NEW: Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects.
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" People will stop asking 'Is this well-written?' and start asking 'Is this real?'.
They will stop asking 'Is this published?' and start asking 'Is this manipulated?'.
The question shifts from 'Is this convincing?' to 'Can I trust it?'. "
The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!
A line graph of new and competitive renewal grants for fiscal years 2015 through 2026. The curve for 2026 lies well below that for previous fiscal years.
The story includes a funding curve graph showing the delay in making new and competitive renewal grants.
2/8
I wondered about that too
Because of last year's furlough, NIH will extend their 1/3 discussion rate for at least two more funding cycles (May and Oct 2026).
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
yes, they are. you don't have to just ask questions, you know. you are allowed to make accusations.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
And you got a beautiful spring day to visit! I hope you enjoyed Cambridge 🪻🪻🪻
I think he said something like, everybody includes SOME AI or ML these days 😂😂
They still can’t field… 😖
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
Sign saying “please do not feed, touch, or remove birds from the park”
I need to know who is stealing ducks from the riverway.
ABC just switched from the #Artemis landing to celebrity Jeopardy…
definitely had a rude awakening stepping out into a bright sunny morning earlier this week and then realizing that it was 30 degrees... immediately had to turn back for hat, gloves, etc.
how much money does the marine corps lose
"resilience is not about avoiding disappointment, it's about persisting through it" - Lindsey Criswell
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
This is so, so well-articulated.
yes! when I called I specifically asked them to call out their republican counterparts and @warren.senate.gov did just that!
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
call for impeachment and call out your cowardly "colleagues from across the aisle" for not standing up to this.
You need to start calling for impeachment
Trump insane Easter post
Mamdani warm and gracious easter greetings
One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!
Legitimately reports the news more clearly and accurately than the New York Times
I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."
FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
hmm
may this be the beginning of something