Dr. Janet Werther (they/them)

BREAKING

Broadcast news screengrab showing protesters surrounding a white bus and also impromptu shopping cart barricade with fire in the street

Trying and failing to come up with the right words to describe what we are witnessing unfold in LA right now. Your resistance is here, support them

the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

ALL States should immediately activate their National Guard with in-state orders to prevent the illegal usurpation of guard troops & their unconstitutional use by the corrupt Trump regime. If we fail to stand strong NOW, the future fight to protect the U.S. will be much, much harder…if not futile.

Sadly, MAGAism has become so pervasive that a kid doesn’t even need MAGA parents to pick up these anti-communitarian, anti-empathic norms. We need to ACTIVELY teach our kids not to be this way. Why do you think they’ve been coming for social & emotional learning?! 😞

Or, hear me out, one of them pretends they’re all good, the other gets mad, and we get detailed confirmation of election tampering…

…I can dream, right?!

Science matters!

Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign.

She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

It is completely obvious that RFK Jr., Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya plan to take away as many vaccines as possible from Americans.

Republicans approve of this. You may be tempted to ask why, but if you don’t understand it, it’s probably because you are not an egomaniacal sociopath.

A tweet from HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it's common sense and it's good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS's promise to Make America Healthy Again.

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

Please note that this ban is not just for minors this time, this bill bars coverage of gender-affirming care for ALL transgender individuals with Medicaid or private insurance off the ACA exchanges.

Great ready for faculty bot-ification If we want there to be such a thing as college faculty, that is.

1. Faculty who use LLMs for core aspects of their labor are inviting their own replacement. This is obvious and a cycle that will mirror what happened with adjunctification. You are showing you are unnecessary. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

It’s really interesting that Gillibrand became across the board dogshit just as she got into crypto. This seems to happen quite a bit.

Bahahaha! Thank you.

Apparently the elites are…using butter knives?! I wish I had realized I was so elite when I was in the free lunch program and eating peanut butter sandwiches for dinner. Maybe I wouldn’t have felt so shitty if o knew it was that *elite*, butter knife sort of poverty.

Counter point: if bigwigs hadn’t started publicly questioning Biden’s competency last summer, while he was actively doing a significantly better job than Trump had the 1st time, we’d currently be learning the news of his cancer dx in an Oval Office address passing the presidency to Kamala.

Federal Funds for Rural Health Care May Be Cut This Medical News article discusses the impact that proposed federal funding cuts for rural health care programs would have on individuals and their communities.

The White House's 2026 budget proposal recommends eliminating the Health Resources and Services Administration and cutting rural health funding by 25%, posing a threat to health care access and services in rural areas.

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3) Maybe there are no roads here at all, and we don’t want to pave over the meadow.

4) Maybe YOU DON’T HAVE A DRIVER’S LICENSE!!

…🤦🤦🤦

“…why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?”

For many reasons:

1) Maybe I’m assessing how well you use a bicycle.

2) Maybe in order to use a car you’ll have to go around the meadow, and when you get to point B you’re supposed to tell me what the meadow smelled like.

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This is bleak reading

Yes

A coal-black bird with a bill that covers the whole front of the face. A long grackle-like boat tail, muscular legs and an alert black eye. The bird sits on red sand next to water, as if a mud puddle or stream. CREDIT: Suzie McCann, eBird, 01 Jun 2019, Santa Clara Ranch, Starr, Texas, United States

This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.

Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.

(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

It’s incredible how much the GOP has destroyed. Just breathtaking. They could restore the Constitution at any time.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

This!!