"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
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Republicans can take their "pro-life" bullshit and shove it straight up all their asses.
aug 29, 2025, 2:07 am • 14 1 • view
🤬
aug 29, 2025, 4:15 am • 1 0 • view
I knew the GOP sucked, but I thought they’d at least avoid doing something so clearly villainous that it was literally the evil scheme concocted by the robbers in Home Alone 2
aug 29, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Criminal
aug 29, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view
Bc who needs to find a cure for pediatric cancer, when they can help Elon Musk get tax cuts & get more taxpayers' funded government contracts?
aug 29, 2025, 3:19 am • 2 1 • view
🤔 wondering aloud if blame should be levied against the hospitals and doctors. 🙄 Cant help thinking that if a find and replace was used (finding cancer and replacing it with worms in all documentation these schmucks would be none the wiser). And yes, I’m using sarcasm
aug 29, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
Horrifying
aug 29, 2025, 8:54 am • 0 0 • view
Sure. Why try to treat pediatric brain cancer? We'd just have to let people shoot survivors if they make it to grade school
aug 29, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
💔
aug 29, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
They’re part of the evangelical cult that thinks the strongest will survive. Unfortunately I have a feeling they’re gonna kill off their own people.
aug 29, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
They only care about fetuses. Once the child is out they couldn't care less, specially if you're poor.
aug 30, 2025, 9:16 am • 0 0 • view
There is something bigger going on. This is more than an addled old man being incredibly stupid. There is a cadre of zealots actively trying to destroy the government and the current social structure. Not for the good of the country.
aug 29, 2025, 12:50 pm • 2 0 • view
The Russian model.
aug 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
OK….in what world does this make sense? Someone sat down at a desk and signed off on this? Why?
aug 29, 2025, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
"One of the current trials involved using CAR T-cell therapy" There's a good possibility that someone in the administration saw this description and thinks that the T in T-cells has something to do with transgender.
aug 29, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
Outrageous!
aug 29, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
"That's okay." "At least he's not a black woman. "
aug 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
It's fine, RFK Jr. will just look at the babies in airports and they'll be cured.
aug 29, 2025, 2:13 am • 5 1 • view
AYFKM?
aug 29, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
How can they be so terrible
aug 29, 2025, 1:51 am • 10 0 • view
Because they were enabled by 77 million voters.
aug 29, 2025, 1:55 am • 17 0 • view
Because blue collar, Christian white people hate “the other“ so much that they’ll sign up for this. They hate gay people, trans people, Black people, and immigrants. They think that if a little girl dies of brain cancer, it was God‘s will, and she probably deserved it
aug 29, 2025, 7:30 am • 1 0 • view
@burgeforcongress.bsky.social they're lobbing them in like batting practice. You BETTER be taking notes on this
aug 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
They want to kill as many children as they can
sep 1, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
"We're gonna win so much you may even get tired of winning and you'll say please please it's too much winning we can't take it anymore."
aug 29, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
Have I already said today how much I loathe and despise this current administration Evil to the core I don’t consider myself an unkind person but I wish every pain, every disease, every ailment on each and every one of them They are repulsive
aug 29, 2025, 9:12 am • 0 0 • view
Fascists kill people. Including children. To concentrate capital.
aug 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 2 0 • view
FFS
aug 29, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
Heartbreaking! and stupid...
aug 29, 2025, 3:04 am • 0 0 • view
Another example of care for the unborn but not once you’re born
aug 29, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
From freedom for Pedophiles, to abandoning children with cancer... This Administration show themselves to be enemies of the most vulnerable among us... A country is known by how it treats its' children and elders.
aug 29, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I am so sick of these hateful MF! Why, why, why?
aug 29, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
Screaming into the void
aug 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
Why develop new treatments if current treatments are sufficient for draining families savings into the right pockets
aug 30, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh my god.
aug 29, 2025, 2:35 am • 1 0 • view
Remember “death panels”? Seems like we have quite a few of them in place. Only real ones this time.
aug 29, 2025, 2:07 am • 10 1 • view
Republican parents don't think a single one of them will have bad luck befall them? WTF.
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Left To Die"
aug 29, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
that California archipelago is something
aug 29, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
"They want your child to die of cancer" is the Dem message, right there.
aug 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 175 24 • view
To be clear, the GOP does not really care if your child dies of brain cancer or of something else. They just want them to die of something. Ideally something preventable.
aug 29, 2025, 2:52 am • 9 1 • view
Apparently neither do the Democrats.
aug 29, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
“Children dying of cancer is a distraction from kitchen table issues.”
aug 29, 2025, 3:36 am • 10 2 • view
"God's will"
aug 30, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Except not one single Dem has the guts to say it.
aug 29, 2025, 2:31 am • 3 0 • view
Here’s the thing, with all the special interest shards re-aligning based on some inexplicable shared belief, we will never see a more coherent group than parents who would prefer their kids not die.
aug 30, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Now now, we mustn’t be too divisive. Surely if we placate the heartless authoritarians enough, they’ll return the favor!
aug 29, 2025, 2:06 am • 26 0 • view
Shame
aug 29, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Trump Administration really doesn't care who dies as long as they aren't big donors
aug 29, 2025, 2:47 am • 0 0 • view
Sigh
aug 29, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
So where’s the fucking money going?!?!
aug 29, 2025, 2:26 am • 5 0 • view
How else would billionaires possibly afford their fifth vacation homes or third yachts?
aug 29, 2025, 2:41 am • 3 0 • view
Oh. 🤬😢
aug 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
"Fuck them kids" - Trump Administration
aug 29, 2025, 2:35 am • 6 0 • view
Looks like @nickpaultaylor.bsky.social broke this story a few days ago for Fierce Biotech, a B2B-focused outlet.
aug 29, 2025, 2:12 am • 51 16 • view
got some bad news for public health… if PEDIATRIC BRAIN CANCER can’t get funding… nobody getting it
aug 29, 2025, 2:17 am • 53 3 • view
May those responsible suffer from the ailments they are discontinuing funding for - that would be some sort of karma.
aug 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 2 0 • view
What will be a bridge too far for Congress? This entire administration has to go. 2026 cannot come soon enough.
aug 29, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
"Dr. Dunkel practices at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center but was not speaking on its behalf." This part is perhaps because MSKCC is a butcher shop. I speak from personal experience. But de-funding the program is a travesty.
aug 29, 2025, 4:03 am • 2 0 • view
When people realize that this administration is all about culling the herd of the weak, it makes gut-wrenching sense. They WANT the weak to die. 😭
aug 29, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
We are watching total destruction of everything that was good in our lives.
aug 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 3 0 • view
So we can pay for more masked thugs to deport people. We are so broken.
aug 29, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans have a weird way of showing how "pro-life" they REALLY are.
aug 29, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
Donald Trump says fuck ‘em let the children die
aug 29, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Where are the Democrats holding press conferences and hearings on this shit? This is maniacal stuff. Pediatric brain cancer for god sakes. 🤬🤬🤬
aug 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 31 5 • view
They don’t have the power
aug 29, 2025, 2:07 am • 2 0 • view
🤡
aug 29, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
They can make public spectacles just like the GOP does over the silliest shit. They have the power to hold press conferences and hearings.
aug 29, 2025, 2:09 am • 29 1 • view
but they can't make the "press" show it.
aug 29, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
RFK Jr. wants you to die. Yes, YOU.
aug 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 0 • view
So to be perfectly clear: Trump and the GOP would rather spend billions on making the military pick up garbage in blue cities and turning ICE into a paramilitary kidnapping and trafficking business than cure children's cancer. To be even clearer: this applies to red state children too.
aug 29, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 1 • view
So it's a death cult, huh?
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
They’d just get killed in a mass shooting anyway.
aug 29, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
How the fuck does this make America great again?
aug 29, 2025, 2:00 am • 10 0 • view
It doesn’t. Trump’s plan is to destroy America while looting it on behalf of a handful of oligarchs.
aug 29, 2025, 2:08 am • 18 0 • view
No need to treat cancer when we’re just gonna put you in a factory until you drop dead
aug 29, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
Why? Because fuck ‘em. They’re expensive. Let them die.
aug 29, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
Pure evil right there.
aug 29, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
MAHA?
aug 29, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
I think of Andrew Kaczynski who lost his daughter to this. He did so much to raise money and awareness.
aug 29, 2025, 2:15 am • 30 0 • view
And yet did everything he could to get Trump elected with his K-File gossip, which led to this result.
aug 29, 2025, 2:24 am • 7 0 • view
This 👆🏻
aug 29, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
I didn't read k file. What was he saying?
aug 29, 2025, 2:25 am • 0 0 • view
He was instrumental in the "Kamala wants you to pay for transgender prisoner surgeries" narrative.
aug 29, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
I still have empathy for him losing his daughter.
aug 29, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
I don't mean to imply you shouldn't.
aug 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
His 9 month old daughter was diagnosed with one and eventually died. He brought a lot of awareness to the lack of studies and research on pediatric brain cancer. He and his wife raised money. He posted on Twitter when it was happening in 2020 and ongoing…
aug 29, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
I had to google Kfile and WOW Good thing we didn’t elect that woman with “shifting positions” and went with the literal convicted felon sexual abuser fascist
aug 29, 2025, 5:25 am • 4 0 • view
The party of childhood cancer.
aug 29, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
Who cares about childhood cancer. We need money for the military to go pick up trash in DC. It's desperate there!
aug 29, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
🤬🤬
aug 29, 2025, 5:42 am • 2 0 • view
This should be criminal, don't you think? How about forming a class of all patients harmed by withdrawal of funds?
aug 29, 2025, 5:33 am • 0 0 • view
I work in oncology clinical trials. It’s my job to search patient charts for relevant information and file it away. I used to work on pediatric oncology studies and one of them was a trial for a form of pediatric neuro cancer (DIPG). That was the most depressing shit. Those kids deserve the world
aug 29, 2025, 2:18 am • 41 7 • view
I read the saddest fucking stories that tore my goddamn heart out as I looked to confirm certain bits of information for each subjects death. I remember one mother wrote, “My life has ended with the death of my son.” The fuckers in government will never understand that pain. They are wired wrong.
aug 29, 2025, 2:22 am • 56 9 • view
Thankful for the work you did, so sorry for the resulting trauma.
aug 29, 2025, 3:09 am • 11 0 • view
Thank you
aug 29, 2025, 3:22 am • 4 0 • view
I can’t believe we’re siding with childhood cancer over kids.
aug 29, 2025, 1:55 am • 19 0 • view
We’d already been siding with guns over kids for years & years. This country is a child sacrifice cult.
aug 29, 2025, 2:00 am • 47 6 • view
Yeah. But before it was for “freedom”. That doesn’t seem to matter to MAGAs now.
aug 29, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
Something like this happened with Bush as well. Whole departments at the hospital my husband works at had to stop their research due to funding cuts.
sep 1, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
Sexual predators of children and kid killers. Both snatching away any and all the possibilities for a normal, happy life. The Republican Government of Horrors.
aug 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 3 1 • view
Pars for the course! America hates and loathes its children. They are regularly left vulnerable simply because we’re emboldened about who’s more American and alpha for our right to bare arms. Absolutely disgusting.
aug 29, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Something something, protect the children. Something something, pro life.
aug 29, 2025, 3:41 am • 0 0 • view
Heartbreaking
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
COME ON JMJ
aug 29, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
Narcissistic ghouls, they care about no one but themselves and the power/wealth they can amass.
aug 29, 2025, 2:08 am • 1 0 • view
To be replaced by the miasma standard of care for pediatric brain cancer.
aug 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
TRUMPISM is a death cult. The GOP is a death cult. MAGA & MAHA are a death cult. Donald Trump is leading a death cult that kills Americans.
aug 29, 2025, 3:30 am • 1 0 • view
Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are killing our children.
aug 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 4 0 • view
They’re killing everyone. Here and around the world. Give a life, take a life. The ultimate power trip.
aug 29, 2025, 2:41 am • 4 0 • view
Noooo! Pediatric cancers particularly pediatric brain cancers got so little funding as it was. This is saying, "These kids are going to die anyway, we shouldn't even try." In a better world that would be criminal.
aug 29, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I think of my neighbors who are big trump supporters and their daughter had brain cancer. She survived thanks to programs like this. Will this change their minds about trump? No. They’re also cuban immigrants or descendants, watching deportations and they don’t care either. It’s mind boggling.
aug 29, 2025, 2:46 am • 4 1 • view
They got theirs: an open door to a country whose scientists saved their daughter. The don’t give a shit about anyone else. Fuck them.
aug 29, 2025, 7:22 am • 2 0 • view
What ghoul defunds a program this important? Possibly life-saving, a last hope? Imagine having to deliver this news to a family, to a child.
aug 29, 2025, 1:55 am • 6 1 • view
Die, kids with cancer, DIE!
aug 29, 2025, 3:27 am • 1 0 • view
So fetuses must be carried to term even if a woman is brain dead, but, if the baby develops a rare brain cancer it will die. We aren't spending money to find an effective treatment. Pro life? Make sense.
aug 29, 2025, 4:15 am • 2 1 • view
🥱😡🤬
aug 29, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Insane. INSANE.
aug 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 0 • view
The Great Thinning, part 4754
aug 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
brought to you by the prolife crowd
aug 29, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
Trump is waging a war on children via education cuts, vaccine cuts, research cuts, firearms policy, book banning, separation from parents. Trump is punishing children over his anger that he is being maligned for raping them. His response to challenges of his power is met with revenge and pettiness.
aug 29, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Aww Billionaires love cancer for their huma livestock
aug 29, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
wtf
aug 29, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Should this surprise anyone? If I remember correctly the tRump family are the same Mother F'ing Scum who stole from a children's cancer charity to the point that the state of NY would not allow them anywhere near a charity for 10 years.
aug 29, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
Does Kennedy believe that vaccines for infants cause pediatric brain cancer?
aug 29, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
They don't want the sick kids, they die too fast in the mines.
aug 29, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
So death panels are here? I’ll show my way out.
aug 29, 2025, 2:22 am • 4 0 • view
I'm sorry but what the actual fuck?!?
aug 29, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 0 • view
Heartbreaking.
aug 29, 2025, 3:41 am • 0 0 • view
It’s a small price to pay to allow Trump to take $940 million to refurbish the 747 the Qatari government gave him.
aug 29, 2025, 2:06 am • 33 0 • view
Can't even... 🇺🇸 what's happening to you
aug 29, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
Trump's evil just keeps growing. I think he can probably forget heaven.
aug 29, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
No, not the party that cares so deeply about protecting life! 🙄
aug 29, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
Depressing enough yet for The People to do something about this regime, or is it just cool to be murderously cruel and evil now?
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