@mehdihasan any chance of you cross-posting again on Mastodon? Or is the audience reach not yet there?
Armando Reed
@armandoreed
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@guardianfirewall any plans to add Taiwan to the list of countries? 🙏 🇹🇼
The Conversation U.S.RFK Jr. is spreading false claims about vaccines.
A physician who curates an open database of hundreds of vaccine studies covering millions of people sets the record straight:
https://theconversation.com/im-a-physician-who-has-looked-at-hundreds-of-studies-of-vaccine-safety-and-heres-some-of-what-rfk-jr-gets-wrong-259659
I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.
ProPublica“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States
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As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork approach that leaves many areas uncovered.
#News #Terrorism #WhiteHouse #Trump #Deportation #DOJ #Extremism #Violence
“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States
As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork approach that leaves many areas uncovered.
A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
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The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ted-cruz-woke-grants-national-science-foundation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Science #Data #Research #Medicine #Biology #USPolitics
A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”
Texas ObserverUpdate: On September 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that David Bloyed, who is identified in this article, had been criminally charged with “threatening to lynch and kill” the district attorney in Nashville, Tennessee.
https://www.texasobserver.org/unmasking-texas-neo-nazis/
In #books: A compelling page-turner both about a hard-working married Texan who was unjustly convicted of murder, and about the causes of his wrongful conviction that include mishandled and lost crime scene evidence, flawed eyewitness testimony, discounted alibi witnesses, a lying jailhouse snitch, and the failure to investigate an alternative suspect. https://www.texasobserver.org/bringing-home-the-story-of-ben-spencer/
The MarkupIf you are traveling this summer, remember that you can opt out of airport face scans.
Here’s how by Vox: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/360952/summer-travel-airport-facial-recognition-scan
She Campaigned for a #Texas School Board Seat as a #GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
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Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that #students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.
New, from @JeremySchwartz
#Dallas #Education #School #News #Republicans #SchoolBoard #Teachers #Books #Libraries
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore
She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.
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ABBOTT PARDONS KILLING BY RACIST WHO EXPLICITLY TEXTED APPARENT MINOR: The governor’s pardon proclamation did not address Daniel Perry's racist comments, stated desire to kill protesters, or explicit messages to an apparent minor. My latest for @TexasObserver
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-pardon-daniel-perry-garrett-foster/
