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In light of today’s recommendation on COVID vaccines for pregnant women, this 2022 piece by @deldeib.bsky.social is newly relevant. COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen

I'm only on page 8 of the MAHA Report, and the number of times that chronic disease is pegged as why the US can't have more *soldiers* should make everyone very worried....

Personally I’ll be stopping all physical activity.

Major corporations that have spent years touting their efforts to combat hunger in America, but now publicly support a $300 billion SNAP cut: AT&T T-Mobile United Airlines Uber Comcast Charter Communications Verizon Delta Air Lines Dell FedEx Southwest Airlines

🚨 In addition to banning gender affirming medical treatment through Medicaid, Trump's reconciliation bill PROHIBITS health insurance purchased through Obamacare exchanges from offering transition care. Detransition care, though, is specifically protected. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS!

Let’s talk about the new Covid vaccine policy paper by Vinay and Marty…

NEW: Dozens of staffers walked out of Jay Bhattacharya’s first town hall event on Monday after the NIH director said he believed the lab leak conspiracy theory. We got video. www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...

WHY DID THEY PIT OSCAR AGAIN

Bsky, help me pick a #wnba team. I have no allegiance yet! My city doesn’t have a team, so no obvious choice.

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Wait u mean to tell me any member of congress could have had a staffer posted up at immigration centers across the country... and they haven't been doing this continually since 2017???

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

Can someone plz confirm if those pope tweets and retweets are real

Weird how the lonely alienated men never turn to community or labor organizing. Che. Black Panthers. Etc as good role models or showing them how to combat capitalist alienation. Showing them how to have a real positive pro social impact they can see with their eyes. Weird how no one mentions this

Depressing sign of the times that the US speakers at the international conference I am at all start their talks with an apology.

This isn't a new product. It's an updated vaccine to account for new strains and viral evolution. Are they going to do this for all COVID and influenza vaccines yearly? Because that effectively shuts them down. There isn't enough time between identification of strains included & release of vaccine.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

Indiana Republicans are advancing a ban on using student IDs for voting. The move would make it even harder for young people to vote in a state that already ranks near-last in turnout. boltsmag.org/indiana...

So this morning Trump posted that it was a great time to buy. And then 20 minutes ago he announced he would be doing a 90 day tariff extension for any country not retaliating. The market is up now over 6%. He just literally did open market manipulation

Let me tell you a story. When I was a very young boy, my parents got divorced. Reasons aren't needed for this post. A few years later, my mom go remarried, and my Dad adopted me. He has been a great dad to me, who has always been there for me. I didn't hear from my biological dad until I was 25.

Books by Heather McGhee, Jonathan Metzl, Carol Anderson that have been very helpful to me pulled from Naval Academy library. Please support these and other banned authors. media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/...

My high school economics teacher is posting about how great the tariffs are going to be 🙃. And he’s getting destroyed in the comments by previous students. 🙂

Judge Howell’s actions in the USIP hearings have been confounding and disgusting. I can’t imagine what she’s thinking.

Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why. Here is what this means:

"Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female." The banner atop the CDC's National HIV Surveillance System (court-restored) web page. And it gets worse from there.

Hi friends, help me boost? Looking to talk to people who work in child vaccines (providers, schools, health depts, clinics, data folks or coalitions, etc.) who might have insight or experiences to share about how their work has been impacted the last couple of months. Don't reply just DM me please!

This latest vote-buying scheme by Musk incredibly corrupt, at same time Tesla suing Wisconsin, and likely illegal It is a felony in Wisconsin to offer, give, lend or promise to lend or give anything of value to induce a voter to cast a ballot or not vote.

Ideology rules. Expertise is out. Hail Lysenko. drrubin.substack.com/p/white-hous...

"The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions"

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

Fully support taking this stance. Can I ask a genuine question: do we expect all leftists to take same stance?; if so, what are the consequences of fewer left voices on mainstream media?

The Chinese government is his most important business partner.

Elon Musk will be given access to top secret information, including the military's operational plan in the event of war with China, according to the New York Times

abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views

The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

Really key stuff here. DOGE flipped the Institute's security contractors - Inter-Con - against them by threatening to cancel all their security contracts across the federal government. This is where DOGE's money meets up with guns and the lawyers are kicked to the side.

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

A Fulbright scholar flees the county after ICE came looking for her - per NYT her social media activity was liking pro-Palestine posts. We are in deep, folks. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...