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And then correctly notes that Trump's domestic policies are profoundly anti-capitalist (and anti-capital!)

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

My N95 mask is like any article of clothing, like a hat, for example. I take it with me and use it when entering public indoor spaces. It's so simple, so easy. It's very effective protection against ALL AIRBORNE DISEASES. There are many circulating, not just COVID. Masks work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Dispelling Misinformation Around Facemasks - Yes, They Work, Yes They Protect Against Covid-19 youtu.be/JUroBP84lho

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Do we know who made this headline change? Yet another minimizer whose ego can't handle recognizing 👉we were right about everything👈.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

She’s essentially saying it here, but worth saying explicitly that communities impacted by extreme weather and fires now include virtually everywhere in this country.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

submitted 12 days ago • 522 comments

Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

submitted 14 days ago • 1256 comments

Don’t let Donold’s AI Gaza video distract you from the fact they’re going to destroy Medicaid and kill millions in exchange for tax cuts for themselves.

submitted 13 days ago • 192 comments

Today is a devastating reminder that infectious diseases don’t care what your ‘beliefs’ are. Everyone is likely to be affected directly or indirectly. Serious challenges require serious people at the helm. Protect your loved ones. Educate. Advocate. The cost of not doing so will be too much to bear.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 14 days ago • 1186 comments

It’s always a punch to the gut to see direct steps that will increase preventable deaths. With the recent measles death and hampering of vaccine production, wearing a mask is another tool that I hope people will reconsider trying again. We need to use all the tools when some are taken away.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine” After RFK confirmed as HHS head: - CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled - Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed - Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn - Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

BREAKING: The House narrowly approved a budget resolution that calls for $2 trillion in spending cuts over 10 yrs to pay for Trump's agenda. It would tighten border security, fund the deportation of migrants, boost military spending, etc. It will mean massive cuts to Medicaid #BlueSky #MedSky

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

If you haven't been masking NOW is a really good time to start. It's one of the easiest things you can do to protect other people even if you don't care about yourself. You spread illness BEFORE you show symptoms.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

“Were they dying from chronic disease or were they dying from Covid” Covid. They died from Covid This is health supremacy. Chronic illness is not someone’s fault. Disability can’t be fixed with diet & exercise. We’re no less deserving of life This is escalating eugenics and it won’t stop with us

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

Accidentally fired the guys running the nuclear program. Accidentally fired experienced air traffic controllers. Accidentlly fired the people trying to contain the bird flu.... Accidentally fired...

submitted 21 days ago • 92 comments

The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel, who has published an enemies list identical to Trump's, to serve a 10-year term as FBI Director. He will be a major cog in Trump's vengeance machine to silence and intimidate critics. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/kash-patel-in-his-own-words

submitted 19 days ago • 220 comments

Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

submitted 19 days ago • 790 comments

504 plans are how kids can carry EpiPens or make sure their classroom is peanut free. It’s how kids with diabetes can use insulin. It’s how kids with mobility issues can have more passing time or use an elevator. An attack on 504 is an attack on everyone. Listen to @lollardfish.bsky.social.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

New EO (link below) orders HHS to terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID (section 2iv). Share widely on all platforms. This is a perfect example of how this administration does not care about Americans. If this is efficiency, then what IS Trump's plan for people with Long COVID?

submitted 20 days ago • 38 comments

Indoor air pollution causes short and longterm health issues. It’s crucial to make the invisible visible. Let air cleaners do the work so a child’s lungs don’t have to. #AirFiltersWork #SafeAirSchools #SafeAir4All

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

submitted 20 days ago • 93 comments

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

submitted 20 days ago • 409 comments

As more States propose mask bans, I want to take a moment to discuss claims that it’s “fear mongering” to say that masking is illegal. People claim the medical exemption is “good enough”. This ignores three critical points. Public perception, anti mask sentiment and rampant ableism 🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

In a rational, ethical world, clean indoor air would be mandated in all public buildings—especially schools, hospitals, workplaces, and prisons—and clean air inspectors would perform random checks, like how health inspectors review food safety standards at restaurants.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

If they ban mRNA vaccines for 10 years we will have no #BirdFlu vaccines. The current #H5N1 vaccines are made using chicken eggs. We don't have enough eggs to make vaccines for the entire population in case of a pandemic. The hens are sick with Bird Flu. Stupidity www.idahopress.com/news/local/c...

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

Pfizer discontinuing Lucira Covid+Flu home PCR at end of March & not replacing. Contact Pfizer to express your disapproval. We need reliable home PCRs. www.pfizer.com/contact #Covid #Flu #Healthcare #PCRTest #CovidCautious

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 22 days ago • 836 comments

These fascists also don’t deem me worthy of life. Remember the Nazis went after disabled people first, systematically killing anyone disabled or that they deemed unfit for life, before they started doing genocide.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 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 24 days ago • 476 comments

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

submitted 22 days ago • 280 comments

Probationary employees at FDA just got laid off (on the Saturday night of a long weekend) www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Covid Roundup & CDC Update for February 14th, 2025 youtu.be/sfzEkD5WgMs

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

How Trump’s ‘fear factor’ is already reshaping American science ‘The number of cures we won’t get and scientific advances we won’t have as a result of these cuts are uncountable’ @matthewherper.bsky.social @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Every web page ordered restored by the court that features anything related to gender now contains this notice.

submitted 26 days ago • 235 comments

"...a largely symbolic move considering that no states currently require them."

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Can confirm mass layoffs of probationary employees underway or about to commence at National Institutes of Health (NIH), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Fish & Wildlife Service, per agency sources.

submitted 26 days ago • 58 comments

If there’s a Disease X outbreak in the next four (or more?) years we literally will be flying blind, we just fired the people who would have tracked it

submitted 25 days ago • 24 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 26 days ago • 541 comments

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

submitted 26 days ago • 1031 comments

If you gave up wearing a mask, you can start again. Even (and especially) if you have already been infected. Every infection you prevent is worth it. Changing your mind on your behavior because you have learned new information is normal and correct. Masking is community care and self care.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

TRUMP: No need to study stove, it's perfectly safe to touch

submitted 26 days ago • 27 comments

After being held back for a month, the CDC has finally published its first study on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

"I'm gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all, thank you for public service. We're going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years." Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the 26th Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States. Make America Healthy Again.

submitted 26 days ago • 27 comments

Something you can do to stand against RFK jr’s attempt to make us all sicker is wear a mask when you share air with others. Resist mask bans. People who cannot afford to get sick have a right to exist in public. Masking will protect your health from him too.

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 30 days ago • 381 comments