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BREAKING: Major New York Hospital Settles With DoJ Over Youth Gender Clinic, Keeps It Shuttered Given Mt. Sinai had a large pediatric gender clinic and is in a blue state with a supportive AG, this settlement serves as a grim harbinger for this beleaguered field benryan.substack.com/p/major-new-...

REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social: “Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. He embodied the American Dream. His life was invaluable. His death was senseless. Our neighbor, our fellow Texan, deserves justice.”

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🔥 Ronny Chieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”

#nokingsnaahville

Nashville is gathering #nokingsnashville

Picked up my sign sides for Saturday! #nokings

The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Silence=Death This is obscene. emilysbass.substack.com/p/the-united...

NASHVILLE — Odessa Kelly : “Don’t let them break your soul. Don’t let them break your spirit… the best education we can give to our children is we stand up for what’s right.” #NoKingsInAmerica 🇺🇸

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Filling up Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park (with the state park in the background) Favorite chant led by State Representative Scott Yarbro: Make America America Again #nokings #nokingsnashville #nokingsmusiccity #makeamericaamericagain

Enough is enough! #nokings #nokingsnashville #nokingsmusiccity

Who's house? #nokings #nokingsnashville #nokingsmusiccity

Unhindered by a short downpour, Nashville stood up against Kings. #nokings #nokingsnashville #nokingsmusiccity

We must give them hope.

As Sec. of State Rubio (then a senator) once said of #PEPFAR, “The dividends it pays from a human element are extraordinary, and you need to look no further than Africa, where millions of people are alive because the United States pays for their antiviral medication.” ow.ly/6Amb50W30Y0 @avac.org

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“What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China…or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917”. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

NASHVILLE… PENNSYLVANIA… IOWA… BOSTON… #HandsOff2025

Nashville, TN #handsoff

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Note to Columbia University: This is how you do it. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

‼️ “What we’re witnessing is a true ‘brain drain’ at the highest levels of government. Losing Drs. Marrazzo and Mermin is a loss for everyone dedicated to advancing human health in the US and around the world," said our ED, Mitchell Warren. 🔗 Read AVAC's statement: avac.org/blog/avac-co...

Krugman: “His numbers have nothing to do with reality… bad day for the 🇺🇸 economy…”

PLEASE KEEP SUBMITTING YOUR TERMINATED GRANTS! So far, there have been fewer grants terminated this week than last, but the week ain't over. It's *CRITICAL* to advocacy for the public to know what's going on. We can't do that without you. Submit your terminated grant info here ⤵️

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

A long time ago my community was under siege & the reaction was to play nice. There were proper ways to channel your concerns & damn it we were nothing if not rule followers. Until Larry Kramer. He urged us to act up, not be polite. I wrote about him this week. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/acti...

This group has developed a new app to help keep everyone one step ahead of Donald Trump’s deportation schemes. newrepublic.com/article/1926... Beat the paywell: archive.ph/cs2No

This week in stupid: "USAID staff are being told to review awards, including those that have already been canceled — and to make sure the number of awards they cancel match a tweet sent out by Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this week." www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

"'Trans sports' isn’t an actual problem in the real world. The problem is that life is hard. Don’t make it harder." Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-tran...

The next Tesla Takedown protest at the San Francisco showroom is Monday, March 17, Noon. actionnetwork.org/events/stop-...

Hmmm... Spotted at NIH research clinic Bethesda MD US

Seen in Washington DC's Union station.

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

Here is how I imagine an NIH Request for Applications to study vaccines that are already known to be safe and effective. “Decades of research have already proven that vaccines do not cause autism. However, Jan from Facebook doesn’t believe it, so we are going to waste tens of millions of taxpayer

Yup.

youtu.be/19r63QYAvZA?... "he [Trump] and Vladimir Putin together are trying to create a world that's safe for gangsters where ruthless people can thrive." "Vance has a value system which is a belief in performance art...to just try to do a mano against a man who's 10 times the man he is, frankly."

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“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees at another agency. They can hire and fire their own employees.” wapo.st/3QJEf7f

"These regressive actions are not happening in a vacuum but take place alongside an active undermining of respect for human rights within the United States" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

8 DAYS UNTIL #STANDUPFORSCIENCE2025! ☀️🧬🌎🔭🧪

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

We applaud the opening of a phase IIb trial of TB vaccine MTBVAC in South Africa, Kenya, and Tanzania, run by IAVI and funded by Gates Foundation, Open Philanthropy + the German government. We desperately need a broadly effective vaccine to end TB! www.iavi.org/press-releas...