salutogen.bsky.social
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The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

www.prb.org/resources/se...
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Awesome🌟🌟🌟
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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October 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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If you’re wondering how much of what RFK Jr said yesterday about vaccines was true—almost none of it was.

@FullerLab_UW is one of the most accomplished vaccinologists out there and her article is required reading to separate truth from falsehoods.

theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s...
How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims
Chaos at the CDC and the sharp move away from mRNA vaccines has public health experts alarmed.
theconversation.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This 👇👇
August 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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A fun compare/contrast...
🐥 Drop a ❤️ if u miss Obama
July 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
www.npr.org
May 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Tracking the performance of the S&P 500 through 100 days of an administration because I don't want to grade.
March 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This is truly shameful. Even China and Iran abstained. The US has put itself in the company of some of the worst states in the world - Russia, Belarus, North Korea. Hungary showing its true colours as Russia's Trojan horse in the EU as well.
The United States just voted with Russia against peace in Ukraine.
February 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…
February 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A classic authoritarian move is to go after judges. I honestly did not think we would see it in the US because the system is already so politicized and Trump has a 6-3 majority. But here we are.
GOP Rep. Eli Crane is drafting articles of impeachment for District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer because he issued an injunction blocking DOGE from accessing Treasury financial data of millions of Americans.

This is classic authoritarian intimidation of the judiciary to remove checks on the executive.
February 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Musk is closely following the Curtis Yarvin playbook. If you don't know who Curtis Yarvin is yet, you should.
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
www.thenerdreich.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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The silence from our universities has been deafening. Tell them to grow a spine and stand up for their scientists!

Top NIH funded schools:
UC - regentsoffice@ucop.edu
UW - regents@uw.edu
John Hopkins - cbjorklund@jhu.edu
Penn - ofcsec@pobox.upenn.edu, (215) 898-7005
Duke - boardchair@duke.edu
February 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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But Hillary Clinton had a private server.
February 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:

1. Create a new $15B science fund

2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada

3. Immediate permanent residency

4. Citizenship after 2 years

Overnight a science superpower
January 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I know there's huge concern about the material on the #CDC site that went dark last night.
For those looking for the #ACIP recommendations on vaccinations, that page is live here: www.cdc.gov/acip-recs/hc...
Vaccine-Specific Recommendations
Access all vaccine-specific recommendations from ACIP.
www.cdc.gov
February 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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A bunch of "doctors" wrote a letter in support of RFK Jr's nomination as HHS secretary.
Some weren't doctors. Some were doctors who'd lost their licenses.
Smart reporting by The AP. apnews.com/article/trum...
Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended
A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who...
apnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM