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CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸

(From @MatttDavies)
April 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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"One concept that creates misunderstanding is 'scientific consensus.' It’s time to stop using this shorthand and make clear what it really means," argues @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4jH2WxK
April 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Pope Francis: "It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
April 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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😳 what are we doing?

gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
April 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Breaking News: Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams said that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.
3 More Prosecutors Resign Over Adams Case, Refusing to Admit Wrongdoing
They had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to abandon the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” they wrote.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Public officials hostile to reproductive health and rights are trying to further restrict abortion access, "defund" Planned Parenthood, and shut down health centers.

🚨 News flash: We won’t let them. Join us in saying #IFightForPP during Planned Parenthood’s Digital Day of Action.
April 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.
April 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Perfection
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
April 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old American citizen born in the U.S., was jailed in Florida under a controversial state immigration law, even though he had a valid U.S. birth certificate and Social Security card. A judge confirmed both documents were real, but said she
April 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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April 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Let me remind you that Trump and Republicans' biggest legislative priority right now is tax breaks for billionaires.

They're squeezing you for everything they can so billionaires can get a huge payday.
April 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Defense chief Hegseth shared war plans in second Signal chat, NYT reports reut.rs/4jFGRzw
April 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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🚨If you are an NSF-funded researcher with a terminated grant and want to talk to the media…🚨

Feel free to reach out to me at hcarnell@cir.org or henrycarnell@proton.me or via signal hcarnell.58
April 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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The sudden dismissal of FOIA staff at CDC, FDA, and NIH will worsen existing backlogs and limit the public's ability to examine recent agency actions and get important health safety data.

By a Yale health services researcher:
The sudden dismissal of public records staff at health agencies threatens government accountability
Public records requested under the Freedom of Information Act have helped shape health policy and keep the government accountable – but recent staff cuts may make this impossible.
buff.ly
April 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Hope everyone had a good Tax Day!

(Not the billionaires.)
April 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM