field of cancer treat...
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Human brain organoids are developed for 5 years in cell culture, optimizing growth conditions to extend excitatory neuron viability beyond previous limits. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years - Nature
Human brain organoids were developed for over five years in culture to demonstrate that brain cells can continue to mature and record the passage of time, following human-specific endogenous programs,...
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We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
The team found that pilots and flight attendants had statistically significantly higher rates of death from breast, central nervous system, and prostate cancers and melanoma. Pilots also had a higher rate of leukemia deaths. hms.harvard.edu/news/pilots-...
Pilots, Flight Attendants Have Greater Risk of Radiation-Related Cancer Death Than Other Professions
Findings support efforts to protect U.S. aircrews from cosmic radiation exposure
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The crisis inside Trump’s military appears to be spreading. MeidasTouch obtained text messages from a USS Carl Vinson sailor’s wife saying sailors are being forced to shower in cold water and the ship’s water fountain's have been shut off as they prepare for another deployment.
Text Messages Reveal Carl Vinson Sailors Showering in Cold Water, Water Fountains Shut Off Before Deployment
MeidasTouch has obtained exclusive text messages from a military spouse describing conditions aboard the USS Carl Vinson that paint a troubling picture of
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EXCLUSIVE: My Status Hearing today devolved into an exhibition of DOJ incompetence and gross lack of preparation, whether intentional or otherwise. Judge Sullivan is fast-losing patience with the non-compliance by Blanche. The hearing details and what’s next: youtu.be/Bqdo7JB_jMA?...
🚨Judge REBUKES DOJ and Issues MAJOR WARNING During Hearing in MY Epstein Lawsuit!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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“Crowley’s path to victory runs through suburban Wisconsin and through holding down Republican margins in rural communities,”
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4w agoHidden advantage in defeat of Francisca Hong: Crowley at top of ticket probably will benefit downballot state leg candidates, making flipping of Wisconsin legislature more plausible. And that could lead to reverse of GOP's hideous decade-long gerrymander there: newrepublic.com/article/2142...
The generation and comprehensive genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic characterization of 665 fully accessible patient-derived organoid, neurosphere and cell line models, which were created as part of the international Human Cancer Models Initiative. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A compendium of next-generation patient-derived models for diverse cancers - Nature
The international collaboration of the Human Cancer Models Initiative presents a comprehensive resource of next-generation cancer models from 2,780 donors with 25 cancer types and integrated tumour–mo...
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Trump’s goal to split MMR vaccine could take a decade, experts say reut.rs/4zc1wnt
Trump’s goal to split MMR vaccine could take a decade, experts say
President Donald Trump's order directing Americans to receive separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines faces an immediate obstacle: none of the individual shots are licensed in the United States and experts say it could take years before any become available, if they ever do.
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NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.
