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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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This. Check out @runforsomething.net

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Just a regular reminder, be punk as fuck

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The #1 reported reason people avoid doctor’s appointments is because they’re afraid of finding out they have a serious illness. If you have that fear, that’s normal and you’re not alone. Also remember, there is basically no serious illness that isn’t less serious if you catch it sooner.

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US Conservatism at this point seems to grow out of a single principle: what if being wrong was a right, and furthermore, so was people agreeing with you.

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$3,000,000 and counting raised during the 18th Project for Awesome. Join in, and support great orgs like Save the Children and Partners in Health. projectforawesome.com

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New book by @philosobio.bsky.social about slime mould and philosophy! #HPBio #PhilSci www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Out of all the reactions I see to what's happening in the US, the one I have zero tolerance for is: Telling others how they must react, what they must feel or think or do. Some people's go-to response to authoritarianism is so authoritarian that I doubt they know what it is they're opposing to.

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A revised version of "Minimum Viable Experiment to Replicate" is up, where we expound why standard expectations from replications are unrealistic and experiments that may deliver on those replications are rare, if not nonexistent. #metasci #sts #philsci philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24720/7/Mini...

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Thread! As a parent who watched my teen struggle with depersonalization for years before they finally made it off a waitlist to be assessed and treated for gender dysphoria: thanks Zinnia for bringing attention to this symptom.

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“I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think that I’m human…. And this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters.” — James Baldwin

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This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions. We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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I hate to inform you of this, but you are, in fact, the adult in the room.

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Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes. Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?

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47,000+ Palestinians killed. 111,000 injured. Trump’s response? Forcibly expel Palestinians to make Gaza “a real estate development for the future. A beautiful piece of land.” No. Gaza must be rebuilt for the Palestinian people, not billionaire tourists.

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This isn't a normal detention center at Gitmo just for the grotesque optics of that location. They're disappearing people. No disclosure of who's there, or how many, or any way for lawyers to find out. And no transparency on any deaths in custody there, either. Consider the implications of that.

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#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social

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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

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Worth checking out.

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1. The state department has removed transgender people from its website and just reads "LGB Travelers," as reported by a number of journalists. However, on further investigation, it is also removing trans-specific directions for individual countries. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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Love seeing the protests at NYU Langone for complying with an illegal executive order from President Trump meant to intimidate hospitals from providing care to trans youth. More to come?

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Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

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In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest. But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy. Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live. Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

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If you weren’t clear: a President ordering a Federal health and disease agency to delete pages on its website is a public health crisis.

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The body remembers the “ah, six hours ago? probably irrelevant” news cycle

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“A multiple-Reagans level event”

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CDC pages relating to LGBTQ+ queer health are being removed from the CDC website. Staff are not involved in this censorship. We will follow up with external resources for our communities.

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Ooof. This one has consequences. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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CDC staff have been told to RETRACT all studies submitted to journals (but not yet accepted) if they include the words “gender” or “pregnant people”. #holdtheline #publichealth

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Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

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California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.

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I think it already is. But seriously. Don’t call them names. We want the door open for them when they realize the mistake they made. We are for a better America. Not a vindictive America

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it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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Read this and my stomach lurched www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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I can't believe it's come to this but I think my contribution to this place might be watching C-Span and reporting back so you don't have to.

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