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Dr. Peter Marks, the US top vaccine regulator, resigned yesterday. Forced out. In his resignation letter, Marks said it became clear that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t want the truth about vaccine safety, "but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

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“those of us who can avoid travel to the US must continue the science others cannot and speak up where others are silenced”

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Michelin’s latest guide for Kyoto and Osaka awards stars to 172 restaurants, including Japan’s first star for Mexican cuisine.

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From YouGov: Only 19% of Britons say the government has managed the economy well

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The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

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The Trump book burnings are beginning.

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I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

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People are taking things into their own hands

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NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

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“Eros means desire. Fascism pursues an “erotic” aesthetic precisely because both desire and our rejection of it kneels before fascism’s false terms, in which our only real existence is in relationship to power.”

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Another attack on academic freedom of faculty & attempting to transform the curriculum of universities to support the myths of white superiority. www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

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Diving in and will pull out stuff I'm interested in some lazy version of a thread www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor advocated for a “fearlessly independent” judiciary during remarks Friday, telling an audience in Washington that she is worried about “standards that are being changed.”

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DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

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"The Harvard letter represents an outpouring of indignation from an extraordinary cross-section of the University’s faculty — and a unified demand that Harvard, which has so far been silent on the events at Columbia, take a public stand." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Four Tesla-owned dealerships reported that they sold an astonishing 8,653 cars during a single weekend in January — enough to qualify for 43 million Canadian dollars’ (about $30 million) worth of government subsidies. Now those numbers are under scrutiny by the Canadian government.

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Elon Musk’s creation is EU-unfriendly and poses a danger to anyone who gets in its way. Sound familiar? David Aaronvitch on what the Cybertruck says about Trump’s America

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"It’s not that OpenAI picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates. OAI picked Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach It is display of power: You, as artist, animator, illustrator, writer are powerless. We will take what we want & do what we want. Because we can"

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‘Today’s grim statistics are a stark warning that the government’s own commitment to reduce child poverty will crash and burn unless it takes urgent action.’ - our CEO quoted here www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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“Everyone sends a text to a wrong person” But not every wrong text violates the Espionage Act. www.publicnotice.co/p/signalgate...

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no shit www.science.org/content/arti...

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Earlier this month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the federal government was delivering vitamin A to measles-stricken communities in Texas. Those doses never arrived, the state's public-health department told Nicholas Florko —because doctors don't want them.

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I interviewed Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of @theatlantic.com, at the New Orleans book festival last night youtu.be/OXkG8Kqxhwk?...

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Trump has threatened to gut the world-renowned Smithsonian Institution with an executive order which aims to eliminate the museum network’s 'anti-American ideology.' Trump wants to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to "restore truth and sanity to American history."

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I won't watch it myself, but here you go! Come and learn about sociology with us! www.instagram.com/reel/DHvibZW...

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This is shocking and unconscionable, particularly bearing in mind the frightening and uncertain state of things in Ukraine.

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Vladimir Putin is getting “far too much” from US-led negotiations to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, Donald Trump’s British ally Nigel Farage warned today.

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NEWS: In the past hour, DOJ announced the following Civil Rights Division actions: - investigations into admissions policies at Stanford, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, & UC-Irvine, citing Trump's anti-diversity orders - a "Second Amendment pattern-or-practice investigation" into the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Dep't

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“Right now, the answer to authoritarianism isn’t to be quiet." - @katmabu.bsky.social Exclusive interview ⤵️

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In my latest, I talk with #TeslaTakedown organizers and author @niedermeyer.online about the decentralized nature of the movement, why Musk and Tesla are vulnerable, and why Saturday's Global Day of Action matters.

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Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03...

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Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

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Across the last 48 hours, “Signalgate” has morphed from one scandal into what I think is best thought of as five distinct overlapping scandals, as well as providing some fascinating political insight into who has power and how decisions get made in Trump II. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

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Future flight bookings between Canada & the US have collapsed. Comparing total bookings held at this point last year with those recorded this week for the upcoming summer season show bookings are down by over 70% in every month through to the end of September. www.oag.com/blog/canada-...

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«Médias antisémites», «islam radical»… Avec Bardella, les extrêmes droites célèbrent en Israël leurs obsessions communes

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Un avion de reconnaissance russe s’est approché de l’Allemagne, avant d’être escorté à la frontière ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/IqP8

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"The letter that the University submitted in response to the Trump administration’s demands fails to rise to the gravity of the authoritarian moment we are experiencing."

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I'm starting to get the idea it wasn't just about the price of eggs and it was about the post-1965 rejection of a multi-racial democracy. "Status threat" isn't quite it.

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"The White House is not creating a little disturbance in service of making America rich again; it’s creating a huge disturbance in service of making America poor again," Annie Lowrey writes.

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You can’t say he doesn’t rep the White House’s point of view? Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

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With all the concern about what messaging app was used by our leaders, I'd love it if we also considered that we dropped bombs on a civilian apartment building and killed 53 people. Some number of whom were children. If another country did this to the United States, we'd call it a war crime.

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Federal workers fired in anti-DEI purge say it was because they're not white men In a class action complaint, the former employees also said that the mass firings violated their First Amendment rights for perceived political stances. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

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The same Missouri state senator who got heat over a bill a few weeks ago that would create a registry of pregnant women is back with a new bill that would create....another registry of "expectant mothers identified as being at risk for seeking abortion"

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For the first time ever, the Scottish Parliament is considering compelling witnesses to attend a meeting of one of its committees. These are clearly unprecedented times, caused by the executive leadership at the University of Dundee. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he took part in the group chat on the Signal app earlier this month among top U.S. officials ahead of American airstrikes in Yemen and said that someone had made a “big mistake” by adding a journalist to the group.

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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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electrek.co/2025/03/25/t... Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates

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Can Elon Musk Buy Wisconsin? Ari Berman on Billionaire-Funded Attempt to Flip State Supreme Court

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