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how it started / how it's going

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Routine childhood vaccination rates have been declining precipitously in recent years. The MMR vaccine is one of the most important. Today 14 states have an MMR vaccination rate for kindergartners of less than 90%. In 2019, just 3 did.

submitted 187 days ago • 42 comments

The One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1) is not just a budget; it’s an authoritarian blueprint. We must act now. Call your senators. Flood their phones, inboxes, and social feeds. Tell them to vote NO on H.R.1. Our future depends on it. #StopHR1 #ProtectDemocracy #ActNow (3 of 3)

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

submitted 4 days ago • 181 comments

A family member who worked on a daily farm contracted a dreadful chronic Campylobacter infection from raw milk that went untreated for months after initial cultures came up negative. I wouldn't wish that misery on anyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

The pardon power exists to correct legal errors, not to let reality TV hosts monetize it.

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.

submitted 3 days ago • 863 comments

That this could be any one of three people in the last few years is a stain on the history of democracy in the United States.

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submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

🧪🔭 fuck

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

MAGA will deport or imprison as many immigrants as possible, eventually they’ll openly advocate extermination or quietly carry it out while gaslighting that they aren’t doing it. They will also target LGBT citizens, minority citizens including African, Latino, Asian and others.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Strongman tactic by DHS lists cities not signed onto 287(g) agreements. Threatening to withhold funds and pursue legal action. WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is putting more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the country on notice that the Trump administration views them

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The American people did not vote to destroy US science and disease cure research. If this were a parliamentary system, we’d be having snap elections now and Trump would be defeated. In the US system the only legal option for removal is impeachment.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

We're going to learn some tough stuff today about the White House's proposed budget for fiscal year 2026—including what they have in mind for NASA. I'll share what I hear, but remember: CONGRESS decides how much money NASA gets, not the White House. So whatever happens today, the fight continues.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

There are many proposed cuts that are more directly harmful to people's lives, but these stand out for the intensity of the anti-science ideology. These are pure missions of exploration, famously nonpartisan, being cut by people who see knowledge as worthless or actively undesirable.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

The House Ways & Means Committee advanced a tax bill that includes a dangerous provision granting the executive branch the power to effectively shut down any non-profit by accusing them of “supporting terrorism” and using that to suspend their tax-exempt status without any real due process.

submitted 20 days ago • 27 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

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submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

🚨 SENTENCING TODAY After being delayed from last Friday, the sentencing of the Manchester 4 will go ahead this morning in Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court. They have been on remand for 9 months for a nonviolent action that never happened, and face up to 10 years in prison.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

"“From time-to-time instances will arise in which the society, or segments of it, threaten the very mission of the university & its values... In such a crisis, it becomes the obligation of the university as an institution to oppose such measures & actively to defend its interests and its values.”

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks Harvard, for taking a stand. Perhaps we should all stand together….

submitted 10 days ago • 263 comments

I talked to NPR about seeing DHS White House liaison Paul Ingrassia at a Nick Fuentes rally last year.

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Mind-boggling: Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy over a period of nearly 20 years (Credit: ESO/GRAVITY Collaboration)

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"Everyone was welcome, according to organizers, although they say senior administrators were told NOT to participate." YES and KUDOS to the courage of NSF staff! Happy 75th anniversary National Science Foundation! www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It is incredible what we can do when we put our minds to it.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.

submitted 11 days ago • 328 comments

MANCHESTER SENTENCING TODAY At 2pm, Margaret, Indigo, Daniel and Ella will be sentenced for conspiracy to cause a public nuisance in Manchester today. They have been on remand since last August. The conviction carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

In Quebec, Tesla registrations fell by 90% in Q1 compared to the previous quarter. Yes, 90%. Tesla is going completely extinct in Canada and in Europe (but not in the UK, which is saying something about the UK)

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

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 12 days ago • 402 comments

NEW: The Pentagon has officially accepted the illegal $400M emolument from Qatar. abcnews.go.com/Politics/pen...

submitted 13 days ago • 1464 comments

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

submitted 13 days ago • 1178 comments

I just left a comment. If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

Do not compromise with the GOP. Dismantle the GOP.

submitted 14 days ago • 340 comments

Do you ever think about the great things America could do if we focused our energy on common good rather than corporate greed?

submitted 14 days ago • 806 comments

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

submitted 14 days ago • 234 comments

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

submitted 14 days ago • 2550 comments

Left my phone in an Uber last night (not drunk, just dumb). Driver Neeraj drove across Toronto today, after attending church with his family, to return it. Refused to take extra cash but I was able to gratefully tip him through the app. Good to know there are still good people out there.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Researchers studying the impact of permitless carry have demonstrated that the removal of gun regulations has an immediate, devastating effect on public safety. And this law promoted by Donald Trump will do exactly that.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Charles Carrier, a “We Buy Ugly Houses” former franchise owner, is accused of orchestrating a yearslong Ponzi scheme, bilking tens of millions of dollars from both wealthy investors and older people with modest incomes. Despite signs of trouble, the company didn’t intervene.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

Tell Congress: Save NASA Science 🧪🔭 www.congressweb.com/PlanetarySoc...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine starting a car that hadn't run in 21 years, that's 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. That's what the NASA team just did with Voyager's thrusters. People are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...

submitted 17 days ago • 335 comments