America’s science and medical research system may have been world-class before but did not have the institutional and legal safeguards to prevent a grievance-fueled takeover. This piece unpacks the COVID origins of that grievance and the imperatives for a transformation. https://substack.com/home/post/p-188677740

Grievance Is All You Need

.... understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists:

joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...

So very sorry, it is tragic.

Command Responsibility at Home: Governors, the Guard, and Domestic Readiness Late last year, the Supreme Court blocked an attempted National Guard deployment into the Chicago area — but months earlier, far from the headlines, a

Please update our IL Guard directives. “Civil-disturbance missions should be defined narrowly and framed in support terms — perimeter security, evacuation routes, logistics, and medical aid — with any crowd-control role specified only under explicit conditions and legal constraints.”

And some of the benches have QR codes allowing people to listen to literature, stories and poems. I thought that was wonderful.

My thoughts exactly.
Gallagher was also a clue of things to come.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

I read it 20 years ago, refer to it when encouraging folks to protest. We have to be the loudest 10% - get the 80% to follow.

The world can never have enough Smedley Butlers.

Uitstekend! I still miss living in A'dam.

I think Biss will be the nominee, he’s served the area well and continues to do so.

Breaking: Mikie Sherrill (D) wins New Jersey Governor race, defeating her Trump-endorsed opponent.

(Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social)

Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall? It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...

#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

An owl handler I met (although not the one in my anecdote) with his beautiful owl.

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

same

this was the biggest and fastest win against a pathogen in medical history

also it was a brand new pandemic pathogen

simply awe-inspiring, if you understand anything about the promise of clear thinking and hard work to do good and achieve great things

Well, the Laotian engineers are very experienced thanks to the two million tons of ordnance we dropped on them.

I love that the morally and ethically correct approach to most issues is so so SO many times also the economically correct one and STILL we actively go "no we aint gonna do that" for no reason accept distaste for those less fortunate than us

Nailed it

Congratulations Jean Meconi on your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Daily Star!

*taps the sign*

PREVENTATIVE WAR AS A DOCTRINE DOES NOT LEAD TO MILITARY OR NATIONAL STRATEGIC SUCCESS

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

So many ‘one bullet Barney’s’ out there.

I’ve seen sailors march better.

They had a deal with us, the JCPOA, which he destroyed. Said he'd get a better deal and here we are. .

What everyone’s missing about university funding. By Nick Hayden Introduction. When politicians and pundits talk about pulling federal funding from universities like Columbia and Harvard, they rarely discuss what that cutting federal funding does,...

🧪"If we’re going to have an honest public conversation about federal research funding, we need to stop speaking about this money like it’s handed to universities with no oversight or accountability because in reality, it is not even given to universities at all."

www.readtangle.com/otherposts/w...

His email doesn't mention anything about an FEC deadline, your statement is extremely misleading. Candidate campaigns do have fundraising goals and hitting those goals to set budgets is quite reasonable and fiscally responsible. Qualities I want in a Rep.

Long COVID science, research and policy - Nature Medicine This Review outlines the current state of scientific evidence on long COVID, discusses its impacts on patients, health systems, economies and global health metrics, and proposes a forward-looking rese...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please read this research on #Longcovid.
These are not risks children should ever be exposed to.

Showing the impact of the Hib vaccine