Trump may “say” this but two things that his party are adamantly against is paying for civic programs that benefit other people and paying for other people to get medical care.

I know the news is tough right now. So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology. WOW. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition. It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

What's important is to understand the cumulative effect of it all. To not just see today's outrage. See the silencing of Kimmel, the arrest of Comey, the harassment of Soros, the troops in our cities, the seizure of spending power, as all part of a plan to end our democracy.

Georgia, today is the LAST day you can register to vote for the upcoming state and local elections this November! Register to vote or update your voter registration here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/olvr-home

It’s the 6pm start times! Keep the 6pm start times!!

One good thing today!

a respected senior CDC official telling the public that the federal agency has undergone a hostile takeover and it barely makes the news because that’s the state of the world today

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Every damn day. And we just continue to let this happen.

I told Hubs earlier this week that if it wasn’t reopened by Friday, it’ll be closed for at least a month, if not longer. I’m standing by that.

What she said.👇👇👇

So that’s why all of our buses were messed up for an unnamed “district-wide elementary school event” that day! (100% not a complaint, this is an awesome reason for some late buses!)

PubMed is free online database of citations and abstracts maintained by NIH that allows users to search through millions of journal articles w links to full-text. All of us who work in biological sciences, medicine, and public health use PubMed DAILY. So do cancer patients.

I have many criticisms of APS, but on this, they have put forth a tremendous outreach effort to inform and learn from the communities impacted by these proposed changes.

😂😂😂

Holy shit, the @yankees.com did it! They got past the Red Sox in a wild card series! In the parlance of The Youth, THE KID ABSOLUTELY COOKED.

Shut down or not, this was ALWAYS Vought’s plan.

I’ve been yelling this for the last 48 hours!

I am flummoxed at starting Yankees/Red Sox at 8pm while Cubs/Padres was mid-afternoon in the central time zone. Start Yanks/Sox at 6pm ET, families on the East Coast can watch. It’s done at 9pm and with the time change, Cubs/Pads starts at 8pm CT. You get parts of both games in prime time!

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@ldavis1800.bsky.social - I need you to come back on here so we can watch playoff baseball together again!

@craigspencer.bsky.social #medsky

This is, 1000%, how they see the Democrats. And academics, professors, and teachers. And public health professionals. And actual doctors. And the vast majority of women. Anyone who expects them to do something they do not want to do is a killjoy. Period. It’s that simple.

You don't fucking say.

There are many things that need to happen very quickly if/when the Democrats take back power, but canceling every single contract we have with SpaceX should be very high on the list.

I said this yesterday, but this is the strongest argument I’ve ever seen for getting rid of the electoral college. We have to move beyond thinking of states as being all in for one party or the other.

all presidential administrations are partisan, but trump and the people in his white house are partisans bordering on sectarians, and one result is that they see nothing of actions that strain and weaken the union itself

You could not more perfectly invert the whole point of the power of the purse than this false notion the legislature cutting off appropriations means the executive gets more power.

Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from. Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.

Always, ALWAYS listen to @edyong209.bsky.social.

The Republican shutdown means clinical trials will stop enrolling new patients for life-saving treatment. But, hey, at least construction on Donald Trump's golden ballroom for his billionaire buddies will continue.

STRONG argument to kill the electoral college and go to a popular vote so that elected officials lose the incentive to “punish” whole states.

RFK Jr. still hasn’t signed off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID19 vaccines. It’s been almost 2 weeks. The impact of his continued maliciousness is that these shots still aren’t available to families for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program, which about half of US kids use.

Just in case you thought we were finish with measles because you haven't heard about it in a while, I'm just here to remind you that measles case continuing to rise. There are 1514 confirmed cases for 2025 so far. This is about 5.5 times more than the cases in 2024, and 26 times more than 2023.

NO ONE ELECTED RUSS VOUGHT TO ANYTHING. Why why why are people allowing him to unilaterally decide what the government spends money on??!

The Trump administration isn‘t a government. It’s a propaganda operation wrapped around a criminal enterprise.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

I love that his team was ready with this lovely reflection so quickly and also that he’s wearing a Stacey Abrams tee shirt in it.

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

A true legend. We were lucky to see her speak last year - she was amazing.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

I wonder what the ramifications of this could be for something like PubMed. It’s a government archive/database. Does this mean HHS could remove any papers that it doesn’t like from the search results?

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

What the actual fuck.

This is the GenX / Xennial / Older Millennial version of Gen Z’s “aura farming”.

This is the dumbest poll question ever. Try polling the question, "Should the Republicans shut down the government in order to make sure families' insurance premiums go up by 75%?"

To be clear, federal research / education funding is supposed to be allocated by government in accordance to specific laws & allocation methods. It's taxpayer-derived funding intended to further national priorities. It's not intended as discretionary funds for executive branch culture-war leverage.

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

Boone should have left Fried in. Bull pen blew it, big time.