Interested in Shifting Powers towards Health Equity, Economic Justice, post-Finance Capitalism, Climate Justice, Equitable Access to Medicines and Vaccines, and a better future for all of us. Founding Director of æqua.
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- David Graeber
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
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With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
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Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
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Meanwhile, millions lack health care & we have the highest childhood and senior poverty rate of almost any major country.
Congress needs to get its priorities straight.
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This is disgraceful, and it most certainly will not improve trust in public health.
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The first thing that was confirmed is that the researchers are Benn and Aady, as many predicted.
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Because if we are OK with the man who violently attacked our country now leading it, Democracy is dead.
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The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
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We expose how the fossil lobby blocks climate action & justice. The report names Czech politicians incl. MEP Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP), Minister of Industry Karel Havlíček & Environment Minister Petr Macinka.
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This is what the faction fears: transparency, civil rights, and the rule of law.
MAGA ideologues now view America's oldest allies as the true threat to their project.
2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨
3. It’s always about oil.
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![Damaged tents are worsening conditions for people struggling to survive the cold and exposure. [Moiz Salhi/Anadolu]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreienrv5ihtyycnqwbncsv3xh6jgg5mv63v5hdgsuamyi6b2mrwtyhm@jpeg)
![Israel is accused of operating a systemic ban or severe restrictions on the entry of tents and mobile homes for displaced Palestinians in Gaza. [Moiz Salhi/Anadolu]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreicxtrhfpfamrkdks7rgdxa3ctxodl2ibwkhkweymj3gtx4mknfrjm@jpeg)
![Residents and displaced families say the tents they live in now offer little protection. [Moiz Salhi /Anadolu]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreiezk2al5wgme3c6p5braqzn7xzeysag7273hayhlj6zbitu73rdim@jpeg)
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The government has made an open-ended commitment to gradually dismantle the price control system put in place from the late 1990s.
MPs need to ask ministers some hard questions.
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