Vigilant Violet
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According to the Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. and Saudi officials with knowledge on the matter, several U.S. servicemembers were injured in an Iranian ballistic missile strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia earlier today. The Pentagon has yet to respond with a comment.
Trump: "Can I look at that tractor? I assume it's a gift to me. Can you imagine if I accepted that, what they would do? A Democrat could accept, we're not allowed to accept."
These lawmakers are sanctioned under EO14024 by virtue of being members of the Russian government. This explicitly bans their entry into the US—and prohibits Americans from providing them with food, lodging, transport (basically anything). OFAC must have issued a license for this. If not, @RepLuna has some explaining to do…
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). ==========
