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A child in the U.S. has died from measles.

In another administration, the death and growing outbreak would likely have been met with urgent calls from the president and Health and Human Services secretary for parents to vaccinate their children.

But this is public health in the Kennedy era.
A measles crisis decades in the making: How RFK Jr. helped drive America to this moment
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sits atop the very health system he spent years attacking, and he’s already chipping away at the institutions he’s been appointed to lead.
nbcnews.to
March 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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BREAKING: Person dies of measles in West Texas, Lubbock’s health department says, the first death from an outbreak that has infected at least 124 people in the state. nbcnews.to/4hRa9Ld
February 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts.

Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.
DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Take action today and demand your senators and representatives do everything in their power to end DOGE, stop all unconstitutional and illegal activity by the Trump administration, and force the executive branch to respect the separation of powers.
Tell Congress: Stop the Trump-Musk Power Grab
The Trump administration’s illegal overreach has jeopardized science and sparked a constitutional crisis. Tell your members of Congress to stand up for our democracy.
act.ucsusa.org
February 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope #JWST is facing a potential 20% budget cut, which could significantly impact its operations. 😠

The cuts would affect all aspects of the telescope’s work, managed by the Space Telescope Science Institute
stsci in Maryland. 1/

#Worried #NASA
February 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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We wrote about how Musk is using X as a propaganda tool to demonize each of the agencies and programs that DOGE targets for cuts, providing air cover for his engineers' incursions — with the truth as collateral damage.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @drewharwell.com
Analysis | Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his.
Trump’s DOGE chief sees government corruption everywhere but in the mirror.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Trump’s senseless capitulation to Putin is a betrayal of Ukraine – and terrible dealmaking | Timothy Garton Ash
Trump’s senseless capitulation to Putin is a betrayal of Ukraine – and terrible dealmaking | Timothy Garton Ash
As the US and its European allies head to the Munich security conference, Europe must learn from its tragic history and oppose appeasement, writes Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.
February 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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NEW: The 19-year-old Elon Musk surrogate known as “Big Balls” has a State Dept. email address and is listed as a “Senior Advisor”

Role gives Edward Coristine, reported to have been fired from a prev. job for leaking info, broad visibility into State Dept data

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
19-year-old Musk surrogate has State Department email address
The move illustrates that Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service aides are being asked to fulfill multiple roles at once.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Elon Musk and elected officials have falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government.

Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.
Republican ire at USAID finds an unusual target: Politico
Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government. Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Very concerning!
gml.noaa.gov is now non-functional. This is the site that I would go to every month to get updated GHG data for my graphics.

I'm not sure if scrippsco2.ucsd.edu will have access to the CO2 data, or where I will get CH4 data.

I made a local backup of gml last week in anticipation.

In remembrance:
February 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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More acres have been burned by wildfires in January 2025 across California than in all the Januarys of the past 30+ years combined.

Unreal.
February 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the FDA to revoke authorization of Covid vaccines in 2021, when estimates had begun to show that the rollout of the shots had already saved about 140,000 lives. nyti.ms/4hkaSnl
January 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Get ready!! A rare planetary parade will occur from January 21, 2025, lasting about four weeks. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye, while Neptune and Uranus will require a telescope. Mercury will join later, briefly aligning all seven planets. 1/

#Astronomy #Science
January 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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💥NEW - UK universities join retreat from Elon Musk's X, citing misinformation on platform www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
UK universities join retreat from Elon Musk's X, citing misinformation on platform
Universities and other higher education establishments have joined a retreat among British institutions from Elon Musk's X social media platform, citing its role in spreading misinformation that fuelled race riots last year.
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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From an explosive wildfire in Malibu to a tornado (!) in a Santa Cruz suburb, California has "had to deal with a lot" of dangerous weather this month, as one meteorologist put it -- and now it's bracing for another round.

Gift link via @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
California Reels From Extreme Weather as Wildfire Risks Return
Santa Ana winds to pick up near still-smoldering Malibu fire, while Northern California is about to face another atmospheric river.
www.bloomberg.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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BREAKING: Donald Trump lost his request to throw out his conviction in the New York hush money case on presidential immunity grounds
Trump Loses Bid to Have Hush Money Case Tossed Over Immunity
Donald Trump lost his request to toss his conviction in the New York hush money case on presidential immunity grounds, though it’s far from certain that the case will proceed to sentencing as the pres...
www.bloomberg.com
December 17, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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The #JWST has revealed highly detailed images of 19 massive spiral galaxies as part of the PHANGS program. Using its near-infrared and mid-infrared cameras, JWST has highlighted millions of stars, dust patterns, and even areas where new stars are forming. 1/

#Science

👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2412.04834
December 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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A growing coalition of health and consumer advocates is campaigning against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to the top US health job over concerns about his activism against vaccines and other health issues reut.rs/41y1XKz
Kennedy opposed by advocates for US health post
An expanding coalition of health and consumer advocates is campaigning against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to the top U.S. health job over concerns about his activism against vaccines and other health issues, according to the groups' representatives.
reut.rs
December 16, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made over $20,000 per week as chairman of Children’s Health Defense before stepping away from the nonprofit in 2023 to run for president, new tax filings show.”
In case it hasn’t filtered through to everyone yet: Being antivax is a really lucrative business…
RFK Jr. was paid six figures by his vaccine-challenging group before presidential run
Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit that has challenged vaccines, doubled Kennedy's pay rate for a shorter tenure.
www.statnews.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is in line to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the next Trump administration, has worked overseas for years to undermine longstanding health policies on AIDS, measles and more. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/w...
November 30, 2024 at 11:46 PM