US Dept of Peace

The Director of the FBI just got hacked and doxxed. The Secretary of War posted military strategy in a group chat. Tell me again about this merit based hiring thing?

We've just confirmed that Epstein's lawyers hired private investigators to remove potentially critical evidence from his Florida mansion. Oversight Democrats are demanding access to these hard drives and files, especially if they provide insight into Epstein's crimes.

While covering the latest Israeli settler attack in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers assaulted my photojournalist @cyrilthps and detained my team. But our 2-hour detention revealed a lot about the motives of these Israeli soldiers: acting in service of the settler movement. W/ @AbeerSalmanCNN

FCC Chair: Trump is winning. Look at the results—PBS and NPR defunded. Joy Reid, Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, John Dickerson are gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN will have new ownership as well.

He walks in like nothing’s wrong. My father in law. Long drive from Texas. Casual conversation. Then I hear it mumbled quickly and too casually at the tail end of the sentence… rounds of ANTIBIOTICS … this SINUS thing. The time stops ticking. I’m like WHAT did you just say are you sick right now FOR REAL?!!!! He sees my face. Says it was 2 weeks ago. Then later slips that he only stopped coughing and blowing his nose this past Monday. Monday… 🥴🫠🫠🫠 The air suddenly feels gaseous, poisoned and thick. I am not surprised, but still disappointed. You think you are safe at least for now and then it’s right there again. Always just one sentence away. Casually and like it’s nothing. There is no escape from this. Long Covid ongoing pandemic hell.

Of all of the soul-crushing couple of weeks I have experienced in the last six years, all of the abandonment, lies, character defamation, betrayal, gaslighting, and cruelty, this last two weeks have been the worst. By far. After all the warnings, educating, sharing patient stories, (and mine,) that I have used my scarce energy to do, yesterday, after a sharp reminder that I simply do not matter to some, I started to think, "What's the point anymore?" And then, today, I saw this short, stark, absolutely heartbreaking thread. THIS is the point. Thank you @Feelin_theBern for sharing. I will keep trying because of this thread. You made a difference.

@mukundiyngr I feel this every day and cry 😭 so sad ......US biomedical research was good and all of our hopes and dreams are being crushed and I am not sure for what gain. No one wins when research loses. America simply loses.

U.S. bioscience research is collapsing. This is the map of a systemic rot. NIH new award pace this year: 14.6% of normal. If you wanted to stall science, you don't pick & choose states. You just freeze the entire map. In case you missed it: ▫️ ~95,000 scientists gone (@nytimes) ▪️ ~$2.4B in NIH research wiped out ▫️ ~$6B in economic loss (@DrCatharineY / PNAS) This is what (predictably) follows next: ⇣ early-career scientists exit for good ⇣ breakthrough discoveries never made ⇣ trials that never open ⇣ labs that quietly shut down ⇣ global talent choosing other countries ⇣ the next decade of innovation erased before it starts Sadly, you don’t "bounce back" from 14% you just hollow out the system. For a country that leads in science, this is the mo(u)rning after “National Science Appreciation Day” ========== Source: NIH RePORTER via @Jori_health Plot note: NIH new-award counts were compared to the 5-year historic median for every state (as of the first week of March, Q2). ==========

I’ve been laughing all morning thx to @GustavoArellano devastating send-off for Bovino’s retirement. Read it and see why I love this guy. latimes.com/california/sto…

Told to take laxatives.

Myth: If we tax billionaires they won't create jobs. Fact: Last year, billionaires got the largest tax break in history. Now, they are literally planning to replace every worker in America with a robot or AI. Trickle down economics is a scam. Tax billionaires out of existence.

Fyi. We lost some tankers from an attack today by Iran. Donald recently said we didn’t need Ukraines offer of help to defend from drones. And now it’s cost us multiple irreplaceable aircraft that we already don’t have enough of

The Peace Negotiations look like they're going really well

@IRanMediaco @haroldyuen We know!

Anti-mask left..."We need a revolution!". Also, anti-mask left..."The govt tells me I don't need to wear one, so I don't!'.

I can’t emphasize enough how accessibility benefits everyone. Ramps, elevators, ventilated air, automatic doors. Caring about accessibility is caring about your future. You will become disabled unless you die young. Investing in the disability community is investing in yourself.

One day everyone will always have been against genocide mass disabling children with Covid anti-trans fervor destroying our planet for profit For now, it sucks being counterculture/correct Cassandras— who Alice Wong called “disabled oracles”

@HillcrestCardCo @RandomUser52762 Yep. They can’t think far into the future. Just the right now and then add ego into it. Blah.

@HillcrestCardCo Even at the height of the pandemic, many people just didn't care about exposing their elderly parents to the risk of death. People are vile AND idiots.

@synthwavepen Thank you for stepping up and offering yourself up as the kind of person who lacks the psychological resources to wear a mask to protect yourself from disease. I can see why the life expectancy of your people is lowering.