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The IAEA Board has passed a resolution warning that attacks on Ukraine's power grid—crucial for nuclear plant cooling—pose a direct safety risk.
Vote:
FOR: 22
AGAINST: 3 (Russia, China, Niger)
ABSTAIN: 10 (including U.S.)
US abstained noting the text was "unnecessary" amid ongoing peace talks.
Trump to Rubio with Miami football team as a backdrop: “Your next one will be Cuba.. when you do countries all too fast, bad things happen, and we won’t let bad things happen to this (US) country.”
According to President Zelenskyy, countries in the Middle East fired about 800 patriot missiles in just three days — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war.
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. https://to.pbs.org/47ug2uu
The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???
this is such a good point. I've been waiting my whole life for a robot butler/maid, a flying car, a jet pack, and even just an incredibly realistic baseball video game. If there was anything cool in the slightest about it, I'd be all over it. it's actively hateful and sucky.
Malignant narcissists experience increased paranoia, denial, and rage as death nears. They often externalize these experiences through destruction and abuse of others in an effort to maintain a sense of control.
I suspect all of these wars are in part related to Trump’s awareness of his mortality.
Screenshot of a CDC webpage. The page title reads “Mental Health,” with a subheading: “Poor Mental Health Effects Adolescent Well-being.” “Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 14, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.”
Starting research for a new project on youth mental health, I went to the CDC website.
This brazenly discriminatory anti-trans notice is tacked to the top of the page.
2/ After the digital media team got RIF’d last April, political appointees have taken over CDC’s social media accounts.
Life saving content is sent to the office of communications only for it to sit unapproved in a queue until the publishing date has passed.
Stoked to have The Bad Astronomer in Richmond this Saturday to help us Stand Up For Science!
Check out his newsletter and we'll see you at the Bell Tower on Capitol Square (9th and Franklin Streets) at noon.
Scientific American article about Stand Up for Science events.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
Find you local March 7th event here:
www.standupforscience.net
NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US
It's up to us to save science, protect health and defend this democracy!
Stand up! Speak out! Hit the streets on March 7th!
Join us on the streets at rallies nationwide on March 7th.zurl.co/Rcwcl
#ItsUpToUs #standupforscience #rally #March7
Story time:
The CDC (Kennedy) gave $1.6m to fund an unethical Hep B trial in Guinea-Bissau. WHO/scientists denounced it.
Enter @standupforscience.bsky.social. They briefed congress on this study. It is now cancelled.
Science activism is essential right now.
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Pandemic-related factors may lead to nearly 3,000 excess #TB cases, 1,100 deaths by 2035
The factors may continue to influence TB trends over time, the authors say.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/t...
Graphic with text that reads, “New Press Release.” Graphic has a rendering of a microbe in the background along with the CIDRAP logo and website.
CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project launches an independent review of Tdap vaccine in pregnancy that will:
-Be independent & transparent
-Assess possible safety outcomes/effectiveness data
-Answer policy questions developed w/ medical professional societies
Full press release: ow.ly/Q2w250YpheT
This is a big deal! CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project is providing an alternative to reports from CDC and ACIP, which experts say are no longer following established science.
Men's Health magazine is publishing all of the health information pages that the CDC has been removing from their site.
What. the. fuck. is. this. timeline????
Can confirm, the bullet holes are still there. But don’t worry, they’ve covered them with tape, and some kind of poster board thing in some cases 💕
A new report estimates the federal science workforce lost ~95,000 staff between Sept 2024 and Dec 2025.
CDC has been hit especially hard.
When the next health crisis hits, remember: this public health emergency was brought to you by the Trump Administration.
As number of cases climbs past 1,000, experts say CDC is not taking obvious steps amid funding cuts
Remember in August when the CDC was attacked by man who believed disinformation about COVID19 vaccines? You know, the one who fired 200 rounds into CDC buildings and killed a police officer?
I’ve heard from two separate people that the bullet holes in the windows have still not been repaired.
Hey I’ll be the blunt one:
I’ll take BlueSky more serious when a new member isn’t another cis white man lol.
I don’t need to expand further on that.
People in remote Greenland has better medical care than a majority of the people in the great state of Louisiana. Louisiana consistently ranks among the lowest in the U.S. for healthcare, placing 41st in the 2025 Commonwealth Fund scorecard and often in the bottom five for overall health.
AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.
McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
This vet should sue the shit out of Sheehy, who has a lot of money and no business being in public office.
Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.
