Been a fan for 40 years. I never dreamed this was even possible!!
Indiana completes undefeated season and wins first national title, beating Miami 27-21 in CFP final
Fernando Mendoza bulldozed his way into the end zone and Indiana bullied its way into the history books Monday night.
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The party of free speech, is now directly censoring scientists at the CDC by explicitly prohibiting them from working with WHO scientists. You have Trump and Project 2025 to thank for this. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
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1. EXCLUSIVE Popular Information has obtained an email, sent yesterday by a Trump administration official, explicitly instructing CFPB employees not to carry out activities REQUIRED BY LAW. This directly contradicts what administration lawyers told a federal court.
Email shows Trump officials are lying to federal court, directing CFPB staff to ignore law
An email sent Monday by a Trump administration official, obtained by Popular Information, explicitly instructs federal employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to not carry out act...
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NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
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In 2015. a #measles outbreak began at Disneyland infecting 125 people in 7 states over 4 months. CA protected its children by passing #SB277 banning non-medical vaccine exemptions. TX & NM already have 133 cases & a child died. What to do? #Ivax2protect #CommunityImmunity apnews.com/article/meas...
An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak
A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.
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Eventually RFK will address this, right? Right??
Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 2y ago"The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting the first death from measles in the ongoing outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions. The school-aged child who was not vaccinated was hospitalized.. and tested positive for measles." www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
NEW: Shortly before he was nominated by Trump to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya appeared on the right-wing Dad Saves America podcast. During the interview, he suggested vaccines could cause autism and expressed sympathy for alternate vaccine schedules. www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-...
Trump Pick for NIH Director: Vaccines May Cause Autism, Alternative Schedules Okay
Jay Bhattacharya made the remarks on a podcast in September, weeks before being nominated to lead the NIH.
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18 out 124 cases have required hospitalization. You’d think RFK would bring some of that MAHA to West Texas… www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
Measles Outbreak – Feb. 25, 2025 | Texas DSHS
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RFK Jr: Vaccines are the problem. Measles: Hold my beer. #episky 🧪 www.ksat.com/news/local/2...
Tourist may have exposed ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people in San Antonio to measles, health experts say
Hundreds of thousands of people in San Antonio may have been exposed to measles during Valentine’s Day weekend, according to state and local health officials.
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It's week one for RFK Jr. as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and he's wondering if those COVID deaths were actually deaths from chronic diseases. 🤦♂️
RFK cares more about erasing trans people than he does about helping with a major Measles outbreak in Texas. 🖕
HHS Takes Action on President Trump’s Executive Orders Defending Women and Children
HHS took action to support President Trump’s executive orders defending women and children and restoring the concept of biological truth in federal government.
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There is no legal architecture that allows Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, to remake the entire federal government without running afoul of criminal conflict of interest laws. In other words, there's no way that his role is legal, constitutional, or compatible with democratic governance.
There's no way Elon Musk’s job is legal
"Checks and balances, at the moment, seem to be neutralized.”
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1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"
In botched DEI purge, OSHA trashes workplace safety guidelines
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an internal February 7 email ob...
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A journalist should ask our new HHS secretary how he plans to respond to this. Maybe he’ll write a letter blaming the vaccine these kids didn’t take like he did in Samoa?
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.
“Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate.” 🔥
Angie Rasmussen@angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2y agoGiving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is what unchecked narcissism looks like…
The Daily Show@thedailyshow.com · 2y agoElon Musk warning about an unelected bureaucracy is like watching Drake sing "Not Like Us" at karaoke
Christina Jewett@by-cjewett.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: RFK Jr. said a new study linked vaccines to autism in his confirmation hearing. We found that the study's author had a hard time getting it published. Then he got help from Andrew Wakefield, who is famous for the first debunked study linking the the two. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
