Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Tapping the sign.
99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.
“Many laboratories will simply shut down. Scientists will leave. I personally know of high-level scientists already being recruited by foreign institutions. A significant impact will be not having access to new medicines.”
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Read the comments for some fun laughs.
Rep Zephyr’s speech flips 13 GOPs, trans bills die in Montana
Trans people have been scapegoated so effectively (among older people) that we're flooded with models of how to hate.
But when people hear the love behind why we stand up for each other, we win.
Bravo, @zoandbehold.bsky.social!
The cruelty and heartlessness are stunning.
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
3: Go Your Own Way
2: Rhiannon
1: Landslide
The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.
I hope America is as lucky as the upside down Delta jet. Everyone survives but the right wing explodes.
Re: United States of America v. Adams (1:24-cr-00556-DEH) Dear Judge Ho, Undersigned counsel represent a group of former United States Attorneys.1 We respectfully request leave to submit a brief, as amici curiae, in support of the Court’s authority to conduct a factual inquiry into the government’s pending request for a nolle prosequi in the instant matter. (Dkt. No. 122).2 Amici have served as former United States Attorneys for the Southern District of New York, the District of New Jersey, and the District of Connecticut. They have collectively been responsible for thousands of federal criminal prosecutions. They understand federal prosecutors’ ethical and professional obligations and the imperative that prosecutors act without regard to partisan politics. See, e.g., U.S. Dep’t. of Justice, Justice Manual § 9-27.260 (2018). They also share a respect for the rule of law, the separation of powers, and the importance of preserving the integrity of the federal criminal justice system. In the views of amici, the events of the last week in United States of America v. Adams have been unprecedented. As detailed in amici’s proposed brief—attached as Exhibit 1—the government’s February 14, 2025 request for a nolle prosequi in the instant matter was preceded 1 The group consists of John S. Martin Jr. (former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1980-1983) and former Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1990-2003)); Robert J. Cleary (former United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1999-2002)); and Deirdre M. Daly (former United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut (2013-2017)).
NEW: Three former U.S. Attorneys ask to file a brief in Eric Adams' case before Judge Dale Ho "in support of the Court’s authority to conduct a factual inquiry" into DOJ's actions leading to its Friday request to dismiss the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger.
Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.
Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, said that the Trump administration is justifying its mobilization on the basis of “an invasion that doesn’t exist.”
It takes over 25 ¶¶ before WaPo explains why Trump is failing to meet the deportation numbers he promised: Stephen Miller lied about the number of criminal aliens in the US to fearmonger and get Trump elected.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
obviously this is terrible for democracy and the rule of law in America
but I'm also offended on behalf of the prisoner's dilemma
BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs.
He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This! It's not just paper pushing! It's everything. Mail, airplanes, roads, power, weather data, social security. Even if that isn't the system you want, it's the one we currently have and any transition away from it should take more than 3 weeks.
