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- All of my NIH grants terminated this afternoon along with those of all of my colleagues including big (and extremely successful) P01 grants.
- The antisemites in the White House—who talk of Good Jews and Bad Jews, do Nazi salutes, push white nationalist conspiracy theories, and dine with open Jew haters—are not fighting antisemitism. That is merely the bad faith BS they’re using as cover for trying to crush higher education. Not subtle.
- Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.
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- Anderson Cooper Undergoes Cosmetic Surgery To Look Even More Concerned
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- U.S.-citizen pediatric cancer patients are getting deported, 401k's have plummeted, Head Start/school lunches/anti-lead-poisoning programs are getting defunded, global allies hate us, Pentagon chief is leaking war plans But at least Trump is pumping up a fake holiday that comes in October
- Not-so-fun fact: Columbus Day became a national holiday in 1892 because the president at the time wanted to support a group of immigrants who'd been persecuted and lynched for not being white enough. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- I love my horribly accented people.
- Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
- 30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house. We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
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- Congratulations to newly appointed AER Board Members (starting in July ‘25): Max Croce, Garance Genicot (@ggenicot.bsky.social), Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Isabelle Mejean, Moses Shayo, Johannes Stroebel, and Christoph Trebesch @AEAjournals #EconSky
- Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph
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- Note to fellow journos: If only one "economist" agrees w Trump tariffs—as evidenced by fact that this particular "economist" is now being interviewed and cited everywhere as only "expert" willing to publicly defend them—consider confirming that he's actually an "economist." Check CVs, for example.
- The House and the Senate have now passed a budget resolution that implies big, but unspecified, cuts to Medicaid. Now they'll have to get specific about the cuts. Changes to health care rarely get more popular when the details get filled in.
- Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
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- I didn't realize until I started digging into the data for this story just how dependent some colleges are on federal funding. MIT got over *half* its revenue from federal sources in 2022/23 -- including over a billion dollars in Department of Defense contracts.
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- Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
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- 🚨 Big SCOOP 🚨 Tax revenue could fall by as much as **10%** this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats. That'd be **$500 BILLION** in lost revenue. It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.
- Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
- Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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- Virtually every comment in today's ISM manufacturing report is someone expressing concern about the tariffs
- This morning I went to John Lewis Middle School to watch a class taught by Brian Greene. 4 days a week he teaches botany. On Fridays, he teaches the kids how to cook using plants they’ve grown in the school’s gardens.
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- There are really good people in this world. They don’t have power and they’re not famous but they get up and feed people, in all kinds of ways. It is a misfortune that the richest and most powerful among us have other priorities. But do not think they are the only people that matter now.
- Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
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