What a country.

Officer David Rose was murdered in the line of duty, protecting our community from domestic terrorism. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two young children. Let’s stand with his family after this terrible loss: Link: give.cdcfoundation.org/give/715122#...

They don’t care about their own MAGA base. They just want more money for their donor class.

It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat.

#pulmsky #sciencesky #medsky

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

Looks like someone isn’t going to meet the criteria for “fully successful” on his end of year review. That’s going to be tough to have in his eOPF when we RIF. 🥴

increasing failure of the administration to do its job

Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight... www.publicsource.org/national-day... 1/2

This is our moment in history to stand.

This Friday!

Marching for science!!

Grab your lab coat and stand up for science!

In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America’s first EMT service. Comprised solely of Black men and women recruited from the city’s Hill District neighborhood, the paramedics of Freedom House Ambulance became trailblazers in providing pre-hospital and CPR care.

My colleagues and I have a piece out today in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

Great to be in conversation with such smart, thoughtful hosts @pulmpeeps.bsky.social, and with the brilliant @iwashyna.bsky.social. It’s even motivated me to get back on this app…

This is a picture of my son taken soon after he was born. I suffered from a very rare pregnancy complication. But thanks to physicians at the University of Michigan and a lot of US funded research, he was born healthy. Please post, who has Science Saved for you? #WhoScienceSaves #MedSky

Today, President Trump ordered the firing of federal employees who are still in their probation period. "The firing of federal employees will have immediate and adverse health consequences for the American public," said ATS President Irina Petrache, MD, ATSF. Read more: shorturl.at/nNegx

The ATS applauds 22 state attorneys general in challenging NIH medical research funding cut. Friday's NIH action to cut life-saving medical research is prohibited by law. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n...