very interesting thing just happened: EWR had a complete ground stop due to “thunderstorms” despite no storms in a 200 mile radius. The only flight to leave from EWR in that window? Air Force One. sure looks like Donald Trump just shut down EWR for 4 hours so he could watch a soccer game!

RFK Jr. told me he would "address drivers of maternal mortality.” But he just fired the researchers that work to improve the health of mothers and babies.

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

thank you Elon and DOGE! what the world definitely needs is unchecked drug resistant gonorrhea

Donald Trump: I'm going to impose massive tariffs! Kamala Harris: Don't vote for that guy, he's going to impose massive tariffs. They'll crash the markets and kill the economy. Trump: I think massive tariffs are great so I'm doing it. Bill Ackman: Nobody could foresee massive tariffs.

Vaccination eliminated polio from the United States 🧵

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

If losing money means nothing, the rich should just pay their fair share of taxes.

Plan to give all of your private tax data to oligarchs. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

It’s gruesomely simple: If we keep allowing an anti-vaxxer to lead this country’s main health agency, more people will die.

Will American voters ever learn?

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There are 32m small businesses in the USA

Great vibes at #handsoff NYC today, despite the rain #resist

Tens of Thousands of NYers took the streets today to say “hands off” our federal services! This Tuesday, join NYC-DSA at the "Kill the Cuts" National Day of Action and stand with workers across the country demanding NO to cuts on our services ➡️ actionnetwork.org/events/kill-...

We are getting ready for the Hands Off march on April 5! Join us in NYC and around the country! Handsoff2025.com

I’m hearing from Social Security recipients in MA who’ve been marked as "not currently receiving payments,” on the Social Security website. Social Security is something you are legally entitled to. Elon's attack on Social Security is illegal—and it's hurting people.

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

The press won't treat Elon as the national security threat he is. Part of this is that they have trained themselves to believe he's a genius for a decade plus. Even more is their fear of his scarily effective tactics for marginalizing their opponents. thelastbillionaires.com/musk-got-to-...

This explains a lot

NEW: Trump says he's letting "lifesaving" foreign aid continue, but sources tell WIRED that DOGE is still blocking HIV/AIDS relief. Musk brags he's "feeding USAID into the wood chipper." A USAID worker tell us: “At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV now do." By @knibbs.bsky.social

🧪 @wired.com's coverage of the Musk/DOGE blitz through US government has been stellar. This report from @knibbs.bsky.social is an outstanding—and grim—look inside the chaos at USAID.

Why are news agencies focusing on tariffs??? Surely the undermining of the CDC, USAID, all NSF funding, and the full commitment to Project 2025 is way more important?

There goes all research on biased agonists and blood brain barriers!

this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference. www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...

This is insane. If your demographic table mentions "gender" instead of "sex", you have to retract the paper (even if already accepted but not yet posted), revise it, & wait for some political appointee to approve it. If your paper is about mpox, and you mention gay men, I guess it won't be approved.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

Just so all of us chemists are on the same page, if @acs.org pulls this shit, we're all canceling our memberships and will never publish in an ACS journal or attend an ACS meeting ever again, right? RIGHT? And this has nothing to do with being a 25-year member and never receiving a mug.

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.

I am begging the scientists and government officials around the country to err on the side of non-compliance when interpreting the orders of fascists.