#Boston, where a famous Adams once (wisely) said:

“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.”

… a fact I keep in mind daily.

October 18, 2025 Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...

October 18, 2025

Holy shit, New York!

Here’s the full view.

#NoKings #50501Movement

NO KINGS.

Bring back the NIH, NSF and American science NOW!!

Cc: @jeremymberg.bsky.social @drdrtsai.bsky.social @davidcflood.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

Gotta get me some funner “chats”

How Clinicians Approach GLP-1s for Weight Loss Management With their increasing popularity, GLP-1 agonists, a class of prescription drugs, have been reshaping the conversation around weight loss. More than...

opmed.doximity.com/articles/how...

Come hear MPEC investigators share their research at #CROI2025 ! We have several posters during today’s session at 2:30pm PST. @caitlindugdale.bsky.social @anneneilan.bsky.social @andreaciaranello.bsky.social @iddocjen.bsky.social @mgh-id.bsky.social

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Aka corruption!!

Keep up the Tesla boycotts.

Opinion | Elon Musk Is South African. We Shouldn’t Forget It. His worldview is inseparable from his rearing in apartheid South Africa.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Um - hi 2025. When are you over again?

H/T to my best collaborator-friend for this one.

If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi…

Keep the online pressure up, friends. And boycott Tesla.

Find out more about local protests at teslatakedown.com

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care.

They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely.

This won’t just harm people. This will kill people.

They own this.

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.

There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP

Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

Federal Employee Firings Threaten the Future of American Research, Scientists Fear After widespread government layoffs, scientists worry about the uncertain future of research and advocate action to rise above the situation.

New article up in The Scientist

the-scientist.com/federal-empl...

My Open Letter to Elon Musk From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.

www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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Some good-ish news from NIH

“Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again”

As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
Martin Luther King

If you have a:

- Credit card
- Checking account
- Savings account
- Mortgage
- Car loan
- Student loan
- Venmo account

The fight to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is your fight.

Raygun teams up Brian Gibbs, fired National Park ranger from Iowa, to design new T-shirts Brian Gibbs' viral Facebook post describing his National Park Service termination inspired two new T-shirts from Raygun.

www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/...

The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

Senate Republicans just *BLOCKED* Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...

Stop. It. Call your reps.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!