John Chodera

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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

*sigh*
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

BAY AREA: Emergency Protest Today 3 pm SF Federal building at 90 7th St, San Francisco ALT TXT: URGENT BAY AREA EMERGENCY ACTION NO WAR ON IRAN NO U.S.-ISREAL INTERVENTION SAT Feb 28 3 pm SF Federal Building 90 7th St SF tiny logos of 15 different sponsoring organizations

The horror and the heart break to wake up and find your government is waging illegal war on yet another country...😔

The war crimes of our Mad King continue... clearly it is up to all of us to stop them.

BAY AREA: Emergency Protest Today 3 pm SF Federal building at 90 7th St, San Francisco

Kansas invalidates driver’s licenses, birth certificates of over 1,000 transgender residents The Kansas state government has invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed the gender on those documents, in accordance with a law that took effect o...

When fascists take rights away from a group of people, they never stop there. Eventually, they come for everything. Invalidating the drivers licenses of trans people in Kansas is just the start. Who will be next?

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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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This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Video: How the Save America Act Could Change Voting Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote is only the beginning as Republicans press to sharply limit voting in line with President Trump’s false claims of widespread fra...

www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

The only reason Republicans want this bill is to make it harder for most people to vote, especially women, poorer and younger Americans, who usually vote for Democrats.

This person is a caricature.
"Høeg also told staff to ‘question the norms’ and quoted the philosopher Ayn Rand."

Brain drain is undermining America’s scientific edge Policy decisions grounded in Maga talking points are helping to fuel a PhD exodus from government

Doing science in the US is starting to feel untenable. The CDC has had no stable leader. RFK Jr broke his promises on vaccines & research. Climate change is denied. Moderna will no longer invest in late stage vaccine trials. Europe and China are seizing the moment.
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N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 🫁💊

N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:

www.404media.co/leaked-email...

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

HHS canceled $500M in novel mRNA research, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, refused to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine.

“We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.”

🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

This is how you live a life

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

In Uganda, I met people who went from earning $200 a month doing HIV prevention to just $60 because USAID went away—and who are still doing the work for a fraction of the pay. I met ppl who lost their jobs entirely and stiil do HIV work for free for food. Meanwhile theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.

The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which had an error rate of at least 14% in one of the counties that used it, per the Texas Tribune & ProPublica. 14%! #NoOnSAVE 1/

I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering? Until now, Trump always seemed unembarrassed to crow about his side hustles. But, if the Emirati payment was kept secret, what else might be?

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering?
Until now, Trump always seemed unembarrassed to crow about his side hustles. But, if the Emirati payment was kept secret, what else might be?

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained.

The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...