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Medical editor. Fan of W.H. Auden, cats, our Constitution, freedom from misogyny, David Bowie. Useless skill: Scansion.
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It's sad that a comedy publication has to do this, but I'm glad somebody is doing it.
We have updated our list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. It's up to 158 entries (and counting). #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
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April 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It's sad that a comedy publication has to do this, but I'm glad somebody is doing it.
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"It might seem like firing half the factory’s employees would lead to lower-quality work, but simple math shows that if you make half the number of people work twice as long, you get the exact same output."
Thanks to Our New Efficiency Czar, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Is Saving More Money Than Ever
“Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration…. Sources told CNN the ...
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February 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"It might seem like firing half the factory’s employees would lead to lower-quality work, but simple math shows that if you make half the number of people work twice as long, you get the exact same output."
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We are nearing a precipice.
February 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
We are nearing a precipice.
Exactly: Why? Is it deliberate and malign?
Why Would We Undermine the Marvel of American Science? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Why Would We Undermine the Marvel of American Science? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Exactly: Why? Is it deliberate and malign?
Why Would We Undermine the Marvel of American Science? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Why Would We Undermine the Marvel of American Science? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Just a lowly medical editor here, but yeah I so saw this coming. Dystopia.
Infant mortality rates have increased in US states which have enacted abortion bans following the landmark ruling overturning the nationwide right for women to access the procedure, a new study has found
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
Some states restrict access for women following the overturning of Roe v Wade.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Just a lowly medical editor here, but yeah I so saw this coming. Dystopia.
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We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
The Pharmaceutical Industry Heads Into Musk’s Wood Chipper
Opinion | The Pharmaceutical Industry Heads Into Elon Musk’s Wood Chipper (Gift Article)
Who needs N.I.H. grants? A lot of red-state universities, for one.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The Pharmaceutical Industry Heads Into Musk’s Wood Chipper
The courts may be needed to preserve biomedical research. Court Pause on Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funds Is Expanded Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/h...
Court Halt on Trump Cuts for Medical Research Is Extended Nationwide (Gift Article)
The federal order temporarily halts the Trump administration’s plans to slash $4 billion in overhead costs for research at universities and medical centers into diseases like cancer.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The courts may be needed to preserve biomedical research. Court Pause on Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funds Is Expanded Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/h...
Easier to erase inconvenient history this way.
Trump Fires Nation’s Archivist in Latest Round of Personnel Purge (Gift Article)
“No cause or reason was cited,” wrote the archivist, Colleen Shogan. But the National Archives had been deeply involved in the classified documents case against President Trump.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Easier to erase inconvenient history this way.
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This massive loser is absolutely gonna try to take over the Emmys and Oscars.
Trump says he’s fired the chairman of the Kennedy Center and named himself chairman.
February 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This massive loser is absolutely gonna try to take over the Emmys and Oscars.
I hope he's absolutely climbing the walls at this cover. If something could get under his skin, one hopes this would.
Trump turns on Time magazine after new cover shows Musk sitting behind his Resolute desk.
He's so salty 🧂
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He's so salty 🧂
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump turns on Time after new cover shows Musk sitting behind his Resolute desk
Just months ago, Trump was crowing about being named the magazine’s 2024 Person of the Year
www.independent.co.uk
February 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I hope he's absolutely climbing the walls at this cover. If something could get under his skin, one hopes this would.
Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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USAID cutoff is "leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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February 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
USAID cutoff is "leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
It's already happening. From The Lancet:
American chaos: standing up for health and medicine
Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing
health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and
loans, jeopardising the function...
www.thelancet.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It's already happening. From The Lancet:
Whatever in the world can they say to justify suppressing disease information in the middle of a disease outbreak? Maybe only liberals contract it, along with our cats?
February 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Whatever in the world can they say to justify suppressing disease information in the middle of a disease outbreak? Maybe only liberals contract it, along with our cats?
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Forgive me for wanting a moment of levity. LOVE McSweeneys!
Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/com...
Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/com...
Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home
Your Gen X loved ones have survived so much: the Cold War, latchkey childhoods, mosh pits, COVIDs-19-through-27. They were born into a world withou...
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February 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Forgive me for wanting a moment of levity. LOVE McSweeneys!
Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/com...
Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/com...
Read while such history isn't fully suppressed: Harry Stewart Jr. Dies at 100; One of Last Tuskegee Airmen to See Combat www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Harry Stewart Jr. Dies at 100; One of Last Tuskegee Airmen to See Combat (Gift Article)
His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian, racial prejudice kept him out of the cockpit.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Read while such history isn't fully suppressed: Harry Stewart Jr. Dies at 100; One of Last Tuskegee Airmen to See Combat www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
I love that it is a woman from my own state who is standing up to him.
BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has blocked Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, finding the effort is likely in violation of the Constitution and federal law.
Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued the preliminary…
Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued the preliminary…
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I love that it is a woman from my own state who is standing up to him.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has blocked Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, finding the effort is likely in violation of the Constitution and federal law.
Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued the preliminary…
Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued the preliminary…
February 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has blocked Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, finding the effort is likely in violation of the Constitution and federal law.
Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued the preliminary…
Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued the preliminary…
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
What a great point. Do transgender people exist or not?
How does Trump declare there are only two genders and then ban transgender troops from the military, essentially admitting trans people exist? Which is it? 🧐
February 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
What a great point. Do transgender people exist or not?
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Listen to the people with actual medical training, such as the physician whose post I'm sharing. Beyond RJK Jr's TOTAL LACK OF A MEDICAL OR SCIENTIFIC DEGREE -- sorry to shout but MY GOD, PEOPLE! -- he is a freaking lunatic and, in his cousin's words, a "predator."
February 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Listen to the people with actual medical training, such as the physician whose post I'm sharing. Beyond RJK Jr's TOTAL LACK OF A MEDICAL OR SCIENTIFIC DEGREE -- sorry to shout but MY GOD, PEOPLE! -- he is a freaking lunatic and, in his cousin's words, a "predator."
I wake up and each morning am appalled afresh that people who think RFK Jr is a good idea walk among us. We are going to CRASH our reputation for medical innovation. I mean, BOOM, there goes the credibility of our science.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will face a critical test in the Senate on Tuesday, when members of the Finance Committee — including a Republican doctor uneasy about Kennedy’s views on vaccines — will vote on whether to reject his nomination to be the next health secretary or forward it to the Senate floor.
RFK Jr.’s Nomination Faces Critical Vote by Senate Finance Committee
The Senate Finance Committee is voting Tuesday on whether to move Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination forward. All eyes are on Senator Bill Cassidy, a G.O.P. doctor uneasy with Mr. Kennedy’s vaccine vi...
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February 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I wake up and each morning am appalled afresh that people who think RFK Jr is a good idea walk among us. We are going to CRASH our reputation for medical innovation. I mean, BOOM, there goes the credibility of our science.