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Lifelong Dem. Teacher. Chemistry 🥽 🧪. Sesame Street adult. Fuck whatever this shit is, look at what you’ve done.
#ScienceMatters 🧪🦠👇https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/health/ken-paxton-pediatricians-vaccines.html
Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
nytimes.com
TEXAS FAM!! Check your voter registration. Do it today. I mean, right now! I even gave you the link— GO DO IT NOW!! www.texas.gov/living-in-te...
More frozen organic berries sold at Walmart and Trader Joe's are being recalled because they could be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria. www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Frozen Organic Berry Recall Expands To More Walmart And Trader Joe's Products
MONDAY, Oct. 5, 2026 (HealthDay News) — More frozen organic berries sold at Walmart and Trader Joe's are being recalled because they could be contaminated with
healthday.com
Doctors often use the phrase “flu before boo” to remind people to get their flu vaccine before Halloween. But this flu season, you might not want to wait until Oct. 31 to get vaccinated. “We're seeing an early flu wave this year.” time.com/article/2026...
Now Is the Best Time to Get Your Flu Shot
Flu might be here early this year, clinical surveillance data suggest.
time.com
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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I’m asking again- wtf is it with them and trees???
I’M DYING over how quietly this all went down 😂😂😂😂
Deadline tonight! Take your last opportunity to enter for a chance to see Lin-Manuel Miranda, Paul Rudd, Jimmy Fallon, and more belt their hearts out for a great cause. bit.ly/win-karaoke
Scotlandville is a nearly all Black community of 10,000 people in Louisiana that has been, for the second time, shuffled around on the state's congressional map to make it part of a majority white district. https://to.pbs.org/4y3G4zq
After redistricting, a Black community in Louisiana faces a future without a champion in Congress
Scotlandville is a predominantly Black community in Louisiana, that's facing challenges in its political representation. Residents fear losing a representative who understands their struggles.
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Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same.
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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“The ultimate goal was to create chaos and doubt in the vote-by-mail process,” said the American Postal Workers Union president. “You’re creating a rule to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”
The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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"AI is already deciding whether or not people receive medical care as health insurers are deploying AI to review claims." www.vox.com/good-medicin...
AI is already deciding whether or not people receive medical care
Health insurers are deploying AI to deny claims — and putting people’s health at risk.
vox.com
Map of 23 suspicious deaths and suicides linked to the Epstein files after Simon Andriesz, a whistleblower tied to Howard Lutnick is found dead. Follow the connections. Search visually, name or by category bottom left "Dead". embed.kumu.io/7c3609c5e4eb... @gailwaldby.bsky.social #epsteinfiles
“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…
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Frozen berries sold at Walmart and Trader Joe’s recalled. Here’s what to know www.wlox.com/2026/10/04/f...
Frozen berries sold at Walmart and Trader Joe’s recalled. Here’s what to know
Frozen berries sold at Walmart and Trader Joe’s have been recalled because they may be contaminated with E. coli.
wlox.com
When you want the Machine to keep existing because if it were to *actually* be in the hands of someone capable it would stop being something you make your millions "Raging" against. Fuck Tom Morello, fuck every white man like him from him to the Cornell rapists. They're all on the same team.
Pneumonic not bubonic. Communicable. You have 24-48 hrs to be treated. Why wasn’t she treated? Why do I feel like Russia’s “Anti-plague” research is anti-anti-plague?
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 2d ago⚡️Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia. The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.
A child in an Idaho faith-healing family died of a treatable condition. Then another died — and another, and another. Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities didn’t intervene — before or after the deaths.
Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
propublica.org
FYI this is happening in TX.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 4d ago🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New York State: Oswego County Confirms First Measles Case in Over 25 Years, Walmart Shoppers Face Symptom Watch Through October 14 www.medicaldaily.com/oswego-count...
Oswego County Confirms First Measles Case in Over 25 Years, Walmart Shoppers Face Symptom Watch Through October 14
Oswego County has confirmed its first measles case in over 25 years. Anyone at the Route 104 Walmart in Oswego on Sept. 23 should watch for symptoms through Oct. 14.
medicaldaily.com