Ethan Hume

Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.

"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."

John Fugelsang nails it again

@johnfugelsang.bsky.social

This is fascism.

This

GOP Official Calls for Democratic Congresswoman to Be Executed As the nation talks about the rise of political violence, a Republican official blatantly called for Representative Pramila Jayapal to be hanged.

“In this instance, the only elected official guilty of calling for political violence was Gillette” - @newrepublic.com.

It is always the Right doing this shit.

Fear of deportation grips undocumented women on California's farms | Context by TRF Women who are undocumented farm workers in California fear for their families amid the government's immigration crackdown

"I look at my children and I say, 'I don't know if I'm going to come back. And I always tell them that I love them very much." - "Ana", farm worker & single mother of 3.

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NO TRUST IN ACIP!

Well, the absolutely incomprehensible vote at the end of the ACIP meeting has left everyone confused. MMRV resolution passed, so it’s off the schedule for younger children and CMS won’t cover it.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Apparently being in the middle of fighting a wildfire is no protection from border patrol

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Not as much of a transit guru as others so apologize if this is ignorant – my impression was that most issues with inconsistent Link operations are due to the lack of redundant tracks? Wouldn’t a second tunnel be the best way of fixing that?

Pro-wildfire? Arresting firefighters while they are tackling live wildfires? Owning the libs by putting everyone at risk of burning is certainly a take.

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

ICE is now arresting and disappearing firefighters working the Bear Gulch Fire (currently the largest wildfire in Washington State), as part of their ongoing mission to “make our communities safer”. Fuck those bootlicking goons.

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Chat, wtf is a mitochondrial challenge?

Ticks are migrating, but scant surveillance may leave doctors in the dark on patient treatment Health departments struggle to adequately survey for ticks to warn doctors about new species and the diseases they carry.

“As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active months when they can hitch rides on animals and people. Sometimes the ticks carry themselves — and diseases — to new parts of the country.”

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"Off the shores of Dune Peninsula in Tacoma, Washington, a father and son had an unforgettable encounter with T65A5, a Bigg’s transient orca right in the heart of the Salish Sea."

What We Know About the C.D.C. Shooting in Atlanta

A gunman who believed the Covid-19 vaccine had made him ill fired at the CDC’s Atlanta offices, killing a police officer and rattling the public health community.

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I feel like we’ve seen this one before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Aga...

You’ve gotta be kidding me, be so flippin’ for real right now. What did I even buy all those swan-necked flasks for.

The EPA plans to reverse the ban on forever chemicals in drinking water.

Now states are rushing to pass their own laws.

At least 250 bills to regulate the hazardous chemicals have been introduced this year in more than two dozen states.

Smoke plume from January wildfire near L.A. carried lead for miles » Yale Climate Connections Hazardous lead levels – the product of incinerated paint and pipes – have been found far from the fire’s edge.

Many older homes near L.A. contain lead pipes or lead-based paint. When wildfire erupted in January, ash and dust carried the lead for miles, creating a health hazard even in homes that appeared relatively untouched.

Opinion | What Happens When Doctors Can’t Trust the Government?

“Every time you go to your doctor or get treated by a nurse, there’s a chorus of researchers, public health workers, policy experts, epidemiologists and advisory panels arrayed behind them, aided by laboratories, databases, websites… Our current government seems determined to wrench this away”

Excellent piece.

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.

🚨 #HHS just issued a rule blocking undocumented immigrants from accessing any taxpayer-funded health services under PRWORA — including Medicaid, CHIP, and TANF.

Because the best way to protect public health… is to deny it to the most vulnerable.

🧵Let’s break it down.

Wind farm bird protection tech a success, with no new eagle deaths and barely a dent in revenue Technology being used at two Tasmanian wind farms has drastically reduced wedge-tail eagle fatalities while cutting output by only around 1 per cent.

Wind farm bird protection tech a success, with no new eagle deaths and barely a dent in revenue reneweconomy.com.au/wind-farm-bi...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

We feed you.
They hunt us.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.