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very interesting thing just happened: EWR had a complete ground stop due to “thunderstorms” despite no storms in a 200 mile radius. The only flight to leave from EWR in that window? Air Force One.

sure looks like Donald Trump just shut down EWR for 4 hours so he could watch a soccer game!

Mass HHS firings gutted "vital" office for reproductive health Trump is dismantling the little-known Division of Reproductive Health. It was critical in helping pregnant people and pushing for better systems for IVF.

RFK Jr. told me he would "address drivers of maternal mortality.”

But he just fired the researchers that work to improve the health of mothers and babies.

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

thank you Elon and DOGE! what the world definitely needs is unchecked drug resistant gonorrhea

Donald Trump: I'm going to impose massive tariffs!
Kamala Harris: Don't vote for that guy, he's going to impose massive tariffs. They'll crash the markets and kill the economy.
Trump: I think massive tariffs are great so I'm doing it.

Bill Ackman: Nobody could foresee massive tariffs.

A line graph titled "Reported polio cases in the United States" displays the number of reported polio cases from 1910 to 2022. The vertical axis represents the number of cases, ranging from 0 to 60,000, while the horizontal axis indicates the years. The graph shows a dramatic peak in polio cases around 1952, with over 58,000 cases reported. Following this peak, there is a noticeable decline in cases, reaching nearly zero by the early 1960s, reflecting the impact of vaccination efforts. The graph includes a note stating it accounts for both wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus infections, whether indigenous or imported. In the footer are the data sources: Public Health Reports (1942), United States Census Bureau (1945), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2023). The graph is attributed to "Our World in Data" and is licensed under CC BY.

Vaccination eliminated polio from the United States 🧵

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

If losing money means nothing, the rich should just pay their fair share of taxes.

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

Plan to give all of your private tax data to oligarchs.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

It’s gruesomely simple: If we keep allowing an anti-vaxxer to lead this country’s main health agency, more people will die.

Will American voters ever learn?

Keep Reposting

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

Great vibes at #handsoff NYC today, despite the rain #resist

A large crowd of protesters marches down a city street lined with tall buildings. At the front, people hold four bright red banners that read "New York City Democratic Socialists of America" with a white torch logo. Many participants wear red ponchos or winter clothing. Behind them, others hold signs including one that says “Stop the Genocide,” another with a face illustration, and others expressing political messages. The protest takes place in Midtown Manhattan, with recognizable buildings and a Starbucks storefront visible.

Tens of Thousands of NYers took the streets today to say “hands off” our federal services!

This Tuesday, join NYC-DSA at the "Kill the Cuts" National Day of Action and stand with workers across the country demanding NO to cuts on our services ➡️ actionnetwork.org/events/kill-...

We are getting ready for the Hands Off march on April 5! Join us in NYC and around the country! Handsoff2025.com

I’m hearing from Social Security recipients in MA who’ve been marked as "not currently receiving payments,” on the Social Security website.

Social Security is something you are legally entitled to.

Elon's attack on Social Security is illegal—and it's hurting people.

Front page of the nyt

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.

Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.

www.science.org/content/blog...

The press won't treat Elon as the national security threat he is.

Part of this is that they have trained themselves to believe he's a genius for a decade plus. Even more is their fear of his scarily effective tactics for marginalizing their opponents.

thelastbillionaires.com/musk-got-to-...

This explains a lot

Elon Musk's DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts The Trump Administration claims it is allowing "lifesaving" foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives.

NEW: Trump says he's letting "lifesaving" foreign aid continue, but sources tell WIRED that DOGE is still blocking HIV/AIDS relief.

Musk brags he's "feeding USAID into the wood chipper."

A USAID worker tell us: “At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV now do."

By @knibbs.bsky.social

🧪 @wired.com's coverage of the Musk/DOGE blitz through US government has been stellar. This report from @knibbs.bsky.social is an outstanding—and grim—look inside the chaos at USAID.

Why are news agencies focusing on tariffs??? Surely the undermining of the CDC, USAID, all NSF funding, and the full commitment to Project 2025 is way more important?

There goes all research on biased agonists and blood brain barriers!

‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s ‘first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.

this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

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Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration…

The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) Overview | Immunize.org| Immunize.org Find materials on legal requirements to give VISs to patients before vaccinating.

Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference.
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...