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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

submitted 22 hours ago • 570 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 17 hours ago • 427 comments

A newly hired advisor at DOJ is a former judge who received what was then Oregon's longest-ever suspension for misconduct. He also made the news for "for having hung a picture of Adolf Hitler in his courthouse." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-hir...

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House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

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September 1971. McMaster University students do Shakespeare.

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Heart disease in women is frequently missed and discounted, even though it is the number one cause of death globally. A new study shows A.I. of the ECG can accurately identify heart disease risk in women www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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dear games industry analyst & biz dev friends: that filter you really wanted so you could very quickly point out just how fucking stupid adding gen AI to your game on steam just came out if you weren’t looking at this already: yeah, it is that much of a death sentence on sales/wishlists/users

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Very Serious People:: The military is entirely on Trump's side, they can't wait to crush the country beneath his heel, it's going to be marital law-- The actual military:

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I heard you like nostalgia? smbc-comics.com/comic/fads

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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The Texas measles outbreak continues to grow. "The number of measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 90 Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or individuals whose vaccination status is unknown & 16 people have been hospitalized so far."

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Petition calling upon the Government of Canada to transition official government communications away from Twitter/X. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-5359 Please, sign and reshare. #Canada #Twitter #X

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Oh fucking shit. This is so scary it literally made me stop breathing for a bit. If transmission via dried feces works in mammals the way it does in birds (see link), then mice are a VERY EFFECTIVE vector for spreading this directly into human habitated areas (www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...)

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

www.theguardian.com/education/20... The world flees from life in America

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

The men in charge are unable to experience anything that moves the heart. They don't feel honest love. They mock art and poetry. The beauty of nature means nothing to them. "Drill, baby, drill". They don't have a single ounce of care for what world our kids will live in.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

He's gonna fuck up every single independent creator who depends on the mail for their business. Call your reps and tell them you didn't vote for Trump to destroy your business. reps.fyi

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

I kept warning that sepsis wards are going to comeback as a thing and sadly I appear to be right. If you don’t know what sepsis wards are and why they went away, go look it up. There is a good documentary called “The Janes,” about what we are being forced back to.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Neurodivergence shouldn't be used as a scapegoat, I'm dyslexic but know better than to sign up with the Anzis.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, this is a cool team maybe consider joining it? halfmermaid.co/jobs

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submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I really wish I knew what was going on with the #yeglrt valley line this commute. I am now trying to find a bus as it never came in time to meet up with my family as planned.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Holy wow. Now this makes sense.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

♫ if you don't like a response then don't reply - 👏 👏 if you don't like a response then don't reply - 👏 👏 just ignore a bad response pure engagement's all it wants if you don't like a response then don't reply - 👏 👏

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Mr. Bree is on his way home to sign us back up for teacher insurance, and even though I didn't have to do anything except for try to navigate the marketplace and then use it for a couple medical copays, I still would like to reiterate that YOUR INSURANCE BEING TIED TO YOUR EMPLOYMENT IS A SCAM.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The amount of energy that millions of people I'll never meet have put into keeping me safe from things I'll never think about leaves me in an awestruck state of gratitude.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Incredible news! More hospitals have returned to offering gender affirming care after Trump's executive order was blocked. Moments after publishing our story on hospitals returning, Childrens National DC announced a return to care. And JUST now, Colorado Children's is back to giving care! AMAZING

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 7 days ago • 135 comments

This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast. There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 172 comments

I need abled people to understand that breaking someone's wheelchair is like breaking your legs. Both of them. They want to get away with breaking people's legs.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

And so it continues. Iowa state legislature is trying to shove through a bill that strips protections from librarians & makes them criminally liable for allowing "obscene" books on the shelves. The cause here is rightwingers are enraged about Maia Kobabe's GN "Gender Queer." Librarians defend it.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying

submitted 10 days ago • 683 comments

The road to a ‘dumb as a box of hair’ WageEnslaved™️ class, is paved with shit like this. indianapublicradio.org/news/2025/02...

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The people who claim to be worried about protecting kids are weirdly aggressive about protecting sex criminals.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Shall we talk about the Civil Rights Act? Because that was 1964. The current President turned 18 in 1964. We talk about people being alive now who lived through Jim Crow. The people who LOVED Jim Crow, or just grew up thinking it normal, are also still alive.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.

submitted 10 days ago • 2972 comments

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 10 days ago • 445 comments

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Did you know that if you saved $100,000 a day every day from the birth of Jesus to today, you still wouldn't have 1/5th of Elon Musk's net worth? Does Elon Musk perform labor that is worth way over $100,000/day for 2000+ years? Or is something seriously wrong here?

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

Sold out in #YEG. Don't let anyone tell you people aren't interested in woman's hockey

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

He doesn’t want to decrease rates of depression. He wants to manufacture consent for removing “undesirables” from society and forcing them into labour camps and he has said as much, and we really need to stop engaging with Nazis in good faith…

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Bloomberg is reporting that federal workers tasked with approving medical devices for Medicare have reportedly received termination notices. As a wheelchair user who also uses some other assistive devices (canes, shower chairs, that sort of thing) I want to add some context to this.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 202 comments

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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No More Child-Care Subsidy: What It Means for Struggling Parents Alberta is cutting its child-care subsidy, leaving families scrambling to cover rising costs. Parents who relied on it now face impossible choices. markcherrington.substack.com/p/no-more-ch...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

submitted 10 days ago • 407 comments