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The measles epidemic is worsening & so is the misinformation 👇

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Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer.  So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals

submitted 20 hours ago • 280 comments

Record wildfires Record heat Record melt Record floods Record droughts We can't solve this crisis if we keep expanding the problem. It's time to unplug fossil fuels and #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

And by the way, they're coming for womens' votes. "And there’s a chance this may not even be an accident." Yeah the chance is 100%. www.glamour.com/story/save-a...

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

📣 Take action! Contact the U.S. CDC to voice your support for access to the Novavax vaccine. You may submit comments anonymously. ⏰ Deadline: Friday, April 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT (tonight!). www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2... #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #Novavax

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 1 day ago • 2271 comments

From article: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is exploring legal pathways to “deport” U.S. citizens to El Salvador.

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An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

I have so much fun chatting with David about every topic under the sun related to complex disease. We laugh, we cry, we pontificate. Subscribe today!!

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NEW: Whooping cough is killing babies. It’s not just measles cases that are soaring as vaccine rates decline. And the Trump administration recently cut $11 billion from state and local agencies on the front lines of protecting Americans from outbreaks. www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

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What to do with electronics when crossing borders apnews.com/article/inte...

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Call to save Novovax. Public comment until Friday 11 April (tomorrow) US Gov may rescind authorization. Many people prefer it for health reasons. Keep choice available! See alt text www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...

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CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks. "All of the full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job" www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The U.S. is being governed by unspeakably terrible people right now

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

#Measles takes your immune memories virologydownunder.com/measles-take...

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www.statnews.com/2025/04/09/m...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

When biomedical science and global health face existential threat, by @daltmann.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The attack on some of us is an attack on all of us, and we must stand together."

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The Supreme Court is corrupted. Absent widespread public protest, or a coup, this fight will be the ballgame

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Such important work on 3 fronts: (1) identifies a new anti-SARSCov2 drug (desperately needed), (2) develops an impressive mouse model for long COVID, (3) offers an avenue for potential treatment, not just prevention, of long COVID. Kudos to the team @wehi-research.bsky.social and collaborators.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

www.thestar.com/news/gta/uni...

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This is what we're being advised north of the Medicine Line: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

submitted 6 days ago • 1675 comments

Illegal space aliens. (ICE agents break into Area 51 to deport the Roswell greys)

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments