TrueJAT
@jilltrue.bsky.social
Teacher, Enviro nerd, Science led, builders tea, disruptor, and maker of good trouble.
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a direct consequence of, among other things, politicising masking.
"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles."
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March 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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So Romania, Serbia, Hungary. People rising up against authoritarianism.
Clearly, we’re up soon.
Clearly, we’re up soon.
Protesters in Bucharest, Romania were waving EU flags.
Love to see it!
Love to see it!
March 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
So Romania, Serbia, Hungary. People rising up against authoritarianism.
Clearly, we’re up soon.
Clearly, we’re up soon.
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I have never so aggressively rooted for another country to tell the United States to fuck off.
US govt has asked Denmark if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices. The request coincides with a raft of new US tariffs on countries, including in Europe -- and also threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark hands over control of Greenland www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US turns to Denmark as it hunts for eggs despite Trump’s threat over Greenland
Danish Egg Association says US asked if it could export eggs as prices surge despite president’s promise to lower them
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I have never so aggressively rooted for another country to tell the United States to fuck off.
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Measles cases in TX & New Mexico climb to 294, already surpassing all US cases recorded in 2024
-Approx 11% (34 cases)were hospitalized.
-Two deaths have occurred.
-Most cases are unvax’d.
All easily preventable. Please get vax’d. tinyurl.com/2vucnunt #BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky
-Approx 11% (34 cases)were hospitalized.
-Two deaths have occurred.
-Most cases are unvax’d.
All easily preventable. Please get vax’d. tinyurl.com/2vucnunt #BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky
March 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Measles cases in TX & New Mexico climb to 294, already surpassing all US cases recorded in 2024
-Approx 11% (34 cases)were hospitalized.
-Two deaths have occurred.
-Most cases are unvax’d.
All easily preventable. Please get vax’d. tinyurl.com/2vucnunt #BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky
-Approx 11% (34 cases)were hospitalized.
-Two deaths have occurred.
-Most cases are unvax’d.
All easily preventable. Please get vax’d. tinyurl.com/2vucnunt #BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky
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New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including:
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
February 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including:
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
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Here comes the phony numbers to sell the deal. The illusory smoke and mirrors of waste, fraud, abuse, and future tariffs. It’s 1981 and David Stockman redux.
February 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Here comes the phony numbers to sell the deal. The illusory smoke and mirrors of waste, fraud, abuse, and future tariffs. It’s 1981 and David Stockman redux.
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Know Your Rights trainings work. Don’t even open the door. Really, to anyone. If it’s someone important and they know you, they have a cellphone, they’ll call.
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
February 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Know Your Rights trainings work. Don’t even open the door. Really, to anyone. If it’s someone important and they know you, they have a cellphone, they’ll call.
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If you think mask bans are “no big deal” because there’s medical exemptions, consider the following:
Police are not doctors
Many disabilities are invisible
Everyone should have the right to protect their health
Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers
Police are not doctors
Many disabilities are invisible
Everyone should have the right to protect their health
Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers
‘Scared to put on my mask’: Cancer patient says she was intentionally coughed on in spat over mask
The Republican-led state House passed a bill Tuesday that would adjust exceptions to the state law governing masks. The bill is awaiting a decision by Gov. Roy Cooper.
www.wral.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
If you think mask bans are “no big deal” because there’s medical exemptions, consider the following:
Police are not doctors
Many disabilities are invisible
Everyone should have the right to protect their health
Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers
Police are not doctors
Many disabilities are invisible
Everyone should have the right to protect their health
Criminalizing masks sends a message that maskers are “bad”. It emboldens anti-maskers
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Currently appearing at UK bus-stops.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
February 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Currently appearing at UK bus-stops.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
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The Democrats to yell at:
Bennet (CO)
Blumenthal (CT)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Kelly (AZ)
Klobuchar (MN)
Peters (MI)
Reed (RI)
Rosen (NV)
Shaheen (NH)
Warner (VA)
Bennet (CO)
Blumenthal (CT)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Kelly (AZ)
Klobuchar (MN)
Peters (MI)
Reed (RI)
Rosen (NV)
Shaheen (NH)
Warner (VA)
If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army.
And yet....16 Democrats just did so
And yet....16 Democrats just did so
February 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The Democrats to yell at:
Bennet (CO)
Blumenthal (CT)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Kelly (AZ)
Klobuchar (MN)
Peters (MI)
Reed (RI)
Rosen (NV)
Shaheen (NH)
Warner (VA)
Bennet (CO)
Blumenthal (CT)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Kelly (AZ)
Klobuchar (MN)
Peters (MI)
Reed (RI)
Rosen (NV)
Shaheen (NH)
Warner (VA)
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Perfection
February 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Perfection
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In 1888, Massachusetts District Police inspectors monitored schools and public buildings with a portable CO2 meter to check whether indoor air renewal was good. If not, the school was temporarily closed to carry out ventilation work.
books.google.ch/books?id=iYF...
books.google.ch/books?id=iYF...
February 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In 1888, Massachusetts District Police inspectors monitored schools and public buildings with a portable CO2 meter to check whether indoor air renewal was good. If not, the school was temporarily closed to carry out ventilation work.
books.google.ch/books?id=iYF...
books.google.ch/books?id=iYF...
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FACT: Being in a union is cool as hell
November 14, 2024 at 6:38 PM
FACT: Being in a union is cool as hell
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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.
February 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.
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📌It’s about time ALL our retired military flag officers started showing some damn leadership by speaking out against this authoritarian attack on our nation.
You know damn well that what is happening right now is WRONG.
You know damn well that what is happening right now is WRONG.
February 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
📌It’s about time ALL our retired military flag officers started showing some damn leadership by speaking out against this authoritarian attack on our nation.
You know damn well that what is happening right now is WRONG.
You know damn well that what is happening right now is WRONG.
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I hate these late night Friday announcements!
Last Friday was a HHS massacre – 3,200 fired 😱💔.
Today, it's a DoD bloodbath: 5,400 civilians gone, plus the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chief of Naval Ops & Air Force Vice Chief axed 💥🔥.
These actions make the US & world increasingly unsafe 🚨🌍.
Last Friday was a HHS massacre – 3,200 fired 😱💔.
Today, it's a DoD bloodbath: 5,400 civilians gone, plus the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chief of Naval Ops & Air Force Vice Chief axed 💥🔥.
These actions make the US & world increasingly unsafe 🚨🌍.
February 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I hate these late night Friday announcements!
Last Friday was a HHS massacre – 3,200 fired 😱💔.
Today, it's a DoD bloodbath: 5,400 civilians gone, plus the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chief of Naval Ops & Air Force Vice Chief axed 💥🔥.
These actions make the US & world increasingly unsafe 🚨🌍.
Last Friday was a HHS massacre – 3,200 fired 😱💔.
Today, it's a DoD bloodbath: 5,400 civilians gone, plus the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chief of Naval Ops & Air Force Vice Chief axed 💥🔥.
These actions make the US & world increasingly unsafe 🚨🌍.
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I've often insisted that we need to keep our eyes on Trump's actions more than his words (because so many of the words are bluster & lies). Now we have a genuinely dangerous action: a purge at the Pentagon, notably a purge of the top figures who can decide if Trump's commands are unconstitutional.
February 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I've often insisted that we need to keep our eyes on Trump's actions more than his words (because so many of the words are bluster & lies). Now we have a genuinely dangerous action: a purge at the Pentagon, notably a purge of the top figures who can decide if Trump's commands are unconstitutional.
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The resolved LC cohort had moderately worse physical & mental health vs those never-having- LC. #COVID19vaccines was associated with better outcomes. @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Differences in Long COVID severity by duration of illness, symptom evolution, and vaccination: a longitudinal cohort study from the INSPIRE group
Among participants followed up to 3 years after initial infection, those with current
Long COVID had worse physical and mental health outcomes. The majority of those with
Long COVID did not resolve, w...
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February 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The resolved LC cohort had moderately worse physical & mental health vs those never-having- LC. #COVID19vaccines was associated with better outcomes. @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.
Despicable. Elon Musk has just suggested Zelenskyy is sending soldiers to die so he can make money.
“What are they dying for? I’ll tell you what for. For the biggest graft machine I’ve seen in my life. Poor guys are getting sent into a meat grinder for money.”
“What are they dying for? I’ll tell you what for. For the biggest graft machine I’ve seen in my life. Poor guys are getting sent into a meat grinder for money.”
February 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.
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Hopefully all recommended vaccines continue to be available in U.S. I cannot stress enough the importance of finding a pediatrician or primary care doc who believes in science & who you trust with your health to provide guidance on vaccines for you & your children.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
www.nbcnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Hopefully all recommended vaccines continue to be available in U.S. I cannot stress enough the importance of finding a pediatrician or primary care doc who believes in science & who you trust with your health to provide guidance on vaccines for you & your children.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...