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Needing inspiration? Sometimes, it starts with just one person and grows to a movement ✊ As stated by National Day Laborer Organizing Network: “Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.” “Only the people can save the people.” You’re not “just” one person. You can make a difference. 🎁🔗:👇
1/2 On the NIH Freeze-not-Freeze 🧊 Glad to see that OMB has backed down on blocking all NIH funding. Insane to think that all it takes to (almost) deliberately destroy decades of American biomedical leadership is a 4 sentence email. 🤯 Another example of voughting 🤮💩
Yes, we at #NIH are barely holding it together. That said, we are resolute. We chose this career to help others. We didn't go into science for the money. We did it to help humans: to advance human knowledge, to improve human health, and to make a fairer world built on ideas. 1/
Federal Trade Commission is apparently in the medical business now 🏛️🩺 They’re asking for evidence + stories about “dangers" of gender-affirming care. We know what they’re fishing for 🙄 But you want evidence? Evidence that this care is ✨lifesaving✨ for trans kids? Let’s flood with comments ⬇️
🧵 1/4 Ever heard of New World Screwworm? 🪰 No? Us either, until about a year ago. That's about when both CDC and USDA started standing up systems to respond to this 🦠🫣 flesh-eating parasite 🦠🫣 (yep, you heard us), which is moving northward toward American soil. 🔗 www.cdc.gov/myiasis/abou...
I spent a few hours watching PragerU videos to try and understand what they're doing. In one video Candance Owens explains slavery: "America wasn't the only bad, slavery existed everywhere and it was the white man that freed slaves." That's a warped POV. Yes, slavery existed throughout world, but...
A Tsunami Advisory remains in effect. Strong and unusual currents are expected, primarily along the outer coast of WA. Move out of the water & away from the shore. DO NOT attempt to go to the shore to observe the tsunami. Here is a look at the forecast arrival time of waves-courtesy NWS Seattle
“Jane Doe has received numerous threats today,” her attorney Lisa Bloom told the assembled journalists. The woman who filed a rape lawsuit against Trump and Epstein in 2016 didn't drop the case because she lied, she did so because she was threatened. She needs protected. We need her story. Justice.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news for the Israeli Government, but the last people who are going to get food in Gaza are going to be the hostages. Whatever the people in the streets look like, the hostages are going to look 10x worse. This has got to end. The hostages are dead.
Instead of playing this stupid game of optics and controlling packaged food and not opening gates... we should just put a bunch of livestock on some LSTs, drive them to the beach, drop the ramps, drive them out and leave. People will figure out what to do with them. 2,000 cows per LST, 2.2M pounds.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive ― James Baldwin Night 💚📖
If I’m wrong, fry him. But, I don’t think a fmr potus would risk raping minors, if not for moral reasons, for reason of self preservation. That wouldn’t stay hidden. Clinton likely had sex with Chauntae Davies in 2002, who would have been 22 at the time, a legal adult. Prostitution? Yes. Pedo? No.
Goodness, we *really* got used to not having a director. Because, uh, we got one today? So no more excuses about how it's inappropriate for a director nominee to perform acting director duties. Let's see what you do, Susan... and what you don't www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Why does the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) exist? Despite what 🧠🪱 &co say, reputable vaccine scientists have always said vaccine injuries are RARE but real We thought folks taking this incredibly small risk to protect themselves and their community should have support Let's dive in 👇🧵
🚨ATTENTION CDC AND ALLIES!🚨 Our genes/jeans are GREEN tomorrow To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY (tomorrow) to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health. Spread the word! #courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor #wearthecolor
Trump says he ended his friendship with Epstein because Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre. But she was recruited in 2000—four years before the fallout in 2004. He knew. She was 17-y/o reading massage instruction book at work. Why was a minor giving massages at Mar-a-Lago in the first place?
"The administration continues to erode confidence in childhood vaccination designed to keep kids safe and healthy. The AAP will continue to ensure that parents and pediatricians have access to accurate information around essential vaccinations that protect children from preventable diseases."
🧵If we care about public health, how can we ignore the forced starvation and genocide of the people in Gaza Zainab was 5 months old. She needed dairy-free formula for a milk protein allergy. There was none. She starved to death. She is one of thousands. Look at her face. Say her name. Take action.👇