Emily in DC
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Scientist | She/Ella/女人 | Mother | DC resident | Opinions are my own
It’s so hot in DC that tree stumps are just catching fire
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Jenna Norton
3 days ago
Here's the full Trump-Vought FY27 budget proposal.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
It lists NIH as "-$5 billion" with a top line budget of $41B. The math doesn't math tho bc FY26 budget was $48.7, making $41B a $7.7B (not $5B) cut. Also calls to eliminate NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH.
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Jeremy Berg
5 days ago
I do agree that Director Bhattacharya did step in SOMETHING on April 1, 2025. (or, rather, stepped into a great institution and started turning it into 💩)
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Jeremy Berg
7 days ago
Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11
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Rodger Sherman
8 days ago
CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao
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Kate Marvel
12 days ago
My resignation letter
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Aaron Rupar
12 days ago
SCHIFF: I don't want to hold up the rest of what DHS does, so I've fully supported vote after vote to fund TSA KERNEN: That's a carve out. It's not a clean bill, which has been business as usual SCHIFF: Well, business as usual right now is people getting killed in the streets. So I'm not for that
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Radley Balko
13 days ago
Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024: 0.69 Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025: 1.75 Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026: 4.6
www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...
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Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004
Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g-s1-111238/immigration-detention-deaths-custody
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Jenna Norton
14 days ago
NIH’s response to this article, that “NIH supports a fair and objective review process that evaluates proposals based on scientific merit.” not so subtly suggests that they think women on average do science that is less meritorious.
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Ron Filipkowski
22 days ago
I regret to inform America that this was just posted by the HHS Secretary.
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Alt CDC (they/them)
25 days ago
This meme captures our current mood. Public health is being systematically dismantled. People will suffer. People will die. Of course we’re angry. (1/2)
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JoJoFromJerz
about 1 month ago
If there were credible allegations against a Democratic president that he had punched a 13 yr old girl in the face after she bit his penis while he was raping her, Fox would be running that shit on a loop 24/7 and calling for his arrest/execution let alone his impeachment.
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Jeremy Berg
about 1 month ago
Compelling story from KFF News/CNN Listen to the sound clips to get a clear sense of what has been happening at NIH.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...
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Six federal scientists run out by Trump talk about the work left undone | CNN
Federal data shows the NIH lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its workforce. Scientists say the departures harm the U.S.’ ability to respond to disease outbreaks, develop treatments for chroni...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/health/nih-scientists-work-kff-health-news
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Trump is once again fighting wokeness this afternoon
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Jeremy Berg
about 1 month ago
So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Sen. Mullin’s Combat Smell Sommelier
about 1 month ago
Democrats Need to Be Better on the Issue of D.C. Statehood And I'm not talking about professional Democrats, but people like you and me. By way of G. Elliot Morris: Democrats are only +15 for D.C. statehood. We need to be better than that. And it's not just about the two senate seats either, it's…
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Democrats Need to Be Better on the Issue of D.C. Statehood
And I'm not talking about professional Democrats, but people like you and me. By way of G. Elliot Morris: Democrats are only +15 for D.C. statehood. We need to be better than that. And it's not just about the two senate seats either, it's also . To make this topical, you might have read last week how the Republican-controlled Kansas legislature overrode the Democratic governor's veto of a bill that would invalidate trans people's drivers licenses if they were not marked with their gender as noted at birth.
https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2026/03/02/democrats-need-to-be-better-on-the-issue-of-d-c-statehood/
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No more poopy Potomac!
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@wmata.com
just want to say my Red Line operator should have his own radio show. The station announcements have made my morning!
about 1 month ago
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Tammy Duckworth
about 1 month ago
"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next. What a disgrace.
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Sahil Kapur
about 1 month ago
Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:
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Nicholas Grossman
about 1 month ago
The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it. Taxation without representation.
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Comfortably Numb
about 1 month ago
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💙🦋🌊 Political Americans 🌊🦋💙
about 1 month ago
The U.S. men's hockey team reveals why men in America are failing at a spectacular rate. History will remember their celebrating MAGA's misogyny, ignorance, and their embrace of Trump's cult of personality, corruption and fascism. God bless the US women's hockey team. 💪
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Republicans clap like seals after Trump recites his made-up foreign investment numbers
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰
about 1 month ago
Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO
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laura olin
about 1 month ago
It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas
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This made me laugh more than I care to admit
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Kim Weeden
about 1 month ago
Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".
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Universal healthcare… that is the answer
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Angry
about 1 month ago
Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional. Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."
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“Not” a fascist dictator
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about 2 months ago
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Melody Schreiber
about 2 months ago
“Now, rather than largely ignoring the actual operations of one agency, he can largely ignore the actual operations of two.” "It seems the one qualification for this job is rubber-stamping RFK Jr’s agenda." "I wonder if Jay will now do twice as many podcasts."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Experts warn NIH director now leading CDC will push ‘RFK Jr’s agenda’
RFK Jr ally Jay Bhattacharya was named acting director of the CDC and will be fourth leader in a year to head agency
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/jay-bhattacharya-cdc-acting-director
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What in the actual f?!?!?!?
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL
about 2 months ago
@altfda.altgov.info
challenged us to list
#5Things
that each of us Alts think have caused the most damage in our agencies over the past year. Each of the five items is chock full of sub-items…adding up to far more “things.” Here goes.
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The Tennessee Holler
about 2 months ago
Fascism is here. 🇺🇸 CBS is dead. ☠️ More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀
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Bill Kristol
about 2 months ago
If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
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Tim Onion
about 2 months ago
May this one day happen to them.
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Pandemic 𓅃. Index
about 2 months ago
Here is an image the NIH Director just shared on Twitter: A poster of him wearing a tattoo from a convicted rapist.
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What???????? Would actually need to say the complete opposite…
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about 2 months ago
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It’s been 22 days since we’ve had trash collection… and we still wait…
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The 51st
about 2 months ago
NEWS: Some D.C. residents say they haven’t gotten their trash picked up in three weeks. The post-storm collection challenges have also tied into some broader concerns with services from the D.C. Department of Public Works,
@maustermuhle.bsky.social
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After snowstorm delays, D.C. is rushing to catch up on trash collection
Some D.C. residents say they haven’t gotten their trash picked up in three weeks.
https://51st.news/after-snowstorm-delays-dc-is-rushes-trash-pickups/
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Our nation is being destroyed by Trump and the Republican Party. I used to get a surge of pride to live so close to the White House. Now it’s a construction project for our megalomaniac president
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Jeremy Berg
about 2 months ago
And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility. First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer. 1/2
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Jasmine Crockett
about 2 months ago
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
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Emma the Sewer Socialist
about 2 months ago
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Angry
about 2 months ago
The funny thing about that show? Not a word of it was in English, but it was one of the more patriotic halftime shows I’ve seen. “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
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Charlotte Clymer
about 2 months ago
Goddamn, that was a great halftime show. Take a bow, Bad Bunny. 10/10. 🇵🇷🇺🇸
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Capital Weather Gang
about 2 months ago
FROZEN SOLID DC -- to a degree we seldom see. CWG photographer Kevin Ambrose (
@dcstormchaser.bsky.social
) visited and photographed the National Mall on Sunday morning -- after two weeks straight of mostly freezing weather. Here are four of his photos.
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