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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 17h

Also good: reminding everyone superman is antifa

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 18h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 5d

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't done a #FakeBookTitleFriday entry for ages so, even though it's Saturday, I thought I would get a timely entry out there!

Old pulp mystery cover showing a woman staring dead-eyed at the viewer. My fake title: "I read the news for five seconds today"

subtitle: Seriously WTAF

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 1d

"Perhaps zipped trying unclothed children thrown out of bed at 3am is Unamerican" "We're broke. Eff them kids". It's DOGE all the way down- using budget as an tactic for cruelty, no matter how nonsensical and destructive.

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1d

The offices now being cut are the parts of government we use to take care of each other. This is a consistent theme with Trump, starting with the destruction of USAID.

The Office of Special Education. The CDC on-the-ground operations. Attacking vaccines.

They want to divide us. Don't let them.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying it's Putin, but I'm not saying it's not www.unicef.org/kazakhstan/e...

Dissemination of disinformation about vaccination in Kazakhstan in 2020-2021

2020-2021

www.unicef.org

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but if I WERE an Evil Scientist With an Underground Lair Designing Lab Engineered Pandemics To Order, this is what I'd do to lay the groundwork to strike the US

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact but they don't have consciences.

a cartoon character holding up a top hat

ALT: a cartoon character holding up a top hat

media.tenor.com

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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 1d

sadly removing this now no-longer-trendy 2024 slide from my PPT on Baudrillard and instead adding a discussion about Labubus.

moo deng meme of a handler's arms reaching down to gently pick up wet baby hippo moo deng, but moo deng has a look of incredulity and affront on her lil hippo face. the captions label the handler as "Dr. Schneider trying to explain Baudrillard" and the confused hippo as "theory students"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone is talking about the investment *in* AI bubble. But why don't we think AI is doing enough trading to drive up prices and create future perpetual investment *by* AI bubbles? Why wouldn't the almost collude to drive up prices on gold and stonks and private equity?

Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1d

The economics of AI (LLM) data centers continue to be utterly unworkable. This whole thing is going to crash sooner rather than later and leave a giant smoldering crater where a big chunk of the economy used to be.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 1d

I would love a goth cocktail bar that did these as themed drinks

Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 1d

These are the new fungi I saw using Seek today. It reads just like a goth cocktail menu 🍹

Images and names of fungi
Parasol
Deathcap
Hoof fungus
Bovine jack
The flirt
Purple-veiled slippery jack
Cloudy clitobite
Fly agaric
Common stinkhorn

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

This piece made possible by the detailed data and analysis in CDC's MMWR reports, the staff of which was reportedly laid off in last night's purge...

Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Last year's flu season was brutal-280 kids died. That came amid a drop in flu vax rates among vulnerable groups. Convincing people to get the flu shot has always been hard-under RFK, doctors' job got much tougher. Anyway: it's October, get your flu shot! My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):

This Flu Season Doesn’t Have to Be as Deadly as the Last

Last year’s flu season was long, brutal, and ultimately tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100...

www.bloomberg.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 1d

If there's one thing I learned from Jane Goodall, it's that "intelligence" is not best understood as a unique human property (and thus, "AI" should not seek to simply repeat our own limitations) www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Fz...

You are Probably Underestimating Jane Goodall’s Impact

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 2d

Are you on the pad?

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 2d

ht: @nocontextmr.bsky.social

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

fleabag from the show fleabag looking horrified and offended (because she shags a hot priest)

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 2d

More antifa www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVn...

Tear the fascists down - Woody Guthrie

YouTube video by Mshrms

www.youtube.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2d

(h/t @pulmyears.bsky.social)

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 3d

Endorse

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

That chant is a banger. Now we gotta get it to the front lines on the Portland front, where it can be shouted by someone wearing an inflatable dinosaur suit.

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 3d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 3d

Was on a personal finance form where someone w/a young family ineligible for subsidies was complaining about $4,000 premium increase from $14,000. Maybe just skip insurance? I blame Trump for $4k. I blame *everyone* for the other $14k, AND the fact it's STILL cheaper than 1 C-section birth

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 3d

The exasperating part is that if we could import the healthcare system of ANY other rich nation (PICK your point on the socialism continuum) we'd have better health for less money. It's not like beating Obamacare is hard. It's just that they don't care.

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