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IN THIS NANCY PANEL WE SEE NANCY WEARING A BLACK WITCHES HAT, WEARING A LONG GREEN DRESS, AND RIDING A FLYING BROOM OVER THE CITY HAPPY HALLOWEEN

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

If @billgates.bsky.social were to read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & myself, he would know that climate change is amplifying deadly pandemics. Only someone ignorant of the science adopts the fallacy that we can treat global health and the climate crisis as separate threats

Comic with one guy telling the other "I hope this strategy of letting the absolute worst people we've got make all of the big decisions works out somehow."

Spending at least an hour day reeling from the horror of the latest news is not how I would prefer to be living my life

Bless all the people who ripped RFK Jr. a new asshole today.

“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”

Nice. Crazy Californians will put anything in a burrito! That does sound quite delicious, though.

Who really needs science, anyway?

“This year's #measles outbreak is the worst since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Halfway through 2025, reported cases have already surpassed 1,274 − the peak for all of 2019.”
www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Santa Cruz Lake, NM

Nanofabrication tools? For making teeny tiny white lies?

Undoubtedly. Alas, the sacrifices we make.

So sensible and considerate!

Only medium? 😁

This is a good one.
Comic by Ricardo Caté

Canada pledges new support to Gavi Canada makes pledge of CAD 675 million in new funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s next strategic period from 2026 to 2030.

The US plans to pull its support for GAVI the non profit responsible for vaccinating 1.1 billion children globally. Canada has just committed 675 million CAD to support GAVI over the next 4 years.
#TheyNotLikeUs for real, but make it global public health
www.gavi.org/news/media-r...

Anyone else super exhausted

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

Pssst - Planned Parenthood offers online birth control options.

I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back

I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Many people have asked me how can they best stay informed and protect their health while we navigate the indefinite pause on communications from NIH, CDC, & FDA. Here’s a thread on concrete steps YOU can take to protect yourself & your community. 🧵

Corpse Flower livestream: A plant to die for YouTube video by Botanic Gardens of Sydney

If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time.

WWTF: We Watch The Flower.

an orange cat calmly looking out the window. a battery candle is lit on window next to him

What a weird time. Hold onto your butts

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...