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VAERS is for hypothesis-free data mining. It is NOT a suitable source for *evaluating* potential safety concerns. Other data / studies are used for that.

Read the caveats in the thread below

I'm supporting Feeding America! To feed America’s hungry through food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself.

Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.

We surveyed hundreds of biomedical researchers about the instability in federal funding. Here’s what they said “The ship is going down and we are powerless”: What scientists are saying about cuts to federal research funding.

We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.”

Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2

Nice study by @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social et al., even though quite a depressing read.

Studies/articles like these are useful to help the public understand what's being lost and push back.

Don't want to have long depressing chats with your family, friends, etc. yourself? Send 'em here.

Between last fall and today, there have been over 3 million out-patient visits, over 300,000 hospitalizations and over 30,000 deaths from COVID. This data comes from a presentation at the the June ACIP meeting extrapolated forward. Now there will likely be more as RFK Jr. consolidates his power. 4/

That’s more complex and would need discussions with an endocrinologist

Type 2 patients produce insulin (their bodies just don’t respond to it) so it wouldn’t work for them to give them cells that can make insulin.

What U.S. science stands to lose without international graduate students and postdoctoral researchers Neuroscience in other countries will strengthen—at the United States’ expense—as rising visa restrictions and rejections block many international students from enrolling at U.S.

Science is the most international endeavor in human history.
This flagrantly racist administration is destroying the U.S.'s lucrative and life-saving leadership. www.thetransmitter.org/policy/what-... on @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Don’t Say Vote: NC GOPers Want to Bar Election Officials From Encouraging Turnout Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

North Carolina Republicans have introduced a bill that could ban election officials from encouraging voter turnout. If passed, that means:
❌ No voter education from election offices
❌ No public outreach to boost participation
❌ No PSAs reminding people to cast a ballot

Trump’s Republicans are putting an end to American research excellence.

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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Labor Department proposes rewriting or repealing more than 60 'obsolete' rules in push to deregulate workplaces The Labor Department says the goal is to deliver on President Donald Trump's commitment to restore American prosperity through deregulation.

Surprise, surprise. These changes will have the greatest impact on women, people of color, and workers in hazardous occupations.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is one way that we can stand together and help public media survive during this tragic time. Adopt one or more of these stations. Spread the word to friends and family. adoptastation.org Adopt A Station

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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Also, the years being used are 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Trying to remember what was happening around then that could have influenced college attendance and graduation…………………..

If MAGA passes Trump's Big Ugly Bill

Experts say 51,000 Americans will die PER YEAR due to loss of Medicaid or ACA coverage

This is unacceptable under ANY circumstances

And to think-Republicans are doing this to give tax breaks to billionaires

No,Mitch McConnell

We Wont Get Over Losing Medicaid

Opinion | Mitch McConnell says voters will ‘get over’ losing Medicaid. That’s a risky bet. It’s true that many voters have short memories. But other Republicans fear this time may be different.

Mitch McConnell says voters will ‘get over’ losing Medicaid. That callousness will cost Republicans during during the next elections. Remember this!!!
#WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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The cost of the water purification tablets and their sourcing is like a grain of sand in the US budget….USAID was not inefficient or wasteful. It takes a deep and vast avarice to take clean water away from a people when they have so little already

“…open all 58 million acres of our national forests to logging and development”

What do we call governments without due process, again?

I was not expecting Ayatollahs to be the voice of reason this year. We need to keep the pressure up on our Congresspeople. This is no longer a partisan issue. None of us want to have to consider nuclear proliferation as a possible concern.
This is just so sad, infuriating, and tragic

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They base their comments on so little information, least of all discussion with actual trans people. I’m sorry you have to deal with this, esp on top of all the other horrors we are all dealing with. 🏳️‍⚧️

The grey lady is spinning in her grave these days

Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.

It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.

The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director

Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?

These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.

Confirmed protest sites

Mass protests planned for June 14, everyone hit the streets. Every city, every capital. Resist and defend. #3E #HandsOff #Indivisible #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #NoKingsProtest

Find a confirmed location here (more protests exist but are not listed): nokings.org#map

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture You need to turn your phone's Face ID and thumbprint lock off ASAP.

youtu.be/RPqfvz3ha-4?...

Here's a good primer.

This is a good question and it's one I'm getting a lot. The answer is going to depend, in part, on your risk tolerance and the role you plan to play

I've just pushed out a newsletter article with recommendations and advice. Here's a thread with the cliff's notes

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