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#Polio vaccination in #Gaza has started. WHO teams are on the ground providing support to ensure a quality campaign.

FUNDED BY NIH if that isn't front and center, people won't understand the cost of science infrastructure and funding being demolished in the US

Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

USA - economic blackout day scheduled

"We've added A.I. to--" me:

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

Sure would be nice if the U.S. continued funding stuff like “vaccines for pancreatic cancer.”

I'm gonna log-off for the day. I've had to work through the weekend and I'm feeling TIRED. But I put in my mutual aid/power building rep by turning a thread into a ton of different mutual aid resources, ideas, proposals and guides for you to use! Now you can do your one thing today too! 😘✌️

Strength and durability of indirect protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection through vaccine and infection-acquired immunity Yes, vaccination, resulting in immune memory, also reduces the transmission of the pathogen. www.nature.com/artic... 1/8

Even when well-intentioned, the rhetoric of humanization desensitizes us to the violence it describes.

Couldn’t make it to the protest at Stonewall today but this is how I hope everyone’s rolling up

Honestly mostly my patchy memories from nearly dying of pneumonia when I was ~11/12, the lingering after effects, and not wanting to go through that again, nor for anyone else to have such experiences

Anti-racist white people, here's a good opportunity to plug into existing and ongoing organizing.

Hey. So let’s just clear this up. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” IS NOT THE QUOTE. Oscar Wilde was a shady ass queen and his words have been sanitized and misconstrued. What he said was: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

A friendly reminder that if there’s a sudden spike in a diagnosis, one of two things are happening: - it’s actually new - it’s just now being diagnosed appropriately The latter is much more likely.

In a disgraceful act betraying millions of their own residents, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all write to oppose birthright citizenship.

You can always look up an FDA recall, but you do kind of have to know that there was one first. www.fda.gov/safety/recal...

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY!!! ROMANCE FOR LOS ANGELES Fire relief auction! I'm offering up a signed bundle including HAVEN, SANCTUARY and HARBOR with a cute Harbor character postcard. 💕 www.32auctions.com/o...

2 months ago this is what elected officials from opposition parties in S Korea were doing in the middle of the night as their President attempted a coup.

"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk" To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky

It wasn’t just the conservatives . A lot of people did this and it’s gonna be uncomfortable to unpack when you realize most of it was to prevent specifically Black and Brown ( Afro/ Indigenous/ Latine) kids from “taking over”

Y'all. @unitedwedream.org is actively recruiting people to do Know Your Rights trainings, and so are many of the local immigrant advocacy groups near you. You can help make a difference!

This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers! Read, print & distro freely! Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery

People are seeking books to teach their kids about diversity & belonging. What I hear: They're looking for books from a plethora of perspectives! Here are a few books, you & your kids may already be reading them ☺️ (🧵 1/4)

Healthcare workers: Now is a great time to plan ahead before you’re face-to-face with an ICE agent. I’ve compiled 14 tips for healthcare workers ⬇️

This is the Ben & Jerry’s video that has folks talking and MAGA losing their shit! We need to support @benandjerrys y’all, because we don’t ever want them to “stick to just the ice cream”. 👀

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This looks like a solid blueprint.