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Nearly half of the databases that the CDC used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus — have been paused without explanation, according to new research.
Dozens of CDC databases are not being updated — most related to vaccines, study finds
The agency plays a key role in tracking the disease spread and vaccination rates. Last year, it seemed to back away from some of that work, according to new research.
nbcnews.to
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Nearly half of the databases that the CDC used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus — have been paused without explanation, according to new research.
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"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
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open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
"...Judge Pan calls “an unprecedented interpretation of the Constitution.” She writes that it “would lead to the full politicization of our government and a massive transfer of power to the President...”
Pretty scary development in the DC Circuit
#DictatorialPower
"...Judge Pan calls “an unprecedented interpretation of the Constitution.” She writes that it “would lead to the full politicization of our government and a massive transfer of power to the President...”
Pretty scary development in the DC Circuit
#DictatorialPower
A 2-1 Panel of the D.C. Circuit Makes the Presidency More Muscular
An important case, as the Supreme Court takes up a similar issue next week
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
"...Judge Pan calls “an unprecedented interpretation of the Constitution.” She writes that it “would lead to the full politicization of our government and a massive transfer of power to the President...”
Pretty scary development in the DC Circuit
#DictatorialPower
"...Judge Pan calls “an unprecedented interpretation of the Constitution.” She writes that it “would lead to the full politicization of our government and a massive transfer of power to the President...”
Pretty scary development in the DC Circuit
#DictatorialPower
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US drops Biden plan to require passenger compensation for delayed flights reut.rs/4i0E0l2
US drops Biden plan to require passenger compensation for delayed flights
President Donald Trump's administration said on Friday it was formally withdrawing a plan by his predecessor to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when U.S. flight disruptions are caused by carriers.
reut.rs
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
US drops Biden plan to require passenger compensation for delayed flights reut.rs/4i0E0l2
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More U.S. military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Donald Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric. Nancy Youssef, Gisela Salim-Peyer, and Jonathan Lemire report on what could happen next in Venezuela:
The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela
More U.S. military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric.
bit.ly
October 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
More U.S. military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Donald Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric. Nancy Youssef, Gisela Salim-Peyer, and Jonathan Lemire report on what could happen next in Venezuela:
The Coast Guard plans to buy two Gulfstream private jets to be used by Homeland Security Department Secretary Kristi Noem and other top DHS and Coast Guard officials at a total estimated cost of $200 million.
DHS to spend $200 million on private jets for Noem, other officials
The new Coast Guard contract for two Gulfstream G700 jets far exceeds the $50 million the Coast Guard had requested earlier this year to purchase a new jet.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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On Friday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya left his family home for a shift as the director of the Al-Shifa hospital. A day later, the bodies of six family members arrived while he was still on duty.
Gaza hospital director receives bodies of brother and other relatives while on duty | CNN
On Friday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya left his family home for a shift as the director of the Al-Shifa hospital. A day later, the bodies of six family members arrived while he was still on duty.
www.cnn.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
On Friday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya left his family home for a shift as the director of the Al-Shifa hospital. A day later, the bodies of six family members arrived while he was still on duty.
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JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless."
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless."
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
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Trump is the absolute worst of us.
You’d never work for him.
You’d never do business with him.
You’d never be friends with him.
You’d never trust your wife with him.
You’d never trust your 14yr old daughter with him.
Yet you voted for him. That says more about you than him.
You’d never work for him.
You’d never do business with him.
You’d never be friends with him.
You’d never trust your wife with him.
You’d never trust your 14yr old daughter with him.
Yet you voted for him. That says more about you than him.
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Trump is the absolute worst of us.
You’d never work for him.
You’d never do business with him.
You’d never be friends with him.
You’d never trust your wife with him.
You’d never trust your 14yr old daughter with him.
Yet you voted for him. That says more about you than him.
You’d never work for him.
You’d never do business with him.
You’d never be friends with him.
You’d never trust your wife with him.
You’d never trust your 14yr old daughter with him.
Yet you voted for him. That says more about you than him.
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Last year I wrote about the American Accountability Foundation posting "watchlists" of public employees to encourage harassment. This piece describes the effects.
"her phone rang for a month with about 30 calls a day from unknown numbers."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"her phone rang for a month with about 30 calls a day from unknown numbers."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Pro-Trump group wages campaign to purge “subversive” federal workers
Some have been fired. Two have moved abroad, fearing for their safety. Yet free-speech experts say the group's websites remain just outside the boundaries of violating personal privacy.
www.reuters.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Last year I wrote about the American Accountability Foundation posting "watchlists" of public employees to encourage harassment. This piece describes the effects.
"her phone rang for a month with about 30 calls a day from unknown numbers."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"her phone rang for a month with about 30 calls a day from unknown numbers."
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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“Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes of U.S.A.I.D. cuts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes of U.S.A.I.D. cuts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?"
Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.
Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.
June 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?"
Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.
Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.
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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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People in Gaza are posting final messages.
May 16, 2025 at 3:28 AM
People in Gaza are posting final messages.
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Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.
AP PHOTOS: Many in Gaza face malnutrition and hunger as blockade enters its third month
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.
apnews.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.
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We need to reach 12 million and more as fast as we can for the Peaceful Protests to be effective. We need to boycott as many goods and companies as possible. We have to come together as "We the People" to overcome this regime. This is "Mayday for May Day"
youtu.be/tklD9g5qvRQ?...
youtu.be/tklD9g5qvRQ?...
Mayday for May Day
YouTube video by My Last Nerve
youtu.be
April 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We need to reach 12 million and more as fast as we can for the Peaceful Protests to be effective. We need to boycott as many goods and companies as possible. We have to come together as "We the People" to overcome this regime. This is "Mayday for May Day"
youtu.be/tklD9g5qvRQ?...
youtu.be/tklD9g5qvRQ?...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office
The app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.