I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health. We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW

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Secretary Rubio was silent on this weekend's #WorldPressFreedomDay - breaking from Blinken, Pompeo, others. But Rubio championed the day as Senator. An astonishing weekend with DC Circuit backing Trump's dismantling of congressionally-mandated global media outlets I dissect it all. In The Know. ⤵️

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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Tens of thousands marched from Bryant Park to Madison Square Park in NYC on April 5, 2025 to protest the administration of President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk. (Photos by Melissa Bender/ NurPhoto) #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #trump #doge #elonmusk #photojournalism

“Hands Off! Our Public Postal Service!” National Day of Action in midtown Manhattan and simultaneously in cities across the nation. Protesters denounced the Trump/Musk/DOGE efforts to privatize the U.S. postal service. Photos by me, 3/20/2025 @apwu.bsky.social @aflcio.org #usps #apwu

International Women’s Day March in NYC People gather in Union Square Park, New York City for the International Women’s Day march on March 8, 2025. Demonstrations were held around the world in defense of women’s rights. (Photo by Melissa Bender/ NurPhoto) #IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD

More images from the #TeslaTakedown protest outside the Manhattan Tesla showroom on 3/8/2025. A few hundred people denounced billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts and layoffs, with six arrests. #doge #trump #tesla #musk

Several hundred demonstrated outside a Manhattan Tesla showroom on 3/8/2025. Some entered the dealership; six were arrested. Fierce opposition is growing toward to the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Musk. #teslatakedown #doge #trump #tesla #elonmusk

Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie: “I strongly believe in DEI!” Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science. March 7, 2025 #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social

More images from today in NYC. #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social

Hundreds of scientists and supporters gather in Washington Square Park, NYC — and in over 30 cities nationwide — on March 7, 2025 to protest the Trump/Musk attack on science. #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social

Scenes from the President’s day anti-Trump-agenda protest on 17, 2025 in NYC. ThousandS marched from Union Sq to Washington Sq Park — and similar protests took place across the U.S. — as part of the “50501 movement,” an organized response to actions by the Trump administration.

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination On left: Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on." On right: Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge! Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”

Federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt to slash NIH funding; imposes biweekly judicial overview to monitor for compliance.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has just blocked Trump administration's move to cut NIH's funding of indirect costs A hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 21 in case, which was brought by 22 states earlier today storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A good tool. (Related question: does this benefit Big Pharma and corporations, if the federal government is increasingly investing less in research? Gives them more control/power?)

What happened to CDC's bird flu studies and why did they publish about wildfires instead? Sources tell us Trump officials are now wielding unprecedented control over agency's flagship scientific journal "The MMWR has lost its autonomy" www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

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NIH IN YOUR STATE “Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America” www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

At the NIH, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social on X. 2/x

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them.

Did you know: the changes at NIH are going to cost jobs and hundreds of millions of research dollars in our nation's best "red state" research institutions? (source: chat4o)

These great research institutions in red states are slated to lose about $1B in NIH research dollars

The executive director of Fair Wisconsin, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, tells me she's heard from multiple families whose children's gender-affirming care was reinstated after my reporting.

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

ah trump’s merit in action. only certain people can be meritorious

“The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

"I was racist before it was cool" "I would not mind if Gaza and Israel were wiped off the face of the Earth" “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity" “Normalize Indian hate" -- Top Musk/DOGE aide; posts discovered by WSJ's @klong.bsky.social Gift link www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

question: exactly how many current or prospective members of the trump administration believe in biological race hierarchy?

Gratifying to see my photo used in this reflective piece: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... #ejeancarroll

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