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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Yesterday I spoke with Prof Grant McArthur from Peter Mac about a new study that has huge implications for melanoma treatment - "the long term follow ups indicate a significant proportion of patients are actually being cured" Incredible news on the skin cancer front! soundcloud.com/jess-mcguire...

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80% of Australia’s gas is exported. We don’t need any more gas. We don’t have a gas shortage. Keep on saying and sharing it, folks!

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The head of the food division at the US Food and Drug Administration has quit in protest over sweeping staff cuts that he warns will hamper the agency’s ability to protect public health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The only mention of budgets in this article that fawns over private school but provides no context that private schools are being given public money and as a result 98% of public schools are funded below the School Resource Standard.

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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In a nice twist, CSIRO researchers clinically prove cranberry supplement CAN reduce UTIs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

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This is an incredible thread of quote tweets and you should definitely go down this rabbit hole

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In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

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nope

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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...

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Look, if this isn't enough incentive to sell up and crash the value of Tesla I dont know what is. (Mind you if you own Tesla stock after that Nazi salute we already know what you are)

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The people with the most to gain from Elon Musk's precarious empire are cashing out. The rats are leaving the sinking ship. This is proof that protests, boycotts, and divestment can work. They know how vulnerable Tesla, the foundation of his wealth, really is. This is where we hit back.

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Cursed post all round

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“To be selected as the artist and curator team to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale is considered the ultimate exhibition for an artistic team. To have your selection rescinded… is without precedent.” theconversation.com/a-shameful-c...

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Figures out this week show AGL is charging more to households for electricity and gas than it does businesses. If households got the deal businesses did AGL: customers would save on average $840 a year in gas and $957 on electricity - $1,797 a year. How is this fair? #auspol

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Cybertruck detects oncoming truck and tries to drive right into it. #FSD #Tesla #Cyberfucked www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsan...

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Holds up.

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BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

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sad when even the pump fails

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Google has removed Pride month, Black History month and Holocaust Remembrance Day from irs calendar.

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The best way to fight back against Musk: Don’t buy a Tesla. (And if you own one, sell it.) The company was already in a precarious position before Musk launched his assault on democracy. A Tesla boycott would be devastating – and richly deserved. Me, in Slate 🧵

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watch elon musk with the sound off and tell me that he's sober

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"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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Beans in chili are woke. What a great bit

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Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

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This should worry all creatives: A consultation on changes to UK copyright law is “fixed” in favour of artificial intelligence companies and will lead to a “wholesale” transfer of wealth from the creative industries to the tech tells The Guardian.

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@7ampodcast.com.au gave me whiplash this morning (after yesterday)- much better with a great summary of the knock effects of Trumps chaos podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...

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www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Yusss!!!! www.theurbanlist.com/melbourne/a-...

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A story in two parts: 1) Musk accuses Senator Goldman of fraud (LEFT) 2) Goldman calls Musk out (RIGHT) I wonder what Senator Goldman wants the FBI to discover in a Musk background check? 🍿

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Hate to see it. Tesla’s January performance marks lowest sales figures since July 2022. Sales in Australia slumped to just 739 cars in January, a 33% fall compared to January 2024. The Model 3 recorded a 62% decline with just 274 deliveries, despite the recent facelift. TSLA TSLAQ

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Considering that the vast majority of our current curriculum discourages critical thinking and instead praises conformity - I can't see this as anything other than positive for capitalists and detrimental for anyone else. We have made more efficient drones ! The system works !

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If you want to hurt Trump, you hurt Musk. If you want to hurt Musk, you hurt Tesla. About 1/3 of Musk's wealth is tied up in TSLA stock, meaning that the stock price is an attack surface . . . 1/ www.thebulwark.com/p/tesla-is-e...

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@7ampodcast.com.au - great to see you tackling Elon Musks issues, but Kara Swisher isn’t the right person to be talking to. She’s helped create the monster she now realises is a monster. Talk to @niedermeyer.online for a better understanding of the man and his motivations

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Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

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1) #$TSLAQ #$TSLA #TeslaBrandDestruction "A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild of deadly cars if ever there was one." futurism.com/the-byte/cyb...

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