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The new CDC Director is indeed the one who ordered the count of measles deaths to be changed from 2 to 0. “The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments, which historically make the determinations”.

New CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles data

The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).

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Black, queer, radical, female, femme people & orgs literally diagnosed the problem so well that "them goons are coming" became accepted wisdom and so now everyone thinks THEY had the idea and don't need to acknowledge the work that so-called Woke Movement damn near killed themselves to teach you.

Nicholas Mitchell@nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 10h ago

All of these think pieces about the woke movement (for lack of a better term) yet none ask the first question we ask about any socio-political movement- The woke movement claimed there were individuals and institutions who wanted to erode civil rights protections. Was the movement wrong?

It’s true. Racism is not a form of insanity it is a form of conformity & and expression of status quo enforcement. Among laymen it is an uncritical acceptance of a set of beliefs into which they were enculturated. Among the upper class it is a method of controlling those unwilling to unlearn.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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ah yes the only reason people could be opposed to giant ugly resource sucking noise pollution plants in their neighborhood is CHINESE PROPAGANDA I see the pro-AI crowd is learning from the highly successful "young people only oppose genocide because of TikTok" narrative campaign. A+ no notes

stupid pro AI cartoon

It would be amazing if cis people could attempt to grasp how it feels for trans people to hear that large groups of Americans are being tested to see if one of us is hidden among them - because they'll be testing for your personal minority next.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Michele Tafoya: "If you want to play and make money and have opportunities as a person in the WNBA as a woman, it should not bother you to take a cheek swab test to just prove that you've the chromosomes to play in that league"

"Subsequent influential academics disparaged the ways that the early women of economics had presented the field. They bristled at being simplified, and they dismissed the idea that the women could have contributed something meaningful." bit of a through line to the current culture of economics

Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · 14h ago

Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of the idea that economics should be accessible to all, not locked away behind jargon. What, you haven't heard of her? That's no accident, as @jeannasmialek.bsky.social explains in a new book that I am *so excited* to read. Excerpt: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/b...

I always feel in my heart sink when I see posts like this. The Democrats have failed to capitalize on so many obvious angles of political attack in my lifetime. Whenever some really basic strategy is explained, I imagine them staring like a dog who doesn't understand pointing.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 3d ago

Rural hospitals closing or shutting down key departments like obstetrics will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to make it one of the biggest stories of the next two months.

🚨 NEW: Former Rep. Max Rose is on cable championing centrist Democrats — while advising a $75 million, Big Tech-funded political operation working to defeat candidates who threaten tougher AI regulation. That industry role hasn’t been disclosed in his TV appearances.

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Understand your obligations & duties to help the collective survive. You think life's about pursuing your individual fancies not caring for how you're bound to others, but it's not. Your fate is truly bound with that of others. There are things you absolutely must do to do your part for us all.

With that whole stinkmaxxing thing, the very obvious goal is not to sexually appeal to women. It's to make every single interaction with women humiliating, painful, uncomfortable, which makes returning to their nest of weird manosphere freaks feel more safe and comforting. They get to commiserate.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Incels train each other to be weird and offputting in literally any interaction with women, so that they when return to their nest of fellow incels they feel bonded with each other, homoerotically, against the harshness of the outside world.