John J
@3jnerd.bsky.social
Father, senior data guy, nonprofiter
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The only factual connection between autism and vaccines was published in 2016 by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social.
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Autism and Vaccines
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Autism and Vaccines
www.smbc-comics.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The only factual connection between autism and vaccines was published in 2016 by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social.
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...
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🇺🇸 Spread the word 6/14 is #NoKings and #FlagDay let's also make it #ReclaimOurFlag Day
Individuals- bring an American flag/s to protests
Groups- invest in larger 🇺🇸 flags 3’x5’ feet +
Event leaders - organize a "we the people Flag 🇺🇸 corps" at the front of marches, on stages, near the podium
Individuals- bring an American flag/s to protests
Groups- invest in larger 🇺🇸 flags 3’x5’ feet +
Event leaders - organize a "we the people Flag 🇺🇸 corps" at the front of marches, on stages, near the podium
June 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
🇺🇸 Spread the word 6/14 is #NoKings and #FlagDay let's also make it #ReclaimOurFlag Day
Individuals- bring an American flag/s to protests
Groups- invest in larger 🇺🇸 flags 3’x5’ feet +
Event leaders - organize a "we the people Flag 🇺🇸 corps" at the front of marches, on stages, near the podium
Individuals- bring an American flag/s to protests
Groups- invest in larger 🇺🇸 flags 3’x5’ feet +
Event leaders - organize a "we the people Flag 🇺🇸 corps" at the front of marches, on stages, near the podium
@pkrugman.bsky.social In response to your latest dashed missive, I suggest you're looking for "sanctum excrementum."
May 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
@pkrugman.bsky.social In response to your latest dashed missive, I suggest you're looking for "sanctum excrementum."
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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
Measles – NFID
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death
www.nfid.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
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And these helpful folks have a tracker for lawsuits against the illegal executive orders and memos www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
www.justsecurity.org
February 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
And these helpful folks have a tracker for lawsuits against the illegal executive orders and memos www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
"Move fast and break things" can be deadly when you're impacting medical spending. It won't take long for these same questions to come home to roost in America either.
Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.
January 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Move fast and break things" can be deadly when you're impacting medical spending. It won't take long for these same questions to come home to roost in America either.
The most basic of resistance: call out illegal acts in court.
Nonprofits and public health groups file legal challenge to Trump’s federal aid freeze
The groups say the order appears to violate the law on numerous fronts.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The most basic of resistance: call out illegal acts in court.
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Commit the sin of empathy.
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Commit the sin of empathy.
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in one of my favorite books of all time - JUNO & JULIET, an Irish romcom by Julian Gough - one character explains to another that constantly pretending to be an asshole as a joke is meaningfully indistinguishable from actually being an asshole, and I've thought about that every day for 24 years
January 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
in one of my favorite books of all time - JUNO & JULIET, an Irish romcom by Julian Gough - one character explains to another that constantly pretending to be an asshole as a joke is meaningfully indistinguishable from actually being an asshole, and I've thought about that every day for 24 years
Literally just trying to save this for myself and no idea how to do so otherwise.
January 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Literally just trying to save this for myself and no idea how to do so otherwise.
Wild to go shopping at an upper mid-range grocery store and get cage free eggs for cheaper than the mass produced type.
Even wilder: both options were ostensibly store brand. It's not like they had to stick with the cage free price.
Even wilder: both options were ostensibly store brand. It's not like they had to stick with the cage free price.
January 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wild to go shopping at an upper mid-range grocery store and get cage free eggs for cheaper than the mass produced type.
Even wilder: both options were ostensibly store brand. It's not like they had to stick with the cage free price.
Even wilder: both options were ostensibly store brand. It's not like they had to stick with the cage free price.
Deep in this article is a discussion of how small different choices decide what side you're on. I'm not up for raging anymore, but I will commit to trying to make things suck less for others in the day to day.
In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
www.theatlantic.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Deep in this article is a discussion of how small different choices decide what side you're on. I'm not up for raging anymore, but I will commit to trying to make things suck less for others in the day to day.
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Just 10 days until Fox News starts sharing what a strong economy we have.
The American economy just added 256,000 jobs in December, and unemployment fell to 4.1%. Trump is inheriting one of the strongest economies for an incoming President in generations. And despite destroying our economy in his first term, Trump will try to take the credit for this boom. Don't let him.
January 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Just 10 days until Fox News starts sharing what a strong economy we have.
Quinoa instructions call for rinsing in a fine mesh strainer. My fine mesh strainer's gaps are the size of the quinoa.
January 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Quinoa instructions call for rinsing in a fine mesh strainer. My fine mesh strainer's gaps are the size of the quinoa.
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Something to keep in mind for 2025
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
January 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Something to keep in mind for 2025
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
My New Year resolutions:
-Try to put more positive energy than negative energy into the world
-Learn enough French I can circle back to learning Spanish
-Spend less time arguing at opinion walls and more time listening to those who want to explain (but not propagandize)
-Try to put more positive energy than negative energy into the world
-Learn enough French I can circle back to learning Spanish
-Spend less time arguing at opinion walls and more time listening to those who want to explain (but not propagandize)
January 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
My New Year resolutions:
-Try to put more positive energy than negative energy into the world
-Learn enough French I can circle back to learning Spanish
-Spend less time arguing at opinion walls and more time listening to those who want to explain (but not propagandize)
-Try to put more positive energy than negative energy into the world
-Learn enough French I can circle back to learning Spanish
-Spend less time arguing at opinion walls and more time listening to those who want to explain (but not propagandize)