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[brynmawr1]

I am at a conference for graft versus host disease (GVHD). I happens in bone marrow transplant recipients when the donor marrow mounts an immune response against the patient if they don't match well enough. It's a terrible disease with around 50% mortality. Groups from around the world come to share their research findings. Some of the research is funded by NIH grants as well as done by NIH scientists. 40 or so presenters from the NIH were not able to attend due to the freeze imposed by the current administration. That might seem like a small thing, but this work, as everything at the NIH does affects real people in life and death ways. To just issue a blanket ban shows no understanding of what is at stake for real people. I don't just mean the NIH but all of the government agencies that have been affected. These people do real work that people depend on, work that benefits everyone in America, the world for that matter.

That's the kind of detail that people who think what is happening is a good thing can't bother to consider. It's all abstraction and innuendo. There must be corruption they chant, then cheer the removal of every anti-corruption organization that has been formed for their protection. It wasn't the democrats that killed any oversight of COVID money that then the right took credit for bringing home after voting against it. It's all 1984 double speak. So Duke, stop the vague bullshit and actually say something.

Regarding Gaza, Trump's plan is just more arrogant western imperialism. It is so fucking naive to think that America can just relocate 1.7 million people that don't want it to somewhere they aren't wanted and it's just going to be "so beautiful". Just discussing it is a ready made recruitment ad for radicalization. No matter what happens with that land, it's not going to end well. The area has been condemned to generations more violence.