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The CDC has literally been gutted today.

There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.

Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.

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A graphic entitled "so long, farewell". It reads: "Many of the 1608 respondents who answered the question below in a Nature survey said that the election of Donald Trump as president had affected their future plans." It then shows the question: "Are you a US researcher who is considering leaving the country following disruptions to science prompted by the Trump administration?" An orange bar shows 75.3% respondents said yes. A blue bar shows 24.7% respondents said no.

"This is my home - I really love my country. But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now"

75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3QS4TLC

Trump says to ‘clean out’ Gaza, urges Arab countries to take more refugees President Donald Trump said he wanted Jordan and Egypt to take in more Palestinians from Gaza so they could "maybe live in peace" there.

Trump said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and push the millions of Palestinians living there into neighboring countries.

There is a name for this — ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.

This outrageous idea should be condemned by every American.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests

Opinion | The New Rules of the Trump Era (Gift Article) Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss the oligarchic power dynamics of the second Trump administration.

"We talk about America’s system of government as if it is a solid thing, bound by the Constitution and institutions the way a belt cinches around a waist. But much of it is just a pile of norms in a trench coat: Knock down the norms, and everything changes."

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

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“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

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Opinion | Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire. Nothing threatens authoritarianism like a free, quiet place to absorb a full range of information.

We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn