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Journal editors are now receiving such letters from the US government. The entire scientific community must unite to support our journals in flatly resisting such illegal interventions.
April 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Frank Zappa was a brilliant man born before his time 💯
April 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Concern is growing among public health experts that anti-vax sentiment in federal & state government may derail cutting-edge vaccines awaiting regulatory approval. Just last wk, the FDA delayed a decision on full approval of Novavax’s #Covid vax despite its emergency-status approval since 2022
Anti-vaccine sentiments may derail vaccines already awaiting FDA approval, experts fear | CNN
Concern is growing among public health experts that anti-vaccine sentiments within federal and state governments may derail emerging and cutting-edge vaccines that are now awaiting regulatory approval...
www.cnn.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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From Australia:

"WEHI researchers have developed a drug compound that can protect mice from contracting long COVID symptoms.

The world-first study also found the compound can treat acute COVID with better efficacy than Paxlovid"
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

#LongCovid #COVID19
April 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The American Public Health Association is calling on RFK Jr to resign or be fired. The organization says the Health & Human Services Secretary is a danger to the public. Massive firings at key health agencies is evidence of RFK's lack of management skills & understanding of the job, APHA says
Public Health Org Calls for RFK Jr. to 'Resign or Be Fired'
Separately, nearly 2,000 NASEM members sent out an 'SOS' about the 'decimation' of science
www.medpagetoday.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Trump is creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs.

These constant gyrations in policy provide dangerous opportunities for insider trading. 🧵
April 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Georges Benjamin, exec director of the American Public Health Assn, calls on Secretary Kennedy to resign, calling him "a danger to the public’s health.”
www.statnews.com/2025/04/09/r...
National public health group calls for RFK Jr. to resign, citing 'complete disregard for science'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shown "complete disregard for science” and should resign, says Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association.
www.statnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA):

"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"
April 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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great news "for middle-school smokers"

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Gigantic crowd in NYC for the #HandsOff march against Trump, Musk, and MAGA. So many people that the participants can barely move along. Signs decrying Trump and Co. on many fronts: immigration, science, Social Security, reproductive rights, tariffs, autocracy, kleptocracy & the price of eggs.
April 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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⬇️ Must-read interview with Dr. Špela Šalamon, MD, a physician and biomedical scientist specializing in the genetics of complex and degenerative diseases.

“Organ and vascular damage without obvious symptoms…affects more than 50% of those infected.”
whn.global/five-years-o...
Five Years of COVID: What Comes Next, Dr. Šalamon? - WHN
Originally published by Christian Klosz on Das Medium, this interview has been translated and republished with permission. Five years into the COVID-19 pandemic: What are the current challenges, what ...
whn.global
March 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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US women deserve better
March 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.

He was not dead.
I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
www.seattletimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same

When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state

www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
www.wunc.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The eventual fate of the GOP
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”

WOW. Planes in air must turn around.

A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍
March 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
March 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM