Today @USDA@SecRollins and I secured a major win for animal welfare.
Ridglan Farms will transfer its remaining 475 beagles out of a research breeding facility and into the care of a no-kill rescue, where they can begin the path to adoption.
Thank you, @LaraLeaTrump, for championing this issue.
We are also launching a new @NIH office, ORIVA, to speed the transition away from animal testing and toward modern, human-based science.
We will keep fighting for humane treatment of animals, better science, and accountability.
I’ve been working to end animal testing for 20+ years.
We are now at a tipping point thanks to @WhiteCoatWaste.
Democrat @RepMarkPocan & Republican @RepLangworthy just visited two of the largest breeders of beagles for tax-funded testing and called for them to shut down.
ABC News just broadcast a 10-minute segment that set out the right to rescue and reached ~1 million people.
This movement is just getting started. And we're not stopping until EVERY one of these defenseless pups is safe.
“Marshall Farms is a torture chamber. It is a stain on New York.”
The @USDA estimates 16,000 beagles are held behind this fortress. Many don't know it's in our backyard. They do now. I was proud to join advocates fighting gainst testing on cats and dogs. We won’t stop until it’s banned and this place is shut down
Here’s the email to employees:
Team,
Hope everyone’s doing well and enjoying the productivity enhancements from our AI tooling initiative.
Unfortunately, Finance has asked me to clarify a small issue.
It appears someone, and by “someone” I mean apparently all of you simultaneously, managed to spend $500,000,000 on @claudeai usage in a single month.
For context:
•NASA landed on the moon for less.
•We are now the proud owner of approximately 14% of Anthropic.
•Claude personally sent us a thank-you fruit basket.
•Our CFO has entered a fugue state and only communicates through Slack emojis.
•The electricity usage from your prompts briefly dimmed parts of Northern Virginia.
While we appreciate innovation, there are concerns that:
•“Can you make this email sound slightly warmer?” did not require 11,400 generations.
•Asking Claude to “rewrite this in the style of Succession, Hemingway, and Tony Soprano combined” may have been excessive.
•One employee appears to have used Claude to generate “a quick list of lunch options” that somehow consumed the GDP of a small island nation.
Going forward, please observe the following guidelines:
1Do not upload the entire internet into Claude “for context.”
2If your prompt begins with “simulate every possible outcome,” reconsider.
3Claude should not be used to:
◦settle fantasy football disputes,
◦write your wedding vows 97 times,
◦generate revenge edits of your ex’s LinkedIn bio,
◦or ask “what if Rome had WiFi?”
Most importantly:
If you see the message:
“This request may require additional datacenter construction”
…please stop immediately and contact IT.
Thank you all for your cooperation during this challenging yet technologically groundbreaking time.
Warm regards, Management
P.S. Whoever prompted:
“Generate every possible PR angle for every company founded since 1983”
…we just want to talk.
Greg is a 74-year-old terminal cancer patient who was assaulted by police on April 18 because he wanted to save a Ridlgan dog.
I just got off the phone with Greg, and his story is equal parts infuriating and inspiring. He is a grandpa, a dog-lover, and suffering from bladder and bone cancer. He may have only months to live. But when Greg arrived at Ridglan Farms on April 18, his compassion wasn't supported by the authorities. Instead, Dane County police shot bullets at and tear gassed him, as he gasped and struggled to breathe.
This elderly cancer patient was considered a greater threat than the corporation that was criminally abusing defenseless pups.
Greg's story shows that something has gone deeply wrong in our systems. Not only do our "leaders" refuse to protect the vulnerable. They target those like Greg who risk so much to help.
But Greg's story also shows the solution. Greg is struggling with cancer. But when he saw that the government acting with cruelty and lawlessness, he took direct action. And his courage inspired change. Now many of the most influential political figures in America have turned against Ridglan and its vile industry.
We have people like Greg to thank for that.
This is just the beginning. We'll need more brave people, more stories like Greg's, to end the abomination of animal abuse from our civilization. But Greg is setting the standard. Let's follow in footsteps like these and make a world where every animal is safe, happy, and free.
It’s outrageous that people may be going to prison for rescuing dogs that are being tortured inside taxpayer funded labs.
President Trump should pardon the individuals who were arrested for trying to save the beagles from Ridglan Farms, and then he should sign an executive memorandum BANNING all taxpayer funded animal testing across all federal agencies.
I hope we get tons of shares on this post and I hope the @WhiteHouse will stand up for innocent animals that are being abused.
I’m sure I don’t agree with the people who were arrested on all of their political views, but we agree that animals who are being abused should be rescued by any means necessary.
If anyone should be arrested and charged with a felony, it’s the mad scientists who are abusing these dogs.
I hope they are all pardoned.
@POTUS@LaraLeaTrump@JamesBlair47@StevenCheung47@StephenM@SusieWiles47@Scavino47
Yesterday, I was giving an intro talk to our dept's new PhD students. Technical things aside, my number 1 suggestion has remained the same over the years: Treat your PhD like a job.
- Avoid 1.5h lunch and three tea breaks.
- Avoid gossiping and loitering at work.
- Lab at 9 am and leave at 6 pm. Being productive till 11 pm in the lab is a lie people till themselves when their day starts at 1 PM.
Everything worth doing can be done with high intensity focus during work hours. And having fun in life is the secret to being productive in a marathon.
You spoke. I listened.
After highlighting abuses at Ridgland Farms, passionate animal lovers asked me to look into Marshall Farms in Wayne County. It's in our backyard in New York.
So I went there myself. We need answers.
At noon, I’m releasing video from my visit.