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Amid a firehose of falsehoods about vaccines, new CDC data show that last year’s Covid booster reduced the risk of severe illness by 76% among kids aged 6 months to 4 years old and 56% among kids aged 5 to 17 years old.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Amid a firehose of falsehoods about vaccines, new CDC data show that last year’s Covid booster reduced the risk of severe illness by 76% among kids aged 6 months to 4 years old and 56% among kids aged 5 to 17 years old.
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It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants in the air and the prevalence of dementia. Yet such findings are emerging when the U.S. government is dismantling efforts to continue reducing air pollution by shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia.
nyti.ms
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants in the air and the prevalence of dementia. Yet such findings are emerging when the U.S. government is dismantling efforts to continue reducing air pollution by shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
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Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support
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Food for very worried thought: This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Food for very worried thought: This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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"U.S. falling behind Asian countries on climate science" | My op-ed with Ben Horton as it appears in today's print version of the @sfchronicle.com:
October 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"U.S. falling behind Asian countries on climate science" | My op-ed with Ben Horton as it appears in today's print version of the @sfchronicle.com:
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I should be used to it by now, but it's really weird to live in a country run by a gross pig
October 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I should be used to it by now, but it's really weird to live in a country run by a gross pig
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September climate warming stripes. It's as if something has changed. 🤔
October 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
September climate warming stripes. It's as if something has changed. 🤔
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Per @theguardian.com, new research shows keeping clocks on standard time is less stressful on the body: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
"Biological Rhythms" provides tools for reading the rhythms that regulate our physiological processes, including sleep: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255314...
"Biological Rhythms" provides tools for reading the rhythms that regulate our physiological processes, including sleep: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255314...
October 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Per @theguardian.com, new research shows keeping clocks on standard time is less stressful on the body: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
"Biological Rhythms" provides tools for reading the rhythms that regulate our physiological processes, including sleep: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255314...
"Biological Rhythms" provides tools for reading the rhythms that regulate our physiological processes, including sleep: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255314...
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We have deeply unserious people in charge.
They view politics as cheap comedy.
The consequence is failed economic policy with higher prices, no vaccines, and sabotaging scientific & medical research.
Our nation is desperate for a politics of substance again.
They view politics as cheap comedy.
The consequence is failed economic policy with higher prices, no vaccines, and sabotaging scientific & medical research.
Our nation is desperate for a politics of substance again.
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We have deeply unserious people in charge.
They view politics as cheap comedy.
The consequence is failed economic policy with higher prices, no vaccines, and sabotaging scientific & medical research.
Our nation is desperate for a politics of substance again.
They view politics as cheap comedy.
The consequence is failed economic policy with higher prices, no vaccines, and sabotaging scientific & medical research.
Our nation is desperate for a politics of substance again.
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'Independent modelling teams demonstrate that maintaining a universal COVID-19 vaccine policy yields consistent population-level benefits, reducing hospitalizations & deaths beyond hi-risk-only strategies, even as immune escape shifts timing of seasonal peaks.'
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www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...
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www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...
Why universal COVID-19 vaccine guidance offers stronger protection than high-risk-only policies
The US Scenario Modeling Hub’s nine-team ensemble projected COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths for April 2024 to April 2025 under six policy and immune-escape scenarios. Burden was similar to the pr...
www.news-medical.net
September 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
'Independent modelling teams demonstrate that maintaining a universal COVID-19 vaccine policy yields consistent population-level benefits, reducing hospitalizations & deaths beyond hi-risk-only strategies, even as immune escape shifts timing of seasonal peaks.'
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www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...
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www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...
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Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
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Right now, municipal bonds are booming, but few investors—or rating agencies—are facing up to long-term climate risk. With extreme weather rising and climate threats mounting, today’s muni bond mania could be tomorrow’s bubble. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...
Betting on bonds, ignoring climate risk
Municipal bonds might seem safer than the stock market. But if climate risk isn’t priced in, the bond market might be another bubble that could burst.
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Right now, municipal bonds are booming, but few investors—or rating agencies—are facing up to long-term climate risk. With extreme weather rising and climate threats mounting, today’s muni bond mania could be tomorrow’s bubble. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...
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Wildfires in North America and Europe are breaking records as a blanket of fossil fuel pollution has smothered the Earth, heating the planet and drying out plant matter on which blazes feed
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Wildfires in North America and Europe are breaking records as a blanket of fossil fuel pollution has smothered the Earth, heating the planet and drying out plant matter on which blazes feed
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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BARTLETT: Negative consequences from tariffs didn’t happen right away — “and WH lies convinced many .. that the economists were wrong. Now the chickens are coming home to roost ..”
September 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
BARTLETT: Negative consequences from tariffs didn’t happen right away — “and WH lies convinced many .. that the economists were wrong. Now the chickens are coming home to roost ..”
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No, it's not any of that.
It's the guns.
It's the guns.
August 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
No, it's not any of that.
It's the guns.
It's the guns.
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Unreal that the guy who committed intentional, knowing fraud to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in loans will now try to use trivial accidental misrepresentations on home mortgage applications to seize control of the Federal Reserve, and that the media will not even mention what's happening.
August 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Unreal that the guy who committed intentional, knowing fraud to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in loans will now try to use trivial accidental misrepresentations on home mortgage applications to seize control of the Federal Reserve, and that the media will not even mention what's happening.
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Colbert Unchained.
August 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Colbert Unchained.
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Trump genuinely believes that tariffs are a free money hack that everyone except him just never noticed.
July 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Trump genuinely believes that tariffs are a free money hack that everyone except him just never noticed.
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'Air pollution, which kills more than 8 million people every year, is the biggest environmental health risk of our time.'
www.unep.org
www.unep.org/beatpollutio...
www.unep.org
www.unep.org/beatpollutio...
Air
To fight the impact of pollution, the world’s environment ministers expressed their political commitment to working towards a pollution-free planet.
www.unep.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
'Air pollution, which kills more than 8 million people every year, is the biggest environmental health risk of our time.'
www.unep.org
www.unep.org/beatpollutio...
www.unep.org
www.unep.org/beatpollutio...
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Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.