i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,000 一 among groups. According to an analysis of the most recent labor statistics by Katica Roy, a gender economist

REMINDER: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.

White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,000 一 among groups

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.

This is Washington at its worst.

We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken legislature?

Our corrupt SCOTUS?

Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

Actual physician priorities for the US:
-health insurance for all
-increase physical activity
-housing
-secure access to good nutrition
-vaccination
-cancer screening
-substance abuse treatment

Not on the list:
-wearables 🤦🏻‍♂️

Gutting the National Institutes of Health - which was the greatest biomedical research organization in the world - to turn it into a right wing man’s grievance-based podcasting studio

Federal infrastructure is being demolished, and that includes wide swaths of science.

This is impacting not just scientific progress, but societal progress, for decades.

It will be nearly impossible to measure the impacts - because we've dismantled our tools that would do that.

yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

A reminder about the science, accumulated over hundreds of studies of all causes:

Autism is caused mostly by combinations of genes, the same ones that make us individuals. Environmental contributions occur mostly before birth, well before any vaccination.

old piece: www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/o...

Here is the completeley unconvincing response from UNC Gillings leadership about the decision to eliminate the Health Equity & Social Justice Concentration. I find this explanation--too few students in the concentration- unbelievable both in fact and in the timing 1/n

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

Doctors in West Texas— where there is a measles outbreak—are seeing unvaccinated hospitalized patients with signs of vitamin A toxicity.

This is a result of misinformation and is what happens when you appoint an anti-vaxxer to lead the national health agency.

New survey data out from Navigator research shows the profound public concern and anger over the cuts in the Musk wilding spree. Unsurprisingly, voters are more concerned than almost anything by Trump and Musk shutting down cancer cure research (and research into cures for other diseases) in the U.S. 71% of independents says they're concerned or very concerned about it. 65% percent of voters over all. It's also something they've heard the least about. Here's the raw data for the poll and a powerpoint. And here's the chart on Elon and the billionaires. "Dangerous," "Power-Hungry," "Corrupt," and "Self-Serving" Are Best Descriptors of Musk and Other Billionaires' Actions Independents see them most as "dangerous," the job he is doing ao say they da greedy Oligarchic. American and inexpariEnced est lower across the body approve of * and "inexperienced" test lower across the board. Which of the following words or phrases best describes the actions of Elon Musk and the other billionaires working with the Trump administration? 2024 Trump Voters* Dem Rep Not-Strong Approvers Strong Approvers Dangerous 134% Power-hungry 134 Corrupt 131 Self-serving Greedy 129 MAGA Unaccountable Unelected 119 illegal Right-wing extremist Out-of-touch 115 114 Inexperienced Un-American IK Oligarchic Ik For more info, visit navigatorresearch.org n

ICYMI (especially if you work in Democratic politics):

Cutting cancer research is one of the things Americans are most worried about.

And one of the things they’ve heard the least about. According to polls from @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social:
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

i find this notion that public spending is illegitimate bizarre as a matter of economics but totally legible as a statement of moral economy. and as per any strict system of morality, the punishment is part of the appeal. they are punishing the american people for believing in the public good.

In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.

We need to organize--let’s help each other.

NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.

I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.

Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

#standupforscience Seattle

As a former NIH K & CDC MARI* awardee whose work focused on Black and Latina cis and trans women w/ or placed @ risk for HIV, what is happening will disproportionately impact those of us who are already underrepresented in research because we tend to be more likely to do health equity research.

Inside the Collapse at the NIH Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

"Memoli had no choice, he insisted: He was following the direction of three HHS officials—Dorothy Fink, then the acting secretary; Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff; and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy—who told him, in no uncertain terms, that the pause was to continue..."

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My businesses depend on government contracts. Here’s why my newspaper will only publish editorials supporting free markets.

by Jeff Bezos

White House Finds Workaround to Shut Down NIH-Backed Medical Research From the beginning of this drama going on a month ago, the...

The Judge said NIH grants for medical research had to be unfrozen; the White House found a way to refreeze it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

4/ The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education. Meanwhile, conservative-leaning agencies remain largely untouched.

If this were about efficiency, we’d expect an even spread. Instead, we see clear ideological bias.

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.