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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

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EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater - Inside Climate News Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”

Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.

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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Parents of Texas child who died of measles stand by decision to not vaccinate The measles vaccine has been proven to be safe and effective against the disease, which is highly contagious and can be life threatening.

The parents of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who just died from measles in Texas say they have no regrets for refusing to vaccinate their child.

“The measles are good for the body... She’s better off where she is now.”

This pic of mine is currently on display in the Australian Embassy in Berlin as part of the 'Climate Change in Focus' exhibition. Just heard that some photos will be removed once the election is called for reasons of "political sensitivities". Yeah, let's pretend that climate change isn't a thing.

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company. DOGE just fired them. At least 20 staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

La de la Rata es un clásico de la vida real 🤣

Leaked emails show the nation’s leading wildlife agency has halted critical funding for conservation Exclusive: The US Fish and Wildlife Service has frozen millions of dollars, imperiling animals abroad.

Please stop Elon and Trump
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Senior FBI leaders ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday | CNN Politics At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department ...

NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.

A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

Republican Plan to Avoid Shutdown Fails in the House

Amazing that a signficant number of Republicans are OK with treason but will defy Trump on the debt ceiling www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

Sound about right.

Mientras se devela el horror de Bashar al-Assad en #Syria no puedo dejar de pensar en #Venezuela.

Another environmental catastrophe caused by Russians east of Crimea, after one of their decaying oil tankers broke apart on high seas 2 days ago, 35km of pristine coastline has been contaminated in true Russian style.

And these tankers are now all over the world.

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online.

Meteorologists get death threats as Hurricane Milton conspiracy theories thrive

Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says

We have arrived at ecological overshoot 😪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...