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Measles can swell your brain. It also wipes out your immune system. But there's a loonie in the government who says vaccinations are bad, so for fuck sake let your kid get measles. (I have GOT to stop using "loonie" since we're going to become South Canada soon.)

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Rep. Jason Crow: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most. “JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what's lawful and constitutional. “Replacing these military lawyers with Trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

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Trump didn't just fire the four-star generals. He's also removing the JAGs for the Army, Navy and Air Force — critical positions that ensure enforcement of military justice. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 11 hours ago • 40 comments

How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 16 hours ago • 78 comments

From Forest Service… Some employees terminated last week, who have cried, terminated leases, found new jobs, and moved…Are getting called back to work. Rumor is 300 people. “It was a mistake.” Seems like these employees work in forest management (timber). Screenshot from an unknown acct.

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I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 12 hours ago • 334 comments

The Russians were terrified of this guy and rightly so—and right now I guarantee you they simply can not believe their luck

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This is heartbreaking. 💔 I feel terrible for the people affected and have real concern about what will happen with our public lands.

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If you support this, you’re an awful human being

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“Most of the federal workers spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk or for fear of being targeted. Many are completely stunned and terrified by the scope and totality of the actions.” www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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when you've (already) lost Larry Kudlow ...

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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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BREAKING President Trump has fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown Jr.

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From 1980 until the pandemic, top earners in the US saw real wages grow at more than double the rate of every other income group The top income TAX rate has fallen from 70% in 1979 to 37% today These 2 factors (and others) have shifted $50T from the middle class to the wealthy

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There is no plan to lower egg prices, as Trump confirmed earlier today by pivoting to lies about the southern border. Trump is also diverting DHS agents from efforts combatting fentanyl and human trafficking so they can round up immigrant moms and dads instead: americasvoice.org/press_releas...

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KUDLOW: "There could be some short term, one-off price hikes. But at least for now, the economic signals are flashing slower growth and higher inflation. Not good." 😬😬😬

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Oh

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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These NIH funding cuts threaten research happening in Delaware on heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke recovery, & more. This is what this administration is focused on. Not lowering your household costs.

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A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."

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www.mariettatimes.com/znewsletter-...

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The governor of Maine is a 77-year-old in the middle of her second term in office and therefore ineligible to run for a third. But King Trump here tries to intimidate her by saying she'll have no future career in politics if she dares to stand up to him. I think she's all good, man.

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments