Public Health Baddie

Imagine being born in slavery and living up until 5 months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Anna Julia Cooper is one of my favorite people in history. She was born on August 10, 1858, and lived to the age of 105.

I can't sum her up in a single post, but she was born 167yrs ago today

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Israel's massacre of Palestinian journalists has been unconscionable.

And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Musk is out but the DOGE wrecking operation continues. Six months after opening, a Senate report reveals DOGE is on track to waste over $21 billion, despite claiming to reap massive “savings” for taxpayers. 🧵

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Carnegie Mellon University lays off more than a dozen computer science staff members CMU cut 18 employees in administrative and academic support roles, according to a statement.

You know the economy is bad when the top computer science school is laying people off www.wesa.fm/education/20... #compsci #computerscience

😂😂😂😂

A young Indigenous girl with long dark hair and red face paint looks slightly upward, wearing a beaded necklace, with other community members blurred in the background. The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right, and white text reads “Indigenous Peoples are too often the unsung heroes of conservation.”

Indigenous Peoples make up less than 5% of the world’s population, yet they protect significant amounts of global biodiversity.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

The CDC shooter was fixated on vaccine conspiracy theories. He shot at the CDC and killed a police officer. RFK Jr., through his antivax group, funded the pseudoscience propaganda film PIandemic, a key driver of false vaccine claims. It is beyond inappropriate for him to remain in office.

This can't be real.

WTAF.

Reminded of: "For any successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

We have fools and PR people running agencies where reality and real expertise are needed. Nature weeps

Most teen girls from miss teen USA beauty pageants said trump was creepy walking in girls dressing room while teen girls changing clothes.

Summer Jobs Program Heist Likely Had Hacker Help, Say ATM Experts A scheme that gave young people earning minimum wage cash for their government-issued debit cards extracted $17 million in repeat withdrawals still under investigation by the NYPD.

just wild that there was basically a $17 million heist last month using the city’s youth job program — and it barely registered

Republicans have been working since 1965 to get rid of the Voting Rights Act. Gutting it during Obama's second term, was the first truly successful step.

This could have all been prevented if folks had voted for the email lady who correctly predicted everything that has happened.😒

Voting matters.

Mississippi Crossing Pipeline Set to Span 10 Counties A planned pipeline project is raising alarms for some in the Mississippi Delta. The Mississippi Crossing Pipeline will span 10 counties.

The Mississippi Crossing Pipeline is set to break ground in Greenville and begin construction in January 2027.

It will span the following counties: Humphreys, Sunflower, Washington, Attala, Holmes, Clarke, Leake, Newton, Lauderdale and Neshoba.

a man wearing a red shirt and black leather sleeves holds his hand to his chin Alt: titus andromedon from unbreakable kimmy schmidt wearing a red shirt and black leather sleeves holds his hand to his chin and a slight smirk on his face

Here's a hard truth...White folks, y'all are still fucking it up. Don't blame anyone else when things don't change.
Don't get mad when Black folks once again tell you, 'I told you so.'

When you refuse to listen and learn, you make the same mistakes you pretend you want fixed. It is what it is.🤷🏾‍♀️

Maxwell sits in prison awaiting her pardon for being a p i m p of under age girls to 400 wealthy men, who are not sitting in jail.

- they really want me to cry.

NASA is now at its lowest staffing levels since the dawn of the space age.

They are destroying our scientific institutions. It will get worse and more painful until we stop them.

Russell Vought has unilaterally decided today that he simply won’t allow anyone outside of NIH to receive research funding.

$15 billion in NIH funding is now locked down. If not reversed, it will also take down many Universities in the United States.

Forget new cancer treatments or vaccines.

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🧬 On a previous episode, Sasha Henriques, a genetic counsellor, discussed the ongoing legacy of racism on the genetics field and gave an example of how problematic language continues to be used all this time later. Definitely worth another listen! #BlackWomenInScience

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

What in the hell?!

Whew. She preached a whole sermon! 🙌🏾

The U.S. Intelligence Community, which Tulsi Gabbard leads, does not have a role in prosecuting people, nor does it have any law enforcement authority. There are no special courts for national security crimes, and she should not be talking about her intention to indict.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

FYI: WNCU and WRVU are the campus radio stations for NCCU and ECSU, two NC public HBCUs. I have listened to WNCU for amazing jazz, The Legal Eagle, and more since I was a kid with my daddy. They will lose 50 and 71% of their funding; the most of any NC public broadcasting stations.

This is shameful.

This kind of crap is why people need to protest Republicans at their offices every. single. day.

Republicans are a danger to society.

Vote them out in every city, county, and state.

Gilead reaches $202M settlement over kickback scheme to promote HIV drug Pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences agreed to pay $202 million to New York and other states after admitting to paying doctors to prescribe its HIV medications.

This week, my office led a coalition in securing over $200 million from Gilead Sciences, Inc. to stop Gilead's illegal kickback scheme to promote its HIV medications.
 
I will always fight for New Yorkers’ right to honest and transparent health care.
 
www.crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse...

Those are not data, fuckface.

She started out at Motown as a secretary... Martha Reeves had all the tea.... but she didn't spill enough in this book lol

It was still a great read though...

Happy 84th Birthday to the legendary, Martha Reeves 🎂🎉🎊🎂

Barack and Michelle Obama 💞

Just a reminder of what Democrats did in a 2 year period. when Biden took office.

Since some folks have short term memory loss.😒
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...