White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains.
And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.
White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains.
And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.
π¨π¨π¨This collapses the one 'argument' Hegseth had against it being a war crime:
"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."
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βWe found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providingβ¦false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
#NoKings
π¨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.
We refuse to stand by while Americaβs public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW
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An astonishing weekend with DC Circuit backing Trump's dismantling of congressionally-mandated global media outlets
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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. Iβve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things Iβve ever read β testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Tens of thousands marched from Bryant Park to Madison Square Park in NYC on April 5, 2025 to protest the administration of President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk.
(Photos by Melissa Bender/ NurPhoto)
#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #trump
#doge #elonmusk #photojournalism
βHands Off! Our Public Postal Service!β National Day of Action in midtown Manhattan and simultaneously in cities across the nation. Protesters denounced the Trump/Musk/DOGE efforts to privatize the U.S. postal service.
Photos by me, 3/20/2025
@apwu.bsky.social @aflcio.org #usps #apwu
International Womenβs Day March in NYC
People gather in Union Square Park, New York City for the International Womenβs Day march on March 8, 2025. Demonstrations were held around the world in defense of womenβs rights.
(Photo by Melissa Bender/ NurPhoto)
#IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD
More images from the #TeslaTakedown protest outside the Manhattan Tesla showroom on 3/8/2025. A few hundred people denounced billionaire Elon Muskβs DOGE cuts and layoffs, with six arrests.
#doge #trump #tesla #musk
Several hundred demonstrated outside a Manhattan Tesla showroom on 3/8/2025. Some entered the dealership; six were arrested. Fierce opposition is growing toward to the Trump Administrationβs Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Musk.
#teslatakedown #doge #trump #tesla #elonmusk
Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie: βI strongly believe in DEI!β
Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science.
March 7, 2025
#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
More images from today in NYC.
#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
Hundreds of scientists and supporters gather in Washington Square Park, NYC β and in over 30 cities nationwide β on March 7, 2025 to protest the Trump/Musk attack on science.
#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
Scenes from the Presidentβs day anti-Trump-agenda protest on 17, 2025 in NYC. ThousandS marched from Union Sq to Washington Sq Park β and similar protests took place across the U.S. β as part of the β50501 movement,β an organized response to actions by the Trump administration.
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
CDC source:
βWe just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. Thatβs 1260 staff.
They are calling this βPhase 1β.β
1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination
On left:
Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on."
On right:
Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge!
Contemporaneous note: βKP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJβ
Federal judge blocks Trumpβs attempt to slash NIH funding; imposes biweekly judicial overview to monitor for compliance.
A federal judge in Massachusetts has just blocked Trump administration's move to cut NIH's funding of indirect costs
A hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 21 in case, which was brought by 22 states earlier today
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A good tool.
(Related question: does this benefit Big Pharma and corporations, if the federal government is increasingly investing less in research? Gives them more control/power?)
What happened to CDC's bird flu studies and why did they publish about wildfires instead?
Sources tell us Trump officials are now wielding unprecedented control over agency's flagship scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy"
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
For the Texans who wanted to touch the stove
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NIH IN YOUR STATE
βSelect a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across Americaβ
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: βDeep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue statesβ