Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
How often is this happening @statnews.com
Not spending money that is appropriated for science is a tricky subject to explain, but for people in limbo (like myself, as I mentioned yesterday), it can have cause serious career harm.
Many celebrated the NIH budget bill. It’s not supporting science when an unchecked bottleneck still remains.
Israel crammed 2 million Palestinians into displacement camps where 50 people share one bathroom per hour & sewage runs between tents. Now bacterial meningitis is spreading through Gaza's children. An 11-year-old got sick & died within a week. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/a-de...
It’s also an entire ecosystem of enablers and a system that rewards the rich at the expense of the working people
To be fair, Republicans treat rural hospitals like that too
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AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed?
CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer
AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed
Reporter: recent oversight reports of TX detention center holding immigrant children noted worms and mold in food, lack of access to legal counsel, lack of child-friendly food, lack of sleep, and mental health deterioration.
when @ariberman.bsky.social writes these words, it's a big fucking deal:
"In the past week, the different tactics the administration could use to interfere in the midterms have come into sharp focus."
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
NEW: Minnesota BCA was denied access to the crime scene. They got a WARRANT and DHS STILL BLOCKED THEM. So DHS doesn’t need a warrant to enter your house, but an actual warrant to enter the crime scene is denied?
Don’t blame you.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
Vaccine proponents worry that Kennedy will drive manufacturers from the US market by adding autism to the vaccine injury compensation program & unleashing a flood of litigation. The path to that change is through a committee he's currently "acip-ing." (clearing out) www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/k...
It’s so you know that they are not a good employer
Or god is a cat.
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
#Measles cases continues to climb. The 2025 tally has now hit 2242 & there've already been more confirmed cases in 2026 — 171 — than were logged in most years from the late 1990s to 2023!
Interesting to see the age distribution of cases. Lots of susceptible adults, seems. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Wonder how many of the 20+ cohort is immunocompromised or otherwise vulnerable
“People who adopt a grave visit it regularly and leave flowers on the fallen soldier’s birthday. The responsibility is often passed down through Dutch families, and there is a waiting list to adopt graves of the U.S. soldiers.”
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Hey. It’s not an antiCD20 monoclonal antibody, FYI
That makes 32 reported deaths in ICE custody since Trump took power again.
Walter Koroshetz tells staff his request for reappointment was denied, which will leave 13 of 27 NIH divisions with acting directors www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Read the "60 Minutes" segment on the CECOT prison in El Salvador. In the interest of preserving the public record in this authoritarian moment, this transcript is now a historical document. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
@corybooker.com has the 60-minute CECOT segment available on his channel. Watch it while you can. In other places, Paramount has taken the video down - "copyright," don't you know. Share. The more who witness, the better.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
