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"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this." Interview ⤵️

submitted 27 days ago • 27 comments

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 187 comments

The liberal insistence that Trump et al are just “stupid” and not deliberate in their choice of words and policies is absolutely infuriating. If they’re just “stupid” and you can’t beat them, then what are you? They’re intentional. They’re brutal. They’re organized. And they’re genuinely dangerous.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

CDC now says all kids "may receive" COVID vaccines. This means insurance companies will likely still cover the shots. BUT the new guidance is more confusing than a broad recommendation, and COVID vaccines during pregnancy are now listed as "No Guidance/Not Applicable," which will decrease uptake.

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

The party of small government newrepublic.com/post/195904/...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Good on the CDC. This is the energy we need across all our agencies.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Dr. Aaron Winter (@aaronwinter.bsky.social), Lecturer in Sociology at @lancasteruni.bsky.social speaks to the mainstreaming of Far-Right politics. The episode is out on YouTube and All major podcast platforms: youtu.be/qKH2UcDo73s open.spotify.com/episode/6hy2... #podcast #politics #middleclass

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We and National Nurses United have released a statement about the nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General. In short, no thank you. You can read the statement here: www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Is flu next? Also pregnant women are immunosuppressed and have always been on the list of high risk. This is beyond comprehension

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

According to reports by @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com, #RachelRiley, a former #McKinsey consultant, #WoffordCollege grad, #RhodesScholar at @ox.ac.uk is the #DOGE flunkie who is responsible for killing many NIH grants. Not sure how she sleeps at night. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Many of us were cognizant that The Regime would start a war on science and public health. That is why we founded Defend Public Health in November 2024. www.defendpublichealth.org @defendpublichealth.bsky.social.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

By one of our own members!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning! Some inspo to start the day. NIH staffers, led by their union, walked out of a town hall with Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to protest working conditions and budget cuts harming life-saving research. Let’s keep these acts of resistance coming. 💪💚 @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

A new study from RECOVER shows that 14% of infants and toddlers have symptoms of LongCOVID such as poor appetite, stuffy nose, and cough; while 15% of preschoolers showed signs of LC such as experience dry cough and daytime tiredness/sleepiness or low energy. Link below.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

New post: Loss Of MRNA, Bird Flu Vaccines Threatens Our Biosecurity via @forbes www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... #mRNA #BirdFlu #Covid #vaccines #RFKJr #biosecurity. With thanks to @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social and @saskiapopescu.bsky.social for perspective. We are at so much greater risk now. 😱

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

By our own Dr. Judy Stone!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Congress must immediately create and pass a bipartisan, stand-alone, veto-proof bill appropriating emergency funding for a bird flu vaccine. To do otherwise will, with high likelihood (it's a 'when', not an 'if'), lead to the death to millions.

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

submitted 6 days ago • 277 comments

Jesus. My job was talking about this yesterday. I am so absolutely terrified of the future of this country

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Between 1/4 - 1/3 of American workers are functionally unemployed www.cbsnews.com/news/unemplo...

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Between 1/4 - 1/3 of American workers are functionally unemployed www.cbsnews.com/news/unemplo...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

submitted 8 days ago • 473 comments

Canada, Germany, England, Denmark, Netherlands, and France all have travel advisory warnings for visiting America. US will lose 12.5 billion in tourism by end of 2025 www.cntraveler.com/story/which-...

submitted 7 days ago • 85 comments

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

submitted 8 days ago • 331 comments

“…this hunger strike has one primary goal…to bear witness to the humanity of Palestinians, who are being starved to death en masse in Gaza, and to take every action possible to stop this crime against our shared humanity.”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Stanford scientists detect new COVID variant in California as US moves to tighten vaccine access. The US government is culling human beings en masse.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

submitted 7 days ago • 445 comments

RFK Jr. wants to bar government scientists from publishing in NEJM? Interesting, given that his sidekicks Makary and Prasad published there last week. (An article laundering RFK Jr.'s "gold standard science" rhetoric as a way to restrict vaccine availability, no less.)

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

I do think if Trump’s America is defined by anything, it’s that he opened the door for people and especially people in power to openly act like the worst versions of themselves.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 DECODED: The Binary Fallacy We deconstruct the dishonest tool of Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, and other anti-vax creeps exploited to forward their pro-infection agenda. 👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE: www.panaccindex.info/p/decoded-th...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Today RFK and co. removed the COVID vaccine from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule for children and pregnant people. This is junk science. COVID puts children and pregnant people at higher risk for ER visits and hospitalizations, and Long COVID can cause chronic health issues for anyone.

submitted 7 days ago • 150 comments

Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

Remember when Bill Cassidy justified his confirmation vote for RFK by claiming that he received reassurances that RFK would not attack vaccines? Lol

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

To address the deepening health crisis and resist far-right exploitation, public health must be explicitly politicized through a mass movement to transform healthcare into an equitable, publicly funded system grounded in social medicine and the politics of care jacobin.com/2025/02/publ...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Re-upping this thanks to that terrible New Yorker article www.panaccindex.info/p/princetons...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

submitted 35 days ago • 20 comments

The National Science Foundation is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science — extending far beyond the diversity programs that the Trump administration says it wants to cut.

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

truthout.org/articles/how...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

We cannot look away - BBC cameraman haunted by Gaza's malnourished children captures Israeli strike on hospital www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.

submitted 19 days ago • 76 comments

Featured in this article about the changing tides in the struggle for responsible AI. apnews.com/article/arti...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

On work as a source of self-esteem and how to build a world in which AI and human beings’ self-esteem can coexist. #AIEthics #PhilTech #philsky

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

And.... it finally happened. #23andMe is a perfect #privacy example to learn from. When companies who amass troves of very personal data go bankrupt, the data gets sold or acquired by other companies, further complicating already questionable "consent" practices.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

DOGE came to kill bloat—then copy-pasted OMB’s ongoing work, creating more redundancy. Reform theater at its dumbest.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

5 years. Since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, US cops have killed 6,000 - 12,000+ people — “setting new records for deadly police violence nationwide” Police violence surged most in Trump states and states that refused to enact ‘reforms’ policedata.org www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

The 1971 Powell Memo lays out the battle plans of the modern conservative movement (best understood as right-wing, corporate astroturfing). Powell spilled so much ink about the reasons and methods for targeting universities. Precisely bc they are hotbeds of progressive thinking and shape culture.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments