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I see tomorrow is Friday. Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day? Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else? I just can’t keep track.

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Cutting science and medicine research, so we can go back to the dark ages?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 8 days ago • 6053 comments

TB programs globally have also been completely closed...so, when drug resistant TB shows up in the US inevitably, I hope people will remember who is to blame...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It should not be surprising to anybody that Musk now wants to cut the subsidies which directly led to the growth of Tesla and Space X, so basically he can have a monopoly? I don’t know any other way to describe a person like this, other than complete scumbag. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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submitted 11 days ago • 405 comments

theconversation.com/unrest-in-ba... How garbage right wing news in India use search engine optimization to dominate google search listings on searches on news about Bangladesh, crowding out news from respected Bangladesh media, and replace them with banshees spewing propaganda:

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent piece from PLOS co-founder and Nobel laureate, Harold Varmus: "If the attacks on our scientists and their institutions are allowed to continue, our envisioned future of longer, healthier lives will happen more slowly, in other countries, or not at all." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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Infant mortality increased along with births in most U.S. states with abortion bans in the first 18 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to new research. Babies who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects died at the highest rates.

submitted 24 days ago • 43 comments

Just because they confirmed RFK Jr today, I am resharing this good news: No cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/ja...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Farmers slammed. “American farms… supply about about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency sends around the world.” And “hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone.” wapo.st/3WSo7nI

submitted 31 days ago • 41 comments

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

submitted 32 days ago • 35 comments

Thank you to the anonymous data hero who archived critical public health data sets before they were removed/altered from the public. Medical researchers, public health professionals and scientists rely on data. Share widely #medsky #pubhealthsky archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

The impending shutdown of USAID is unconstitutional and reveals complete ignorance or indifference to how vital its work -- in global health, conflicts, disasters and beyond -- is to Americans and humanity. abcnews.go.com/US/video/elo...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments