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@juliettekayyem.bsky.social: "The DOGE team shows no understanding of how much work and human expertise go into protecting Americans from infectious diseases, deadly accidents, natural disasters, and other catastrophes." gift link 🎁: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Fact based vaccine information. Not the bullshit RFK Jr is feeding the world. vaxopedia.org

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NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...

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Train robbers swipe $2m worth of Nikes in heists across California and Arizona

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DOGE quietly deleted the 5 biggest spending cuts it celebrated last week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery

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EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report

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Sag awards 2025: Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña win major categories

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LATEST: In a rapidly growing measles outbreak in northwest Texas, 90 cases have been confirmed as of Friday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

In today’s episode, we talk to an expert about the evolution of the gloriously creepy anglerfish, plus the first discovery of an Egyptian pharaoh tomb in over a century. Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/3CYnpyv

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 11 days ago • 860 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 11 days ago • 5077 comments

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 11 days ago • 578 comments

Black Hole Gambar For further info: www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resource...

submitted 15 days ago • 150 comments

Cathy Harris – the chair of a board protecting government workers from unfair employment practices – sued the Trump administration for illegally firing her, arguing that her termination violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 14 days ago • 835 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 15 days ago • 2109 comments

Glacier national park, Montana 📷 zrzhg #Photography #Landscape #lake

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

submitted 18 days ago • 1465 comments

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

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"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.' A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

submitted 21 days ago • 267 comments

Happening now: Fed Chair Jerome Powell testifies before Senate Banking Committee. Brian Cheung previews what we can expect.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: He choked. The market started to tank, and suddenly, he said, “Oh, didn’t you guys already have a plan to deal with the border back in December? I love that—I’ll take that.” This is Mr. Art of the Deal.

submitted 27 days ago • 930 comments

Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

submitted 29 days ago • 609 comments

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 32 days ago • 289 comments

We share this country with some very unpleasant, stupid people.

submitted 34 days ago • 4627 comments

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

submitted 34 days ago • 2740 comments

The USAF removed Tuskegee Airmen & Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII from basic training curriculum. For 30 years I promised these women I would not let them ever be forgotten again. We worked for decades to have them remembered. The Airmen too. Knowledge is power. 🗃️ www.msn.com/en-us/societ...

submitted 37 days ago • 471 comments

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

submitted 37 days ago • 1199 comments

No matter how dull conditions, there are always photographic opportunities! A long exposure brings out streaking clouds, against the turquoise waters of beautiful Moraine lake in the Canadian Rockies. #bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #scape #nature #landscape #naturephotography #travel

submitted 38 days ago • 471 comments

Residents who lost houses to fire weigh selling properties to corporate buyers as costs of available housing in Greater Los Angeles skyrockets.

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Primark launches clothing range designed for people with disabilities

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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

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Today, 130 million Americans—54% of adults aged 16-74—lack the literacy skills that many take for granted, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-li...

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Why don't pictures like this ever trend 🥰 ❤😴😢

submitted 56 days ago • 206 comments

Best intro to a book I’ve seen in awhile

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Reading makes you live longer.

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One of the Universe’s prettiest mysteries — Hoag’s Object, a ring galaxy around 600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. Image Credit: NASA/ESA, Processing: Benoit Blanco

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Happy New Year from Australia, where it’s now 2025! 🎉 Let’s get this shitshow underway!

submitted 62 days ago • 629 comments

thehill.com/homenews/adm... Musk has made her open to campaign finance regulation. Has hell frozen over?

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TERRY GROSS: “I’m going to ask you for a little lesson in etiquette. Do I call you President Carter, Mr. President, or our former President Jimmy Carter?” JIMMY CARTER: “One of the nice things about our country is that you can call me anything you want to.”

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