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Just so you know, up to 60,000 children go blind from measles every year

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The two genders

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NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

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Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

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The contrast b/w how we treat scientists focusing diseases that affected a family member as good & righteous but others wanting to help their own marginalized communities as "DEI" or "identity politics" is revealing. Our work is not acceptable collateral to "going back to how it was". Full stop.

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I mean, cool, I ain’t ever paying that shit back, so. You’re only making it even more likely I’ll never ever pay another dime lmao

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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If you’re an insurance company, and your policy covers home hemodialysis but only for 60 sessions, then your policy does not cover home hemodialysis.

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I need someone to tell me NOT to adopt this cute lil chihuahua mix because I’m in med school and DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR A DOG!!!!!

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Unfortunately, the measles party controls all 3 branches of government

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I put my pants on just like everyone else: crying

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Children with cerebral palsy are eligible to have Medicaid, even if their parents have “good jobs” with “good insurance.” Why? Because caring for a disabled child is really expensive. Like tens of thousands per year expensive. The GOP just voted to destroy this program to give tax cuts for the rich.

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Medicaid is one of the most cost-effective health programs. It costs less per enrollee than private insurance & has lower administrative costs. Besides direct harms to people who lose their coverage, cutting Medicaid will put people out of jobs & close rural + community hospitals.

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Whenever a politician uses AI as a proposed health care solution that's a flaming red flag that they have no real plan. We're still faxing pieces of paper to one another's offices in 2025. We were supposed to leverage the power of the internet to fix that 20 YEARS AGO. But sure, go on about AI.

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Historian of public health here to hard agree. Infectious diseases can have terrible lifelong consequences that are short of death!

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This is incredibly sad and is a reminder of the seriousness of #measles. The WHO estimated 107,500 people died from measles in 2023. It remains a leading cause of death in children under the age of 5 globally. The measles vaccine prevents this from happening, apnews.com/article/meas...

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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

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Just as an FYI, hospitals NEED Medicare and Medicaid dollars to function. Smaller/ rural/ critical access hospitals will not survive without them. So even if you don't rely on Medicare, you still might lose your local hospital or find yourself stranded without care while traveling.

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A vote to cut Medicaid by $880 billion is basically a vote in favor of mass death.

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Yall pulmonary physiology is kicking my ass

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Hello and thank you for using the blocklist! The original list hosted on my personal account @franzanth.bsky.social was created during bsky's early days. It has since escaped my circle of friends and evolved into a multi-purpose blocklist, so I feel it's important to redefine my scope here. 🧵

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one thing i've seen a lot lately that i don't care for is the flattening of "extralegal political violence" into one abstract idea that must be litigated as Good or Bad. i do not think we need to treat one of the most complex subjects in the study of politics and history as a binary

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Uh oh, my somewhat kinda crush shaved his beard but I still find him cute

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Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

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Why do I keep getting HEARTBURN I HATE IT

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Oh.

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Maramalade's an 18-year-old kitty who just arrived in our care! She's diagnosed with dry FIP and Feline Infectious Anemia (Hemobart) due to tapeworms and fleas. We have Marmalade on a costly treatment for her dry FIP to get her on the road to recovery. Thank you so much for all of your support!

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they got rid of all these guys

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people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

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Every union should be echoing this statement.

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Not only did the National Park Service remove references to transgender history on the Stonewall website, it appears they are now editing the work of historians without their knowledge or consent.

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I am glad their sign specifically identified the cause though I wish it had said “Trump Administration” rather than “Federal Government”… let’s get these people angry in the right direction. If you have the opportunity to call these out be specific.

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Video of the crash in Toronto yesterday. Post from an ER doc whose hospital is very close to the airport.

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As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

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Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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A common misunderstanding is that HPV is only a problem for people who are “sexually promiscuous.” The truth: you can get HPV even if you’ve only had ONE partner. Its prevalence in adult populations is very high. So we vax everyone.

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Now that the Republicans have axed special education programs, they're going to go after the ADA. They're going to go after disability. My transportation program is the only way to get to my doctors. It's how I survive. Nazis came after the disabled early last time around. We are not safe.

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This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

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Bought a counter top dishwasher in attempt to fix my life

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Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.

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The state with the lowest kindergarten MMR vaccine coverage in the U.S. is Idaho (79.6%). The state with the highest MMR vaccine coverage is West Virginia (98.3%). West Virginia doesn’t allow non-medical exemptions to vaccines for school entry; while Idaho’s exemption form looks like this:

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