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Please check in with yourself, family and your friends to make sure you're all up to date on your measles vaccinations!

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Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Boycotting for the Long Haul: How to Survive and Thrive Without Big Corporations https://www.rfr.bz/be5109a

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Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

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Disinformation is "the" threat to our democracy. What can we do? We invite you to a special discussion with Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch Tuesday, March 5 on how we can best defend our democracy against foreign interference. citizensclimate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Bay Area weather radar (KMUX) has been out of service for more than 24 hours now. An expensive broken part needs to be replaced and specially ordered, but that may not be possible due to ongoing freeze on government credit card spending, I’ve been told.

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Weird time to promote a book, but Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out in 15 days. I signed 100,000 copies of the first printing (really! with my hand!) so signed copies are available for preorder now wherever you get your books.

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text from my aunt

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It can feel like we have made no progress in the fight against climate change. That's not the case. youtu.be/h1jOqyjcO4g?...

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Coming up soon!

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March 2 💙 Advocacy: Share a disability rights resource on social media. 💙 Mindfulness: Take 5 deep breaths before responding to an email. 💙 Kindness: Hold the door open or do a small favor for someone today.

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March 4th: Nationwide day of protests! Over 90 events added so far, and our team is working hard to get more up as quickly as possible. Find a March 4th demonstration at www.FiftyFifty.one. #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne @polrev.bsky.social #March4thForDemocracy #ImpeachTrump

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AP reports >> UK pledges export financing for air defense as world leaders discuss ending war in Ukraine. apnews.com/article/ukra...

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The lilac-breasted roller is a gorgeous, but highly aggressive bird from Africa. (Photo: Sharifa Jinnah)

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New subreddit for those who partake: Spoon Campaigns, dedicated to supporting purged federal workers who run for office

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EU already announcing that the USA is no longer the leader of the free world. They're shopping for a new one. I surely thought that'd take longer than 5 weeks. But, here we are.

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Hi, former White House intern, DNC communications staffer, and re-election team partner here: One does not ‘slip’ into the Oval Office. Does not. Period, ever. That’s not a thing.

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NIH and FDA may have canceled Rare Disease Day, but we won’t be silent. 🦓 The rare disease community deserves to be heard, seen, and supported. #CareAboutRare #DontIEPalone #RDD #RareDiseaseDay #raredisease

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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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Trump and Musk are recklessly and intentionally dismantling U.S. foreign policy and national security — compromising our ability to keep Americans safe, fight diseases and deliver lifesaving assistance around the world. What they are doing is illegal. The courts cannot let this stand.

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USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

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trying to imagine how loud the calls for my firing would be if i didn’t know who FDR was

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More media controlling the narrative—The Washington Post refused to run an ad that said, “Fire Elon Musk.”

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Spotted on the mall in DC: Dogs Against Tyranny!

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The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

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FEMA firings are set to increase tonight, even after Trump approved FEMA funding for Kentucky. He calls FEMA worthless but then utilizes it?

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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Elon Musk is stealing from you. #50501 #dc

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worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

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I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

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Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

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I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but if even if you're not an artist, that goofy meme idea in your head will be a thousand times funnier if you just do a crappy drawing of it yourself vs using generative A.I.

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Money talks

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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which oversees government whistleblower protections and enforces certain ethics laws.

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🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

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