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Published: February 19, 2025 04:51
JFK Library "temporarily closed until further notice" amid Trump workforce order, layoffs
https://www.dotnews.com/2025/jfk-library-temporarily-closed-until-further-notice-amid-trump
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Published: February 18, 2025 22:37
Part of the key here is that as these guys' backgrounds have been dug into, almost all of them have histories of VERY transgressive behavior. Not all of its terrible behavior but sort of young guy line-jumping, rule-cutting, & well .... nazi-friending…
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Published: February 18, 2025 22:03
another break-in
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Published: February 18, 2025 22:02
Come work for an award-winning news organization with a robust business model and no layoffs in the 25 year history of the organization. talkingpointsmemo.com/careers
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Published: February 18, 2025 21:49
totally reassuring to have the new degenerate health chief giving a disquisition about sperm count among American boys.
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Published: February 18, 2025 21:47
Not only has CMS, the agency which administers Medicare, been hit by a round of mass-firings. The people who run it haven't been told who was fired. They're having to figure that out by themselves. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-its-going
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Published: February 18, 2025 21:43
Is This Why Musk Keeps Using the Same Dozen Tech Micro-Bros for Each Takeover? https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-this-why-musk-keeps-using-the-same-dozen-tech-micro-bros-for-each-takeover/sharetoken/32a6c8cb-84a5-4938-9ad1-7a114a1118d8
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Published: February 18, 2025 18:45
The State Dept is on Team Russia; HHS is on Team Measles; Musk's mules keep wilding through the workforce.
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Published: February 18, 2025 18:41
Is This Why Musk Keeps Using the Same Dozen Tech Micro-Bros for Each Takeover? https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-this-why-musk-keeps-using-the-same-dozen-tech-micro-bros-for-each-takeover/sharetoken/99b52d18-3c69-4ae9-aa95-4d9cf3c9ff36
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Published: February 18, 2025 17:20
Good lord.
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Published: February 18, 2025 14:39
Understanding the Taxonomy of DOGE https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/understanding-the-taxonomy-of-doge
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Published: February 18, 2025 14:38
First IRS, Now DOGE Busts Its Way Into the Social Security Administration https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-busts-its-way-into-social-security-administration
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Published: February 18, 2025 14:38
Where Are the Lawsuits Over the Chainsawing of NIH and NCI? https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where-are-the-lawsuits-over-the-chainsawing-of-nih-and-nci
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Published: February 18, 2025 06:42
Hey, sorry but no more Yosemite. It’s getting more efficient.
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Published: February 18, 2025 06:40
Curious if it’s coincidence. In the last couple days I’ve started to see ads for St Jude’s Hospital on instagram. They’re not the ones I’m used to seeing on TV for charitable contributions. These seem to be making the argument for the importance of the…
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Published: February 18, 2025 05:22
What Elon did
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Published: February 18, 2025 05:20
She’s 100% right. Homans is a cheap punk and a big ole bitch. Smacking him (rhetorically) in the face in response to his gangster tactics makes him look like a fool.
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Published: February 18, 2025 04:50
The post rejecting this ad is legitimately shocking. The reporters continue doing great work. But ownership can’t be this captive and not sap the paper of credibility.
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Published: February 18, 2025 04:48
You can’t look at Tom Homan and not think yeah towering intellect. Right up there with Luca Brasi.
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Published: February 18, 2025 04:21
Who knows how much this will matter but this is one the most comical failures of researching your brief I’ve ever seen.
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Published: February 18, 2025 04:04
Lol
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Published: February 18, 2025 03:46
Simple, unitary doge theory, brings it all together
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Published: February 18, 2025 01:21
First IRS, Now DOGE Busts Its Way Into the Social Security Administration https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-busts-its-way-into-social-security-administration
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Published: February 18, 2025 00:54
Folks, it might be time to think of Plan B if you're on Social Security. Elon's boys are in the house.
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Published: February 18, 2025 00:52
I think anyone who's been paying attention knows this. But it's worth stating clearly. The idea that any of Elon's wilding spree is being done in the name of efficiency is absurd on its face because the terminations are virtually all being done based on…
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Published: February 17, 2025 22:27
so Bobby will make sure black children get the opportunity to get "re-parented" and sent out to some farm somewhere.
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Published: February 17, 2025 22:25
Next Up: Elon to "audit" Fort Knox. No really. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5149699-elon-musk-doge-fort-knox-gold/
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Published: February 17, 2025 21:57
Lord Elon is making a new acquisition: Wisconsin. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/02/17/elon-musk-group-buys-tv-ads-backing-brad-schimel-for-supreme-court/78976985007/
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Published: February 17, 2025 21:38
In advance of SpaceX/Elon engineers causing more airliner catastrophes here's a remind that American commercial aviation has had a near perfect safety record going back 23 years. Totally unprecedented in aviation history. Here's a graphic that gives the…
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Published: February 17, 2025 21:24
this corruption has to stop.
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Published: February 17, 2025 21:24
So it turns out that NYC has what amounts to its own 25th amendment. And we may be about to give it a spin on the open road.
link here to the city charter, search "inability committee" https://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/section%201133_citycharter.pdf
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Published: February 17, 2025 21:07
Turbulent, corrupt times call for more reporters. We're hiring. Come join our team. talkingpointsmemo.com/careers
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Published: February 17, 2025 20:33
When you see a piece of steel cling to a magnet you don't need to understand the science. The force is there. You can see it. It's the same with President Trump and Vladimir Putin.
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Published: February 17, 2025 20:28
Thinking about Elon, Trump and the rest of them, you want leaders who can look back on the newsreels of the 1930s and 1940s and viscerally know that the Allies were the good guys. Elon, Trump and they're big cronies don't see it that way.
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Published: February 17, 2025 20:27
A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.
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Published: February 17, 2025 20:27
Remind me how many FAA employees got fired yesterday again?
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Published: February 17, 2025 20:15
big crookin
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Published: February 17, 2025 20:14
The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-and-its-agencies-are-being-smothered/sharetoken/bd8779ac-27b8-47b2-ac77-1d88c31b0dbe
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Published: February 17, 2025 19:30
Bonneville Power Administration, Northwest’s largest transmission grid operator letting go of 600 workers as part of Trumps cuts https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2025/02/at-least-600-workers-to-leave-bpa-spurring-concerns-about-transmission-grid.html
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Published: February 17, 2025 16:51
Understanding the Taxonomy of DOGE (who are the weirdos getting access to all your personal info?) https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/understanding-the-taxonomy-of-doge
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Published: February 17, 2025 16:49
Thus far DOGE operatives have have full read access to govt payments system at Treasury (yr tax refunds, bank info, etc); full access to all CMS data (anything tied to your Medicare or Medicaid); and now they are seeking full access to everyone's tax…
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Published: February 17, 2025 16:29
Not only is everything Musk is saying bullshit, often, as in this case, stuff people with the most basic knowledge can spot, but there's more to it. He & his cronies have already defamed & libeled numerous civil servants, claiming among other things that…
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Published: February 17, 2025 16:22
Where Are the Lawsuits Over the Chainsawing of NIH and NCI? https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where-are-the-lawsuits-over-the-chainsawing-of-nih-and-nci
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Published: February 17, 2025 15:20
We should start tallying Bobby's body count now. It's going to be big.
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Published: February 17, 2025 14:49
important to note that while the last 20 yrs has been historically safe in the skies over the US the FAA has been dealing with a staffing shortage for years.
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Published: February 17, 2025 14:48
Musk fires hundreds of FAA workers https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/politics/faa-employees-fired-trump-administration
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Published: February 17, 2025 14:28
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad In Defiance Of US Policy https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-official-destroying-usaid-secretly-met-with-christian-nationalists-abroad-in-defiance-of-us-policy
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Published: February 17, 2025 14:27
GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-sens-worried-about-trumps-nih-cuts-turn-to-limp-public-negotiations-with-rfk-trump
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Published: February 17, 2025 13:16
It’s like having one of those cop business cards you can show an officer when you get stopped for speeding.
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Published: February 17, 2025 12:56
Axios announces there’s a “bigger picture” at work in this absurd dispute. This story is bullshit. No other way to put it.
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Published: February 17, 2025 04:17
Folks, Elon's taking over air traffic control
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Published: February 17, 2025 04:07
Anyone who catches Elon lying deserves a "long prison sentence." Megalomaniacs gonna megalo ....
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Published: February 17, 2025 02:25
Understanding the Taxonomy of DOGE https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/understanding-the-taxonomy-of-doge
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Published: February 17, 2025 00:33
Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/
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Published: February 16, 2025 20:13
Mass firings hit Medicare, Obamacare, Medical Device Safety Testers https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/job-cuts-hit-medicare
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Published: February 16, 2025 20:04
Trump Can’t Be Allowed to Control Almost Half Of New York State https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-cant-be-allowed-to-control-almost-half-of-new-york-state
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Published: February 16, 2025 19:02
This is looking much more like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in which two stronger frenemy powers divide up the caught-in-between smaller power. But there's another player here: Europe, which is rightly reacting with alarm and sees, accurately, a alliance of…
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Published: February 16, 2025 17:32
If you're on Medicare, probably makes sense to get what procedures you need done now. I know that sounds alarmist. But these are the people who administer Medicare getting the axe.
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Published: February 16, 2025 17:31
I have seen many of the firing notices Bloomberg is reporting on here. But part of the challenge is pulling together all the info for the big picture. They do a good job of it here. Though as they note hard to be sure abt full scope of firings.
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Published: February 16, 2025 17:29
DOGE team now firing the people who cut the checks to make sure your Medicare and Obamacare is current…
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Published: February 16, 2025 16:31
I'll set aside that he thinks chicken farms are going to build high tech security perimeters against geese. If he's talking about bio-sec and anti-virals, maybe not an ideal time to be firing everyone at USDA and CDC.
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Published: February 16, 2025 15:44
When I was a boy the closest thing to a coherent moral/epistemic worldview I was raised with was based on Star Trek. You could do worse frankly. But I note this here to note that I come to Elonism with a lot of intrinsic sympathy and exuberance for the…
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Published: February 16, 2025 15:22
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Published: February 16, 2025 15:03
About half of journalism these days is unreadable because reporters, even at the most prestigious outlets, don’t know the meaning of the word “refute”.
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Published: February 16, 2025 15:00
A non-trivial part of the issue here are the strong incentives within the academic legal culture to produce knowingly & facially absurd arguments as sorts of feats of cranial strength and very little acculturation pushing in the opposite direction.
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Published: February 16, 2025 14:52
We’ve seen personal testimonials now from many of the DOGErs. The common thread is far-right/Yarvinite/fascistic political views/origin stories. It’s worth asking how/why you’d continue to attempt something at this scale with such a reliance on what…
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Published: February 16, 2025 14:29
An apt conclusion to the arc having “serious about foreign policy” “hawk” rubes playing the quisling here.
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Published: February 16, 2025 13:46
Not the most important thing but just to give you a feel - frequent instances of people being fired by people who refuse to identify themselves, with letters that are unsigned or people refuse to sign. I just read one of those letters starts “Hello,” then…
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Published: February 16, 2025 01:53
There's a lot more to fatherhood than randomly flinging semen in every direction and opening a tab wherever it happens to land.
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Published: February 16, 2025 01:16
Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.
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Published: February 15, 2025 21:00
Correct take
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Published: February 15, 2025 17:10
https://www.science.org/content/article/senior-nih-official-who-helped-lead-high-profile-china-and-sexual-harassment
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Published: February 15, 2025 17:00
I know it sounds like treating as a joke or not taking it seriously. But he's gone up against Putin. He can take on Trump too. And yes, I know what that means. But Trump is a bitch and Zelensky still has cards to play.
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Published: February 15, 2025 15:41
https://www.inquirer.com/education/university-pennsylvania-dei-donald-trump-order-20250215.html
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Published: February 15, 2025 14:11
Keeping this vague because I don’t want to shine a light on particular people. But I was told one of case of a scholar who studies women in a particular kind of professional work. Pretty straightforward. Under the new system they’ve been old that subject…
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Published: February 15, 2025 14:01
Vance is visiting Dachau but in light of recent events is this status update or commemoration?
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Published: February 15, 2025 01:42
Not how it works, guys …. 3 men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/doge-3-men-show-up-at-sf-city-hall-demand-records/ via @KPIXTV
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Published: February 15, 2025 01:38
So doge accidentally fired the people who manage the country’s nuclear arsenal, published classified data on their hacky website. Are we still going to be alive by next week?
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Published: February 15, 2025 01:23
A lot of people who know very little about the US govt don't know that a big part of Dept of Energy's portfolio is nukes. That's okay. Not everyone has to know everything. But it turns out the people Elon put in charge of gutting the department's workforce…
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Published: February 15, 2025 01:19
doge has a gov web site so insecure you could literally push your own update to it https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/
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Published: February 15, 2025 00:58
In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"
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Published: February 15, 2025 00:41
There it is. Bove doesn't appear to have been able to find another DOJ as corrupt as himself.
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Published: February 15, 2025 00:36
The US is under temporary management of people who abhor the American civic tradition and crave the affection of dictators yearn to become part of foreign authoritarian traditions.
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Published: February 15, 2025 00:29
chaos/firings and nuclear stockpile aren't two things that go great together
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Published: February 14, 2025 23:27
Two Jan. 6 Boosters Are Now Trump Appointees Strangling USAID From The Inside https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/two-jan-6-boosters-are-now-trump-appointees-strangling-usaid-from-the-inside
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Published: February 14, 2025 23:15
new party directive from FTC chair
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Published: February 14, 2025 21:54
There’s a real chance that we staring down a new pandemic in the form of bird flu. It could never happen or happen in the coming months. And we are in the process of decimating our core national public health and infectious disease service.
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Published: February 14, 2025 21:13
The best people to ask about what it's like to work at a company isn't the owner but the employees. You can find a list of them in a starter pack that is pinned at the top of my bio. But I can tell you one thing that makes @TPM a good place to work in an…
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Published: February 14, 2025 20:44
Tough times call for more reporters. And since our devoted readers make it possible we're hiring. See our new job listing here. talkingpointsmemo.com/careers
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Published: February 14, 2025 20:02
There’s always someone
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Published: February 14, 2025 19:59
Important message for federal civil servants.
There are probationary employees who are new in government service and those who are labeled as probationary because of a job switch but who have continuous government service prior to their current job. If…
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Published: February 14, 2025 19:01
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
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Published: February 14, 2025 17:21
One point that seldom gets thru in most coverage. "Probationary employees" are the people getting fired today. That's usually explained as people in their first year of employment. But in many cases that's people in their first year in *their particular…
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Published: February 14, 2025 17:15
"Thousands of workers were laid off in messages delivered through prerecorded videos and on group calls. Some were ordered to leave the building within 30 minutes. Others were told they would be formally fired by emails, which never arrived."…
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Published: February 14, 2025 17:08
In its totality what's happening at HHS & NIH is a Musk/Trump effort to shutdown almost all cancer cure research in the US. No more new cures. Cancer's brand is really in the dumps. It polls terribly. This is a political argument that is straightforward to…
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Published: February 14, 2025 17:03
BREAKING: StatNews reports that more than 5,000 HHS employees across NIH, CDC and other public health and research agencies will be fired this afternoon.…
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Published: February 14, 2025 16:59
the womp and the grift
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Published: February 14, 2025 16:53
This is false. The power of the purse is meaningless if the executive can simply disregard the appropriation of dollars is the law. There are numerous specific textual bases for this claim. But the mere logic of the document and the structure it creates…
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Published: February 14, 2025 16:47
a pretty intense letter written with clarity, propulsion and verve.
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Published: February 14, 2025 16:40
NIH and Its Agencies Are Being Smothered https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-and-its-agencies-are-being-smothered/sharetoken/e45501a5-ea9c-4ecd-b517-3e252f469be1
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