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We’re still in a global pandemic. The threat of Covid has not passed. We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more. Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own. The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 1817 comments

They voted against 'preferred pronouns' and now they want people to use the ones they prefer? Seems a bit unfair 🤷

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Start wearing your mask again, because they aren’t going to warn us this time.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

From the river to the sea FREE PALESTINE

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 1 day ago • 1573 comments

I think what the average “flying is still the safest method of travel” people are missing is the active dismantling of what makes flying safe

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Reposting with #AltText: It’s bad enough so many people don’t use alt text in general, but it is DEEPLY fucked up not to include it in a post about disabled people being literally written out of society by our government. Come ON.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

In Boro Park, Brooklyn last night: A demo against a stolen land real estate event was countered by MAGA Zionists who, throughout the night, incited people into violence, provoking numerous mob attacks. Today, ‘democratic’ pols issued condemnations of ‘antisemitism’ in defense of the MAGA mob.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Please advocate for us

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

If you think Jasmine Crockett is awesome you need to stop dunking on red states as full of hopeless hayseeds. Representative Crockett is from Missouri and has been a proud Texan since law school.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

A constitutional crisis is frightening, but since more of us are looking critically at how we are governed because of who's in office, we should contend with the idea that the Constitution itself is a crisis for our rights. Y'all, the document that governs us allows slavery for basically any crime.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

First they do this with nuclear energy employees, now the bird flu team at the CDC. We knew that they weren’t making good decisions but DOGE does a good job of showing how inept they are huh? www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 4 days ago • 1927 comments

Hi! If you are raped while in an AirBnB or if you or your loved one is murdered, AirBnB will send someone to threaten you and your family, clean up the body, or pay you off to STFU to protect their image. From Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

@nytimes.com is a pawn of fascists and nothing they publish will change that. Don’t forget that they will always bow to dictators and to political interests. They aren’t journalists, it is propaganda

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

submitted 4 days ago • 818 comments

In 1988, the FAA required new aircraft seats to withstand 16x the force of gravity — 16g. It is likely that because of that decision, in part, that everyone survived today's Delta crash. As @PeterGoelz said tonight it was an instance "where a government regulation saved lives."

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

I think we will see the veil fall in the next 4 years and by that I mean any pretense will be dropped. They will do something extreme and say “and what are you going to do about it?” It’s happening more and more but we’re not quite there yet. You should meet like-minded neighbors and buy a gun

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

A must read “What’s more, our system of laws is built on the principle that someone’s temporary right to pursue happiness, or someone’s brief liberty of speech, must not supersede someone else’s permanent right to life.”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 5 days ago • 483 comments

Mask bans kill disabled people. It’s a eugenics tool. By others not masking in solidarity, you’re saying your comfort and convenience is more important than our lives. Abled comfort and convenience do not outweigh disabled lives and safety. Does your “we keep us safe” include disabled people?

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Please call your AG if you’re in one of the states suing to end section 504, if they repeal it there will be NO requirements to provide accommodations to special needs students or disabled adults

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Shared with my by an NWS Meteorologist: NWS is potentially in trouble. We are struggling to get our public safety exemption approved from higher ups in the government. Without the exemption, we could face steep cuts. 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

The only thing that can save the country is liberals refraining from telling trump voters who have been materially negatively impacted and now hate him “we told you so” or “all this bc you didn’t want to vote for a black woman”. so I think our chances are not great

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Polite request to the people telling others not to use grocery delivery apps or Amazon : please start wearing masks when you go out. Some of us could get really sick and die.

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I know it’s a lot of doom and gloom and people don’t know where to start so my suggestion is find your neighborhood/close by community fridge. Take when you need and donate when you can. That is something you can do.

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

In Moscow in the late ‘80s I met long lost. cousins who asked after an uncle in the US & were stunned to hear he was playing tennis after recent triple bypass: “But he must be 60 yrs old, in USSR a life that old isn’t worth the expense of such an operation.” —That’s where Trump-Musk are taking us.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments