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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.

This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Vaccines #Data #Science #Research #Model

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

ProPublica
New COVID Variant 'Cicada' Is Spreading in 25 States. These Are Its Symptoms

BA.3.2, aka "cicada," is a highly mutated new COVID variant detected in the U.S.. Here's where it's spreading and what to know about symptoms and vaccines.

TODAY

Beyond the ratings there is an important reminder here: There is a market/constituency for fascisim. There is a market/constituency for anti-fascism. There is absolutely fucking no one outside of a handful of dumb billionaires interested in “fascism but it’s, like, the polite version.”

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/bari-weiss-is-a-losing-loser-who?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

Bari Weiss Is A Losing Loser Who Is Losing

CBS does in fact still want to make money

Everything Is Horrible
In this year of 2026 if you absolutely have to run your mobile, international event in America - and you choose to run it in Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, that is certainly a choice that reflects which of your members or employees you see as human.
the positive bump from Trump's optimistic blather is going to be less and less until it inverts.

"Help me," the duke said. "My physicians can't say what ails me, but I've lost all pleasure in what I used to enjoy."

The witch examined him, and paused over his hand.

"Nice ring. It is new?"

"A recent gift from the king. Why? Is it cursed?"

It was made to dampen cruelty.

"No," said the witch.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

i think you actually gotta hand it to Chuck Schumer on this one. splitting DHS funding off from the rest of the budget, and now splitting ICE funding off from TSA, all while Trump takes it on the chin about the airport mess. pretty cool. https://apnews.com/article/senate-tsa-homeland-security-airports-trump-672467393ae043e47938874e7aaddcd6
Senate approves funding for TSA but not ICE

The Senate early Friday approved Homeland Security funds for Transportation Security Administration and most other agencies, but not the immigration operations at the heart of the budget impasse. The deal, which was approved without a roll-call vote, goes next to the House, which is expected to consider it Friday. It's a potential endgame to the 42-day shutdown has jammed airports, disrupted travel and imposed financial hardship on workers. President Donald Trump said he will sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay TSA workers, but if the bill becomes law that won't be needed. Democrats have been demanding changes to rein in Trump’s immigration enforcement operations.

AP News
"Winchester" huh.

A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.

Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.