Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) finds himself in a unique position: scorned by President Trump and out of the running for reelection, but still in charge of the highly influential Senate health committee, which can block nominees to head three health agencies currently without permanent leaders.

In this last month, Spanberger in VA & Sherril in NJ have shown that centrists will not save us. Centrists are folding in the moments we need them most. Meanwhile Mamdani in NYC has shown how progressives focused on working families & human rights get the job done. None of this is surprising. 1/2

“If an administration starts viewing science as something that should be driven by politics rather than expertise, we stand to lose immeasurable benefits to public health and well-being…” 🧪 www.eenews.net/articles/tru... #Pinks

FYI Trump’s medical report released by the WH does not tell the whole story. #Pinks

A federal judge in Florida agreed to reopen President Trump’s bid to sue the IRS for $10 billion, siding with intervenors who said a settlement to create an “anti-weaponization” fund tainted the case.

Can you really cancel a concert when everybody just keeps dropping out. No one wants to perform and very few people probably want to show up.

Yesterday I published this detailed article arguing that women are simply not safe around men. I cited history, data, legal analysis, and meaningful solutions to combat the systemic violence men commit against women. It is currently approaching 500,000 reads. www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...

Isolationism is kills science. I didn't expect to live in a time where I would not be allowed to work w/ other “foreign" breast cancer scientists. The WH attempts to restrict collaboration w/ Chinese researchers, as China blasts past us in their R&D investments. 🧪 www.science.org/content/blog...

I don’t want to hear another damn word that women are too emotional and are not fit to lead. While growing up I was told that women cannot attain enlightenment because of our menstrual cycles. POTUS throws ketchup at the wall and rage posts late into the night. #Pinks

As much as Republicans are crowing over their redistricting efforts, there are some things to be considered. 1st, people need to turnout & vote And primary turnout has been dismal for Republicans. 2nd, these additional red districts may end up diluting the other districts which could flip blue.

The actual result appears to be 343 Republican votes cast and 13,662 Democrat votes cast. That is not a good look for the Republican party.

Make your voices heard! The proposed OMB rule negates peer review for approval of grant applications. The political appointee will have the power to randomly override peer review. The last thing we need is the fear of grants getting terminated based on whim. Russ Vought is all over this.🧪

A cursory Google search is not the same as the experience gained from rigorous study. The current administration actively undermines expertise to our detriment. My dear mom thinks she knows more about biology than me. But I am quick to correct her. I wish more people understood this. #Pinks

If you want to know more about my lawsuit against the $1.8B slush fund, here’s a quick explainer.

This is awesome news today!!

Thanks to the SCOTUS Alabama voted to silence black voices including mine too ( because we’ll just look at my profile pic) in the primaries this fall. Rigging the vote so racism can continue to reign and support a gross orange 🍊 pig 🐷 is wild in 2026 #sheshed

This right here is very telling. The OMB proposal directly dismantles the post-WWII system used by NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, and nearly every science agency, in which independent expert peer review was the primary measure of scientific merit. 🧪 elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Of course she won’t answer, though executive privilege isn’t hers to assert. It wouldn’t matter anyhow. Trump has immunity from crimes he uses the DoJ to commit.

Y’all, Ebola comes with upto a 50% mortality rate. Ebola is a deadly disease. And we withdrew from the WHO. We can’t screw this up. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yesterday, Dial editor in chief @mmschwartz.bsky.social and contributor Lucía Cholakian Herrera joined the Interruptrr podcast, talking with Elmira Bayrasli about our forthcoming book "How We See It: The World Looks At America in the Age of Trump"—and what lessons Americans can take away from it.

Trump couldn’t buy the opening of the Strait of Hormuz for $25B, so now he’s offering $300B in reparations. Art of the deal.

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BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily BLOCKED the $1.8B slush fund. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE hides flight info because if they can get detainees to detention hubs in the south before lawyers and family can locate them, they face harsher courts. But jurisdiction doesn’t change until the flight lands. That’s where this tracking tool comes in. 1/ gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

President Trump’s surprise demand for Gulf and Arab countries to normalize ties with Israel as part of Iran peace talks has run into a complicated reality in the Middle East.

The Regime will now require all federal scientific research funding to undergo political review. Do you want your science to be fact-based or MAGA-based?

During Trump's first Presidency we had Covid getting out of control thanks to Trump. Now it appears we may have Ebola getting out of control thanks to Trump.

TWICE today I've been told "we are going to be recovering from this for generations..." NO, WE ARE NOT. This stuff is really bad, but it's nowhere NEAR as bad as it could get. We are ~40% into the demo of a complete kitchen renovation... DAILY DOSE OF HOPE INCOMING!!!! 1/?

💥🧪IMPORTANT Another way to kill federal funding Congress may have approved a budget increase, but Russ Vought et al. find ways to cripple research that serves our citizenry. The new OMB regulation requires grants reviewed by SENIOR political appointees. Peer review will be ignored entirely. 🧵

In announcing that health insurers will continue to cover ACIP-recommended vaccines, AHIP wrote: “Coverage decisions for immunizations are grounded in each plan’s ongoing, rigorous review of scientific and clinical evidence and…evaluation of multiple sources of data”. In contrast to RFK Jr.

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#BREAKING: President Trump refiled his $10 billion lawsuit against Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, for an article covering a birthday letter to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This sucks.

He has been trying to not pay and discredit her for years. Now he is weaponizing the government against her.

Hillary Clinton called him out in 2016. On point. #Pinks

"Women's rights are human rights!" In 1995, Hillary Clinton gave a powerful #CupOfJoe speech at the UN Conference for Women. ~30 years later, women are still underpaid and undervalued. This reminds us how far we've come and how far we still have to go for equality.

What happened to made in the USA? The gold-plated $499 phone is no longer marketed as “Made in the USA; the American flag design on the back appears to have 11 stripes instead of 13. Yes. They didn’t get the correct number of stripes. On Brand. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #Pinks

A survey via SciOPS, based in Arizona- According to the scientists who responded the survey, Trump administration policies affected the scientific workforce pipeline, hampering their ability to recruit internationally and domestically. 🧪 theconversation.com/self-censors...

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