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“Question wording choices can swing opinion on immigration and trans rights by up to 60 points.”

‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication European regulators greenlight new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of an ancient burden

In today's good news a single dose drug for sleeping sickness that could completely change the elimination game. Dare I hope for eradication!
Acoziborole administered as a single oral dose was ~95% effective across both early and late-stage disease in RCTs.
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‘Very Real Barriers.’ Trans Voters in Texas Are Worried About Casting Their Ballots. Primary Election Day is Tuesday. And nonprofits that protect LGBTQ+ rights are monitoring what’s playing out at polling locations.

“Trans voters are left vulnerable to being outed, questioned, or turned away, which creates very real barriers to casting a ballot,” said Caleb Armstrong a transmasculine Texan who cofounded Local Queer Foundation.

@kitoconnell.com
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MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE 38% 22% 22% 18%

MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 @CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL

CBS News conducts a poll.

It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.

So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."

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Done Data Work? You Might Have Worked With the US Military Without Knowing. As data workers organize around the world, they need to push for change on what appears to be a major ethical oversight, writes Krystal Kauffman.

The AI boom runs on invisible labor, writes Krystal Kauffman, a research fellow with the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Underpaid workers in Kenya, the US, and beyond are unknowingly training intelligence systems. This isn't just an ethics problem—it's a consent problem, she says.

What a War Powers Resolution Vote on Iran Actually Means While Congress could narrowly pass a resolution, it would likely not have the two-thirds majority needed to overturn a Trump veto.

“The Constitution requires a vote, and your Representative needs to be on record as opposing or supporting this war."
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Ultra-Processed Protein Foods Coming at Us - ConscienHealth One ironic twist resulting from the new dietary guidelines will almost surely be a proliferation of ultra-processed protein foods.

Ultra-Processed Protein Foods Coming at Us conscienhealth.org/2026/03/01/u... via @conscienhealth.bsky.social

"...we see a proliferation of ultra-processed protein foods screaming out at us from grocery shelves and electronic media."

So much #protein hype. Reality: you are likely getting enough!

It’s not lost on me that this is happening during Ramadan and during fasting hrs.

Jerome Adams & @JeromeAdamsMD X.com As a former U.S. Surgeon General who held an active medical license and practiced medicine while in the role (at Walter Reed and aboard the USS Comfort) it is incomprehensible that the Senate is even considering a nominee for this role who lacks any active license and has never practiced unsupervised. 7:49 PM • 2/25/26 • 369 Views

Trump’s first-term Surgeon General speaks out against Trump’s current nominee for the job, Casey Means

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

The Trump administration’s favorite nuclear startup has ties to Russia and Epstein Also, Christian nationalism.

If you've ever wondered what kinds of nuclear companies the Trump administration has in mind to power all the AI data centers, I just wrote about one: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a rare event in the times we're living in that shocks me for its stupid cruelty.

It's very hard to live in this country without the ability to drive - the country was set up to be like that by the auto and oil industries.

Transition has absolutely nothing to do with the ability to drive.

‘We want to rebuild trust’: fired CDC workers form group to combat Trump’s war on science Former employees stepped up to create the National Public Health Coalition to advocate for public health after Trump’s cuts to the agency

Proud of our CDC colleagues at National Public Health Coalition. @firedbutfighting.bsky.social
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And all the current & former federal workers who are standing up and fighting for a better future for all of us. @27unihted.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

A line in the snow with the impressions of bird wings at both ends of the line. There is a patch of rough snow on the right that looks like clouds.

Several impressions of bird wings on the snow.

Bird created impressions on the snow. It is long and bird shaped with a beak and head on the left and tail feathers on the right. It also kind of looks like a fish.

Bird snow angels🥰 #birds

I can't read this because it's behind a paywall, but if ChatGPT is trained on prior knowledge (which it is), then of course it would advise women to ask for lower salaries. Misogyny is baked into the historical data.

Trump wants you to forget that George Washington owned slaves But Philadelphians are standing up for history

The Trump Administration might fight to change the signs at the President's House commemorating slavery, but they can't change what happened at this place, or who it happened to.

Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are...syncing up?

In a study published today, researchers reported that the ideal conditions for major wildfires are now aligning across different parts of the world at more than double the rate they did 50 years ago.

@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4795...

It is a tragedy for public health & health research that the MAGA/MAHA hero Jay Bhattacharya, an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, runs the NIH & CDC

“It seems the one qualification for this job is rubber-stamping RFK Jr’s agenda. He has already proven himself very capable of doing so.”

After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Are we efficient yet?

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RFK "in a statement issued through a spokesman Wednesday night...said he supported the president." Drink whole milk, eat red meat, don't get vaccinated, and spray yourself with toxic weedkiller!!!

Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk. A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.

Sci-fi has always provided heady alternatives to everyday realities. But for the past few decades, a big chunk of sci-fi has gravitated toward dystopia, which, while valuable, can grow wearisome.

@clivethompson.bsky.social offers an exciting new literary genre to counter our despair.

"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie. ... Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills." Oh my god.

“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself

DHS axed its civil rights staff—and opened the door to a major lawsuit The agency is now barely pretending to follow disability law. Its former civil rights head says that makes ICE vulnerable.

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now.

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Big Tech Is Buying Up America’s Land—and Home Builders Can’t Compete Resistance grows to more land sales in Northern Virginia. “They’d rather have homes than data,” said a former Prince William County supervisor.

An abundance of data centers is irreconcilable with an abundance of housing. But Big Tech wants to pretend otherwise.

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Kennedy supports these dangerous "treatments" and has cronies that profit from them, so of course he removed the FDA page that explained how they are dangerous. A Michigan boy died in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber last year. This is not making us healthier.

The absolutely adorable little face of a tiny, bespectabled flying fox with huge brown eyes wrapped up in a yellow cloth like a burrito.

I needed this to remind myself not everything is terrible.

More pix of the adorable patients of a very special bat hospital at this link, from our friends at @vox.com / @climatedesk.org. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Who Save America Act could disenfranchise:

-146 million without passport

-69 million married women who took spouse's last name

-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs

-21 million without current drivers license

-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office

He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it. NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

NEW: David Greene was the voice of NPR's "Morning Edition." Is he also secretly the voice of Google's popular AI podcast tool, NotebookLM?

Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.