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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Can someone please ask Karoline Leavitt why the Director of White House Personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete paperwork for a background check? Can you also ask if “Sergio Gor” is the name on his birth certificate. Seems kinda important.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If there are Democratic Senators who plan on voting for the GOP budget, other than Fetterman and Schumer, they should say so now and articulate their reasoning. Elected officials should not hide their intentions from their own constituents.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It was nice of Musk to include Trump in his first cabinet meeting even though Trump doesn’t really have any responsibilities.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

There is a huge market for any media outlet that decides to go all out honest broker.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

They won’t ever learn will they

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Turns out JD Vance’s ability to make strangers hate his guts knows no boundaries.

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is what it's always been about: major cuts to programs working Americans rely on so GOP megadonors, Wall Street executives, and billionaires have more money in their wallets.

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 13/02/2025

Any resistance costs them time.

"Be sand in the gears for the next four years "

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/02/2025

Who could have imagined that dismantling and defunding Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act would cause inflation to rise?

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Wishing the Deep State did in fact exist.

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VERY POINTED TALK @verypointed.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We AGREE w/ @markhamillofficial.bsky.social now is NOT the time to be silent or in fear. We must raise up our voices on every platform, in every conversation, with family, friends, and strangers. If we remain silent, they WIN. Follow Mark and SHARE if you agree ♻️🪐 #bluecrew #fbr #resist #demcast

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Dems in Congress need to meet, by Chamber, and identify and start highlighting their best communicators. It isn’t Schumer or Connolly.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Trump will not be happy with Elon’s performance today. Nothing he cares about more than appearances, which is why his cabinet is so heavy on FOX regulars.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Elon actually makes Trump look presidential in comparison.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

As Trump spews dangerous nonsense in yet another press conference, I’m feeling furious at the media’s failure to cover his declining physical and mental state during the campaign.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Trump getting booed at Super Bowl, lowest inauguration viewership of last three, moving inauguration inside due to low hotel occupancy, poor attendance at rallies . . doesn’t really add up to first Republican popular vote victory in three decades.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

How long will Congress allow Trump to stiff their constituents? Governors? Farmers in particular are hurting.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Vance understands checks and balances, they are priming the cult to accept Trump disregarding Court orders.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/02/2025

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately

The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

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Scott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hi, @hankgreen.bsky.social. Any chance you could help us get the word out about the Trump administration trying to close medical schools and research institutions? Maybe we could do a live about it or something? Happy to share more but this situation is dire

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! Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.
→ Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement:
Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH
Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement:
Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
© grants.nih.gov
February 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM & Everybody

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Holy crap. While one can argue indirect cost rates were getting out of hand at some institutions, just cutting them to 15% and saying that’s a generous rate because private foundations don’t add more than 10% is “logic” that betrays a complete lack of understanding of how biomedical research works

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025

Note that legal experts say that there is a law that prohibits NIH from making such cuts without the approval of Congress. Since 2017, the annual spending bill for HHS — of which NIH is a part — has included language that prohibits changes to indirect cost rates.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
Notice Number:
NOT-OD-25-068
Key Dates
Release Date:
February 7, 2025

Related Announcements
None

Issued by
Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)

Purpose

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Not for nothing, but this NIH indirect cost cap was in Project 2025. Just in case we weren’t already sure they were following the playbook.

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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Uh, this is a nuclear bomb on university budgets if I am reading it correctly. Mandating an indirect cost rate of 15% *overnight*?

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Academic medical research just destroyed by Trump admin lowering indirect costs to 15 percent. Universities break even at current rates of 60 percent plus. Devastating.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Every state AG has a Medicaid fraud unit, jointly funded with federal and state money.

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LCLaw @lclaw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Just a few weeks ago, some were worried that Trump would get credit for the booming Biden economy. No worries, he’ll have destroyed in the first quarter.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/02/2025

As Elon Musk continues to talk about subsidies, let’s remember that he is the LARGEST GOVT SUBSIDIES RECIPIENT in the country!

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Musk’s band of boys has “sweeping authority to install and modify software on government-supplied equipment and, according to two OPM officials, to alter internal documentation of their own activities.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

washingtonpost.com

Musk’s DOGE agents access sensitive personnel data, alarming security officials

Elon Musk’s DOGE team has accessed highly restricted data maintained by the Office of Personnel Management, including personally identifiable information for millions of federal employees.

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If Elon Musk wants to cut government funding, he should give back all the billions in government subsidies (handouts!) he got for Tesla -- and the billions in government contracts he got for SpaceX. Every single penny. And he should sign a pledge never to take another penny.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Tesla paid zero federal income taxes from 2018-2022, despite significant profits, due to tax strategies, depreciation, and credits, even getting a $1M refund once.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

NEW: Sources tell WIRED that NOAA* employees were ordered to give a Musk engineer (Nikhil Rajpal) editor access to all NOAA's Google sites by EOD. *monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change. By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:

wired.com

This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hold the fuck on — the Department of Government Efficiency, the entity which claims its mission is to end “wasteful spending”, was given SEVEN MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to cover its “expenses” in the span of a single week?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?!?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The U.S. Department of Labor is organizing a protest. Elon Musk’s staff will be present at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., today at 4 p.m. It was mentioned that staff should plan to stay late after the 4 p.m. meeting to assist with setting up Elon Musk staffers into their systems.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Maddow: I think it's pretty obvious now that they are using DEI as just a pretext. They're giving everything that, you know, unfashionable boogeyman label to try to avoid people in general, realizing that what they're really doing is just wrecking the US government

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

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