"Trump and MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us and directed the force of the state against firefighters, aid workers, civil servants, and children."
good piece from @aselrod.bsky.social
www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
He is completely off the rails.
Exactly this.
And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.
Shame on Iowa Republicans. Hearts full of hate.
Tragic and infuriating!
Happy now #BillCassidy #SusanCollins #JoniErnst, #TomTillis? Your cowardice will kill. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Cretin.
He is a blight on humanity.
An Invisible Medical Shortage: Oxygen - Oxygen is vital to many medical procedures. But a safe, affordable supply is severely lacking around the world, according to a new report. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/h...
Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
Every day these people show us who they are
It's getting a little North Korean around here.
The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/
Dude is high as fuck on Ketamine trolling about taking away programs and protections that benefit Americans.
Hes a sick piece of shit
Putin told Musk to just “go for it!!”.
And that’s how darkness took over America so fast.
US health department condemns private equity firms for role in declining healthcare access: Government report says private equity investment in nursing homes led to 11% increase in patient deaths | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I oversaw global health programs at @USAID.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.
NEW: A statement from Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service:
“Global Refuge condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the false accusations being lodged against our humanitarian work.”
Facts.....
@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point
Good work!
Can we recall them? It’s so discouraging.
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines:
"The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."
How discouraging.
Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
If someone is minimizing or doubting Elon Musk gave the Nazi salute multiple times—with great fervor—what other desecrations will they minimize or doubt?
