July 13, 2025 Medicine, Science
Science reports: In response to White House concerns about allegedly risky research on viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun a crackdown on dozens of studies it was funding, ScienceInsider has learned. Citing Trump’s executive order promising greater oversight of “gain-of-function” (GOF) research that’s potentially dangerous, the agency has demanded the scientists leading those …
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July 13, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
“Come up here and hand me that picture. Bring it. They’ve got morons like this all over the country. This guy ain’t got the balls to be an ICE officer. He hasn’t got the balls to be a border patrol agent. This guy lives in his mother’s basement. The only thing that surprises me is that you don’t got purple …
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July 13, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump on Sunday will attend the FIFA Club World Cup final, a match that will offer Trump a preview of the globe’s premier soccer tournament that North America will host next year. Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel from their golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to East Rutherford 40 miles away …
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July 13, 2025 Christianists, Extremists
“We just need to hit the reset button and it starts with turning our own hearts back to God as parents, living these things out by teaching our children the right stuff, and then modeling it for them. So what we’re trying to do with See You at the Library is just right the ship. We don’t have to go …
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July 13, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Hill reports: Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Sunday said he has confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi despite reports that she is feuding with FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino over her handling of the case related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “I do,” Barrasso said, when asked in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet …
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July 13, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
KRISTI NOEM: “No employees were off of work. Every one of them was answering calls, so false reporting, fake news, and it’s discouraging. It’s discouraging that during this time, when we have such a loss of life and so many people’s lives have turned upside down, that people are playing politics with this because the response time was immediate. And …
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July 13, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
NBC News reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that President Donald Trump wants FEMA “remade” rather than dismantled entirely. “I think the president recognizes that FEMA should not exist the way that it always has been. It needs to be redeployed in a new way, and that’s what we did during this response,” Noem said in an interview …
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July 13, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Miami Herald reports: Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility state and federal officials have characterized as a place where “vicious” and “deranged psychopaths” are sent before they get deported, records obtained by the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times show. Mixed among the detainees accused and convicted …
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July 13, 2025 Christianists, Republicans
“I’ve stood in those lines as a young kid. That’s the history, that’s the truth. The government’s so bad at it, they got out of that business and just gave people these things called food stamps. We now call them SNAP Benefits. And that’s what they gave people to go to the supermarket and buy it for themselves, because at …
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July 13, 2025 Fox News, Infighting Is Funny
CHARLIE HURT: “If there’s anybody who could walk in and say, ‘OK, we’ve resolved all of the questions and there is nothing here,’ it would be President Trump and his crew. The problem is, you can’t really do it without giving some explanation. And there has to be some explanation. And I think that’s why you have a lot of …
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