And all of the non-profits like FHI360, IntraHealth, RTI…the NIH facility in RTP…and on and on. Potentially tens of thousands of jobs lost just in the triangle.
Q&A: How a 'quadruple whammy' could cost Duke University hundreds of millions of dollars a year
https://www.wunc.org/education/2025-06-03/duke-university-federal-funding-loss?_amp=true
“Duke University stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually under proposed federal budget cuts...
“A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"I personally was pretty...
I’ll add this here, since there’s no existing general CWS thread.
5 of 16 teams remaining are from the ACC. That’s pretty great. Good showing by my Miami Hurricanes this evening to get past #16 national seed Southern Miss.
A punk band recently put out a record that reportedly smells like Gwenyth Paltrow’s vagina.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/punk-band-private-function-releases-goopy-vinyl-that-smells-like-gwyneth-paltrows-vagina/
We live in interesting times.
And most of the federal layoffs and affiliated contractors aren’t yet figured into the equation, since (like me) most of those being laid off have some severance package to hold them over for a few months. Let’s see what things look like in June, July, August.
Not sure where to put this—if mods or anyone can think of a better thread, I’m all for moving it:
I just recently watched this documentary on Netflix. Strangely, despite having nothing explicitly to do with politics, this flick more than anything else encapsulates the problem with trying to...
As zoo noted, the problem with your statement is that “the left” hasn’t ever advocated for all non-transitioned individuals to compete in women’s sports.
The right has sufficiently distorted the narrative such that allowing ANY trans person—including those who’ve transitioned—to compete is seen...