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Gen X skateboarder waiting to see which kills me first: a global pandemic, climate change, World War 3, or stage IV cancer.
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

submitted 9 days ago • 3103 comments

RFK Jr’s HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth. It receives on average 2,100 contacts a day. This is metaphorically telling LGBTQ youth they can go kill themselves. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 194 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 20 days ago • 832 comments

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

submitted 39 days ago • 426 comments

Tesla sales plunged 24% in the first three months of this year, as the company reported by far the largest drop in deliveries in its history

submitted 41 days ago • 93 comments

Our immigration policies should not be wielded as union busting, political cudgels. Or as ways to suppress freedom of speech or assembly.

submitted 44 days ago • 299 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸 (From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )

submitted 44 days ago • 102 comments

If you care about the cuts to cancer research, please join the April 5th National Day of Action. Hands Off! #cansky #oncsky handsoff2025.com

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said.

submitted 49 days ago • 49 comments

Typical MAGA…doesn’t wear masks in a cancer center. I’m actually surprised they’re even here and not off taking Ivermectin. #cancer #maga

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

These signs are so soft. Stand up and be disruptive! Get kicked out!

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

#HHS has canceled the March meeting of outside experts who were to advise #FDA on what next winter's #flu shots should target. The irony of this: Canceling #VRBPAC makes the US more reliant on the WHO-led strain selection process. www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/f...

submitted 75 days ago • 10 comments

I’m quietly meditating… yet there are 2 chilling thoughts keep haunting me— 📌1. Measles is not just highly infectious with R0 of 12-18, but it has a long ***2 WEEK*** INCUBATION period—ie Texas outbreak could be in the HUNDREDS or more already, and we are seeing just the early tip of iceberg.

submitted 75 days ago • 55 comments

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

submitted 76 days ago • 190 comments

Amazing!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Lindsay Graham may be the biggest coward I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 87 days ago • 2658 comments

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

submitted 87 days ago • 1629 comments

The shock waves from the Trump administration's assault on the world of science will reverberate for years go come. Progress is being thwarted. Cures are further out of reach. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

JUST IN: Multiple cats in Oregon die after eating raw food contaminated with H5N1 bird flu.

submitted 87 days ago • 6 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 87 days ago • 535 comments

I'm receiving reports from Indiana something is seriously wrong. Hospitals are filling up with flu A patients on ventilators. The ICU is overflowing, forcing critically ill patients into the Progressive Care Unit (PCU).

submitted 91 days ago • 49 comments

UPDATE: The strain of bird flu is distinct from what has previously been found in dairy cattle. The finding raises some worrying questions — and concerns over the Trump administration's muted response.

submitted 96 days ago • 92 comments