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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15h
Thoughtful and well-informed perspective about the goings-on inside NIH. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
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David Rankin @asteroiddave.bsky.social · 11h
Major flood event unfolding around Tucson right now. NWS warnings are saying 1.5" down with 1-3" more possible. Deep slow moving jet of moisture from Polo passing by. #azwx
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 12h
The Trump Organization filed for trademark protection of "Trump TV" so that the government would have to PAY him to use the channel he just created… Miraculously, Trump has found yet another way to steal even more money from the American people. Trump. Is. A. Charlatan. And. A. Fraud. 😎✨
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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 7h
JD Vance and Eric Schmitt should definitely run together. Two un charismatic weirdos who don’t know shit about sports, the economy, or running anything. Conservatives will love them.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h
In which Eric Schmitt, rumored candidate for VP in an (ugh) JD Vance 2028 presidential run, pre-emptively loses 22 electoral votes in Georgia and Iowa
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13h
Jack Smith and Fauci get the same treatment. They are being attacked and threatened for doing the right thing. It's the plot of Atlas Shrugged, brought to you by fans of Atlas Shrugged.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h
RFK Jr. alleges that he wants to focus on chronic disease and sideline infectious disease research, but the big dummy doesn’t care about the interplay between the two. A new study estimates that 12% of all cancer cases in 2024 were caused by infections, including H. pylori, HPV, HBV, and EBV.
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Global burden of cancer attributable to infections in 2024: a worldwide incidence analysis
Our findings highlight the importance of infection control to achieve cancer prevention. Scientifically proven, but often underused, approaches include HPV and HBV vaccination; testing and treatment o...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 10h
showed, and continues to show, in the face of the attacks he is enduring. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Jack Smith Defiant, Says He Won’t Be Silenced by Trump’s Threats of Prosecution
MS Note: This morning’s post is short and to the point.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please read this letter with important considerations for training the next generation of clinical trialists. Its powerful that so many organizations came together. Thanks to everyone involved. Consider commenting on the NIH RFI by the 9/30 deadline: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-095: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI): INPUT ON POTENTIAL NIH FUNDING APPROACHES TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE CLINICAL TRIAL INVESTIGATORS
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI): INPUT ON POTENTIAL NIH FUNDING APPROACHES TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE CLINICAL ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 12h
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17h
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 17h
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15h
Letter from the American Society of Clinical Investigation regarding recent projected changes in NIH K (career development) awards. beta.the-asci.org/news/advocac... 1/3
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Open letter to the NIH regarding proposed changes to K awards - The American Society for Clinical Investigation
Read more about Open letter to the NIH regarding proposed changes to K awards at The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 19h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump: "You got me for nothing. I don't take my salary." (Trump has made billions in crypto schemes while president)
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Vought tells Trump to cut NIH budget by 40% Congress rejects it 2. Vought moves to give political appointees power over grants Congress delays it 3. Vought writes EO to create NIH board that gives him veto power. It is blocked. Now, this. IMPEACH VOUGHT 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Learning how the NIH funds biomedical research at universities should be part of graduate school curriculum. In the past two years, I have learned more about this mechanism than in my entire life. You don’t realize how many moving parts are involved until someone actively tries to kill them. 🧪
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Does it though?
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Public Health Needs MAHA
The field must swallow its pride and admit where the insurgent movement is right.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Repetition of talking points works for good & for evil. In 2022, Biden's FDA considered a ban on menthol cigarettes. Big Tobacco inundated the comment section w/ 175k comments. Of those, 75% were against the ban. Half of those had the same language from tobacco giants. 🧪 archive.today/jLGQr
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How Big Tobacco flooded the FDA with public comments to kill a menthol cigarette ban
Virtually all of the 175,000 public comments on a 2022 FDA proposal to ban menthol cigarettes were form letters, most echoing tobacco industry talking points.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/09/2026
The CDC's updated public health advisory for 2026: "Good luck, everyone!" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social
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The view from Canada: Make America Think Again
Rebuilding trust will take generations.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw "A Matter of Gravity" with Katherine Hepburn and a relative unknown named Christopher Reeve in San Francisco in late 1976. Powerful performances by both. 1/2
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Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't kid yourself. Selling uranium enrichment centrifuges to Saudi monarchs is not an energy program. This is a Saudi nuclear bomb program. The deal is corrupt from top to bottom. If the Trump Family were not making money on the deal, we wouldn't be making it. My argument: youtu.be/ToqeQJbvYPg?...
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Does the U.S.-Saudi Civil Nuclear Agreement Serve America's Interests?
YouTube video by Open to Debate
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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Polo's been a Category 5 hurricane for a total of 48 hours so far, longer than any other Category 5 hurricane on record for the Northeastern Pacific. 2026 also just tied 1997 and 1994 for the most Category 5 hours in a single season and should be the new recordholder by tonight.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As predicted, Felon Trump LOSES in his bid to ban certain members of the press from the WH. But, that didn't stop him from ignoring the court order entered siding with the media. I explain the Order & why it’s just one constitutional crisis after another in this Regime. youtu.be/efNOFeVnah0?...
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Trump SPIRALS As JUDGE ORDERS White House To RESTORE PRESS ACCESS!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can’t believe our tax dollars are being used for political ads. The White House is now airing a taxpayer-funded ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. The 30-second spot has all the markings of a campaign ad, except the disclaimer at the bottom says: “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Crowds outside the UN shouting "Netanyahu you can't hide, you are wanted for Genocide." As Netanyahu will be speaking inside.
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Heidi Overton doesn’t know that #IUDs are not #abortion www.rawstory.com/heidi-overto... cc @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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Trump nominee floors senator at FDA hearing: 'Birth control is not an abortion'
President Donald Trump's pick to run the Food and Drug Administration left Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) briefly speechless by declining to say whether an intrauterine device causes an abortion.Heidi Overt...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump has turned the presidency into a profit machine for him and his cronies. Every decision he makes is tainted by conflicts of interest. While he grifts billions, his moves directly raise prices for Americans who are already struggling. His corruption is a tax on all of us.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
MI Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed unloaded on Trump over soaring gas prices and the war: “When you’re the president of the United States and people are struggling with gas, you don’t sit there and talk about your new helipad or your drapes in a ballroom.” “You actually go and do your damn job.”
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El-Sayed Torches Trump Over Gas Prices: 'Do Your Damn Job'
El-Sayed told Trump to stop worrying about his ballroom drapes and get to work, while Republicans jump ship on the Iran war
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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve been saying exactly this for over a year.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 23/09/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
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