Leo Medico Jr.
@medico-leonardo-jr.bsky.social
Western NY, Scientist, Nerd.
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Ratner predicts the appointment of Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to un-scare them," he says.
A pediatrician warns of 'long lasting' consequences of RFK Jr. leading HHS
Ratner predicts the appointment of Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to un-scare them," he says.
www.npr.org
February 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Ratner predicts the appointment of Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to un-scare them," he says.
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An important point to keep in mind.
February 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
An important point to keep in mind.
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
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We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
February 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
Elon Musk, "DOGE" and the future of the Constitution
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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February 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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CDC’s public health associate program (PHAP) was destroyed this weekend. All trainees terminated. PHAP stations young public health workers in state, local, territorial, and tribal health departments to train in and provide technical assistance for surveillance, communications, lab work, and more.
February 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
CDC’s public health associate program (PHAP) was destroyed this weekend. All trainees terminated. PHAP stations young public health workers in state, local, territorial, and tribal health departments to train in and provide technical assistance for surveillance, communications, lab work, and more.
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Firing probationary employees is senseless. Probationaries are:
-New to their position
-Make lower salaries
-Recruited to bring in new talent
-Far LESS likely to be dogmatic
They're being fired because they have fewer protections. Not because this will improve government efficiency or cut costs.
-New to their position
-Make lower salaries
-Recruited to bring in new talent
-Far LESS likely to be dogmatic
They're being fired because they have fewer protections. Not because this will improve government efficiency or cut costs.
February 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Firing probationary employees is senseless. Probationaries are:
-New to their position
-Make lower salaries
-Recruited to bring in new talent
-Far LESS likely to be dogmatic
They're being fired because they have fewer protections. Not because this will improve government efficiency or cut costs.
-New to their position
-Make lower salaries
-Recruited to bring in new talent
-Far LESS likely to be dogmatic
They're being fired because they have fewer protections. Not because this will improve government efficiency or cut costs.
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Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Data scientist Elena Moseyko said Trump’s mass federal layoffs “traumatized my kids.” A former Dept. of Education employee called the firing process “cold and cruel.” This isn’t just about numbers—it’s about people’s lives being upended.
February 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Data scientist Elena Moseyko said Trump’s mass federal layoffs “traumatized my kids.” A former Dept. of Education employee called the firing process “cold and cruel.” This isn’t just about numbers—it’s about people’s lives being upended.
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This is the clearest photo ever taken of Venus.
🔭 🧪
🔭 🧪
February 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is the clearest photo ever taken of Venus.
🔭 🧪
🔭 🧪
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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We don't yet know the extent of the damage done to our workforce. We continue to receive reports of past, ongoing, and future terminations. Public servants being let go chaotically with little warning. Those who remain face overwhelming workloads and wonder what acts they will be ordered to commit.
February 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
We don't yet know the extent of the damage done to our workforce. We continue to receive reports of past, ongoing, and future terminations. Public servants being let go chaotically with little warning. Those who remain face overwhelming workloads and wonder what acts they will be ordered to commit.
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Microplastics have been found just about everywhere scientists have looked. Now scientists are trying to determine their effects on your health
https://go.nature.com/4hXvhyT
https://go.nature.com/4hXvhyT
Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
go.nature.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Microplastics have been found just about everywhere scientists have looked. Now scientists are trying to determine their effects on your health
https://go.nature.com/4hXvhyT
https://go.nature.com/4hXvhyT
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If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed.
We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose.
Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in
We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose.
Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in
February 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed.
We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose.
Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in
We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose.
Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in
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Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics.
“American institutions [including science institutions] continue to **underreact**” to what is happening.
Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/
“American institutions [including science institutions] continue to **underreact**” to what is happening.
Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics.
“American institutions [including science institutions] continue to **underreact**” to what is happening.
Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/
“American institutions [including science institutions] continue to **underreact**” to what is happening.
Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/
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my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico may be upsetting to some, writes @giladedelman.bsky.social, but “in a democracy, values are determined by majority rule, and they don’t shift in only one direction. They can shift back”:
‘The Gulf of America’ Is the Wrong Fight to Pick
The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent principles.
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
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Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.
February 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.
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This example of a White social worker working mostly with Black veterans is a really great illustration of how training related to race provides tangible skills for federal employees
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
February 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This example of a White social worker working mostly with Black veterans is a really great illustration of how training related to race provides tangible skills for federal employees
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
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Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/lovecensorsh...
February 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/lovecensorsh...
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Right now, DOGE is saying that any new hires have to be approved by their office.
In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring.
What about now?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring.
What about now?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
February 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Right now, DOGE is saying that any new hires have to be approved by their office.
In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring.
What about now?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring.
What about now?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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40 Workers, 14 Desks—Trump’s Office Mandate Is a Disaster
A federal employee says her office has 40 people sharing 14 desks. Others are scattered across buildings 30-40 miles apart. A FEMA worker summed it up: “Everybody is miserable.” Wasted time, no productivity—who benefits from this chaos?
A federal employee says her office has 40 people sharing 14 desks. Others are scattered across buildings 30-40 miles apart. A FEMA worker summed it up: “Everybody is miserable.” Wasted time, no productivity—who benefits from this chaos?
February 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
40 Workers, 14 Desks—Trump’s Office Mandate Is a Disaster
A federal employee says her office has 40 people sharing 14 desks. Others are scattered across buildings 30-40 miles apart. A FEMA worker summed it up: “Everybody is miserable.” Wasted time, no productivity—who benefits from this chaos?
A federal employee says her office has 40 people sharing 14 desks. Others are scattered across buildings 30-40 miles apart. A FEMA worker summed it up: “Everybody is miserable.” Wasted time, no productivity—who benefits from this chaos?
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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.
February 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.