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This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 402 comments

At some point, you’ve got to start to wonder who’s actually working for you in Congress. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is a warning sign of just how far Trump and his allies are willing to go to silence dissent. This is not normal. It’s authoritarian behavior, plain and simple.

submitted 33 days ago • 86 comments

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 162 comments

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 41 days ago • 27 comments

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

submitted 55 days ago • 50 comments

I love these 10 pieces of GOOD NEWS on climate!

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Hickenloooer and Bennet need to explain themselves and be held accountable for every vote that doesn’t serve the people of Colorado. Hickenlooper: 202-224-5941 Bennet: 202-224-5852 #DemandBetter #Colorado #DefendDemocracy #Resist

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m

submitted 66 days ago • 82 comments

THIS. He is incapable of building anything of use on his own, so he thinks tariffs will coerce business into do it for him. 😂 Coulda just let the Biden economy keep rolling!

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Folks, the *goal* is to tank the dollar. That’s a feature not a bug. Once again begging people to read through this very comprehensive guide to what we’re dealing with right now: www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi... (more on the dollar stuff in particular: www.vcinfodocs.com/implications...)

submitted 69 days ago • 18 comments

An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there. CDC's entire FOIA office is gone. The FDA's communications and web office were cut. "The FDA as we know it is gone."

submitted 71 days ago • 356 comments

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

submitted 73 days ago • 439 comments

Thank you @aoc.bsky.social for coming to Denver yesterday! You are the leadership and voice we all need.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Quick scan of the 30,000+ crowd at Civic Center Park in Denver, waiting for @aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov to arrive on March 21.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Did not feel surprised or shocked by this at all. If anything, it confirms the sadness I’ve felt since mid-2024, that our desire and ability to resist is gone.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

#TeamFight

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 89 days ago • 2304 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 94 days ago • 453 comments

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 104 days ago • 297 comments

"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."

submitted 104 days ago • 98 comments

The FIRST Amendment: Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of the press.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

More than 150 Forest Service workers managing public land in Colorado lose jobs as part of Trump cuts

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 116 days ago • 467 comments