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Bird flu devastates 7.4 million Pennsylvania chickens in a month Bird flu has wiped out 7.4 million chickens in Pennsylvania in the past month, a swift and devastating loss that veterinarians and industry members suspect may be linked to an unusually cold winter.

Bird flu has wiped out 7.4 million chickens in Pennsylvania in the past month, a swift and devastating loss. Infections of flocks raised to produce eggs and meat extend a U.S. outbreak that began four years ago and has eliminated 196 million birds nationwide.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

@maddow.bsky.social

Button from the 1960s - we continue the fight.

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.

It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Also condemned today by the Catholic Church as acts of moral perversity.

Surely, the 70+ million that voted for Trump won’t be laid off.

After all, they supported Trump through thick and thin.

Voting against your interests and for your demise, takes on a whole new meaning.

#ProudBlue

If Trump tries to overthrow another nation, especially Greenland, then the EU will impose heavy sanctions and the US will definitely fall into a major recession/depression. If you think the economy is bad now, just wait and see what will happen when all of our allies turn against us.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.

I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Stop saying we shouldn’t impeach Nazis because they’ll be replaced by someone worse. We should never stop fighting to remove these evil monsters. Don’t obey in advance.

This was the plan

Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations

Six medical organizations plan to ask the courts to throw out the revisions to the childhood vaccination schedule released by the CDC.

The revisions aren’t based on scientific evidence, they based on misinformation.

Public health is at risk.

🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/h...

President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:

She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

ICE has killed more people since Trump took over than Undocumented people have in the last ten years.

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen announced that "If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the EU."

i saw someone propose an interesting theory as to why they're doing this in specifically Minneapolis: it's a progressive city that's still small enough for them to do this type of heavy-handed occupation

there's nowhere near enough manpower to have this type of density in LA or Chicago

There’s a lot of batshit Trump reporting in this New York Times piece. This is just one of them, and it’s real.

He promised $2000 on Truth Social. Now he “can’t remember.” Is that convenient amnesia, or dementia?

If you’re shocked, you haven’t been paying attention.

ALERT: Jack Smith will testify publicly at House Judiciary Cmte on Jan 22

Gallego: "What type of man decides to walk around with a phone camera & at same time tries to make life & death decisions, then decides to pump one bullet that may have been forward-facing, but clearly the other 2 were on the side. Who is he? Clearly not someone who should be in law enforcement."

Photo of a man riding a bicycle.

“People ask me to predict the future, but all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is too easy, anyway.

You look around — the street you stand on, the air you breathe — and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.”

- Ray Bradbury

please do not bring your phone to a protest

‘Mystery volcano’ that erupted and cooled Earth in 1831 has finally been identified | CNN Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an island volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

Most of last year was about The Book, but I did lots more science writing, too! Here's a 🧵of a few of my favorite stories, one for each month of 2025. The first is about geochemists solving a centuries old "cold case," identifying the volcano that erupted in 1831 and cooled the planet 🧪

Remember, kids: press play on Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" at exactly 11:56:20 on New Year's Eve to get that iconic drum fill when the ball drops.

Truth.

Please take the time to listen to this. Marc Elias is the real deal, and routinely argues cases in front of the Supreme Court, particularly cases the involving voting rights act. It’s imperative to understand what’s happening below the surface that main stream media is rather silent about.

Impeach the Quack (RFK, jr). Take a moment and send a Quack-o-gram to YOUR Congress-critter, today. #StandUpForScience #Purdue #Indiana Only Three (3) dollars! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

"The irony couldn't be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social & ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI's products across campus." Shout out to UCSF Gender Studies mentioned here!
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Elections have consequences.

An interesting and applicable speech from 1869.