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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.
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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
Another very 👀 tidbit from this week’s roundup:
A proposal that would have required FedEx to produce a report on how it manages the potential legal risks of shipping abortion pills in light of the Comstock Act failed at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. The proposal was introduced by a Catholic “values investing” firm called IWP Capital, and authored by none other than Christian nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, a leading proponent of the theory that Comstock bans mailing abortion pills, if not all medical devices used in abortion care.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"The largest planned AI datacenter in New Jersey is being accused of violating federal law after a visual investigation found the site running dozens of unpermitted gas-powered generators."
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One of east coast’s largest datacenters accused of ‘violating federal law’
Thermal drone footage shows a Microsoft-backed AI datacenter powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a nation where 66% want universal healthcare, "appealing to the center" means appealing to those people. In a nation where 50% want to abolish ICE, "appealing to the center" means appealing to those people. In a nation where 63% support the right to choose,"appealing to the center" means them.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/08/2026
The Supreme Court eased the path for an executive order by President Trump that would bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending mail-in ballots to voters not on lists of citizens created by federal agencies. wapo.st/4zw36AJ
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Harry Potter fans got a 125-mile cable line rerouted after bombarding its manufacturer with phone calls.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/08/2026
An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts. The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance. From the archives:
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White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.
Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT gr...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
Pete Hegseth wipes his nose, then runs his hand through his hair
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/08/2026
A small Texas law firm with ties to the Trump administration will be awarded a $150 million no-bid contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children in their immigration court proceedings, according to a notice set to publish in the Federal Register.
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Trump-linked law firm to get $150 million no-bid contract to represent migrant children
The Trump administration announced the award after allowing the previous contract with a longtime legal provider to expire.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/08/2026
Reporter: Mr. President, this is at least the 5th time you’ve called off airstrikes against Iran since April. Why should it be any different? Trump: Well, you don’t know. I don’t know. I think we’re maybe going to get something, but I want to give them every last chance before decapitation.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/08/2026
Trump: No, Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism.
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ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity, you have guaranteed rights under the U.S. Constitution and D.C. Law. Protect yourself and your community by understanding your rights and preparing for potential changes to the law. www.acludc.org/lgbtq-advocacy-resou…
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LGBTQ+ Advocacy Resource Hub - ACLU of DC
Regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity, you have guaranteed rights under the U.S. Constitution and D.C. law.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
there is a full fledged national debate over whether ADHD meds should be allowed meanwhile sitting members of Congress have investments in Kratom and it is sold at gas stations
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/07/2026
Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
As more becomes known, the level of criminal negligence-for-profit is becoming clear. The FDA tried to implement package labeling rules to make tracing outbreaks easier, but Taylor Foods opposed it. They then gave $1 million to Trump's pet Super-PAC, and the rule was blocked.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/07/2026
Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving residents feeling blindsided. www.wired.com/story/data-c...
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving residents feeling blindsided.
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Montgomery County, MD Government @montgomerycountymd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🕷️ Headed outdoors this summer? Protect yourself from ticks. Wear long sleeves and pants, use EPA-registered insect repellent, stay on marked trails, check yourself and your pets for ticks, and shower after spending time outside. Learn more: ow.ly/enVv50Zm6Pu
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/07/2026
At least 233 people have been sickened in eight outbreaks that regulators have connected to Mark McAfee’s farm since 2006, and at least 40 of them have been hospitalized. The tally is almost certainly an undercount, experts and regulators said. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.
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Montgomery County, MD Government @montgomerycountymd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🌡️ Extreme heat is forecast for Montgomery County beginning Wednesday and lasting through the holiday weekend. Stay hydrated, limit outdoor activity during peak heat, check on older adults and never leave children or pets in parked vehicles. Stay weather aware. ow.ly/irrb50Zi9SX
Infographic detailing heat exhaustion and heat stroke symptoms with advice to seek shade, water, and rest to prevent heat-related illnesses.
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STAT @statnews.com · 29/06/2026
The hospital operator Nutex enriched itself by exploiting loopholes in laws meant to protect patients, STAT found. www.statnews.com/2026/06/29/n...
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The ERs that can turn patients away — and are reaping millions
The hospital operator Nutex enriched itself by exploiting loopholes in laws meant to protect patients, STAT found.
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 29/06/2026
Troops are collapsing from heat exhaustion. Military bases are flooding. Planes can’t lift off in hotter air. But the Pentagon’s message under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “We don’t do climate change crap.”
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Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam troops
For decades, the military treated climate change as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weather.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/06/2026
Even though the FBI has repeatedly called violence from the far right a top concern, the Trump counterterrorism plan doesn’t mention it. Meanwhile, militant leftists are portrayed as a threat on par with global terror networks like al-Qaida.
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Counterterrorism Czar's Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump
Sebastian Gorka's anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president's political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/06/2026
When her son was 7, Mary McGonigle-Martin gave him raw milk, as it promised to treat allergies and digestive problems. A month later, he fell gravely ill. Now 27, he’s still dealing with the effects of kidney damage and other health issues.
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/06/2026
Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
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8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...
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NPR @npr.org · 18/06/2026
Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life. n.pr/3SiQr31
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The head of the family is 17. Money is tight. The roof leaks. How did this happen?
Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. It does not have to be like this.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits prog
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/06/2026
More than 150 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas have been infected with influenza over the past three weeks — less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated against the flu.
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Flu sickens some 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas
The outbreak comes less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said American troops would no longer be required to get an annual flu shot.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/06/2026
In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. With @readfrontier.bsky.social
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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...
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NPR @npr.org · 19/06/2026
A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used by federal immigration agents, a move that will expand the scope of ICE surveillance. n.pr/4oFL75Y
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Some local police have access to an ICE facial recognition app
A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used by federal immigration agents, a move that will expand the scope of ICE surveillance.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/06/2026
President Trump claimed that his ballroom project would cost up to $400 million and that private donors would pay for all of it. But a detailed summary by the contractor estimated the total construction cost at $600 million — with more than half coming from taxpayers. wapo.st/4otu32O
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/06/2026
Federal prosecutors announced charges against 15 people in Minneapolis they alleged were “conspiring to impede or injure federal officers” during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation earlier this year.
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DOJ charges 15 in Minnesota with conspiracy to block ICE, claims antifa ties
Federal prosecutors alleged that the 15 people were “conspiring to impede or injure federal officers” during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis earlier this ye...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/06/2026
The Justice Department is seeking to quash a lawsuit against a power plant operating without permits that is run by Elon Musk’s AI company, arguing that its gas-powered turbines are vital to national security interests, including the war in Iran.
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DOJ aims to block suit over Musk data center pollution, citing national security
The Justice Department has moved to stop litigation over xAI's data center pollution in Mississippi, having also intervened in a separate lawsuit against Elon Musk's company in Colorado.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/06/2026
We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Tump administration to remove 900 deep sea monitoring instruments that would have studied the collapsing Atlantic current
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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Guy Baily @guybaily.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is extraordinary. Read the the account in the link. The editor in chief of the principal journal of the ADA is escorted from their national conference by police for handing out his editorial, in their journal, that criticises Trump biomedical research policy.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excellent editorial in today's Diabetes Care charing scientists to engage and speak up and act now. I could not agree more! diabetesjournals.org/care/article... Some highlights: 🧵1/10
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

Diabetes Care editorial by Steven E. Kahn, Cheryl A.M. Anderson,
John B. Buse, and Elizabeth Selvin
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Update: Supposedly the ADA not the NIH called the police. This makes sense: of course the ADA spontaneously and without coercion opted to forcibly remove from their annual meeting the editor-in-chief of their own flagship journal for sharing a paper they themselves published in that same journal.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING: WALK OUT. Do NOT allow your home society to be a tool of fascism. Stand up. Walk out. #Standupforscience @standupforscience.net
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/06/2026
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. (Published April)
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Evergreen Action @evergreenaction.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"The market has already rejected coal as cheaper, cleaner alternatives continue to outcompete the most expensive, dirty fuel source" - @lenamdc.bsky.social thedailyrecord.com/2026/06/04/t...
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Trump to restart MD coal plant with federal funds
Millions in federal funds will be used to restart Allegany County’s AES Warrior Run coal plant, President Donald Trump announced.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/06/2026
More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group.
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Report: Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project
President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for co...
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[Spooky Name Placeholder] @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Apollo's Dodgeball raises another welt:
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/06/2026
The head of a federal commission reviewing President Trump’s planned 250-foot triumphal arch said that he believed a federal law limiting the height of construction in Washington, D.C., should not apply to the controversial project.
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Trump’s arch not subject to law limiting D.C. building height, planning chief says
The federal requirement caps most construction in Washington to a maximum height of 130 feet, about half that of the president’s 250-foot project.
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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Make some noise about this 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...
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President Trump seeks control of science funding
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 04/06/2026
"In the Trump administration, EPA leaders are allowing corporations and polluters to evade rules based on science, and secure policies that are convenient for their own profits, at the expense of our health. And in the end, the harm will be foisted upon the American public."—@dminovi.bsky.social.
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EPA Leadership Strip the Agency of Its Ability to Protect Us from Toxic Chemicals
Over the last year and a half, the Trump administration has recklessly dismantled the democratic institutions that keep us safe, including the systems that rely on the best available science to inform government decision-making.
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Scientists are sounding the alarm about a new rule that would dramatically change how the federal gov't makes grant funding decisions. The rule is extraordinarily sweeping, and could have huge impacts on health and climate research. W/ @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/c...
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Researchers say this new Trump rule could destroy American science as we know it. They’re fighting back | CNN
Scientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific research gets funded and allowing political appointees to decide ...
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STAT @statnews.com · 04/06/2026
By reclassifying positions under “Schedule F,” federal workers would become politicized, easier to fire www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/t...
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Trump administration to strip job protections of top NIH officials, grants staff
Among the affected positions, which the White House estimates to be 8,000, are high-level officials who oversee research grants from the NIH.
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Montgomery County, MD Government @montgomerycountymd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
June is Pride Month, and there are many ways to celebrate across Montgomery County. 🌈 From Pride in the Park and Takoma Pride to Rockville Pride and Pride in the Plaza, find events for all ages and communities throughout the month: ow.ly/FIK550Z6eOi
Colorful Pride Month banner with a heart-shaped inclusive rainbow flag and a call to support LGBTQ+ neighbors and businesses in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
OMB has a new proposal for the regulation of all federal grants, which would -deemphasize peer review -ban $ for publication costs and conference travel -make it easier to terminate grants we read the 400 page document (🫩) so you don't have to www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...
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Trump administration seeks to overhaul federal grant-making process, alarming researchers
The Trump administration has released a sweeping proposal to overhaul the bedrock regulation for all federal grants.
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