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Rose Jones, PhD

@rapidanthropology.bsky.social

I am a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of heat + public health + equity.

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Donald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’ US president faces Maga backlash over suspicion his administration is hiding details of Epstein’s crimes to protect rich elite – including Trump

Heads-up! “Bad people” narrative shift underway.

16.07.2025 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Outdoor graduation ceremony becomes 'mass casualty incident' as over 150 people fall ill to extreme heat: 'I couldn't breathe' One attendee witnessed "people fainting around us."

🔥🔥 State of Emergency for Spectators — Still No Heat Protection for Workers

29.06.2025 15:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

The quiet, sneaky, behind-the-scenes moves 👀⚠️⬇️

29.06.2025 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries - Inside Climate News The state’s grid operator reported less than a 1 percent chance of emergency events.

Source: Inside Climate News share.google/zqYeuqhXJEWV...

29.06.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

29.06.2025 11:33 — 👍 5789    🔁 2852    💬 236    📌 230
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Climate Group Funded by Bill Gates Slashes Staff in Major Retreat Breakthrough Energy, an umbrella group for energy and environmental efforts funded by Mr. Gates, is resetting for the Trump era.

Pivot to mitigate Trump’s climate sabotage.

12.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meanwhile in Texas 💔💔

20.02.2025 00:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...

Check out the list of words being used to scrutinize compliance with Trump’s executive orders. 😡

05.02.2025 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump Administration Moves to End Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. The decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 people signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dange...

The terror and tyranny continue to be strategically and unlawfully unleashed. Profits over people
Greed over humanity
#resist 🔥✊🏽

03.02.2025 02:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific journals to allow for a review by the Trump administration, a federal official told Reuters.

Research papers must be reviewed by Trump administration before submitted to academic journals.

03.02.2025 00:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As DOJ probes FBI’s Jan. 6 work and weighs firings, agents told to detail roles FBI employees must explain in a questionnaire by Monday whether they were involved in the surveillance, arrest or trial of a Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot suspect.
02.02.2025 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

USAID security officials on leave after refusing access to Musk allies

02.02.2025 20:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Egg prices soar as bird flu takes toll on US hen flock Average price of eggs rose nearly 30 cents since October, with egg production down 4% from prior year

Damn! How did this happen?

24.01.2025 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Arkansas governor says professors should be fired if they are 'indoctrinating' students Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says college professors should be fired if they are “indoctrinating” students.

This is called an education

18.01.2025 08:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coca-Cola gives Donald Trump special bottle 4 years after Jan 6 criticism The drinks giant was previously critical of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

No words 😵‍💫🤑🤬

16.01.2025 14:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Highly trained, putting their lives on the line - literally - laughable pay AND they can’t get jobs fighting fires once they are released because they are felons. Looks like only political leaders can be employed as felons.

14.01.2025 02:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Nero is playing the fiddle while we roll boulders up and down cliffs

04.01.2025 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

And so it begins..,

24.12.2024 13:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Texas governor Greg Abbott puts up billboards in Mexico and Central America, warns migrants not to enter U.S Governor Greg Abbott's billboard campaign represents a significant escalation in Texas's approach to border security and immigration deterrence.

While the walls of Avignon were turned into billboards to support Gisèle Pelicot and denounce rape culture, Texas plastered billboards across Central America with messages that weaponized rape.

“How much did you pay to have your daughter raped? Many girls are raped by the coyotes you hire.”

23.12.2024 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against. Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to ...

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

30.11.2024 11:11 — 👍 18    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Done and Thank you! Onwards!

13.11.2024 13:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I am a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of heat + public health + equity.

13.11.2024 01:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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With Ready Orders and an Energy Czar, Trump Plots Pivot to Fossil Fuels President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment is considering relocating the E.P.A. out of Washington and other drastic changes.

The Trump climate crisis playbook 💔

09.11.2024 00:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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