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Knowledge is power…

I just saw a post from the daily goddamn wire talking about how Elon musk schooled reporters on transparency. The doge.gov website is blank. It’s literally blank. We are not living in the same reality as these people and it’s wild

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Banned Books Banned Words Banned Groups of People All very normal things one expects in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Am I right?

REPEAT AFTER ME: NOBODY VOTED FOR ELON MUSK PASS IT ON.

So naturally, you know what to do…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

Without public knowledge, Elon Musk is serving as a “special government employee” under President Donald Trump, with access to sensitive information (including your SSN) and broad authority granted by Trump.

Thank you, Canada!

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference. www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...

As a casual non-white observer, it’s so bizarre to see folks work so hard to try to prove their superiority over someone like me when they could spend that time actually bettering their own lives and…I don’t know, be happy instead of miserable fucks.

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

Go to the CDC website now enter any of these words: - lgbtq - transgender - diversity - equity Most of the links w important resources which we use daily to guide care and prioritize interventions for vulnerable populations are currently broken or removed. This erasure will harm. Do not look away.

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

Reminder: #RFKJr is not a medically trained professional. His opinions about how to treat depression, ADHD, substance use disorder, prevent infections in children, manage miscarriage/abortion or any other health issue should be roundly dismissed. He does not know what he is talking about.

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

I'm just here to say for the 2nd week in a row, the CDC has not released its morbidly and mortality weekly report on schedule. Everyone who provides healthcare to patients in the US is less informed and less up to date as a direct result. This impacts negatively at the population level.

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY 💯

this is beautiful. we are lucky to have a poet in our local (2x Pulitzer prize-winning) opinion columnist

JUST IN: A new H5N9 bird flu variant has been found in U.S. poultry for the first time at a California duck farm. This variant, linked to the dangerous H5N1 strain, has led to the culling of nearly 119,000 birds to stop the outbreak.

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.

Many people have asked me how can they best stay informed and protect their health while we navigate the indefinite pause on communications from NIH, CDC, & FDA. Here’s a thread on concrete steps YOU can take to protect yourself & your community. 🧵

During raids it would bode well for teachers to allow students to keep cell phones on their person temporarily. I have given my kids permission to do so.

Two women died in GA because they couldn't access abortion care. The media reported it. The state disbanded the maternal health panel in response. More women WILL die, and when they die, the state will make sure their cause of death is hidden from the public. www.propublica.org/article/geor...