ABQWildcat
@abqwild.cat
Engineer, photographer, parent, partner, living and enjoying life in the PNW. I am an unabashed ally to LGBTQ+ folx, and strive to embody antiracism in my actions and words.
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"Trump called for the CSB’s closure during his first term but settled for leaving many investigator and agency leadership positions unfilled."
June 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Trump called for the CSB’s closure during his first term but settled for leaving many investigator and agency leadership positions unfilled."
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The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.
June 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.
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Vaccines for HIV, Lyme disease and some cancers are right on the horizon. Were.
“Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying the action is needed to restore faith in vaccines.”
www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.
www.statnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Vaccines for HIV, Lyme disease and some cancers are right on the horizon. Were.
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The headlines are just getting worse and worse and worse.
June 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The headlines are just getting worse and worse and worse.
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When people asked early in the administration how we could lose access to vaccines -pediatricians were most worried about the dissolution of the ACIP.
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
When people asked early in the administration how we could lose access to vaccines -pediatricians were most worried about the dissolution of the ACIP.
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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Deploying Marines to LA isn’t normal. It’s a gross abuse of power similar to what we see from dictators around the world, setting the stage for martial law or full-on authoritarianism.
June 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Deploying Marines to LA isn’t normal. It’s a gross abuse of power similar to what we see from dictators around the world, setting the stage for martial law or full-on authoritarianism.
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This is absolutely outrageous and has already been confirmed by a federal judge to violate a previous order that he issued.
Sitting back and saying "phew, we stopped that" isn't nearly enough. We need an immediate and aggressive investigation into the what the hell is going on and on whose orders.
Sitting back and saying "phew, we stopped that" isn't nearly enough. We need an immediate and aggressive investigation into the what the hell is going on and on whose orders.
According to litigators, on Tuesday, at one detention center in Texas, ICE gathered together 1 Vietnamese, 1 Lao, and 4 other people in detention and ordered them to sign paperwork agreeing to be sent to Libya.
All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary.
All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary.
![The reports with respect to the imminent removal to Libya show, inter alia, Philippine, Vietnamese and Laotian class members being set for removal without any reasonable fear screening, let alone a fifteen-day window to file a motion to reopen with the immigration court to contest any negative reasonable fear determination. See Exhibits B, C, D. In one reported case, "[U.S.
Immigration and Customs Officers (ICE)] officers at the South Texas Detention Facility gathered 1 Vietnamese detainee, along with 5 others (including 1 from Laos) into a room and told them that they needed to sign a document agreeing to be deported to Libya. When they all refused, they were each put in a separate room and cuffed in (basically, solitary) in order to get
them to sign it." Exhibit B.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiceond5y4ih4ljlfnhev2dd3qat2fgdu3h4ickuhd25otfhzhibcq@jpeg)
May 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This is absolutely outrageous and has already been confirmed by a federal judge to violate a previous order that he issued.
Sitting back and saying "phew, we stopped that" isn't nearly enough. We need an immediate and aggressive investigation into the what the hell is going on and on whose orders.
Sitting back and saying "phew, we stopped that" isn't nearly enough. We need an immediate and aggressive investigation into the what the hell is going on and on whose orders.
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📊 Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics
The team predicting measles spread? Gone. Disease forecasting—essential post-COVID—is now a luxury. Can't say we didn’t learn. We did. And then forgot.
📊 Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics
The team predicting measles spread? Gone. Disease forecasting—essential post-COVID—is now a luxury. Can't say we didn’t learn. We did. And then forgot.
May 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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📊 Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics
The team predicting measles spread? Gone. Disease forecasting—essential post-COVID—is now a luxury. Can't say we didn’t learn. We did. And then forgot.
📊 Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics
The team predicting measles spread? Gone. Disease forecasting—essential post-COVID—is now a luxury. Can't say we didn’t learn. We did. And then forgot.
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In just 100 days, over a dozen CDC health-tracking programs were cut. This isn't just "streamlining."
Either RFK Jr. doesn't grasp public health—or he does and prefers we stay uninformed.
Without tracking disease, inequality, or danger, we can pretend they don't exist.
🧵 Let's delve into it:
In just 100 days, over a dozen CDC health-tracking programs were cut. This isn't just "streamlining."
Either RFK Jr. doesn't grasp public health—or he does and prefers we stay uninformed.
Without tracking disease, inequality, or danger, we can pretend they don't exist.
🧵 Let's delve into it:
Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs
More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 days.
apnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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In just 100 days, over a dozen CDC health-tracking programs were cut. This isn't just "streamlining."
Either RFK Jr. doesn't grasp public health—or he does and prefers we stay uninformed.
Without tracking disease, inequality, or danger, we can pretend they don't exist.
🧵 Let's delve into it:
In just 100 days, over a dozen CDC health-tracking programs were cut. This isn't just "streamlining."
Either RFK Jr. doesn't grasp public health—or he does and prefers we stay uninformed.
Without tracking disease, inequality, or danger, we can pretend they don't exist.
🧵 Let's delve into it:
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📉 Pregnancy & Maternal Health
PRAMS—our best tool for tracking maternal health—is gone. No data on pre/post-birth care, risk factors, or disparities.
Want to solve maternal mortality? First you need to measure it.
📉 Pregnancy & Maternal Health
PRAMS—our best tool for tracking maternal health—is gone. No data on pre/post-birth care, risk factors, or disparities.
Want to solve maternal mortality? First you need to measure it.
May 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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📉 Pregnancy & Maternal Health
PRAMS—our best tool for tracking maternal health—is gone. No data on pre/post-birth care, risk factors, or disparities.
Want to solve maternal mortality? First you need to measure it.
📉 Pregnancy & Maternal Health
PRAMS—our best tool for tracking maternal health—is gone. No data on pre/post-birth care, risk factors, or disparities.
Want to solve maternal mortality? First you need to measure it.
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Welcome to darkest Fantasyland,
April 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Welcome to darkest Fantasyland,
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Because I am a bear of little brain, I didn't really understand the Trump/Lutnick tariff formula -- though it did seem stupid.
Then I read this example from Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove.
OK, so now I understand it, and it's even stupider than I'd thought
Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Then I read this example from Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove.
OK, so now I understand it, and it's even stupider than I'd thought
Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
April 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Because I am a bear of little brain, I didn't really understand the Trump/Lutnick tariff formula -- though it did seem stupid.
Then I read this example from Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove.
OK, so now I understand it, and it's even stupider than I'd thought
Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Then I read this example from Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove.
OK, so now I understand it, and it's even stupider than I'd thought
Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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James is correct. I ran the numbers on 185 countries/regions on Trump's tariff list today, and it's correct for 182 of them. Here you can see all the numbers. (unit: millions in USD)
Data is from the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.
Data is from the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.
April 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
James is correct. I ran the numbers on 185 countries/regions on Trump's tariff list today, and it's correct for 182 of them. Here you can see all the numbers. (unit: millions in USD)
Data is from the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.
Data is from the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.
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Good job @schumer.senate.gov, you helped build internment camps!
March 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Good job @schumer.senate.gov, you helped build internment camps!
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When you feel like you need to move from protesting outside of USAID to protesting outside of Chuck Schumer’s office it’s time for a change. Let’s stop playing games. Let’s be honest with each other and as a party. This is not working and it is not acceptable. And this cannot continue.
March 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
When you feel like you need to move from protesting outside of USAID to protesting outside of Chuck Schumer’s office it’s time for a change. Let’s stop playing games. Let’s be honest with each other and as a party. This is not working and it is not acceptable. And this cannot continue.
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Meiselas: That’s our message to you from the MeidasTouch Network: Grow a spine. Vote against cloture. Vote against the CR. The American people are with you. Stop this hostile government takeover. Fight for the people.
March 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Meiselas: That’s our message to you from the MeidasTouch Network: Grow a spine. Vote against cloture. Vote against the CR. The American people are with you. Stop this hostile government takeover. Fight for the people.
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AOC calls it a “slap in the face”, says Senate Dems who vote for the CR are “codifying the chaos” and “empowering” Musk and the GOP and the “robbing of our federal government to finance tax cuts for billionaires”
March 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
AOC calls it a “slap in the face”, says Senate Dems who vote for the CR are “codifying the chaos” and “empowering” Musk and the GOP and the “robbing of our federal government to finance tax cuts for billionaires”
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My latest. Let me know if you agree.
Senator Schumer reflects the weakness & complicity of Democratic leaders by agreeing to vote for the Republican spending bill. It's time for new blood that is willing to stand up and fight.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/with-democ...
Senator Schumer reflects the weakness & complicity of Democratic leaders by agreeing to vote for the Republican spending bill. It's time for new blood that is willing to stand up and fight.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/with-democ...
With Democratic Leaders Like Schumer, Who Needs Republicans?
Senator Schumer reflects the weakness & complicity of Democratic leaders by agreeing to vote for the Republican spending bill. It's time for new blood that is willing to stand up and fight.
thelefthook.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
My latest. Let me know if you agree.
Senator Schumer reflects the weakness & complicity of Democratic leaders by agreeing to vote for the Republican spending bill. It's time for new blood that is willing to stand up and fight.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/with-democ...
Senator Schumer reflects the weakness & complicity of Democratic leaders by agreeing to vote for the Republican spending bill. It's time for new blood that is willing to stand up and fight.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/with-democ...
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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This looks like the battle is joined. Republicans are on course to shut down the govt because of their extremist wing. They're asking Dems for help. Dems are saying bill has to have agreement that Prez can't unconstitutionally "impound" appropriated money - i.e., allow Elon's crime spree.
“Look, there's no way a Republican Senate and Republican House are going to limit what a Republican president can do.” www.politico.com/live-updates...
Government funding deal ‘very close’ as negotiations hinge on Trump power struggle
Ahead of the March 14 government shutdown deadline, top lawmakers say there's one huge dispute between them and a deal: curbing the president's ability to withhold federal money.
www.politico.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This looks like the battle is joined. Republicans are on course to shut down the govt because of their extremist wing. They're asking Dems for help. Dems are saying bill has to have agreement that Prez can't unconstitutionally "impound" appropriated money - i.e., allow Elon's crime spree.
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Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.
So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.
So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.
February 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.
So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.
So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.
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Killing Section 230 is Clarence Thomas' dream. It's a Project 2025 goal. And Democrats are on board because ... fuck if I know, really. Take your pick of bad reasons.
This is embarrassingly stupid. This is literally Senate Dems handing censorship power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. WTF are they thinking?
There’s an active fascist takeover going on. Let’s check in with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee to see how they’re resisting it.
Oh… oh I see. They’re trying to blow up Section 230 and open the floodgates for Trump to censor the Internet. Inspiring!
Oh… oh I see. They’re trying to blow up Section 230 and open the floodgates for Trump to censor the Internet. Inspiring!
February 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Killing Section 230 is Clarence Thomas' dream. It's a Project 2025 goal. And Democrats are on board because ... fuck if I know, really. Take your pick of bad reasons.