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Media need to report on this as they report on other baseless claims of the antivax movement, bc the lunatics are running the asylum at the FDA.

The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

my new aspiration in life is to have a wikipedia page with an “interest in birds” subsection

Fuel for my long held view that executives provide very little value and should be compensated around the middle of their org pay scale

NYT headline saying "F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines: The agency’s top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data." With a photo of a light-skinned baby receiving a shot from a healthcare provider with darker skin.

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

I’m just going to repost this seasonally when I have the wherewithal, because everything we see from mid-November through Christmas is pushing sales like Cyber Monday.

But the demand they create puts Amazon workers at greater risk than usual (already above industry average) for serious injuries.

This says a lot to me about the people programming it.

Genius

“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page "The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

Earlier this week, a new page titled “Vaccines and Autism” appeared on the CDC website. The agency's employees are not happy about it.

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

We finally know the identities of the 9 anonymous authors of the May HHS report on pediatric gender-affirming care. Surprise! It's stacked with people who make money advocating against pediatric gender-affirming care.

Here's our writeup from May: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

TJA is doing amazing things in documenting news coverage. I was on this tool last night and it’s incredible how much can be drawn from it.

We’re just going to leave this here…

Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.

National Cancer Institute is accelerating scientific discovery with Google Al

This is embarrassing from Google.

The Nat’l Cancer Institute (part of #NIH) is being torn down from inside, in part by fools who think AI can entirely replace human cancer scientists.
And Google is buying ads that don’t mention the destruction?

That’s cowardice, Google newsfromgoogle.bsky.social

Is NIH cutting corners as it rushes to fill leadership positions? Unlike in the past, agency searches appear to exclude help from outside academic researchers

NIH is ramping up efforts to fill a huge slate of vacant leadership positions.

Onlookers worry the process is being rushed and will depart, as it already has in one case, from the long-standing practice of drawing on advice from academic scientists to find candidates. https://scim.ag/47HraVv

I think about this often with the several pushes to replace experimental work with computation this administration is making. that only works if you have the data, and in many cases we don’t

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

I have gone to 2 dif concerts at dif venues 2 nights in a row that were bands from out of town (Greensboro, North Carolina and Melbourne, Australia) congratulating New York for Zohran Mamdani and saying NYC politics contributed to people paying attention to their local politics

Wait until he learns that electric power plants burning coal and methane gas emit air pollution that kills people.

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.

A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’ Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.

José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:

“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Then they came for the Dreamers Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

This week's Big Feature @motherjones.com: A look at how Dreamers—who came to the US as kids—went from being protected by the government to being targeted by it.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thissssssss 👇🏾

Fellow arthropod fans: This is even more amazing than the headline describes! The researchers say it’s “the first evidence of colonial behavior in two common spider species.”

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear (CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

Gavin Newsom Cites Trans Godson While Taking Anti-Trans Position The California governor said that the states trans-inclusive laws around sports should change.

Please, every time you hear excited and frankly earned praise for Newsom's gutsy move in creating Prop 50 out of whole cloth, PLEASE:

Remember this ⬇️

Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.

From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.

Zohran Mamdani drags the Democratic party into the future This was a local race with national implications, whether the party's leaders liked it or not.

put a stake in it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

She's 93 and still job searching despite 14 broken arms and other injuries. She can't afford not to work. America's oldest workers keep clocking in — many despite health issues and disabilities. And some can't afford to retire. We talked to nearly 200.

It's expensive to be disabled. Those costs can keep people working past the point where it's in their best interest, including for aging adults. www.businessinsider.com/older-americ...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...