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We commemorate and mourn the losses resulting from cuts to funding, programs, and people that have been both discriminatory and indiscriminate. We gather every Saturday at 10 am at the Medical Center Metro station at NIH in Bethesda. Opinions are our own.

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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social

www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

13.03.2026 14:27 👍 5516 🔁 2197 💬 173 📌 362
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Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

Please join us in our quest to have him impeached. He is Trump's lynchpin for domestic policy. And he won't go anywhere if another GOP POTUS takes the reigns.

actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

13.03.2026 13:55 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?

Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.

Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?

Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

12.03.2026 16:36 👍 5813 🔁 1703 💬 278 📌 121
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RFK Jr’s pick to review Covid vaccines authored misleading research, experts say HHS calls MIT professor ‘more than qualified’ for advisory panel and calls ‘attacks’ on him ‘politically motivated’

Shocker! ACIP member Ponytail Levi has authored misleading research.

A former Ministry of Health official said of him:

“It was clear he didn’t understand how the data were collected or how they could be misinterpreted. More troubling: he didn’t seem to care.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

12.03.2026 20:00 👍 139 🔁 40 💬 8 📌 2
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Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

12.03.2026 15:54 👍 17251 🔁 4940 💬 1125 📌 702
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12.03.2026 18:33 👍 14524 🔁 4516 💬 1633 📌 515
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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

12.03.2026 15:11 👍 18038 🔁 7151 💬 615 📌 576
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Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

YOOOO THEY ARE 11 SIGNERS AWAY FROM 1000 SIGNATURES ON THE IMPEACH VOUGHT CAMPAIGN!!! LET’S MAKE IT HIT QUADRUPLE DIGITS!!!!!

actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

12.03.2026 19:30 👍 39 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
Screenshot of an email “As a result of bargaining unit determinations, union dues will no longer be deducted from your monthly stipend beginning with the April 1, 2026, stipend payment.
Thanks for your partnership on this matter.
NIH Employee & Labor Relations Branch

Screenshot of an email “As a result of bargaining unit determinations, union dues will no longer be deducted from your monthly stipend beginning with the April 1, 2026, stipend payment. Thanks for your partnership on this matter. NIH Employee & Labor Relations Branch

This ridiculous union busting does nothing to help the early career researchers the NIH director claims to support. This is ridiculous.

09.03.2026 19:14 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.

CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

08.03.2026 13:36 👍 17188 🔁 4038 💬 1592 📌 863

lol

08.03.2026 21:42 👍 859 🔁 67 💬 4 📌 2

"We can't last 35 more months with what we've seen over the last 13.

We cannot do it. We will not survive it as a nation."

08.03.2026 13:15 👍 6027 🔁 1487 💬 127 📌 38
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Stand Up For Science!!
And #ImpeachVought!
#Resist #SUFS

07.03.2026 23:04 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Sign reading: No puppet masters. Impeach Russell Vought.

Sign reading: No puppet masters. Impeach Russell Vought.

Some fantastic new artwork from the talented @drrabbithole.bsky.social for the impeach Vought campaign!

Please join us in signing! actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

08.03.2026 00:41 👍 66 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 3

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities.

But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham.

It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why:

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06.03.2026 14:35 👍 214 🔁 132 💬 4 📌 10

Especially since those people randomly picked off the street are likely to be highly experienced and skilled fired Feds who used to make this government work.

Especially in foreign affairs and diplomacy.

Who would not have abandoned Americans in a war zone of their own creation.

05.03.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Get in, dorks! @nihvigils.bsky.social , @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social , and @standupforscience.bsky.social. Let's celebrate science like the radical leftist nerds we are. What could be better? #NIHStrong

01.03.2026 20:08 👍 42 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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We have a rotating exhibit of Cajal drawings at NIH. Along with the drawings, a 3D printed model of the image is printed to make Cajal’s work accessible.

I was invited to write captions for the images with a group of NIH neuroscientists but our last contribution, from Dec. 2024, never went up.

03.03.2026 22:44 👍 43 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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01.03.2026 14:48 👍 669 🔁 446 💬 29 📌 118
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The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway (I used Gemini Nano Banana 2 to create this fictional image.)

Another great essay from my colleague Elizabeth Ginexi on how NIH is being restructured by the White House (Russell Vought) despite Congress rejecting such moves.

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

28.02.2026 13:07 👍 32 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 2
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This aged well. Note the author.

28.02.2026 13:27 👍 16086 🔁 6223 💬 547 📌 357

Abuse of power? Impeach Vought

actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

28.02.2026 12:43 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
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The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway (I used Gemini Nano Banana 2 to create this fictional image.)

“This is not routine executive discretion over agency operations. This is systematic dismantling of an agency’s structure, mission, and capacity without the legislative approval that such changes have historically required. And it is accelerating.”

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

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28.02.2026 12:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

Today’s call to sign the letter to Congress to impeach Russell Vought comes to you from the ongoing dismantling of NIH

actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

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28.02.2026 12:41 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Can confirm

27.02.2026 13:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i thought sex offenders weren’t supposed to live in government housing

26.02.2026 23:02 👍 7935 🔁 1265 💬 0 📌 1
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This is what they’re up to..We must stop them!

26.02.2026 18:32 👍 7077 🔁 3004 💬 643 📌 253
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on His Mission to Rebuild Public Trust in the NIH and CDC He discusses "DEI" research, campus funding freezes, ACIP, and the path forward for the nation's public health infrastructure

The @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social team asked some tough questions of NIH Director Bhattacharya. It's worth a listen: substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wanted to add some additional context on Bhattacharya's responses. Sorry, long thread.

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27.02.2026 04:23 👍 109 🔁 48 💬 5 📌 9
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Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

26.02.2026 21:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cabinet Apocalypse A News Review in an Imagined Conversation

Dramatization of the Trump administration’s policy goals

What is not covered is that much of this was Vought’s plan all along

substack.com/@snyder/note...

26.02.2026 21:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0