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Mike Rosen

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Safety researcher. Longtime lurker (short time here, just longtime ‘here’… gesturing broadly). He/him

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Mike Rosen @mrosen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
AHRQ was funded (with a slight cut), but now... no way to apply? To my knowledge, there's no public explanation or hint at a plan for moving this agency's research agenda forward. Devastating for anyone who cares about improving the safety and quality of care. www.ahrq.gov/funding/fund...
Screen shot of AHRQ's (the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) funding announcement webpage showing no current open funding opportunities.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
GenAI has the potential to worsen health inequities. In a new review we show that with intent, confronting the challenges, it could be just the opposite, globally led by @nliulab.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s44...
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Large language models in global health - Nature Health
Large language models (LLMs) are emerging as powerful tools in healthcare, with a growing role in global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This Perspective examines the current...
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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
And that's just a handful of results from June/July alone. AHRQ's entire annual research budget is $224M. Without it, we will have more infections, higher costs, more diagnostic errors & less evidence-based care. It pays for itself many times over! Please, consider contacting HHS or your local reps.
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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy
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Nature @nature.com · 14/07/2025
In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant applications for the US agency, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3TEw7GN
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Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Kids DO get more shots now than they did decades ago. There’s also a lot less death from preventable illnesses. That’s a win! Let’s dive into the wonderful world of Vaccine Schedules. The AAP first took ownership of schedules back in the late 1930s and we continue to recommend the vaccine schedule.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/06/2025
We can dig it: @maddow.msnbc.com calling bullshit on RFK's #HHS brand of #BadScience "RFK sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change." zurl.co/ExfkO Dont let these bastards win. Stand up, fight back, save science w/ us here zurl.co/Igsss #StandUpForScience
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Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com)
"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5431935/rfk-hhs-covid-vaccine-schedule-faq
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/05/2025
Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."
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Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science
It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 31/05/2025
The moral of the story: The math ain't mathin'. Trump's cuts to science spending will damage our economy, leave hundreds of thousands of people jobless, destroy the discovery pipeline, and most importantly, cost lives. But we are fighting back. Join us: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight...
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Summer Fight For Science 2025 — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
 quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads:

“If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.”
The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Simultaneous release with #ATS2025 You can hear @hauschildt.bsky.social this morning Institutional support for navigating abortion bans in pulmonary and critical care: a multistate qualitative study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40395969/
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Institutional support for navigating abortion bans in pulmonary and critical care: a multistate qualitative study - PubMed
Abortion bans enacted by numerous US states between 2022 and 2024 offered little guidance to health care systems on pragmatic implementation. Early studies identified meaningful impacts to obstetric a...
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
TODAY, Noon - Patrick T. Smith, PhD, "Jazz and Clinical Ethics: Reflections from an Imperfect Art". Tues, Apr 15, Noon. Open to all, Attend online via Zoom or in-person, Hurd Hall, Johns Hopkins Hospital | 31st Annual Shallenberger Lecture - Link for info: mailchi.mp/jhu/y61ihduu...
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...
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Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2025
NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 29/03/2025
We are excited to announce our official partnership with @indivisible.org for the National Day of Action on April 5th! Stand Up for Science says: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE! #standupforscience #handsoffourscience Find and register for an event near you: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump's power grab · Hands Off
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on, claiming anything standing in their way is illegal, and daring the American people...
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 26/03/2025
The work researchers do with NIH funding saves lives. To call NIH “wasteful spending” is shameful. Thank you Senator Welch and @baldwin.senate.gov for hosting today’s forum on this very important issue.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via
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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/03/2025
Gutting the Department of Education would deliver a terrible blow to public schools, and have an immediate and tangible impact on students with disabilities.
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What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities
The future of the Department of Education may hinge on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
AOC: Alina Habba said, “What intellectual thought.. you were in a bar AOC. Not to have a drink but to serve one.” I don’t care what this woman says about me but I want you to understand that she isn’t just talking about me, she’s talking about all of us.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Exclusive: Get ready for worse health care and more medical errors unless this ongoing illegal impoundment is stopped and quickly reversed. www.offmessage.net/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump Administration Goes To War With Health-Care Quality
Inside its plan to destroy a small agency that keeps you safe.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
At 12:35 am ET, the president decreed that he was nullifying President Biden’s preemptive pardons of members of the January 6 committee, an assertion of a power the Constitution does not bestow.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 16/03/2025
Education Department staff cuts could limit options for families of kids with disabilities
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Education Department staff cuts could limit options for families of kids with disabilities
Education Department officials insist the staff reductions will not affect civil rights investigations and the layoffs were “strategic decisions.”
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Ivan Ferreira @ptychodera.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Stand Up for Science in SF with @lowelab.bsky.social @brookeweigel.bsky.social @baronelab.bsky.social Joy and Joel last week. In solidarity to all our friends @noaa.gov and all the essential research that is being terminated with the dismantling of NIH and NSF @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I wrote about Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar who was suspended by Yale Law School after an Israeli AI-generated news website known for spreading disinfo, claimed that she was a member of a terrorist organization.
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We're doing AI generated smear campaigns now
Yale University has suspended a law school scholar after an AI-generated news website claimed that she was a member of a terrorist organization
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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The Department of Education cuts may seem like a sledgehammer but they're aimed at key areas: data, research, civil rights enforcement, and paying for college. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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How Education Department layoffs hit student loans, testing, civil rights
The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s Report Card and civil rights complaints.
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Mike Rosen @mrosen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality conducts critical research to improve the safety, quality, and equity of care. They are at risk. Please reach out to your representatives (add it to your list) and support them. SGIM has a great resource to help: www.sgim.org/advocacy-pol...
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Legislative Action Center - SGIM
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 14/03/2025
Involving lived experience experts in translational research Comment by Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg & Silke Lipinski Part of our Collection on lived experience expertise in mental health research: go.nature.com/3DOKEv6 Web: go.nature.com/3Dx3Rl7 PDF: rdcu.be/edAgn #psychology #psychiatry #clinpsy
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/03/2025
Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson: www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
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Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 12/03/2025
About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This letter is a direct attack on the independence of American universities. Literally seeks to use government power to dictate how private universities are organized and operated.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/03/2025
You apparently can now be fired from a university for stuff an AI hallucinated about you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
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Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Senate Democrats have decided not to advance a partisan House-passed funding bill, venturing that Republicans will be to blame if the government shuts down Friday.
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Trump-Johnson vs. Senate Dems in Game of Shutdown Chicken
Democrats are betting they’ll win in the court of public opinion.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/03/2025
For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States. Vaccines prevent measles. Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 11/03/2025
Here's our statement on Trump's comments this afternoon. #TeslaTakedown
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 11/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 11/03/2025
I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System. This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine. Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
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USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs
The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
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