This keeps getting worse and worse.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

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Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts www.thedp.com/article/2025... #phd #gradschool #penn #ivyleague #sad

This is understandable for Pitt but sad for science in general and the U.S. in particular. Pitt was the home institution of Dr Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine. But you know we have RFK Jr, Trump, and Musk as leaders - none of whom have graduate degrees in any scientific discipline.

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.