NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants. grant-watch.us It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon. Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.

I'm sorry FIFTEEN Senate Democrats voted to confirm DAVID PERDUE, insider trading king, to be AMBASSADOR TO CHINA??? what is wrong with these people??????????????????????????/ www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

guess i’d better tag the judicial circuit for bread crime @darthbluesky.bsky.social

cat got into the bread cabinet, now there is no bread

hard to work or focus on anything when you don’t know if your rx medications will still be available in a few months. if just one drug goes into shortage, it’s difficult to replace, but it’s doable. when two or three or more go into shortage…

episode v: the revenge of the libs

Firefighters, first responders, nurses, and doctors rely on *NIOSH-approved* respirators. (During the pandemic we saw *many* counterfeit respirators going to hospitals.) The program that certifies respirators was eliminated.

lol the last photo

democrats are full steam ahead with this inherently contradictory messaging. you can’t call this situation a crisis and not treat it like one

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

oh my god, this is real. they chartered the patriots team plane to disappear people to guantanamo. what the fuck

My blog on new state-level estimates from @kff.org & @urbaninstitute.bsky.social of cost-shifts to states from imposing a #Medicaid per capita cap on federal expansion $, likely resulting in states terminating expansion as under direct cuts to the 90% match rate: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/04/28/n...

oh my god, there's another $45 billion for detention facilities. "family residential centers"

have you ever thought about how goldfish are truly really great crackers

Not great to see "we're doing this bad thing for the Jews" spread outside the Trump administration. It is, in fact, antisemitic for politicians to use antisemitism as an all-purpose excuse for enacting authoritarian policies like demanding control of university curricula and suppressing protests.

lizards against climate change

good framing and story

Almost all the time, except... (Cats are so dignified and elegant)

life is bad right now. post your cats below plz

propaganda works. It works on billionaires in their group chats. It works on CEOs. It works on you. We need comprehensive media reform or this country will not survive.

maybe they don’t actually know what they’re doing

I'm very sorry for Gerry Connolly as a human ~and~ this is so embarrassing for House Democrats and Nancy Pelosi, who also refuses to retire, who pushed Connolly over AOC for ranking of Oversight for... reasons?

every single person in my doctor office waiting room is watching something or talking to someone with their phone speakers on max. is this what purgatory will be like

Everyone who cares about public health should read this incredibly informative essay (by an NIH employee) to understand the game plan for the next few months—how the cuts & rules stopping NIH from spending $ right now could let them destroy NIH’s budget for a decade We need to make this well known

i think a lot of wealthy and powerful people are very, very lonely and it predisposes them to radicalization online

@scientificdiscovery.dev is the dataviz queen. the sheer volume of *insightful* charts made in accordance with best practices is staggering. what a public service she provides

japan is releasing rice from their emergency national stockpile. crisis started with a heatwave

my ai ads are just vague threats now

“So far, the allied university leaders agree that one red line for them is relinquishing academic independence… One point some have discussed: Several of the schools have been in place for 300 years, while President Trump has been in office for three months, one of the people said.”

i’m obsessed with this kitten now and my cats are not impressed

See? I love seeing accessibility features being supported like this!

you really need to watch this until the end. took courage to air this direct rebuke

this frame continues to be the most helpful imo

i’m so worried about this country. especially when we end up facing a pandemic flu that kills 2-3% of us (like 5x more than covid), with millions of them potentially being children. those thoughts have to go in The Vault

this is correct. always possible to teach voters new terminology, but you’re starting at a disadvantage. using plain language isn’t elitist, and it doesn’t punch down. it’s being accessible

people (YOU) are not appreciating her highness as much as they should

this is so real

Meet Ozymandias. He doesn't know it yet, but once he's had his second jab, he's going to be the new Magdalen College kitten.

the krassensteins getting arrested live on camera by libs of tiktok because they made a fake social media offer to shelter immigrants is what might finally break my mind for good

lazy sunday

that’s an ewok

this is rich coming from rfk jr., who purged all the scientists and oversight staff, and who has gutted/ignored every transparency rule he has come across

much like the millennia-long fight between health scientists and health communicators

That’s definitely the face of a cat who’s been allowed to have ham

Female cinematographers are far and few between. Per the annual industry report the Cellulod Ceiling, female DPs shot just 12 percent of the 250 top-grossing movies in 2024. So, when a high-profile male director hires women it’s a big deal; when he keeps hiring women it’s a big fucking deal.

we got ham. she requires a ham; she demands the hams