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The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else Revealed in one chart.

Good story from Vox on falling numbers of new and competitive renewal R01 grants.

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www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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hey if you're sometimes feeling paralyzed because of the horrors and want to find something to DO to help make things better, here are some good accounts to follow go.bsky.app/9H3C9Ty

Arrest quotas

Palantir selected “targets”

No warrants

Random detainments

Despicable

What monster at the College Board decided that tests for teenagers—which they often have to travel an hour or more to get to—should be held at 8 am?

This person or persons is seriously a sadist.

A more honest and accurate headline would be:

"Trump assured massive profits to fuel Putin's war on Europe while simultaneously paying off oil execs who bankrolled his campaign."

This is so wildly ridiculous and most likely true

I remember feeling sick over the “cultural cleansing” in Iraq when ISIS destroyed priceless archaeological sites and historical artifacts. I couldn’t understand a country just giving extremists free rein to annihilate the things that it had built and preserved over centuries.

Well, well, well

I miss functional-twitter, back when it was the best place to get breaking news from journalists updating in real time. That’s just not a gap that has been filled by Bluesky or Threads

Yes. I was just missing it again this morning after we had a big windstorm here tonight. Neither place has captured the usefulness that made it a target for destruction.

"we stole all human art and knowledge and now we're going to sell it back to you"

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov

No more funding for Palantir and tax the hell out of them

This man, like his colleague Peter Thiel, is a dangerous, extremist, deranged, lunatic who should not receive 1 cent of public funding for anything...and every Democrat needs to make that a campaign commitment. Time to end the Palantir grift and malevolence train.

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Sir, they already said they’re not coming. Stop trying to break up with them after they already broke up with you.

John Deering, Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

I love mine so much! I swore I would never drive a minivan and then needed an Odyssey for ten years. Was excited about getting a car or SUV when we looked for our next vehicle but chose the Pacifica instead because it had the most zip!

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Pretty stunning to realize their theory of war/theology is basically ‘we just let the missiles loose and let God decide who they kill’

bsky.app/profile/sara...

Pretty stunning to realize their theory of war/theology is basically ‘we just let the missiles loose and let God decide who they kill’

bsky.app/profile/sara...

Hegseth reads from the Bible at his update today, reinforcing the impression that the illegal war is a Christian nationalist crusade.

Pete Hegseth's religion is central to how he thinks about war.

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Black people don't vote *towards* Dems.

Black people vote *away* from racism.

Because racists are such conveniently bad people, being able to identify and vote away from racism, means that you also vote away from fascism, sexism, transphobia, grift, war, economic ruin, and climate destruction.🤷🏿‍♂️

Rep Berg notes that a household would have to be bringing in 100,000 a month to trigger the income tax. #waleg

Whew, you can tell you give a good speech when all the Republicans pop up to fight you. #waleg

[Russia is] using their war-making abilities, their intelligence and satellite capabilities to help Iran kill Americans, to help Iran target and kill Americans in the Middle East. Also on the war-making front, Russia is obviously enjoying seeing the United States burn up lots and lots and lots of missiles and interceptor munitions in the Middle East. So we'll be less happy and less able to provide those same types of weapons to Ukraine to fight against Russia. So on the war-fighting side of things for Russia, this is great for them. This is a win-win. And meanwhile, Russia's other industry oil and gas is as happy as it's been in a long time because of the huge spike in oil and gas prices all over the world.

... And so we now simultaneously have the U.S. intelligence reports that Russia is helping Iran target American personnel and military facilities to kill Americans in the Middle East. And the news that Trump is cutting sanctions on Russia to ensure they can sell practically all the oil and gas they want and refill their financial coffers as a country.

... President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin and talked to him for an hour [today]. And we only learned about that phone call because the Kremlin told us about it. The White House didn't announce it. The Kremlin did. ... Was it while he was playing golf? Was it even in the White House calendar that today was the day Trump was supposed to check in with his boss?

A must-listen. A brilliant, concise analysis of the war and its implications.

The Rachel Maddow Show: Maddow: Trump admits what the attack on Iran is really for

Episode webpage: www.ms.now

Media file: dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:

🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano

✏️ by @newrepublic.com

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job