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My financial advisor said all but one of his CDC clients have retired. Most weren’t planning on it, but couldn’t deal with the atmosphere.

🧵1/ BIG NEWS!! CDC just dropped a landmark report — the first US data on RSV hospitalizations after rollout of the maternal vaccine and infant antibody. What happened? Hospitalizations in babies under 3 months fell nearly 50% vs pre-pandemic years. Quietly, radically effective.

As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and scientists—especially from the United States.

The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and scientists—especially from the United States. www.wired.com/story/us-cut...

What better way to celebrate #StarWarsDay than to submit #StarWars panel, event, & programming ideas for #DragonCon2025?!

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Story time. Have you ever wondered why the CDC is headquartered in Atlanta? The answer in one word: MALARIA. CDC started to prevent the spread of malaria, so we went where the mosquitoes were.

Now, the division that houses our founding mission has an uncertain future.
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Racism is when you believe a white guy is innocent after a jury has concluded 34 times that he isn’t, and you immediately decide an immigrant is guilty when the immigrant hasn’t even had a chance to present their defense.

Quite the compliment coming from one of my favorite accounts on this platform.

Thanks for all you do, Rick!

From your fan, Mar🐫

House Republicans advance plan to cut federal worker benefits and undermine civil service protections One Republican who voted against the measure said efforts to reduce existing federal workers’ pension benefits will fail if put to a vote before the full House.

Not only does this suck overall, but screwing over people already in the system by moving the goal posts?

When compared to jobs that also exist in the private sector, feds make 10-20% less. The benefit is what keeps good people serving our country.

Pressure your Republican reps not to do it.

Just before May Day, Congress gave federal workers the finger. 🖕The House Oversight Committee voted to slash our benefits: higher retirement contributions/ reduce take-home pay, smaller pensions, weaker job protections. It’s not law yet—final vote likely in July. 😡Thread with details ⬇️

Bar graph titled “childhood vaccines save lives”: Vaccines against measles, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis) and tuberculosis, received during childhood, have saved about 154 million lives over the past 50 years. Orange bar graph with bars showing number of lives saved (in millions) by illness: Total: 163.84 million Measles: 95.71 Tetanus: 27.95 Whooping cough (pertussis): 13.17 Tuberculosis: 10.87 Haemophilus influenzae type B: 2.85 Streptococcus pneumoniae: 1.63 Polio: 1.57

RFKJ is saying that all “new vaccines” should be tested in clinical trials. Specifically, placebo trials (where the comparison group gets a “sugar pill”). It sounds reasonable to test new vaccines right? Well here’s the issue with this approach:

Oh sure. This is such a great idea, she says sarcastically.

This is a must watch

We are proud of our fired colleagues at @firedbutfighting.bsky.social who are organizing and fighting back.

Fed friends, check out the Legal Defense Network linked below. This is a good resource to have especially with schedule F reclassification approaching.

Jesus Christ, he is going for the military dictatorship play.

a canadian flag with a red maple leaf in the middle Alt: a canadian flag with a red maple leaf in the middle

🇨🇦 Congratulations Canada! 🇨🇦

We are delighted to see cool heads prevail (and learn from our mistakes).

To peace, order, and good governance!

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.

Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

Not all heroes wear capes. You can hear a quiver in his voice. Resist!

To everyone shouting “no one is above the law” referring to that Milwaukee judge: We have a criminal in the White House. A guy who’s proven to be utterly lawless. And you’re perfectly fine with that. So take your “no one is above the law” bullshit and shove it up your ass.

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

Said in jest? Oh really. Let’s roll the tape:
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Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

More evidence shingles vaccine lowers dementia risk


Vaccination was tied to a lower probability of receiving a new dementia diagnosis during the following 7.4 years.


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Photo: CDC / K.L. Herrmann

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Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge NPR has for months been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib has revealed more that 200 detentions this year at the ...

NPR has been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib has revealed more that 200 detentions this year at the bridge, including American citizen children.

Just one?

a reminder that measles eradicates the cells responsible for your immune system’s memory of other diseases, leaving you to rebuild from scratch, and will make other outbreaks much worse as a result

you don’t want measles! nobody wants measles! what are we doing here!

A big question in my mind is how to deal with the MAGA-infested law enforcement. You don’t want to be them. But who can trust them after all of this? And how do you figure it all out?