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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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JUST IN - US judge blocks Trump's bid to ban DEI by federal agencies, contractors @danielwiesner.bsky.social reut.rs/4h9c4K5

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Hey so they’re deporting people who legally came here to study.

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(Guardian) - French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has cancelled his speech at the US Conservative Political Action Conference conference after former Trump aide Steve Bannon appeared to make a Nazi salute at the end of his speech last night .. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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“S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary sector has wiped out all gains since the end of November.” (via Kevin Gordon)

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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Todays hero

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JUST IN - Supreme Court declines to let Trump immediately fire agency head @andrewchung.bsky.social reut.rs/4b8ZDMT

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Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill says she will not attend St Patrick’s Day events at the White House in protest against US President Donald Trump’s position on Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zenhdd

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Baby pigs make me happy

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US President Donald Trump's top official at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been reassigned as arrests and deportations have lagged expectations, a senior Trump official and two other sources familiar with the matter said. reut.rs/3X8A1di

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

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Everything’s going to be ok now, Doofy is here for you ♥️ #Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatLover

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Trump Backs House GOP Bill Slashing $1 Trillion From Medicaid and Food Stamps truthout.org/articles/tru...

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HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.

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Top US health agency updates definitions of female and male in line with Trump order reut.rs/4i1WnVG

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Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

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Trump signed a new executive order that would allow the White House to control independent agencies that have long operated outside its influence, like the FEC, FCC, FTC and SEC. It’s designed to test a once-fringe legal theory which says the president solely controls the entire executive branch.

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SCOOP: The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. “I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” she said.

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New on MSNBC: Pete Hegseth is considering firing a slate of military generals and flag officers as early as this week, according to two defense officials and three congressional officials.

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“.. has played golf nine out of the 30 days that he has been president ..” www.thedailybeast.com/trump-golfsa...

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#OligarchEra 🇺🇸

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Exclusive: Almost nine out of 10 Japanese companies expect US President Donald Trump's policies to negatively affect business, a Reuters survey showed, the clearest sign yet of mounting worry in the United States' top foreign direct investor reut.rs/4i5Sjnn

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The FHA, which provides mortgage insurance on loans for Americans who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for one, became the latest federal agency to fire employees en masse.

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Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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An 11-year-old girl took her own life in Texas after she was tormented for weeks by her sixth-grade classmates at Gainesville Intermediate School, who threatened to call ICE authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said. 💔 💔

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Dishing out the daily dose of Doofy 🥰 #Cat #Cats #CatLover #CatsOfBluesky

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Per @isabellacueto.bsky.social: “Deep cuts at Health and Human Services over the weekend = loss of workers who: - inspected pharma manufacturing plants - guarded infant formula supply - reviewed medical products - monitored wastewater for mpox - expanded maternal health access +++ more”

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Did you know that we are in New Leashes on Life Shelter Challenge? Please take a minute to vote to help the Blind, FELV+, & FIV+ cats 💙 Voting is free and only takes a few clicks of your time! Thank You! VOTE HERE: www.shelterchallenge.com/shelterchallenge/Shelter/Detail/1122536

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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally charged with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and kill a Supreme Court judge.

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Here at the Health & Human Services (HHS) rally in Washington, DC, to support our federal workers! Interesting chant from the crowd. “Hey, hey, RFK! We remember JFK!” Rep. Jamie Raskin spoke first and compared JFK’s championing of science & human rights to RFK’s anti-science stance.

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This beautiful cat is Tony Bennet. He’s been returned to his shelter 3 times since first arriving in November. He’s a sweet, social cat who desperately needs a friendly cat pal & someone who can spend a lot of time w/him. He’s at the Anne Arundel ACC in Maryland: www.aacounty.org/animal-contr...

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If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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This is a coup.

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BREAKING: The US Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency's resources during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said reut.rs/4gI5Ss4

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Remember when Donald Trump promised not to touch Medicaid? He’s already flipped.

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It’s not a coincidence—it’s a warning.

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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“.. a new so-called Rule 10b5-1 trading plan to sell up to 9,975,000 shares through Sept. 12 ..” @barrons.com $PLTR www.barrons.com/articles/pal...

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