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Securing your phone before entering the USA. 🧵
At CDC we travel around the globe to confront health threats and have never worried about returning home. Yet more researchers, including US Citizens, are having their phones searched at Customs.

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Returning to the U.S.
security.ucop.edu
March 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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UT scholars rightly argue that shutting down USAID makes Americans less safe. A bird flu outbreak in the US is already increasing the price of eggs—and USAID monitors bird flu in 49 countries.

Trump and Musk are unlawfully destroying an agency that protects Americans’ health, wealth, and security.
UT national security scholars: TX lawmakers in DC must halt destruction of USAID | Opinion
Dismantling USAID would be a catastrophic national security mistake, leaving the global playing field of influence to adversaries of the U.S.
www.statesman.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.
Karoline Leavitt: "The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch."
February 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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What if history just didn't repeat itself, for once?
February 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.
February 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The new Administration’s move to shutter U.S.A.I.D. has halted vital aid programs around the world and left thousands of development workers in a state of limbo.
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February 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Our maps are like grandma's Thanksgiving recipes — once they're printed, they're not changing. The Gulf of Mexico stays put on MapQuest.
January 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM