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Getting my COVID booster and flu shot before they are banned.

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Just reached 290,000 followers here on Bluesky, and, well: Wow. Thank you for being part of my experience here. To celebrate this really cool milestone, I've donated to Black Girls Do STEM, because we need diversity in STEM fields more than ever these days. Onward! bgdstem.com

submitted 8 hours ago • 50 comments

The USS Washington was the only battleship to sink another battleship in a heads up fight during the entire Pacific War. When you consider that was the sole purpose of battleships that's pretty weird.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

I've been on Twitter almost 16 years and peaked at 1500 or so followers and that was OK. I've been here a month or so and am at 1800. Today was a good day to deactivate twitter and remove the app from my phone 👍🏼

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 1 day ago • 730 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 233 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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@greysamongstus.bsky.social Ruby and Ginzburg many years ago.

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Ruh roh

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 1303 comments

It was never about the price of eggs. MAGA is getting what they wanted. sfstandard.com/2025/02/19/d...

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@rfkuang.bsky.social Iga has great taste in books!

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This weasel actually insists it’s a “longstanding norm” that only the president or his attorney general can say “what the law is” which is, of course, absolute garbage.

submitted 4 days ago • 227 comments

Trump has signed an executive order asserting that only the President and the Attorney General are authorized to speak on "what the law is."

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

Because I love animals I will pet and talk to any dog, cat, bunny whatever I run across during my workday. Today was my first, well, pig. Olga was very friendly!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 862 comments

here's today's post: "Team Donny: bird flu’s no biggie, because chickens can’t fly" — Donny’s Sewer Clowns have no idea what they’re doing. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

submitted 5 days ago • 476 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 6 days ago • 481 comments

So, while cutting cancer research and food for hungry children we can afford to send Trump to the #Daytona500 and let his limo do parade laps around the track while the racers sit waiting on pit road?🤬

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Mood.

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2241 comments

Trump keeps whining about the U.S.-Canada trade deal and sparked global chaos over it—but what’s rarely mentioned? He’s the one who negotiated it and spent his first term bragging about it.

submitted 7 days ago • 245 comments

the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see

submitted 7 days ago • 512 comments

In America no one is above... oh, never mind.

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And ya know what's weird? Elon and the Nazi Lost Boys have ruined 1000's of lives because of "waste, fraud and abuse." Fraud is a crime yet they have not filed a single criminal charge. The only person in the whole shit show who has committed fraud is, well, Trump.

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Every day they claim they're finding vast amounts of fraud in the federal government. Fraud is a crime. They've made zero criminal complaints. Odd.

submitted 8 days ago • 326 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 8 days ago • 834 comments

This is so insane

submitted 8 days ago • 658 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 8 days ago • 547 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1089 comments