Amanda Hendrix

A detention in the US under the Trump administration
Dayanne Figueroa, a U.S citizen and paralegal, said an unmarked government vehicle struck her car at the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street in Chicago on the morning of October 10, while she was on her way to get coffee before going to work.

Tweet from Marty Makary "To be clear, this is a new product that Novavax is trying to introduce to the market with a study of a different product from 2021. New products require new clinical studies. Under this administration, we are prioritizing the Gold Standard of Science--not what saves pharma companies "tens of millions of dollars."" Included is a headline saying "FDA Asks Vaccine Maker to complete new clinical trial for delayed COVID-19 shot A new randomized study could cost Novavax tens of millions of dollars, vaccine experts say."

This isn't a new product. It's an updated vaccine to account for new strains and viral evolution. Are they going to do this for all COVID and influenza vaccines yearly? Because that effectively shuts them down. There isn't enough time between identification of strains included & release of vaccine.

They are are eating the checks; they are eating the balances.

The economy is a wreck, but they are pretending we are in a palace.

At the stroke of midnight the tarriffs will invoke more madness & the only question will be who will keep their lips tight & who will fight

For the people that is!

Good morning to you too.

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.

Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

Epic idea

Whoops, wrong Amanda Hendrix! I'm the medical writer, not the planetary scientist 🤷‍♀️

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Twitter is down. Tesla stock is plummeting. SpaceX’s rocket imploded.

All owned by the same guy who’s now in charge of our federal government.

A chart showing how populists use fear and spite to create and sustain outrage.

A friend, whose request to stay anonymous, made this. You might recognize the strategy from many different far-right populists right now, not just MAGA folks. There are ways to disrupt this at every step.

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

New book by RFK Jr, a sequel to his first book, The Very Hungry Brain Caterpillar.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

Trump’s new acting CFPB director in charge of reigning in predatory financial institutions is literally promoting a predatory payday lender.

Because something something working class champions.

Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC.

Nazism has officially taken over the GOP.

The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Excerpt from the CDC website: During the last major rubella epidemic in the United States from 1964 to 1965, an estimated: 12.5 million people got rubella 11,000 pregnant women lost their babies 2,100 newborns died 20,000 babies were born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) Once the vaccine became widely used, the number of people infected with rubella in the United States dropped dramatically.

This is literally just one of the diseases the MMR vaccine protects against. That vaccine is miraculous.

(source CDC)

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

MASA: Make America Sick Again.

Y'all, I'm not planning on flying anytime soon. FAA and our air traffic controllers are critical infrastructure that need to be funded and staffed