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Of the two boys with smallpox, the one who had been vaccinated has very few pox while the other is horribly disfigured.

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

The #HugoAward for Best Graphic Story or Comic goes to Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio (IDW Publishing).

The lower decks main characters.

Lower Decks’ win is the first time in 30 years that a Star Trek story has won a Hugo Award.

The last one was “All Good Things” in 1995.

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

@adambecker.bsky.social so glad I heard about your book on @majorityreport.bsky.social It’s so good and I’m so relieved to have someone pointing out just how stupid these ideas are. The pseudo-intellectual DC bros thinking themselves philosophers

If your “evidence” comes from bible fanfic and not history books, you’re not defending the Constitution — you’re rewriting it.

It's an artisanal recession

Yes, we have and we will.

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare.

👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

We found the government “waste, fraud, and abuse”.

Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine

In the end, anti-vaxxer parents hate science more than they love their children.

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.

The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.

Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Should clarify this is of course just my personal pet theory. No one really knows except Waltz.

Today's Headlines

The CDC has literally been gutted today.

There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.

Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.

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How Goldberg was added to the group chat: his title in the phone was “National Security Reporter” and Waltz just searched “National Security” thinking it would pull up NSC members and tapped “select all”

Government officials often work in the ‘high side’ — a classified system, and the ‘low side’ — an unclassified government system. The entire Signal conversation took place in neither the ‘high side’ nor the ‘low side,’ but in a publicly available messaging app.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A tweet from Jane Coaston (@janecoaston) responding to another tweet. Jane's tweet reads: "1.) Wait until you find out what Germany was doing during the Second World War 2.) 'I didn't know something' is not you being lied to, you incomprehensible dork." The original tweet, from a user named "Unacceptable Canadian Girl" (@AreOhEssEyeEe), reads: "I was today years old when I learned that Disney worked with the U.S. government to create short films that vilified Germany during WW2. We have been lied to on an unimaginable scale."

Good heavens, these people vote!

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

Love it. Music is healing indeed! ❤️

No, I’m sorry to be negative! It’s just I’m so grateful for the ability to DJ my own choices comfortably from a spot on the bed or couch and it’s utmost luxury after a whole childhood and young adulthood of being slave to the music industry’s choices - not to mention the fragility of the medium

2 out of 3 are lovely but having struggled with cleaning records and skipping CDs…those formats are NO kind of leisure for my Gen X ass. I’ll take streaming and a playlist for life. Even beats when cassette tapes got to 90 minutes and you could listen to a whole 45 minutes without switching sides.

Oh wow. As a parent the idea of being able to talk away your responsibility in your child’s death….hardened heart, indeed. 😢