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Ph.D., history. Hist. of sci. & med.; Paracelsus; c16 Germany. Husband & father. 𝕏-pat. Hobby: learning about & not catching brain-eating bat viruses. In public indoor spaces, wear a high-quality mask (N95 or better). Clean the air! 📍Melbourne, VIC
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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

Pfizer discontinuing Lucira Covid+Flu home PCR at end of March & not replacing. Contact Pfizer to express your disapproval. We need reliable home PCRs. www.pfizer.com/contact #Covid #Flu #Healthcare #PCRTest #CovidCautious

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

submitted 25 days ago • 8301 comments

A drone hit the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine early this morning, per the IAEA. The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement unit caught fire and was damaged, but the IAEA reports the inner structure was not breached and radiation levels have not risen outside.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 9 days ago • 466 comments

Directly into my veins yes please

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

submitted 10 days ago • 382 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 10 days ago • 424 comments

Have confirmed the same. Truly fucked up. And, should go without saying, illegal.

submitted 10 days ago • 58 comments

For no reason at all ... #casablanca

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Masks for The Smallest Toddlers to Young Children to Older Children, Teens & Small Adults This chart is sorted by vertical mask length, but fit based on 3D geometry of multiple attributes. Therefore fit testing is essential. Green masks have headstraps

submitted 127 days ago • 3 comments

Great example of the interpretation of “journalistic objectivity” that sees lobotomizing yourself as preferable to ever drawing any firm conclusions from any amount of evidence

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

University of Hawaii:

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is an absolutely astonishing report. DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root. This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an *internal* threat

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

I was just thinking about this, and sure ‘nuff, it’s back!

submitted 62 days ago • 10 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 13 days ago • 1165 comments

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 13 days ago • 3222 comments

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 15 days ago • 2174 comments

Schiff: Why is this firing of FBI agents such an important piece of this whole effort by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their enablers? Because .. if they're going to raid the treasury... They don't want an FBI that's going to examine anything they're doing.

submitted 16 days ago • 152 comments

Pictured: Rep. Andrew Clyde witnessing President Trump's "outside the box" thinking on January 6th.

submitted 16 days ago • 114 comments

www.myvetcandy.com/blog/2025/2/... Federal veterinarians received the email encouraging them to resign. They are responsible for food safety, meat inspection, preventing disease spread between animals and people, animal health inspection, safe animal husbandry practices, and animal health. #vetmed

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Studying the Cultural Revolution provides a very sobering answer to the question "Surely, we won't really let one gibbering, petty megalomaniac wreak havoc on hundreds of millions of lives and drive the economy off a cliff, right? Someone will stop him, right?"

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments