carronica.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Nurses rely on sound science and evidence based practice. On March 7th, nurses can stand up for our research and healthcare institutions. Find your local rally information here standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

My friend and mentor Orville Schell puts very clearly what many people with experience in 20th century China are thinking: The parallels with the nihilism and chaos-for-its-own-sake of the Cultural Revolution years. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

BREAKING: US judge extends order temporarily blocking Trump research funding cuts - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Let's be clear about what Senate Republicans are doing tonight: they're laying the groundwork to pass huge tax cuts for billionaires while cutting vital services for everyone else. Let me explain Trump's great betrayal and how we're fighting back tonight ⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

A federal judge finds the Trump admin has "not complied" with his TRO blocking the blanket suspension of foreign aid funding, but stops short of holding it in contempt. Doc https://buff.ly/3ENrGoY

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

The U.S. Is Cutting Off Foreign Aid. My Youngest Patients Are Paying the Price Powerful piece by the inspiring Dr Jen Furin time.com/7258248/us-f...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 2 days ago • 555 comments

Dear Trump voter with elderly parent(s) in nursing home: Get your guest room ready and kiss your free time, vacation & toy money goodbye!

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

Heinous—Trump WH/HHS is planning to likely destroy $500 million worth of stockpiled COVID tests. They could give it out for free, but then Trump and RFK Jr would have to admit COVID is serious. And minimizers don’t have the guts to admit millions died. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Another infectious disease no one is discussing “In Kansas, USA, public health workers are battling one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history. As of Jan 31, 67 patients in the Kansas City metropolitan area had active infections and 79 latent cases have been identified”

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

43% of social welfare recipients are White. 11 of the top 12 most dependent states are red states. Alaska is the most dependent on federal aid while California (49) and New Jersey (50) are least dependent, contributing far more than they receive. #RedStateMoochers

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

These are the ads about Elon Musk that the Washington Post refused to run. The paper offered NO EXPLANATION. This is the problem with outlets that are CONTROLLED BY BILLIONAIRES focused on ingratiating themselves with Trump. Support independent media: muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 6 days ago • 233 comments

#BlackHistoryMonth 📌 The Black Angels 🔊 “For decades, they worked at Sea View, enduring racism, sexism, verbal redlining, and physical abuse from patients… they worked day after day onwards with a deadly disease that had no cure.” #Tuberculosis @mariasmilios.bsky.social nurse.org/news/the-bla...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

submitted 7 days ago • 118 comments

The new Macklemore video everyone’s talking about. You might think it’s about Palestine, but it’s bigger than that. It’s about social media controlling what we see, hear, and think. It’s a call to action. Whew… “fucked up.” youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?...

submitted 7 days ago • 217 comments

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 547 comments

“Republican politicians plan to take food and health care away from the poor to subsidize tax cuts for the rich. That might sound like a stale, Scroogy stereotype. But it’s not an exaggeration: It’s laid out, in black and white…”

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal court extends for another week the TRO against Trump admin's effort to gut USAID workforce while he considers request for more permanent relief. Check out Democracy Docket for more breaking news. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Dear MAGA, Seriously, fuck off 🖕🏻 #SheShed

submitted 9 days ago • 144 comments

It's the end of the world as we know it and I don't feel fine.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

health-e.org.za/2025/02/11/k...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What do National Institutes of Health funding cuts mean for universities? We ask Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science and former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 10 days ago • 1153 comments

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when Trump announced his federal funding freeze.

submitted 10 days ago • 256 comments