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How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.

The reason we're rounding up grandmothers and shoving them onto concrete floors for months at a time with no habeas corpus is in part because soft human trafficking is an incredibly lucrative business for some people in this administration.

Is COVID-19 Associated With an Increased Risk of Subsequent Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults? A Prospective Cohort Study AbstractBackground. In Autumn 2022, a surge in upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) was observed worldwide. Individuals anecdotally reported increase

Neat study—following 320 healthcare workers for almost a year, with 152 of them being infected, the authors examined whether or not COVID-19 associates with more upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). It didn't (yay!).

But, having a kid <5 associated with a 74% increase in the risk of URTIs.

The global return-on-investment of COVID-19 vaccines in the first year of the vaccination programme COVID-19 vaccines played a critical role in reducing global health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, but their rapid development required extraordinary effort. This study aims to evaluate their glo...

Wow!

Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion.

A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!!

This is why vaccine equity matters!

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

This is insane. A country deciding, on purpose, to kill its own children.

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Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.

If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.

THURS 28TH AUGUST 6:00 PM ET ONLINE CALLING SWING DISTRICTS Save scientific research funding We will be calling South Asian voters in swing districts represented by Republicans to ask them to contact their representatives about the huge funding cuts the Trump administration is proposing to the NIH and NSF. They plan to cut 38% from the NIH and 55% from the NSF and have already withheld $8 billion dollars in science funding. A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP Standupforscience.net STAND UP ESCIENCE

🚨The Trump admin is trying to gut our future while already withholding $8 BILLION in science funding.

On Thurs, Aug 28 @6PM ET, we’re calling South Asian voters in swing districts to demand their reps protect NIH + NSF funding
📍 Online: RSVP for the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/SUFSSA
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Over 3200 signatures in just under 5 hours!!!

Can we hit 10k today? I think yes.

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Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

CO2 monitors have become popular tools people can use to estimate their indoor air quality.

A new study was recently published that looks into how we can use them to optimise occupancy thresholds and identify problem locations.

Actual practical science!!!

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The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.

HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest RFK Jr. has pledged radical transparency, but his vaccine advisers' financial disclosures aren't public.

HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...

EPA employees sign ‘declaration of dissent’ over agency moves under Trump More than 170 EPA employees signed letter, with about 100 more signing anonymously out of fear of retaliation

EPA employees have spoken out - current leadership is dismantling scientific integrity by ignoring its own science, shrinking funding for vulnerable communities, and fostering fear amongst employees.

The message: we’re done staying silent.

Support their bravery here:zurl.co/UCFRI

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NOAA proposed budgets would eliminate science and management of marine mammals and sea turtles, firing 311 scientists and cutting the budget by more than $100m. Also a long list of program terminations...

See pages 16-20
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

July 7: Subcommittee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Bill July 10: Full Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Bill, Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bill July 21: Subcommittee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill July 24: Full Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill

🧵 2/3 At high-level, here's when we'll *start* to learn:

July 7-11: How much appetite does the House have to slash FY26 budgets for NSF, NOAA, NASA, and DOE?

July 21-25: Same question but for NIH, CDC, Dept of Ed/IES

I'll explain more later. See here for now: appropriations.house.gov/schedule

Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend

Between June 2024 and January 2025, a full 62% of commercial honey bee colonies in the U.S. died, the largest on record. USDA efforts were slowed by funding cuts and layoffs. Now, USDA scientists have finally identified a culprit. But it may be too late. www.science.org/content/arti...

Link to https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/tiny-coffins-across-america

The proposed recommendation to stop using the MMRV vaccine for young kids is the opening salvo in an attack on all childhood vaccines.

The result will be dead children.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/tiny-coffi...

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Exclusive: Kennedy's new vaccine adviser was expert witness against Merck vaccine One of the new vaccine advisers picked by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has earned thousands of dollars as an expert witness in litigation against Merck’s Gardasil vaccine, court records show.

....RFK Jr's campaign to be HHS Secretary. Kulldorff of course also made $400/hour as a witness in litigation against the HPV vaccine manufacturer (his side lost); he earned at least $33,000 (WOW).

And the GBD peddled all sorts of awful anti-vaccine BS.

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www.reuters.com/business/hea...

This is wonderful!

I’m old enough to have lost young patients to metastatic cervical cancer, and I’m not eager to have that experience again.

I don’t think they want to risk losing out on those special FDA vouchers.

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

How a Purge at One Obscure Panel Could Disrupt U.S. Vaccinations

NEW: With two extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended the certainty that American children will always have cost-free access to lifesaving vaccines
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/h...

"Science Shattered". I confess that even I was unaware of the statement that opens this piece: "The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research." 🧪 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...