We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Trump’s first BLS Commissioner, Bill Beach, calls today’s firing groundless and dangerous. www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

"Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by annual financial support from viewers like you" <---I bet you hear the exact cadence of your vintage

So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, “I didn’t see any Russians who’ve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.” @maddow.msnbc.com

This AI video of Jesus and a little boy singing Bless the Lord Oh My Soul, while Jesus holds a disembodied child’s foot is so beautiful and spiritually inspiring.

Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday. /1 www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/c...

Never change, England

Our op-ed is out on @medpagetoday.bsky.social "We Called Code Red On Medicaid Cuts" we explain how these cuts will hurt patients and what physicians and healthcare workers can do next. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... @gfriedman.bsky.social @haribuddy.bsky.social #SaveMedicaid #ThisBillKills

AG Sulzberger insists that @nytimes.com has no politics. In his Reuters lecture at @ox.ac.uk he stressed the independence of his newspaper. The idea is that they are non-partisan, above the fray. It’s simply not true. That’s the most damning part: pretending your paper no viewpoint. 1/

Excellent piece in NYT (gift article) describing the research being funded by your tax dollars at one university (Harvard). The scope is large because it’s a huge institution, but similar research is being stopped at an institution near you! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

What a contrast: On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat. On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.

We have an unexpected late opening in our vascular medicine 1 year fellowship program for 2025-2026 @harringtonhvi.bsky.social Outstanding clinical training with multi specialty faculty in a highly collaborative environment. Chat if interested and please help spread the word. #CardioSky

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child.

NIH grants are fully appropriated by the elected representatives of the people through September. This impoundment of democratically allocated funds against the will of the citizens is pure embezzlement of their tax money

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

This is a photo my great grandfather carried around with him of him wearing a U.S. army uniform taken while he was in France in 1918. He was an immigrant from E. Europe and spoke with a fairly thick accent to the day he died. He carried this photo as proof he was a real American despite that accent

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

One logical fallacy about antivaxxers is that vaccines are always voluntary so it’s not that they want to prevent them from being “forced” on people, it’s actually just that they just want to take them away from everyone, including the people who want them. How is that “medical freedom?”

The First Amendment allows universities like Harvard to choose what they teach, who they hire, and how they operate. The Trump administration doesn't get to tell us what can and can't be said.

A Harvard Med researcher is approaching her 3rd month in a crowded (90 women to a room) Louisiana detention center, supposedly because she didn't declare frog embryos as she was re-entering the US. She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is really unbelievable and explains a lot about RFK Jr’s unfitness for his current office.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

The legal profession observed Law Day for 67 years. It's never looked like this, with lawyers set to mobilize en masse in front of 40 U.S. courthouses. They're reaffirming their oaths because of the "full-blown assault" on the rule of law. @www.AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/law-day-de...

“I could … but we have lawyers who don’t want to do that.” This means nothing less than the Trump Administration is in open defiance of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back. Trump: I could Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release. Trump: I'm not the one making this decision Host: You're the president!

congrats to Paul, Weiss, you’re now the most white shoe insurance defense firm on earth. I hope you like defending killer cops. And shoutout to the people who said these firms were only committing to continue their existing pro bono work. that was always obviously false.

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

Chest is a superb scientific journal to which I regular submit some of my best science. This letter is an obvious travesty I hope @accpchest.bsky.social treats it as the travesty it is

Two groups representing Harvard professors sued the Trump administration on Friday, saying that its threat to cut billions in federal funding for the university violates free speech and other First Amendment rights.

We’re in a responsibility recession—not of personal responsibility, but of our shared responsibility to each other. My latest in STAT on what we’re losing when public health becomes personal choice. www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/m... via @statnews.com