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submitted 19 days ago • 294 comments

Roger Ellingsworth shared this.

submitted 51 days ago • 70 comments

So I'm hearing that Buffy was right? www.thedailybeast.com//trump-healt...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Is this the beginning of one of those political thrillers? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Mohsen Mahdawi, who has been a green-card holder for 10 years, was detained at an ICE field center in Vermont while appearing for a naturalization test — a key step on the path to U.S. citizenship. wapo.st/3Y36270

submitted 61 days ago • 259 comments

Seriously folks, consider the MMR vaccine. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/m...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

“We have a duty to tell the public what’s going on,” one park ranger said. “If that’s saying, ‘We just don’t have the staff to stay open and that’s what these firings are doing,’ I think the people have a right to know.” By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 23 comments

NEW: MEASLES HITS MICHIGAN Michigan health officials are reporting the first case of measles in 2025. This is a developing story. www.cbsnews.com/amp/detroit/...

submitted 93 days ago • 34 comments

Mistakes will be made wildfiretoday.com/2025/03/11/u...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

And here we are. Where did logic and understanding go? Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

It’s time to pick a hill worth dying on. A superb piece of writing from @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

They're firing the people who fix the machines the air traffic controllers use to control the airplanes. Really consider your decisions to fly these days. www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/f...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

“You must be at peace right now”

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

They have no answer for what the oligarchs are doing to America.

submitted 106 days ago • 628 comments

So it goes... Federal Officials Underplaying Measles Vaccination, Experts Say www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

www.axios.com/2025/02/28/r... The administration removes transparency in the name of transparency.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat... Promises made, promises kept.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 108 days ago • 3338 comments

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

submitted 107 days ago • 955 comments

The organization RFK Jr formerly led is actively putting information out stating that the measles vaccine is to blame for this outbreak, not declining vaccination rates. It’s a lie. The measles vaccine is both incredibly effective and very safe. His rhetoric is responsible for these realities.

submitted 109 days ago • 418 comments

Yep, Robert, we have these all the time. Just like the one in Samoa in 2019? Low vaccination rates led to 5,700 cases with 83 deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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submitted 113 days ago • 392 comments

This article describes is a viable approach to treating pancreatic cancer. Sorry for all you antivax people, but it's based on an mRNA vaccine. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking News: Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for "more truth" and said President Trump was "in a disinformation space" after he suggested Ukraine started the war.

submitted 116 days ago • 185 comments

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submitted 116 days ago • 1343 comments

The measles epidemic in Lubbock, TX will only get worse. They have some of the lowest vaccination rates in Texas.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

The number of measles cases linked to an outbreak in West Texas has grown to 58, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

submitted 117 days ago • 88 comments

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

submitted 121 days ago • 993 comments

This was inevitable and will only get worse.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

This seems to be a helpful thing. I need more distractions when I'm driving. techstory.in/stellantis-i...

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Inflation remained stubbornly high in January, as grocery, gasoline and shelter costs all rose. Egg prices saw their biggest price hike in almost a decade.

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