Sarah McDonald
@sarahmcdonald.bsky.social
Lecturer at University of South Australia. Interested in gender, social class, & social mobility. Swiftie.
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“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
newrepublic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
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Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem
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This means that USAID will have just 12 people to assist as more than 25 million people starve in Sudan.
21 to assist as 2 million people try to return to their destroyed homes in Gaza.
21 to assist as 2 million people try to return to their destroyed homes in Gaza.
NEWS: USAID is shrinking its essential worldwide staff to 294 — a massive decrease from 14000.
An internal breakdown shows the agency being left with just 12 people assigned to Africa, 21 to the entire Middle East, and 8 to Asia.
An internal breakdown shows the agency being left with just 12 people assigned to Africa, 21 to the entire Middle East, and 8 to Asia.
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This means that USAID will have just 12 people to assist as more than 25 million people starve in Sudan.
21 to assist as 2 million people try to return to their destroyed homes in Gaza.
21 to assist as 2 million people try to return to their destroyed homes in Gaza.
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I am often accused of being too emotional when reporting on politics - but I would rather have a human emotional response than pretend this is just 'reshaping US policy in the Middle East'. It's ethnic cleansing and the end of the rule of law. And the Australian government has said nothing
If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level
Trump: The US will take over the Gaza Strip… we’ll own it
February 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I am often accused of being too emotional when reporting on politics - but I would rather have a human emotional response than pretend this is just 'reshaping US policy in the Middle East'. It's ethnic cleansing and the end of the rule of law. And the Australian government has said nothing
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If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level
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Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
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“But her emails!”
Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.
3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“But her emails!”
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As Jesus famously said, Love thy neighbor a bit less than thyself
I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he *relentlessly* argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!
January 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As Jesus famously said, Love thy neighbor a bit less than thyself
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Did you see this news!?
Heather Ruddock, the wife of former attorney-general Philip Ruddock, has quit the Liberal Party.
She said an unnamed federal Coalition MP told her that tertiary-educated women were “not the demographic we’re going for”
So she's voting independent🔥
Heather Ruddock, the wife of former attorney-general Philip Ruddock, has quit the Liberal Party.
She said an unnamed federal Coalition MP told her that tertiary-educated women were “not the demographic we’re going for”
So she's voting independent🔥
Liberal stalwart’s wife defects over ‘incredible disconnect’ within party
Heather Ruddock has quit the Liberal Party and endorsed the community independent candidate taking on Liberal MP Julian Leeser in the Sydney seat of Berowra.
www.afr.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.”
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
January 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.”
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Monash University has today admitted to a fresh round of wage theft from casual teachers. Australia’s largest uni has underpaid teachers a further $7.6m, taking Monash’s total underpayments to $17.6m since 2021
January 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Monash University has today admitted to a fresh round of wage theft from casual teachers. Australia’s largest uni has underpaid teachers a further $7.6m, taking Monash’s total underpayments to $17.6m since 2021
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Insiders will feature banning 16 year olds from social media while in NSW and across most of Australia we locking up ten-year-olds. If Albo can lead on kids and TikTok surely he can lean about children in lock up. raisetheagensw.org.au
November 23, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Insiders will feature banning 16 year olds from social media while in NSW and across most of Australia we locking up ten-year-olds. If Albo can lead on kids and TikTok surely he can lean about children in lock up. raisetheagensw.org.au
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One thing I look for in a social network is not to have the CEO shove his reactionary political views in my face every time I open the app. So I’m happy here.
November 19, 2024 at 1:30 AM
One thing I look for in a social network is not to have the CEO shove his reactionary political views in my face every time I open the app. So I’m happy here.
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this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
November 19, 2024 at 2:06 PM
this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
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A pretty shameful oversight that at last night’s Walkley Awards there was no mention of the record numbers of journalists who have been murdered by the IDF over the past year.
November 19, 2024 at 10:44 PM
A pretty shameful oversight that at last night’s Walkley Awards there was no mention of the record numbers of journalists who have been murdered by the IDF over the past year.
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Jay: I think social media should be basically common infrastructure that society gets to use and evolve it as society evolves, building a more democratic form of social media to reflect a democratic society.
November 20, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Jay: I think social media should be basically common infrastructure that society gets to use and evolve it as society evolves, building a more democratic form of social media to reflect a democratic society.
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yes, make america NORMAL. do not trim grey flannel BUSINESS suits with yellow PIPING because that's historically a SPORTING DETAIL
November 20, 2024 at 3:47 AM
yes, make america NORMAL. do not trim grey flannel BUSINESS suits with yellow PIPING because that's historically a SPORTING DETAIL
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Next year companies will be required to report their gender pay gaps. This is good. Also, the FWC is prioritising looking at feminised industries and pay in Awards. This is also good. Unions in feminised industries are campaigning. Good. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Gender pay gap data reveals Australia’s female CEOs paid $170,000 less than men on average
But new data shows a three-point rise in men taking primary carer parental leave – the largest annual increase since records began
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Next year companies will be required to report their gender pay gaps. This is good. Also, the FWC is prioritising looking at feminised industries and pay in Awards. This is also good. Unions in feminised industries are campaigning. Good. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
I swore to never join another social media site but here I am I guess!
November 7, 2024 at 9:46 AM
I swore to never join another social media site but here I am I guess!