If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

Earth Week YouTube video by Washington Department of Ecology

Being stewards of the Earth requires collaboration. By partnering with agencies across the state, we can be more effective in taking care of Washington’s air, land, water, and the communities we serve.

@doh.wa.gov @wsdot.wa.gov @wadnr.bsky.social @wsdagov.bsky.social

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Vaccines save lives by the millions, this is not a point of debate.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

CDC says person diagnosed with new mpox variant in New York is in isolation The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a person diagnosed with clade1b mpox in New York was currently in isolation and that it was trying to identify people who might have come in contact with the patient.

New York health department has confirmed a case of clade I mpox in a returning traveller who visited E.Africa. This is the 4th case of clade I mpox in the US. #Mpox remains public health emergency of international concern with multiple outbreaks across Africa.
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24 measles cases in 2 weeks in this small Texas town. That's a 140% increase. 9 cases required hospitalization- that is almost 40%.
ALL cases occurred in unvaccinated children and adults (n=2).
Please vaccinate your children. Measles is preventable.
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Need

Texas measles outbreak puts New Mexico health officials on alert • Source New Mexico New Mexico health officials are checking New Mexico residents for possible exposure to measles, following two cases reported in Texas.

The thing about the measles virus is that it is extraordinarily good at spreading from person-to-person.
The thing about the measles vaccine is that it is exceptionally effective in preventing the spread of measles.
#TexasMeaslesOutbreak
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If you’ve taken the oath to serve, today would be a good day to honor it.

Tuberculosis treatment. Three things you need to know: #1 TB is treated with antibiotics

#2 Medications must be taken daily for 4-6 months to be effective

#3 Stopping treatment early can lead to drug-resistant tuberculosis

#Tuberculosis is curable!
Tuberculosis is treated with antibiotics. To be effective, these medications need to be taken daily for 4–6 months.

⚠️ Stopping treatment early can lead to drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Learn more bit.ly/3Vo428E #EndTB

Happy Black History month 🖤

SOS researchers: download what you can from publicly available health datasets now.

Everyone should read this but especially our folks in federal agencies, where the walls have ears.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Important phrases to know in these dark times:

La Migra- immigration/ICE
No digas nada - don’t say anything
Pida un abogado- ask for a lawyer

Oregon friends - ICE vehicles have been spotted in Portland, Aloha, Beaverton, Salem, Woodburn.

Keep our friends safe.

🚨 Data.gov appears to be dropping datasets 🚨

Almost 2,300 datasets have disappeared since Jan 21.

Data scrubbing at this rate is concerning- download and archive what you think you’ll need.

Medical toxicologist here to confirm: all available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines.

Mortality rates:

Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000
Penicillin 2/100K
Viagra 4/100K

Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

@missshelleybean.bsky.social they would not be alone given than 40% of christians surveyed ascribed to this ideology regardless of denomination.

Join me and many others in the fight against fascism

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows On the Thursday night after Donald Trump won the presidential election, an obscure but telling celebration unfolded inside a converted

Non-paywall link dnyuz.com/2025/01/09/t...

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.

This is insane and should be getting more attention.

🚨If your senator is below, call them “No on RFK Jr” (202) 224-3121
• Booker (D-NJ)
• Cortez Masto (D-NV)
• Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Murkowski (R-AK)
• Ernst (R-IA)
• McConnell (R-KY)
• Cassidy (R-LA)
• Collins (R-ME)
• Tillis (R-NC)
• Lankford (R-OK)
• Cornyn (R-TX)
• Curtis (R-UT)
• Moore Capito (R-WV)

Happy Birthday, Angela Davis!

I would recommend everyone subscribe to the US Government Funding account, to determine who’s funding each member of congress, so you can better understand why members of congress aren’t doing anything to stop Trump’s regime.

Once you subscribe, you’ll see lobbyist badges.👇🏾 bsky.app/profile/us-g...

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

When interacting with ICE, you have rights guaranteed by the Constitution, no matter your immigration status. ⬇️

The risk of acquiring avian influenza from commercial poultry products and hen eggs: A qualitative assessment High pathogenicity and low pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI and LPAI) viruses primarily infect birds, but they can also cause illness in other spec…

Properly storing and thoroughly cooking poultry and eggs can prevent infection with HPAI www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...