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Development and plasticity of visual circuits
Tarrant County judge removes attendees during public meeting about voting site reductions fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...
Tarrant County judge removes attendees during public meeting about voting site reductions
Former state lawmaker Lon Burnam was carried out of the courtroom by sheriff deputies after O’Hare called speakers disruptive.
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The biggest cost Trump is imposing on us is the cost of doing nothing about three worsening crises that threaten the very survival of America and the world: climate change, AI, and widening inequality.
The Biggest Cost of Trump
It goes far beyond guns vs. butter
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Very disturbing. Trump/RFK Jr are trying to prevent medical research from first testing safety of new drugs in lab mice on the one hand, and promoting the killing of endangered wildlife on the other hand. Make it make sense! Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/c...
A Wildlife Regulator’s Family Business Had a Permit to Renew. She Stepped In. (Gift Article)
Jenifer Chatfield, a top official at the Interior Department, faces scrutiny from ethics experts for actions that could help her family’s business.
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“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan reports first 2 US deaths of people who had been sickened in outbreak of cyclospora.
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NIH VideoCast - Understanding NIH's Unified Funding Strategy: What the Research Community Needs to Know
Public Webinar: This webinar aims to increase awareness and understanding of NIH’s Unified Funding Strategy, which is designed to support NIH Institutes and Centers to make informed, transparent, and ...
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Donald Trump has lied about ending more wars than any other President and that only requires the number of times he's lied about ending the Iran War! Still in progress by the way.
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d ago
Nearly 500,000 public comments have flooded in since the Trump administration proposed a rule that gives political appointees control over research funding. “The United States will not just fall behind. It will step aside,” one physicist wrote.
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...
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Just submitted my comment on the disingenuously named proposed "Promoting Employee Accountability" rule. Please add yours! www.regulations.gov/document/OPM... I focused on how civil service protections exist to protect all Americans. They aren't really for us feds at all. A quick history lesson:
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What the researchers found A team from St.
Blood stem cells age prematurely in sickle cell anemia, according to study in mice and humans - Sinaptica
What the researchers found A team from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, identified that the hematopoietic stem cells (the ones respo
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Trump is lying. WaPo knows he is lying. We all know he is lying. Yet, the Post cannot say it. Support independent prodemocracy media that never backs down from the truth. demdock.com/4w6emld
Happy #BINW26 !! I'm Dr. Clíona Murray and I am the Co-Director of Programming at Black In Neuro. The future that I'm reimagining is one where we can authentically show up in a space that was never designed for us. Each and every member of the BIN community remind me of that. So, thank you all 🫶🏽
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42361859/ Do you have PFAS on the brain?
Impact of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on brain development and function - PubMed
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), persistent environmental chemicals known as "forever chemicals," demonstrate significant neurotoxic effects across the human lifespan. This review examines ...
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How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery www.propublica.org/article/fede...
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...
propublica.org
Some things make me swear more than usual. The US has now recorded more measles cases this year than in any year since 1991, the highest in 35 yrs. As of now, there are 2300 measles cases. Meanwhile, federal funding is vanishing, Iran war costs &37.5B, our deficit increased by $5 TRILLION.
Please help us stop Vought's plan to make huge cuts to federally-funded, basic science research. fight2win.standupforscience.net?utm_source=O...
Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Trump complaining about how unfair it was to ask him about inflation in his first days in office. “I just got here! Now, what are you talking about? High prices?” It’s not like he promised to end inflation on Day One
The Daily Show@thedailyshow.com · 2w agoTrump’s been in office for five and a half years, and he’s still using the excuse: “I just got here”
The Trump admin admits it used keyword searches to identify research grants for termination. Instead of evaluating the scientific value of each project, grants were arbitrarily flagged because they contained words the admin didn’t like. 🧵 Article: zurl.co/vWcbo
