Iβm an NIH whistleblower. The scientific community cannot afford to avoid politics
βScientists are often encouraged to avoid politics. But this advice is outdated, if it was ever correct in the first place,β writes Jenna Norton, NIH whistleblower.
Everybody should know who @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is.
In this day and age it is more risky to keep your head down than to be the whistleblower that we needs.
Right now, being called "a radical leftist" is a badge of honor. And imperative.
Read her story here.
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The War Trump Doesnβt Want to Talk About
βWe won,β the President whoβs treating the conflict with Iran like a video game says, but βweβre not finished yet.β
Why has Donald Trump been relatively reticent about the most consequential military action he has ever orderedβand on the spiking gas prices, plunging stock market, and chaotic geopolitical situation that come with it? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/I6rn3w
12.03.2026 23:45
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WV senators axe most school funding formula changes, will consider only special education funding β’ West Virginia Watch
Lawmakers aren't planning on giving West Virginiaβs financially-struggling public schools any additional dollars for the coming school year.
While lawmakers have spent much of this session discussing West Virginiaβs financially-struggling public schools, theyβre not planning on giving them any additional dollars for the coming school year, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.
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Earth, Bound | Scott W. Stern
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 marked the birth of international environmental law. It was moribund from the start.
The UN held its first global environmental summit in 1972. In Baffler no. 82, Scott W. Stern considers the conferenceβs many failures, and looks to a more radical symposium on the subject, held two years prior and hosted by UAW.
12.03.2026 23:03
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So the bloke trump says is his friend & wants to win an election stole from a country fighting an invasion started by another one of trumpβs friends.
Iβm beginning to see a pattern here.
12.03.2026 22:09
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The president of the university sent an email round announcing the permanent closure of the planetarium because it does not fit with the βstrategic planβ.
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This is diabolical! π π§ͺ
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So it begins. π§ͺ
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Nearly one in three women consider quitting jobs due to menopause
Isobel, a 49-year-old psychotherapist, shares her experience of suffering with debilitating menopause symptoms which forced her to step back from work.
12.03.2026 22:46
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Bank of England chief warns of βworrying echoesβ of 2008 financial crisis
Andrew Bailey says a close look is needed at the private credit market after collapse of two big US firms
The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, warned last October that recent events in US private credit markets have worrying echoes of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that kicked off the global financial crash of 2008 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
12.03.2026 22:54
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Why do you omit saying that the ship was UNARMED and was returning from some naval exercises in the Indian Ocean and that the USA attacked it in a COWARDLY way, as it always does? The USA is a terrorist and bloodthirsty regime.
12.03.2026 21:48
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IRIS Dena: The final voyage of the Iranian warship sunk by the US
The sinking of an Iranian ship by the US near Sri Lanka brings the conflict uncomfortably close to India.
Sinking a defenseless ship. You must be so proud of your navy, America....
"Visiting ships at such multilateral exercises usually do not carry a full combat load of live munitions, unless scheduled for a live-fire drill, according to Chellaney."
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12.03.2026 22:10
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Enough.
12.03.2026 22:11
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Maybe they should start putting ppl in jail instead of watching the constitution burn.π€·ββοΈ
12.03.2026 21:58
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The question Trump needs to answer is: Is anyone in your family, including you,making more money because your war with Iran is going on?π§ͺπ‘β οΈ #Sociology #Population #Science
12.03.2026 19:55
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Guys like that just waddle around with a full arse of ignorance hanging out on display. Like, tell me more about you have zero historical knowledge about computing, bro. Women were the "computers" before computers were computing.
12.03.2026 20:45
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Eye Doctor Named to Air Pollution Advisory Board Draws Pushback
Paging The Onion
The Trump administration has tapped an eye doctor with no background in air pollution science to advise the EPA on what levels of air pollutants are safe to breathe.
Ideology over expertise.
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Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
Experts warn younger people not to dismiss symptoms such as rectal bleeding as diagnoses rise for those under 50
If something weird is going on with your poop, take that shit seriously.
My latest storyβon rising colorectal cancer among young peopleβwent up this morning.
The number of Reddit comments with stories of folks diagnosed in their 20s & 30s is already astounding.
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12.03.2026 21:40
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Since Trump dragged us into another war in the Middle East...
7 servicemembers killed
Over 150 injured
Over 11 BILLION U.S. tax dollars spent in the first 6 days ALONE
Hundreds of civilians injured
Markets falling
Oil prices surging
And no end in sight. Absolutely disgraceful.
12.03.2026 19:26
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ICYMI: Republicans blocked a bill that would have FULLY funded TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA.
TWICE.
They are choosing to continue ICE's lawless violence over paying federal workers at those agencies and keeping airport security lines moving quickly.
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