Adam McLain

US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north

Who could have ever seen this coming

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The New Zoo Revue is coming right at you motherfuckers!

Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes

At what point is someone going to explain to the hicks who voted for this that blue state funds largely keep them alive?

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After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination, a Bumper Crop of Conspiracy Theories

In a shocking development no one could have predicted, the violent death a conspiracy theorist who actively promoted other conspiracy theorists has created a groundswell of conspiracy theories....

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A stopped escalator!? My words, get the vapors!

And I say this with mad respect.

Polish Skier Climbs Everest and Skis Down Without Extra Oxygen

There is insane. There is bat shit insane. And then there is this dude.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/s...

Miaraka amin’ny vahoakan’i Madagasikara aho.

The protesters in Madagascar are 100% right~ time for the water/power cuts and the open corruption to end.

Judge Blocks Administration From Immediately Removing Guatemalan Children

Imagine being a person who wanted to deport kids.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

I require all the graded work in my class to be hand written in a proctored environment, no phones etc. I'm sure the students think I'm a Luddite but then I'd have to remind them that the Luddites weren't bad people. They were just fighting for their jobs.

This was just last year!

9-0 Supreme Court ruling: A “government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech on her behalf.” Moreover, "a government official cannot do indirectly what she is barred from doing directly."

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None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress The script written for Donald Trump which he read stiltedly straight after Charlie Kirk was shot declared assassinations in the USA were caused by “the radical Left”.

Shocking...

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Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.

He did not deserve to be shot. But this is worth a read.

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Someone who can go two years without brushing their teeth is probably also not cleaning other things...

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

Given that the vast majority of mass-shooters are non-trans white dudes like me maybe we should be looking at ways to ban non-trans white dudes from owning guns?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

FEMA Suspends Staff Who Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

Retaliation against whistleblowers is illegal under Federal Law.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...

Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest Documents reviewed by The Post detail a new National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.

So of course it's not just D.C.

"The administration is evaluating plans [for] a 'Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force' of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest."

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Massachusetts governor proposes $400 million for colleges, citing federal ‘uncertainty.’

The real baller move is to do this and then turn around and sue the Feds for the balance back in tax revenue.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

Trump Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand

As if people weren't already ignorant enough here comes more AI.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/t...

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war", if only our current leadership agreed my friends.

Hey at least you wrote one, I am still on chapter one of mine 🤣

Top gene therapy regulator forced out at FDA Nicole Verdun, top gene therapy regulator at the FDA, has been forced out of the agency.

“Nicole Verdun, director of the office that reviews cell and gene therapies at the Food and Drug Administration, and her deputy Rachael Anatol have been placed on administrative leave and escorted out of the agency, according to a recording of a meeting obtained by STAT.”

The cruelty is just astounding sometimes

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

There are likely still a good amount of undescribed lemur species out there.

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the

BREAKING: The RFK-fired ACIP (CDC virus advisory board) stand up and start leading the fight back with this open letter dropped last nite via #JAMA.

Join us in joining them in fighting back here zurl.co/7d75d

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#StandUpForScience
#SaveCDC
#RestoreACIP
#StopRFK

Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules

Hell yeah

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

UK-wide drug trial hailed as a ‘milestone’ in leukaemia treatment Combination of two targeted drugs found to produce better outcomes and was more tolerable than chemotherapy A groundbreaking UK-wide trial has found a chemotherapy-free approach to treating leukaemia that may lead to better outcomes for some patients, with the results being hailed as a “milestone”. Led by researchers from Leeds, results from the Flair trial, which took place at 96 cancer centres across the UK, could reshape the way the most common form of leukaemia in adults is treated, scientists said. Continue reading...

UK-wide drug trial hailed as a ‘milestone’ in leukaemia treatment

Vaccines save lives.

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