Colleen
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Funds for monitoring foodborne infections including listeria (primarily milk products), campylobacter and salmonella to be cut by CDC in move to reduce food safety by MAHA - which again, akin to environmental protections and vaccines being reduced will make Americans much less healthier 🧪
CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program
www.cidrap.umn.edu
August 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Funds for monitoring foodborne infections including listeria (primarily milk products), campylobacter and salmonella to be cut by CDC in move to reduce food safety by MAHA - which again, akin to environmental protections and vaccines being reduced will make Americans much less healthier 🧪
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President Trump has ended the “de minimis” tariff exemption, a loophole that once allowed packages valued at less than $800 to enter the U.S. tariff-free. Here's what you need to know about the changing rules.
De Minimis Tariff Exemption Has Ended. How Will It Affect Shoppers?
The end of the “de minimis” exemption — which allowed packages less than $800 to enter the U.S. tariff-free — is leading to confusion.
nyti.ms
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
President Trump has ended the “de minimis” tariff exemption, a loophole that once allowed packages valued at less than $800 to enter the U.S. tariff-free. Here's what you need to know about the changing rules.
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Well worth a read. Not because of the content - it's total horseshit - but because it's a prime example of what happens when you mix anti-science, conspiracism, arrogance, and a total lack of expertise.
Maybe one day NYT OpEds will engage with the actual science 🤷♂️.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Maybe one day NYT OpEds will engage with the actual science 🤷♂️.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid (Gift Article)
The same dangerous mistakes. The same lack of candor.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Well worth a read. Not because of the content - it's total horseshit - but because it's a prime example of what happens when you mix anti-science, conspiracism, arrogance, and a total lack of expertise.
Maybe one day NYT OpEds will engage with the actual science 🤷♂️.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Maybe one day NYT OpEds will engage with the actual science 🤷♂️.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Paul Dans, the ousted director of Project 2025, says he’s delighted that Trump is implementing his agenda after all
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’: The Architect of Project 2025 Is Ready for His Victory Lap
Paul Dans, the ousted director of Project 2025, says he’s delighted that Trump is implementing his agenda after all.
www.politico.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Paul Dans, the ousted director of Project 2025, says he’s delighted that Trump is implementing his agenda after all
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.”
From our @science.org news team 🧪
From our @science.org news team 🧪
'It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe
Dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.”
From our @science.org news team 🧪
From our @science.org news team 🧪
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Suddenly cutting off USAID left people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Suddenly cutting off USAID left people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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What's happening at #USAID is causing so much damage. The great reporters at @science.org explore some of that damage. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe
Dismantling of USAID could disrupt clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
What's happening at #USAID is causing so much damage. The great reporters at @science.org explore some of that damage. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.
February 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.
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Here is the link to the cdc archive that holds important data sets that were made unavailable yesterday. While this archive is not updated it is an important repository especially if datasets are found to purged and altered if/when restored.
archive.cdc.gov#/details?url...
archive.cdc.gov#/details?url...
Archived web material for CDC.gov is preserved on the CDC Archive Site
archive.cdc.gov
February 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Here is the link to the cdc archive that holds important data sets that were made unavailable yesterday. While this archive is not updated it is an important repository especially if datasets are found to purged and altered if/when restored.
archive.cdc.gov#/details?url...
archive.cdc.gov#/details?url...
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Commit the sin of empathy.
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Commit the sin of empathy.
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"
January 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"
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Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
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Replacing community good with individualism is a slippery slope people
www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/202...
www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/202...
State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo Issues Community Water Fluoridation Guidance | Florida Department of Health
Tallahassee, Fla.—Today, State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo announced guidance recommending against community water fluoridation due to the neuropsychiatric risk associated with fluoride expos...
www.floridahealth.gov
November 22, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Replacing community good with individualism is a slippery slope people
www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/202...
www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/202...
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People with #LongCovid are seeing clinicians in every specialty. If you’re a clinician & feel the need to get up to speed, this is a good resource. #MedTwitter #MedSky
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
What Exactly Is Long Covid? | NEJM
The millions of people worldwide who are suffering from a vast array of disabling
symptoms long after being infected with SARS-CoV-2 may eventually benefit from a new
consensus definition of long C...
www.nejm.org
November 10, 2024 at 1:49 AM
People with #LongCovid are seeing clinicians in every specialty. If you’re a clinician & feel the need to get up to speed, this is a good resource. #MedTwitter #MedSky
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
November 7, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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With @eliothiggins.bsky.social joining Bluesky, we've made a little starter pack of previous and current Bellingcat staff and contributors so you can find all of us open source researchers lurking on here! go.bsky.app/HZSzS41
November 6, 2024 at 9:28 AM
With @eliothiggins.bsky.social joining Bluesky, we've made a little starter pack of previous and current Bellingcat staff and contributors so you can find all of us open source researchers lurking on here! go.bsky.app/HZSzS41
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