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FDA’s Controversial Vaccines Chief Will Leave the Agency — The Wall Street Journal Dr. Vinay Prasad will depart in April, after a year leading the division that approves vaccines and biotech drugs

Hopefully this time it’s a permanent departure instead of a few weeks, and hopefully the replacement is not anti science

Good for them

BREAKING: 92,000 jobs lost in February, a heavy departure from the expected gain of 50,000, new report reveals.

damn 😬

“Let them eat cake!” — Trump probably

#Gas #Inflation #Iran #Trump

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Thank god for small mercies I guess

I’m not saying don’t take the win, I’m saying don’t be ignorant about it.

Houston-area gas prices have risen 30 cents since U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran According to AAA, the highest gas prices ever recorded in Houston were $4.68 per gallon of regular unleaded and $5.24 per gallon of diesel during March 2022 — shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Gas prices in Houston are up 30 cents on average as oil markets in the U.S. and around the world react to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East sparked by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran last weekend.  

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

President Zelenskyy: In three days, Middle Eastern countries have fired 800 missiles for Patriot systems - a number Ukraine has never even had.

Gen Z men twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations Almost a third of generation Z men think a wife should obey her husband, according to a global survey of 23,000 people that found young men hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations. A third (33%) of gen Z men also said a husband should have the final word on important decisions, according to the 29-country survey which included Great Britain, the US, Brazil, Australia and India. Almost a quarter (24%) of gen Z men think women should not appear too independent or self-sufficient, compared with 12% of baby boomer men. Attitudes toward sexual norms also differed sharply across generations, with 21% of gen Z men thinking a “real woman” should never initiate sex, compared with only 7% of baby boomer men. More than half (59%) of gen Z men said men were expected to do too much to support equality, compared with 45% of baby boomer men. For women, the proportions were 41% and 30% respectively. Thirty percent of gen Z men believed men should not say “I love you” to their friends, compared with 20% of baby boomer men and 21% of gen Z women. Twenty-one percent of gen Z men believed that men who took part in caregiving for children were less masculine than those who did not, compared with 8% of baby boomer men and 14% of gen Z women. Both genders felt women had more choice in dating and relationships (22%), household roles (24%) and the clothes they can wear (34%), while men were considered to have more choice in hobbies (18%) and jobs (39%). Continue reading...

Gen Z men twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

Helping My Dad Find His Voice Again: Our Journey to Beat Laryngeal Cancer If you know my father, Willy, you know a man who is cheerful, a hard worker, a devoted grandfather. He has spent his life caring for our family especially his grandkids. Recently, our world was turned...

At the risk of lightly doxxing myself, I'm sharing this in hopes that the people close to me have more chances of help:

gogetfunding.com/helping-my-d...

Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers, and if you could, please share the link around 🙇‍♂️

I appreciate y'all!

Her and Joy are my favorite characters ♥️ 🩺

#ThePitt

Huge slap in the face to democracy. Democratic Colorado governor, @colorado.gov, just publicly signaled clemency to Tina peters, convicted of election interference. If election crimes have no consequences, why would the next denier stop?

Full breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=lTSCC_9-FpY

YES. This is why I blocked some accounts bc of the foolish posts and completely hypocritical shit. They act like it’s a game! I’m Texas voter so I knew it was going to be hell but it still was heartbreaking for me. Literally had my BP shoot up and had to go to bed early 😣. Your analogy is spot on.

I agree, and this is why I started following DW, France 24, Guardian. I met international friends in grad school and it made such a difference! Realized how isolated we are in US experience, and it was shocking to suddenly see what we are missing.

Luxembourg becomes second country worldwide to enshrine abortion rights in constitution Large majority in parliament backs amendment to Luxembourg’s highest law, with ‘freedom’ to have an abortion added to constitution

Luxembourg lawmakers have voted to enshrine the freedom to have an abortion in the country’s constitution. However, wording was changed from "right" to "freedom" making it much weaker, and the country has a 12-week abortion limit that won't change.

Wow. Well, that's dystopian as hell.

And so the fuckery continues…

#Texas
#Primaries

The first set of polling locations in Texas have officially closed. Precincts will begin tabulating the votes and reporting results to county election offices.

Polls in Dallas County will remain open after a county judge granted an emergency petition to extend hours.

www.ms.now/liveblog/202...

NEW: A Texas judge extended voting in Dallas County’s Democratic primary by two hours due to "mass confusion" after reports that some voters were turned away.

MS NOW's Rosa Flores reports.

www.ms.now/liveblog/202...

First-Time Primary Voters Add Uncertainty to Texas Democratic Races

"Texas Democrats turned out in unusually high numbers during early voting, including 400,000 people who had never before voted in a Democratic primary.More than one in four voters who cast an early ballot in the Democratic primary had only voted in a general election before"

A judge has ordered two more hours of voting in Dallas County. Spread the word.

#TexasPrimary #DallasCounty

just like their gerrymandering 😤

And for a second after that call I thought wow, Texas is for once making it easier for people to vote and not doing precinct-specific site voting on Election Day like all the other decades. But read online nope, they are still doing it in pivotal counties of course, and it’s obvious why,

and made it easier for her to vote just in time (she got there at 638pm lol) but damn if this confusion isn’t intentional voter suppression by Republicans

This type of voter suppression is ALWAYS happening in Texas and it’s BULLSHIT!! Today I called the elections office for my sister, to see what her precinct-specific polling site is and for the first time was informed that our county isn’t requiring that. Great news (cont)

#Texas
#Primary

...in Dallas are being turned away. The Dallas Morning News has characterized conditions at certain polling locations as “chaos,” and WFAA has similarly reported that numerous voters have been unable to cast ballots. According to James Barragan of Spectrum News, the Crockett campaign has... 3/6

...Election Day turnout across other major counties statewide. Dallas County is the second-largest Democratic stronghold in Texas and serves as U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s political base.

These observations coincide with claims from the Texas Democratic Party that “nearly a third” of voters... 2/6