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Appalling

The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.

www.nature.com/articles/s42... Excited to announce the most recent paper from my lab. Ennis and coauthors model the breast cancer microenvironment in obesity-driven diabetes and show that anti-tumor immunity is profoundly suppressed compared to metabolically healthy #breastcancer.

My new interview with WGBH just posted. I talk about the deepening crisis at #NIH in #medical research funding and the devastating impact on #cancer research of #Trump administration priorities.  youtu.be/iKkum-pAoYA

Tsunami warning for most pacific coast nations; 8.8 earthquake reported in Russia. Stay informed, and stay safe out there.

Cherry farmers in my district in The Dalles are leaving hundreds of tons of cherries to rot because workers are too afraid of ICE raids to come harvest. This is what happens when cruelty becomes policy. It hurts everyone. #orpol #immigration #agriculture www.kptv.com/2025/07/10/c...

Thrilled to report new findings from our #NIH supported research on breast cancer. Obesity/ #diabetes are common and increasing across America. We report that blood #exosomes in #obesity drive progression and metastasis of triple negative #breastcancer. bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I missed that Jeff Bezos sold the Post to Donald Trump directly.

81 years ago, America's bravest generation stormed the beaches of Normandy in hopes of freeing Europe from the clutches of a brutal authoritarian. Today, we face authoritarianism on our shores. We owe it to ourselves, our country, and that great generation to fight for freedom here at home.

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

NPR is suing Trump. Why? Because he slashed their funding just for doing their job—which is political retaliation. He’s trying to silence public media because they don’t bow down to his ego. News flash: the First Amendment doesn’t disappear just because you don’t like the coverage, Donnie.

"We condemn the US government's use of extortion to coerce independent institutions to act in accordance with the administration's preferences. . . it's punishing of researchers unrelated to the charges against their universities. . . (and) its short-sighted and senseless cuts to basic research."

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

Excited to share new #NIH funded research showing that #insulin resistance drives aggressiveness of #breastcancer. Women with #obesity and metabolic complications have higher risk of #metastasis. Model systems show we should consider this risk in #TNBC. #NCI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From Twitter "You know how they say the 3rd generation to inherit wealth squanders it? That is what we are doing with public health right now. People living with all the benefits of it are dismantling it because they think it's just natural to not have constant disease..." OP: x.com/wonderartsy/...

A placebo arm for a randomized clinical trial of measles vaccine is profoundly unethical and wrong because it will cause avoidable harm. Such a no brainer. We are being led by an amoral idiot.

🚨🚨🚨 This is serious. PLEASE READ: 🚨🚨🚨 RFK Jr plans to EXPERIMENT ON OUR CHILDREN. “…Would subject all new vaccines, including vaccines for children & vaccines for WELL RESEARCHED DISEASES like measles & polio to placebo testing…they would take a bunch of kids, divide them into two groups 1/3

Excited to share a revised pre-print of Christina Ennis‘s work: obesity-driven #diabetes reveals immune dysfunction and tumor aggressiveness in #breastcancer patient-derived #organoids. We preserved primary tumor immune infiltrates for the first time. Thanks to #NCI. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Raskin: Our chairman… How does one go from a libertarian railing about the deep state and the fbi and the doj coming down on the rights of the people to becoming a supine submissive authoritarian who votes against providing basic due process rights for the people against the government?

The architect of #NIH cuts is Russell Vought whose own daughter is alive today because of advances in treating cystic fibrosis, brought to us, to the Vought family, by NIH. 1/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“The cruelty is the point.”

New Substack. open.substack.com/pub/geraldvd...

A compelling letter from Nobel Laureate, William Kaelin, MD about the looming loss of US leadership in science and innovation. 🧪 www.amjmed.com/article/S000...

New Substack. open.substack.com/pub/geraldvd...

This is a huge deal. This is a Senator using his power in a non-traditional way: tget to El Salvador, get to see Kilmar, and get pics of both of them out. For Congress right now it’s not about speeches on the floor or business as usual. Good on the Senator for doing this.

By "free speech," the Americans mean creating a media environment in your country dominated by American digital fascism preparatory to right-wing regime change. Vance essentially said as much in Munich. Give in now, forget about sovereignty later. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

Just published a new Substack, inspired by Tim Snyder’s warning about state terror coming to America. @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/geraldvd...

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

We called out Harvard in the past for inaction. So now we are happy to speak out with praise. This is a major step forward. It’s not just a lack of capitulation. It’s an aggressive effort leaning into public comms — exactly what is needed. Bravo to Harvard 👏

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

This is Orbanism, brought to America. It’s a fascist takeover of US universities, stripping free speech, because the Trump regime wishes to control universities, end free thought and fight truth. We fight now, inside and outside NIH, or US science becomes Soviet science.

I was interviewed by Yvonne Stapp of ‘Science for the Public’ about the funding crisis at #NIH and for #cancer research at #NCI. Link to WGBH Boston. www.wgbh.org/forum-networ...

USA led the world in expertise stopping HIV, incl preventing mother to child transmission. But DOGE has now dismissed every global prevention expert at USAID, CDC, & State Dept. The risk is insane: Resurgent HIV & 500K child deaths by 2030. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...

Raskin is on fire 🔥

We’re getting so close

Here’s Elon cutting pediatric brain cancer research 👇🏻

Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction is a fascist move — and universities must respond Schools across the United States have a choice: defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes. flip.it/JYcsj_

They’ve lost Ann Coulter on this

BRB, checking the history books to find out whether “tyrant starts redefining peoples’ citizenship status” usually ends well for the Jews

This was always the risk with Gabbard and Patel at the head of our intelligence gathering. We not only will lose our own sources who won’t trust them, but we will lose intelligence from our close allies. This makes a terrorist attack on US soil much more likely.

Science is under assault because Trumpists are illegally purging labs, deleting data, and censoring research. This is actual fascism. It’s not “cuts”. Don’t normalize what they are doing.

Good to see NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors standing up against new NIH policies. We need more of this from senior leaders!

Excited to share our most recent results in cancer research supported by #NIH. We found that obesity-driven insulin resistance promotes breast cancer metastasis. We must address this public health crisis because >120 million Americans are diabetic/prediabetic. aacrjournals.org/mcr/article-...

"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet 'agency priorities'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

He's a smug contrarian whose covid predictions were off by 2 orders of magnitude, and yes, he wants revenge for that humiliation.