AJ Host
@ajhostet.bsky.social
Career educator, curriculum writer & freelance journalist.
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NIH Director Removes Four Main Scientists amid Massive Staff Purge
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Ask Marco Rubio about the detention of this Cuban national.
March 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Ask Marco Rubio about the detention of this Cuban national.
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From @hcrichardson.bsky.social newsletter.
How's this for waste fraud an abuse? Let's hire a sham doctor to conduct a sham study.
How's this for waste fraud an abuse? Let's hire a sham doctor to conduct a sham study.
March 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
From @hcrichardson.bsky.social newsletter.
How's this for waste fraud an abuse? Let's hire a sham doctor to conduct a sham study.
How's this for waste fraud an abuse? Let's hire a sham doctor to conduct a sham study.
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🔥Rufus Gifford, former U.S. amb. to Denmark, unloaded on JD Vance for saying Denmark “is not a good ally”:
Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
March 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🔥Rufus Gifford, former U.S. amb. to Denmark, unloaded on JD Vance for saying Denmark “is not a good ally”:
Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
March 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
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Excellent piece by @sangernyt.bsky.social about how the Trump administration is helping China gain an edge in its competition with the US: e.g. dismantling Radio Free Asia, closing the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment and dissolving the Cyber Safety Review board. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
The Department of Government Efficiency is shuttering organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought to subvert.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Excellent piece by @sangernyt.bsky.social about how the Trump administration is helping China gain an edge in its competition with the US: e.g. dismantling Radio Free Asia, closing the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment and dissolving the Cyber Safety Review board. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
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The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to…
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)