6th anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic this week but also I would like to remind folks that the vaccine for kids under 5 wasn’t approved until summer 2022, at which point vaccination rates had sharply declined. Fewer than 10% of kids under 5 in 🇨🇦 received ONE dose. As time goes on … /1
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
It's super easy everyone!
Just bookmark this address:
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and paste it under any mis-/dis-information post you find!
Jenny's been absolutely killing it with keeping tabs on this disastrous bill- definitely worth the follow.
And as the quoted thread makes clear, that research labor is (& should be) repackaged in a variety of ways to amply its impact. But guess what? If we allow this work to be defunded & suppressed, the opportunity to communicate its importance to wider audiences immediately vanishes.
One thing we should be taking away from the fascist crisis is that careful research on the real world is extremely fucking important. Bare minimum that work needs to be funded & expanded for us to have the information & tools necessary to cast off this regime & create a livable world from its ashes.
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
(Published May 2025)
"In 2025, 16.5 million workers in the United States were represented by a union—an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. in 16 years." — @epi.org
www.epi.org/publication/...
Appreciate Ronan summarizing all the work I've done in the last 18 months.
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pretty stunning chart
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
14 million deaths by 2030 should be a major story.
Hitler's concentration camps claimed 6 million.
Vance: "Trump might be America's Hitler.
Maybe worse.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car
cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities
if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars
New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID
The low-cost drug may lower the risk of clinician-diagnosed long COVID by 40% to 60%.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
How ICE Turned Immigration Into a Church-State Power Struggle
Trump’s immigration crackdown is testing church-state boundaries, as faith leaders mobilize to shield migrants and warn of escalating conflict.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Remember that in addition to arresting reporters, the regime deported journalist Mario Guevara after detaining him while covering No Kings Day protests.
“His imprisonment is among the longest for any reporter arrested in connection with their work as a journalist in United States history.”
When is enough going to be enough for those with the power and authority to stop this TODAY.
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
Livia Umeda will present "Disability in Music Therapy Education and Clinical Training." We are looking forward to it!
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Meet our presenters!
Hala Hamdan will present "Resilience in Exile: How War and Migration Shaped My Path as a Music Therapist." We are looking forward to it!
Read the abstract here: onlineconferenceformusictherapy.com/session/resi...
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This FB post is public.
Its called 'produced water' and its so toxic that you shouldn't even let it hit your skin. 🪶"They know not what they have done." Words that hit hard when I think on the state of this planet
US post-World War II scientific preeminence is in large part due to the fact that many of the world's best researchers found in our federal & expanding public higher education system the perfect place to work.
In just a few months, Trump & allies have wrecked so much of what was built over 75 yrs.
“This glacier is the lifeline of the Lidder and Sind rivers,” says researcher Labeeb Gulzar. “Its loss could reshape the future of Kashmir’s water, agriculture and ecosystems.”
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
