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Fall 2006: kids, ages 4 and 6, found a bat in their bedroom. I captured it. County health dept. sent it for autopsy. It had rabies. We all had the shots. Rabies: 100% fatal Rabies vaccine series: 100% effective Co-signing everything in this thread 👇

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If you have not signed please do. If you have signed try to get several others to sign TONIGHT - NIH Director testifies before senate appropriations at 10am ET - lets make sure they know how many people are angry about what has been done to NIH

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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

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AAP AAFP ACOG AMA …and others renounce today’s removal of all ACIP Committee members. Listen to the doctors.

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This is the recommended pediatric vaccine schedule. If your child is behind for any reason, or if you aren’t sure of their status, call your pediatrician tomorrow.

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the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

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I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

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The destruction of independent US science and medicine continue, with #RFKJr removing all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory board, after lying and promising Republican senators he would NOT do so. abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-j...

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"It's a horror show. We're under attack in every way all the time," says Sarah Kobrin, who has worked at the National Cancer Institute for more than 21 years. "We're told we're worthless. We're told we're cheats.… They're breaking things that won't be repairable." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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At the #aupresses25 panel on Advancing #HBCU Scholarship and hearing a lot about scholars' need for $ support for indexing, etc. Seems a good time to remind folks that @upcolorado.bsky.social has MMU Mini Grants to help with just that. Obvs we'd hope you publish with us, but it's not a requirement!

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Trump NIH director Bhattacharya took to Twitter to spin the Bethesda Declaration. We're here to point out his confusion and contradictions. 🫡 First, it is laughable for him to say he's removing ideology. Trump has inserted a rightwing ideology, stripping Harvard of science for ideological reasons.

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Why do scientists study obscure things like Joshua trees? Because we don’t know what we don’t know. A Yellowstone hot spring microbe led to PCR, the technology behind cancer diagnostics, forensics, HIV tests, & more. Basic research leads to BIG SURPRISES that change the world. 🧪🧬🔬

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Damn it. Okay, I'm deleting Uber. #UberOuts

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we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

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I want to report some good news from LA: ICE picked a hotel in Pasadena to be their headquarters for this side of the city. The residents of Pasadena (myself included) would not stand for this and protested all yesterday in front of the hotel until, eventually, the hotel kicked out ICE!!

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Glendale ends ICE contract, will no longer hold detainees

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This administration needs to stop targeting international reporters, they’re the ones helping spread the truth. In multiple videos, officers are seen aiming directly at them, fully aware they’re members of the press. These so-called “non-lethal” rounds can absolutely be lethal.

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Distortion and skewing of research to meet political aims is a form of #censorship that we must loudly reject! Sign the Declaration to #DefendResearch, contact your elected officials, write a letter to the editor of your local or hometown paper! Support for all that is here: defendresearch.org

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Great to see such strong support for our courageous NIH colleagues, who are standing up for science!

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In this moment when equity & inclusion efforts are being hindered & erased, the DLF Committee on Equity & Inclusion is creating a Zotero library of related resources for the GLAM community. Let us know what topics would be most helpful to you: forms.gle/jsV6MjwS5hGv...

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The protests are responding to government violence, not the other way around, you cowards

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Love you, Congresswoman Maxine Waters! Always in the forefront of righteous anger, speaking truth to power.

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Around the country, MAGA Republican legislators are obsessed with legislation about nonexistent 'chemtrails.' We live in an age in which crazed conspiracy theories dominate everywhere MAGA holds sway.

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The "Jail the Librarians" act in Alabama was killed a few weeks ago: "We are mothers, fathers, grandparents; teachers, and clergy; we are straight, gay, Republican, Democrat and Independent- we are Alabama... and we dare defend our right to read freely." www.readfreelyalabama.org/2025_legisla...

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Large peaceful protest from over the weekend. What doesnt get views on the news is what's actually happening in the majority of places. Peaceful protests that the local police are more than happy to keep safe while occuring. This is what Mayor Karen Bass is calling for to continue.

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Detaining union leaders for exercising their rights is an abuse of power. We’re speaking up and fighting back. #FreeDavidEndRaids

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has said deploying the National Guard is "purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions." There’s a substantial amount of social science backing up Newsom’s suggestion.

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This part is so frustrating. So many of us are having to speak as private citizens, without the ability of our professional positions to provide context and credibility to the arguments we are making. Makes me appreciate having an ORCiD record! orcid.org/0000-0002-35...

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This is excellent news! Many of us were pushing back on this and other acts of #censorship! Let's keep going! See what other #actions you can take to #DefendResearch! defendresearch.org

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This is the story Trump wants buried. And the media will comply unless we keep talking about it, and demand that Republican members of Congress answer for it.

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So true.

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So many people need to hear this message, chief among them university presidents and their boards of trustees

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This too is censorship. So much appreciation for @aaup.bsky.social standing up for freedom of speech, freedom to dissent, freedom to assemble, academic freedom and more. theintercept.com/2025/06/07/i...

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Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and Trump didn't call in the National Guard.

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First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

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Today, WH Border Czar Homan said California's Governor and LA Mayor Bass could be arrested if they interfered with ICE. This, after the arrest of a NJ Congresswoman & a Wisconsin Judge. This isn't what democracy is supposed to look like. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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“The methods Trump threatened in Los Angeles this weekend could be much more effective in November 2026 than the attempted civilian coup of January 2021,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social.

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"[U]niversities have failed to adequately defend students who organize or speak out against U.S. foreign policy ... [D]ozens of schools have modified their conduct policies to make it harder and riskier to protest."

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It’s not merely Trumpism. This has been the conservative project for decades going back to the 1970s. The entire right-wing messaging apparatus exists solely to divorce the population from reality. And the agenda? Putting entrenched wealth out of reach of our democracy. Elites don’t want to pay.

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"[T]he use of shipping containers to detain people is heinous and ... can be deadly."

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NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

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Submit your comments about schedule F changes and #DefendResearch! Political appointees shouldn't replace skilled, training civil servants. Use the MAHA debacle with fake references as an example!

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