Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10/09/2025We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children. 2517347805594
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2025This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime. 19833256110092
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehBence Ölveczky @olveczky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comHarvard To Remove Black Lives Matter Message From Biology Professors’ Office Windows | News | The Harvard CrimsonA Harvard administrator told two professors on Tuesday that a Black Lives Matter sign displayed in their office windows would be taken down by this Saturday, describing it as a violation of the Univer... 1318480
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal 11850772113
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Trump’s first BLS Commissioner, Bill Beach, calls today’s firing groundless and dangerous. www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025... 321995579
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 02/08/2025"Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by annual financial support from viewers like you" <---I bet you hear the exact cadence of your vintage 736044
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, “I didn’t see any Russians who’ve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.” @maddow.msnbc.com 275186005485
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This AI video of Jesus and a little boy singing Bless the Lord Oh My Soul, while Jesus holds a disembodied child’s foot is so beautiful and spiritually inspiring. 3783129336
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday. /1 www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/c...pacbiztimes.comCSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids | Pacific Coast Business TimesJonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and Camari... 4227671129
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehJohn Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Never change, England 353597821
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehDr. Anna Yap @annayap.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Our op-ed is out on @medpagetoday.bsky.social "We Called Code Red On Medicaid Cuts" we explain how these cuts will hurt patients and what physicians and healthcare workers can do next. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... @gfriedman.bsky.social @haribuddy.bsky.social #SaveMedicaid #ThisBillKillsmedpagetoday.comOpinion | It's 'Code Red' for MedicaidIt's too late to stop the 'Big Beautiful Bill' but it's not too late to continue the fight 04022
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 05/07/2025AG Sulzberger insists that @nytimes.com has no politics. In his Reuters lecture at @ox.ac.uk he stressed the independence of his newspaper. The idea is that they are non-partisan, above the fray. It’s simply not true. That’s the most damning part: pretending your paper no viewpoint. 1/ 32907159
Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Excellent piece in NYT (gift article) describing the research being funded by your tax dollars at one university (Harvard). The scope is large because it’s a huge institution, but similar research is being stopped at an institution near you! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHere Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article)More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science. 161
Reposted by Chris Newton-Chehjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat 24493501339
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehNeil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 17/06/2025Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again. 22297842745
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/06/2025What a contrast: On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat. On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule. 121102261697
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehHeather Gornik @heatherlgornik.bsky.social · 04/06/2025We have an unexpected late opening in our vascular medicine 1 year fellowship program for 2025-2026 @harringtonhvi.bsky.social Outstanding clinical training with multi specialty faculty in a highly collaborative environment. Chat if interested and please help spread the word. #CardioSky 038
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations. 9079102511
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth. 16795501
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/05/2025How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child. 732048220
Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025www.politico.com/news/2025/05...politico.comRFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journalsThe health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma. 120
Reposted by Chris Newton-Chehgrippeminaud.bsky.social @grippeminaud.bsky.social · 24/05/2025NIH grants are fully appropriated by the elected representatives of the people through September. This impoundment of democratically allocated funds against the will of the citizens is pure embezzlement of their tax money 2328
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehGc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out! 3422381315
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehBailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school 45893310
Reposted by Chris Newton-Chehjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet 379273726270
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage 6547951843
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehNeil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 17/05/2025The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this. 36089392942
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehSean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 16/05/2025This is a photo my great grandfather carried around with him of him wearing a U.S. army uniform taken while he was in France in 1918. He was an immigrant from E. Europe and spoke with a fairly thick accent to the day he died. He carried this photo as proof he was a real American despite that accent 1324758
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehMichael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab 145875575
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/05/2025One logical fallacy about antivaxxers is that vaccines are always voluntary so it’s not that they want to prevent them from being “forced” on people, it’s actually just that they just want to take them away from everyone, including the people who want them. How is that “medical freedom?” 331016229
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehACLU @aclu.org · 08/05/2025The First Amendment allows universities like Harvard to choose what they teach, who they hire, and how they operate. The Trump administration doesn't get to tell us what can and can't be said. 11845165
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehLaura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui... 5419100
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025A Harvard Med researcher is approaching her 3rd month in a crowded (90 women to a room) Louisiana detention center, supposedly because she didn't declare frog embryos as she was re-entering the US. She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comHMS Researcher Denies Lying To Border Patrol Officials | News | The Harvard CrimsonKseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher detained by Customs and Border Patrol officials in February, denied lying to authorities about the contents of her luggage in a Thursday statement. 411837671
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing onesUS science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’. 4589430
Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025This is really unbelievable and explains a lot about RFK Jr’s unfitness for his current office. 010
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/05/2025‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.cbsnews.comRFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claimsKennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself. 1470330929919
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/04/2025The legal profession observed Law Day for 67 years. It's never looked like this, with lawyers set to mobilize en masse in front of 40 U.S. courthouses. They're reaffirming their oaths because of the "full-blown assault" on the rule of law. @www.AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/law-day-de...allrisenews.comLegal profession mobilizes: Nationwide oath-taking ceremonies to fight "full-blown assault" on the rule of lawThe "unprecedented" demonstrations in front of 40 U.S. courthouses will take place on May 1 18925298
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/04/2025“I could … but we have lawyers who don’t want to do that.” This means nothing less than the Trump Administration is in open defiance of the Supreme Court of the United States. 43773082132
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back. Trump: I could Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release. Trump: I'm not the one making this decision Host: You're the president! 36044981363
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025congrats to Paul, Weiss, you’re now the most white shoe insurance defense firm on earth. I hope you like defending killer cops. And shoutout to the people who said these firms were only committing to continue their existing pro bono work. that was always obviously false. 71674365
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/04/2025The FBI just arrested a sitting judge. 40993914021
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehGabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNIH cancels its first and largest study centered on womenThe Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings 13026701743
Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 21/04/2025links.repoint.harvard.edu/servlet/Mail...links.repoint.harvard.eduHarvard University - Message 100
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehBrian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride. 7095722828
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehJack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Chest is a superb scientific journal to which I regular submit some of my best science. This letter is an obvious travesty I hope @accpchest.bsky.social treats it as the travesty it is 129632
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/04/2025Two groups representing Harvard professors sued the Trump administration on Friday, saying that its threat to cut billions in federal funding for the university violates free speech and other First Amendment rights.nytimes.comHarvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Federal FundsThe administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives. 471529317
Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...washingtonpost.comMillions in the U.S. take this drug. Tariffs might complicate their care.Heparin is cheap and essential to millions of hospitalized people. Tariffs could disrupt the supply chain that gets ingredients from China to their beds. 100
Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...actionnetwork.org 140
Reposted by Chris Newton-ChehMeiLan Han @drmeilanhan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025We’re in a responsibility recession—not of personal responsibility, but of our shared responsibility to each other. My latest in STAT on what we’re losing when public health becomes personal choice. www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/m... via @statnews.comstatnews.comPersonal choice has been weaponized to undermine public health“Public health isn’t the sum of individual choices. It’s our collective agreement to protect the most vulnerable among us,” writes MeiLan Han. 0114