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💣The Carpet Bombing of HHS 💥 It's hard to describe how America's health agencies have been bombed and shelled in the past few months, but John Oliver is a good start. 🧵

With these cuts, the Trump administration is denying the existence of disparities affecting nearly one in 10 Americans, while conveniently ensuring there’s no paper trail proving the harm caused by its policies targeting the LGBTQ folks. Full piece (no paywall): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

New lawsuit filed today in Massachusetts aginst NIH from many state Attorneys General First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process 1/n

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

“During Donald Trump’s first term, he made it a goal to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. by 2030. That priority has fallen by the wayside in the second Trump administration, with the termination of a number of grants related to HIV in the past week” www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/n...

5 yrs ago, Trump made it a goal to eliminate HIV Last week, several grants that would help w/ that were terminated, incl. a big study on adolescents ft. @drhightow-weidman.bsky.social @drjenellstewart.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @scott-delaney.bsky.social 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/n...

@maddow.msnbc.com So many devastating cuts to research from NIH. Please elevate coverage of the termination of the Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN). This vital research network has been active for nearly 30 years and has resulted in saving the lives of thousands of US youth.

Please take a second to read my statement on the termination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions. This is devastating to science but even more so to the youth impacted. Thank you

NBC News story about NIH Director nominee...Not a great fit for NIH and, perhaps, a destructive agenda. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... 1/2

dollyparton.com/front-porch-... RIP Carl Dean

Republicans don't care about you.

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

Judge John D. Bates of the D.C. Federal District Court has ordered the CDC to temporarily restore pages removed from its website to comply with Trump’s executive order barring references to race, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here are the losses red states will face w/ Trump's assault on NIH's indirect costs. TX: $310,282,120 OH: $171,355,609 TN: $133,514,022 MO: $131,590,159 FLA: $123,982,436 IN: $68,925,255 AL: $46,642,500 UT: $45,974,847 IA: $36,986,835 SC: $33,368,620 www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

NIH declares 15% indirects. This will decimate research universities. Budgets will be cut by 70%. Science in the US going down hill in this administration. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It’s nearly impossible to describe how severe a cut this is for universities. And all through executive action. The university lobbyists, that they relied on to recruit bipartisan support in Congress for so long, have no traction here. Key text:

ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS. Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here. Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

"Just since Donald Trump’s election, Musk’s personal net worth has grown by far more than the entire annual budget of U.S.A.I.D., which in any case accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget."

Here's my latest on the very grim happenings inside NIH

Goes without saying for scientists: This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas? #scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 🧪🧑‍🔬

NEW from inside NIH: I am hearing that a “young” DOGE staffer now has access to eRA, the software system used to track/administer all NIH grants.

Out of 510,000 NCAA athletes, less than 10 are transgender. They are literally writing an executive order to target less than a hundred people nationwide. Republicans spent over $110 million in anti-trans ads on a made up problem.

At the newsletter right now: The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.

Government-wide censorship, freeze in funding, data compromise. Let's call this what it is: an authoritarian takeover. Nobody voted for this. They will take as much power as we give them. CALL your politicians now. Emails/letters are often ignored. www.senate.gov/senators/sen... 5calls.org

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

"Over a third of sponsored expenditures go toward salaries, and the loss of federal funding could endanger entire research labs."

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

American science will not be same after all this.

Here's a story about this and some updated guidance for across HHS. This is some cruel bullshit.

Good morning. RFK Jr would be an absolute disaster for NIH. The HHS Secretary has enormous power over NIH. Enormous. He could effectively end the agency as a science funder. Please organize to stop RFK Jr. Students, you can help: use all the channels you have to get the word out.

"Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying HIV Treatment Worldwide", more from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

For the first time in six decades, the CDC did not publish its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Thursday, just one effect of a flurry of executive orders & administrative moves after President Donald Trump’s January 20 inauguration. www.poz.com/article/trum...

Duty to Warn: More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter imploring senators NOT to confirm RFK Jr., Trump’s highly controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Warning that Kennedy is an existential threat to “important and highly respected institutions and…

The health secretary pick and his organization have worked around the world to undermine longstanding policies on measles, AIDS and more. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/w...

RFK Jr. says HIV might not cause AIDS. 🚨 This isn’t just wrong—it’s dangerous. Science moved us from fear to facts; misinformation takes us back to stigma and death. Stick to the evidence, not conspiracy theories. 🧬 #HIV #AIDS #ScienceSaves www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Definitely a place of joy!! Very grateful for it! 🧪🌎🌊