Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
@mhbachmann.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @michiganstateu, virologist๐ฆ , cancer biologist (book under way), public health advocate. Views my own (he/him/his). https://www.bachmannlab.net
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly
Donate today! Spread the word! Money goes the furthest for food banks bc they can purchase food much more cheaply than us.
Please share.
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Gender equality in the U.S. and around the world is not a pipe dream. Fifty years ago women in Iceland showed the way.
25.10.2025 17:28 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Science isnโt static. Our last Ode to #NationalFoodDay is a great example of this. We used to tell parents to avoid peanuts. Then new research showed early exposure prevents allergy, which has likely saved thousands of kids from developing peanut allergies. ๐ฅ๐ก
www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
On World Polio Day we commemorate and bow in gratitude to all who worked tremendously hard to eradicate this debilitating, sometimes deadly virus. Nostalgia for the good olโ days when poliovirus maimed and killed is misplaced and misguided. We still have work to do the eliminate its last vestiges.
24.10.2025 17:29 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.
21.10.2025 00:05 โ ๐ 5958 ๐ 1308 ๐ฌ 118 ๐ 48โRelativ kleinโ??
No Kings protests against Trump draw huge crowds across the countryโฉMaegan Vazquez, Katie Tarrant and Kim Bellware, Oct 18, 2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
๐๐ข Every human getting killed is an entire universe being lost. May she have a safe journey beyond this world and find a place of peace, love, and joy!
And may you yourself be safe, stay strong, and be able to bear witness and keep the stories coming.๐ค๐ค๐๐๐
They have fired the staff of the CDCโs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
What could possibly go wrong if the US public health infrastructure is dismantled? Measles virus is already having a heyday, SARS-CoV-2 is killing >1,300 Americans per week (per @michael_hoerger), H5N1 influenza and Ebola are looming threats. No ostrich puts its head into the sand when in danger.
11.10.2025 16:55 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ฏ% agreed. For those who like to play partisan politics with public health, viruses, bacteria and parasites are not partisan and will infect and affect you +/- your loved ones as equal opportunity invaders, no matter what your political leanings are, when there arenโt enough to form herd immunity.
11.10.2025 05:11 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nรผrnberg (English: Nuremberg)
07.10.2025 03:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It again depends what stories and narratives we listen to and reflect on - or unthinkingly absorb - and then take action on. Before that, we do well if we are following Einsteinโs dictum, โThe important thing is to not stop questioning.โ๐
03.10.2025 15:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The recognition depends on the attitude and wisdom of the beholder. Too many forget that ultimately, we all are one family originating from Africa and arrived after a long, arduous journey we or our ancestors made. That deeper understanding brings more kindness and respect.๐
pbs.org/video/human-...
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
๐ TYVM for the birthday reminder of one of (surprisingly) Americaโs bestselling poets!
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Let the beauty we love be what we do. 
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. 
โ Jalฤl ad-Dฤซn Rลซmฤซ, translated by Coleman Barks
๐๐ Correct. By chance or not, @pkrugman.bsky.social pointed this out today in detail.
Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds
Whatโs driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?
Paul Krugman, Substack, Sept 30, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
#climatecrisis #climatechange #430ppm #energytransition
My $0.02: The only way money can buy you happiness is by giving it away to those in greater need so they survive and can thrive. On the contrary, greed for money achieves the opposite since it narrows the mind and precludes generosity and empathetic joy, both prerequisites for happiness and grace.
28.09.2025 03:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"I'm sorry, where's my change?" said the Zen master.
"Brother," said the vendor, "change comes from within."
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide...
A Zen master was visiting London. He went up to a hot dog vendor and said, "Make me one with everything."
The vendor fixed up a hot dog with fried onions, gherkins, and mustard and handed it to the Zen master, who paid with a ยฃ20 note. The vendor put the note in his register and snapped it shut.
โIf the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.โ 
โ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Having always watered othersโ minds, hearts and souls with your energy, wisdom and wit but receiving too little back is only sustainable, if you are consciously connected to the cosmic source of all there is. It can take you beyond the divine comedy of emperors without clothes and empty suits to โพ๏ธ.
03.09.2025 06:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Having a good sense of humor is a precious gift, the highest form of defense, and of offense, too. And if it turns into gallows humor, it provides relief when little else does. No wonder youโd like to have some give โn take reciprocity because it would replenish and -balance your life energy (Chi).
03.09.2025 06:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Geoff Bennett: You say that poetry is not useful, and that's exactly why we need it. Why?
David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."
U.S. immigrants who win Nobel prizes are the highly visible โcrรจme de la crรจmeโ in science. Less conspicuous, but no less important are the many immigrants who form a substantial part of the scientific enterprise and who enable, support and contribute to these stellar achievements.
01.09.2025 18:02 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Majestic #leopards are adaptable and a range over several continents, yet they're #extinct in places due to #palmoil #deforestation, #poaching and other threats. Help them every time you shop and #Boycottpalmoil ๐ด๐ซ#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-199
24.08.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 59 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2The future of every country depends on its teachers who are educating and buidling up the next generation. The long-standing failure in the U.S. to support them adequately has numerous consequences, including for economic productivity and international competitiveness.
18.08.2025 21:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Letโs make a planet in which nobody is starving. Letโs make a planet in which men and women have equal access to power. Let us make a planet in which no ethnic group has it over another ethnic group. Letโs have a planet in which science and engineering is used for the benefit of everybody on the planet. And my personal idiosyncrasy, letโs have a world in which we go to other worlds. ~ Carl Sagan
17.08.2025 10:48 โ ๐ 4243 ๐ 1209 ๐ฌ 78 ๐ 79Being a woman in STEM and not only surviving but thriving takes extra energy, resources, and a supportive network and environment. Physics prof Filomena Nunes at @michiganstateu.bsky.social has assembled the needed elements for success into a course that deserves wider attention and implementation.
16.08.2025 12:28 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0