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Oh my god, if this works it would redeem the whole damn week.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

submitted 8 days ago • 697 comments

I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

another day of feeling immense dread, let’s fucking goooooo

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

submitted 9 days ago • 173 comments

this is how i know the CIA is not what it used to be because they killed JFK for less than this.

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 118 comments

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

submitted 10 days ago • 93 comments

This is the clearest photo ever taken of Venus. 🔭 🧪

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

I’ve heard some stories recently of people complying with fascists’ demands after they were threatened. As a violence researcher (and someone who has received a good deal of threats), everyone should know that complying will not save you. It only teaches the threatener that threats work.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

In Ferguson, they swept phone data from the crowd, then later drove down streets and if there were 2 or more of those people in a house, they raided it.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

submitted 12 days ago • 77 comments

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

submitted 12 days ago • 396 comments

we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

submitted 12 days ago • 329 comments

So, in minecraft, how long does it take for Trump and Elon to drop dead from the concentrated will of millions of people?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a real chance that we staring down a new pandemic in the form of bird flu. It could never happen or happen in the coming months. And we are in the process of decimating our core national public health and infectious disease service.

submitted 12 days ago • 235 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 12 days ago • 708 comments

The wrecking ball is moving so fast that @science.org has its very own Trump Tracker to keep track of the damage done to scientists, research, and human health www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

submitted 12 days ago • 560 comments

disrespectfully, what the actual hell

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 12 days ago • 599 comments

I feel like people don’t understand how bad this abortion fight is about to get or how far into poverty a forced pregnancy can sink a person. What will end up happening is using low income people as breeders to provide children for white evangelicals. That domestic supply of infants.

submitted 13 days ago • 92 comments

I need you all to sign up for shifts. It might be our only way out.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Also screwworm and rinderpest! And if you don’t know what those were, hoo boy, if you think beef is expensive now…

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

Support disabled and chronically ill people around you, and contribute to our support networks. Not only do we need you, but there's now a much higher chance you'll become one of us.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

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