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Chris Newton-Cheh

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heart failure & transplant cardiologist | cardiovascular geneticist | all posts my opinion | strong supporter of a free press | a free press is not free

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We 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.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This 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.
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Bence Ölveczky @olveczky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard To Remove Black Lives Matter Message From Biology Professors’ Office Windows | News | The Harvard Crimson
A 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...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal
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AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations


Statement from the American Economic Association on the
Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner

Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today.
The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day.
Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias.
The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity.
Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions.
We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure.

Lawrence Katz
President, American Economic Association
Katharine Abraham
President-Elect, American Economic Association
Karen Dynan
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics
Kenneth Troske
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Trump’s first BLS Commissioner, Bill Beach, calls today’s firing groundless and dangerous. www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau. For a full statement opposing this move, read:
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Erin 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
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
So 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
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This 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.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Let’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...
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CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids | Pacific Coast Business Times
Jonathan 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...
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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Never change, England
A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"
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Dr. Anna Yap @annayap.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our 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 #ThisBillKills
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Opinion | It's 'Code Red' for Medicaid
It's too late to stop the 'Big Beautiful Bill' but it's not too late to continue the fight
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
AG 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/
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Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Excellent 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/...
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Here 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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025
honestly 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
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 17/06/2025
Every 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.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
What 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.
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Heather Gornik @heatherlgornik.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We 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
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025
If 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.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Trump 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.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child.
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Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
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grippeminaud.bsky.social @grippeminaud.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
NIH 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
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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
All 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!
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Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I'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
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
i 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
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
say 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
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 17/05/2025
The 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.
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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This 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
Old black and white photo of a man in a U.S. WWI uniform
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025
Yesterday, 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
A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
One 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?”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/05/2025
The 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.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A 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...
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HMS Researcher Denies Lying To Border Patrol Officials | News | The Harvard Crimson
Kseniia 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.
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Stand 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...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is really unbelievable and explains a lot about RFK Jr’s unfitness for his current office.
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Ryan 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.
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RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims
Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/04/2025
The 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...
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Legal profession mobilizes: Nationwide oath-taking ceremonies to fight "full-blown assault" on the rule of law
The "unprecedented" demonstrations in front of 40 U.S. courthouses will take place on May 1
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George 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.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Host: 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!
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
congrats 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.
Sec. 2. Legal Defense of Law Enforcement Officers. The Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken during the performance of their official duties to enforce the law. This mechanism shall include the use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such law enforcement officers.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.
FBI Director Kash Patel

@FBIDirectorKash
Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.

We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest. 

Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.

We will have more to share soon. Excellent work 
@FBIMilwaukee
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Well 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...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
links.repoint.harvard.edu/servlet/Mail...
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Harvard University - Message
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Brian Kane @briank3387.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.
A projection on the outside of the Old North Church reading "Let the WARNING ride forth ONCE MORE: TYRANNY is at OUR DOOR"
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Chest 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
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/04/2025
Two 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.
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Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Federal Funds
The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.
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Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Millions 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.
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Chris Newton-Cheh @cnewtoncheh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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MeiLan Han @drmeilanhan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We’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.com
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Personal 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.
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