Happy Passover to everyone celebrating in Maryland’s Eighth District and around the world! May you and your family experience peace, joy and freedom. Chag Sameach!
Creating a voters list/registry is crazy and illegal. I have to imagine all of the MAGAT 2A people who always worry about any registry with guns will have the same concerns with this. I assume they won't be hypocrites, Right? apnews.com/article/dona...
Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and to restrict mail-in voting.
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Another excellent Substack from Elizabeth Ginexi on a near-stoppage of release of Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) at NIH and why it matters open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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#medsky Please join us and Minnesota healthcare workers by wearing a black ribbon this week in memory of Alex Pretti. Let’s show our love and support for Alex’s family, friends, and colleagues. Pin a black ribbon to your scrubs and white coats. Take a pic and share on social media.
JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
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They vowed to “Make America Healthy Again.” Instead, they: Kicked millions of people off health insurance Closed hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics Cut billions of dollars from science research Fired government scientists and replaced them with antivaxxers
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
An update from Dr. Sean O’Leary on this morning’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting:
If you were really worried about women athletes getting hurt, you'd be working to get them equal fields, trainers, qualified coaches and workout and rehab facilities.
The Jewish community is still grappling with a shattered sense of security following the deadly antisemitic attack in DC, and now an incendiary device targeted a hostage awareness event in Bolder, CO. Praying no lives were lost in this 2nd violent antisemitic attack in less than two weeks. Enough.
Statement from the #MusiciansUnion of the United States 🇺🇸 and #Canada 🇨🇦 to the fat bastard #BruceSpringsteen #TaylorSwift
For any who do not know, the increases on the left were the end of the commitment to double the NIH budget over 10 years voted in by Congress following Newt Gingrich's leadership on this. Flatlining nominal dollars under the Bush administration onward led to gradual un-doubling of purchase power.
Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · last yr.Check this chart. Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000. This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars. The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.
Shared a few thoughts here on the next orchestrated budget/constitution "crisis" the white house has planned for the end of the summer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-w...
The White House’s Next Orchestrated Budget Crisis
This is something I’m still trying to get my head around –...
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Read this first, then read this piece from an anonymous NIH employee at @donmoyn.bsky.social's Substack. Everything falling into place for Congress to go through rescission to make NIH cuts in a way that's both more politically palatable and more enduring. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
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Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.Bluetorial: Timing of getting grants out the door at NIH The pauses and low rate of releasing awards may be a problem in terms of getting the NIH appropriation spent by September 30, 2025
The sad truth is, Biden's policies made people economically comfortable enough that people simply didn't have to think about the ways the government was helping them, leading to culture war dominating the news cycle. It's a constant problem for Dems and not an easy one to solve.
Ooops! Watch as Vice President JD Vance appears to drop the National Championship trophy following the celebration at the White House with OSU. Watch the full celebration here: youtube.com/watch?v=VJuT...
Sending my solidarity, prayers and support to @governor.pa.gov and his family, who endured a horrific arson attack on the first night of Passover. We must oppose and root out political violence in our country to protect democracy and freedom.
This week April 8-9 I will co-host with Rice Univ Jewish Studies Program the following (free) symposium at Holocaust Museum Houston, I will kick it off with a keynote the evening of April 8 hmh.org/event/antisc...
Antiscience And Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence - Holocaust Museum Houston
Tuesday, April 8, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm | Keynote Speaker Dr. Peter HotezWednesday, April 9, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | Six sessions
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Correct. NIH, and the cancer and other medical cures it generates, is being burned to the ground. And we’d add: with that goes the whole US tech and biotech economy. Silicon Valley is in the US not elsewhere because of NSF, ARPA, NIH. That word isn’t getting out widely.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
Can we say they are pro-Nazi when they invite a Hitler cosplayer to the statehouse?
David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2y agoOn Saturday, David Pettinger dressed as Hitler to counter-protest the @teslatakedown.com in Meridian, Idaho. Yesterday, he was at the Idaho statehouse, where the Idaho GOP invited him into their caucus from the visitors' gallery, as @abbottalynn.bsky.social reported www.wired.com/story/proud-...
We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.
🔥 “Without a level playing field — without Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — Meritocracy fails spectacularly… it’s ok to at any point stop and admit you didn’t think this all the way through.” cc: Rep. Aron Maberry (who is carrying yet another an anti-DEI bill)
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
