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An official at the CDC, whose role involved overseeing recommendations for the Covid vaccine, has resigned from her role in protest of recent orders from the HHS secretary, orders which will mean that many of us will need to resign ourselves to catching Covid yet again.

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(Reuters) - Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos of the US CDC resigns as co-leader of a working group that advises outside experts on COVID vaccines and is leaving the agency. reut.rs/4ksJLZt

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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

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A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

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Many thanks @weillcornell.bsky.social Pediatrics for the nice mention about our work debunking vaccine autism links weillcornell.org/news/here%E2...

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We're presently in a crypto-eugenics moment. They're not going to come out and say it explicitly, but a culture of death and suffering is being established and, if left unabated, the calls for eugenic policies will get louder and louder and less hidden as the skids get sufficiently greased.

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Russell Vought: "Impoundment, which is also a possibility. We are dusting off muscle memory that existed for 200 years before President Nixon in the 1970s and Congress acted to try to take away the president's ability to spend less." (Impoundment is literally illegal.)

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Speaker Johnson keeps lying, telling Americans the GOP is "not cutting Medicaid." While Joni Ernst is flat-out telling her constituents that "we're all going to die" anyway.

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"We are not regressing into the system from which capitalism once emerged: we are witnessing a new and dangerous transformation that is internal to capitalism itself." bsky.app/profile/merl... #econsky @jacobinmag.bsky.social @theatlantic.com

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I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

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Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

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Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

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Ukraine did something that the US and Europe failed to do for nearly half a century, it crippled Russia’s ability to launch nuclear weapons and long range strikes. At least one arm of Russia’s nuclear trident was destroyed. Ukraine did that, on its own, successfully. Have you said thank you yet?

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“If you wonder whether Medicaid is important in Iowa… more than 600,000 Iowans are enrolled in Medicaid. That’s almost 20 percent of the state, including 2 in 5 children. 50 percent of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. So… the funding is life or death for many,” Sen. Ernst. -Dan Rather

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COOL!

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They want to target 7/11. They want to target Home Depot. It’s not about criminals. It’s about cruelty.

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Make America Sick Again.

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They’re doing this to children? www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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Fun fact I love to share: Sally Hemings’ mother, enslaved by Jefferson’s father in law, attended Jefferson as he wrote the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.

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I understand everyone has a lot on their social catastrophe plates, I do too. But the colonial evisceration of Tibet is proceeding apace and it deserves more attention

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With huge apologies to history buffs everywhere, I forgot a critical anniversary for #OnThisDay so present it to you now: On May 23, 1973, Mary Tyler Moore is made honorary citizen of Minnesota by Governor Wendell T Anderson. There's so much glorious history in our state it's hard to keep up.

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"If Crater Lake were fully staffed this summer, it would have eight park rangers, said a current park employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Instead, it has three...." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Not looking so good for the US now either.

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What Ukraine achieved today is important for more than one reason.

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Again, I have done the thing. New toon: the presser and the coverage. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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This is just eye opening. The entire SpaceX direction is a money hole. We have got to stop thinking billionaires are geniuses. www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-d...

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In my northeast Austin neighborhood, we experienced the THIRD roof and solar panel damaging hail storm last night. In four years. Two new roofs; taking bets on the third.

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