The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
This is it. It's one thing to ask us to sacrifice for the greater good. To sacrifice to help those of us with less. But you asked us to sacrifice and then settled for... nothing. Just pain. Fuck you people. This isn't a fucking game. You don't stand for anything. You don't deserve to have a job.
I work there now and have for almost two decades and have never experienced this.
NIH does not “shelter in place” when POTUS visits WR. They just use exits on the west of campus or tell people to leave early/late or telework.
What enforcement mechanism is there to force OMB to release $? There isn’t one because no one has ever been brazen/evil enough to try this.
Who’s going to stop them?
The proposal by Bhattacharya to use data from Indian Health Services to study autism is outrageous and should be fought tooth and nail.
I have had the honor of working with Tribes on research projects. The steps for approval are many and lengthy, as they should be for this vulnerable population.
“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”
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I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...
A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
Exactly zero people in the military want this. Summer is annual training season for the National Guard and Reserve units. It's PCS season for active duty. The 14th is usually a day off for the Army. No one wants to cancel their training schedule in order to practice Drill and Ceremony. ZERO PEOPLE.
Encouraging news I would've missed if it weren't for Liz's weekly update: "The Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution proposing a Mutual Defense Compact in which members of the Big Ten conference will pool funding and legal, policy, and communications capacity and expertise."
More of this!
AP article on Trump tariff's wrecking the stock market with a picture of Trump looking particularly terrible.
Absolutely incredible photo choice here. A+
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
Every accusation is an admission. Every. Single. Time.
I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
owned
Hahahaha go fuck yourself Elon
Roast this fucking grifter shithead.
they are not just ending careers with these layoffs, the functional result is going cauterize entire career *paths.* you cannot possibly overstate the damage these layoffs are doing to the ability for anyone to have a career of "being a scientist" in this country.
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov let’s go. Time to flush these fetid turds. Need to see ppl in handcuffs.
To state this plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost.
He is wrong. He has a worm in his brain and it is constantly arguing for more worms. Be normal for once!
