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Courtney Finnerty
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Who's going to a Hands Off protest tomorrow? Over 1,000 protests planned across the country.
Hands Off! Rochester NY Fights Back · Hands Off
**Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** We are fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and da...
www.mobilize.us
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Reposted by Courtney Finnerty
At CDC studies on the H5N1 bird flu, scheduled for release on Jan. 23, remain withheld despite the spreading outbreak.
February 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Dear Canada and Mexico,

We’re so, so sorry.

— Sane America
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Just watched NBC News to see if they would cover this. NOPE. Not a word about the Treasury takeover, just the tariffs. We are the ones who have to spread the news about Musk's coup.
February 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office.

Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
February 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Charge needed. 🔋
January 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Los Angeles blazes raise fears of ‘super toxic’ lung damage
Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Los Angeles blazes raise fears of ‘super toxic’ lung damage
Concerns that dangerous fine particle pollution can become embedded in bloodstream and lungs * Los Angeles wildfires – live updates * Los Angeles wildfires: full report The Los Angeles wildfires have claimed the lives of at least 24 people and have…
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Many seniors who left their homes in the Pacific Palisades area evacuated to emergency shelters. Now they're trying to navigate life without their belongings.
Older adults who evacuated to shelters in L.A. struggle to figure out what's next
Many seniors who left their homes in the Pacific Palisades area evacuated to emergency shelters. Now they're trying to navigate life without their belongings. Several say learning basic information ab...
www.npr.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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All I want is one boring year that will be deemed, centuries from now, insufficiently notable to discuss by historians.
November 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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MAGA voters actually love progressive policies. They just don’t know it. This would be great for Democrats.
November 19, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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"While biological limits to increased life expectancy may eventually dominate long-term trends, human-made social factors are currently holding many countries back from already achievable best-practice life expectancy & will be key to near-term improvements."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
Steady and significant improvements in life expectancy have been a bright spot for human progress for the last century or more. Recently, this success has shown signs of faltering in some high-income...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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What's the future of mortality in high-income countries?
Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard.

But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography
November 13, 2024 at 11:23 AM
K.... now is there a way to easily search for contacts from other platforms or google?
November 17, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Blue skies are smiling at me... 🎶💙🌤
November 17, 2024 at 5:34 PM