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Grandmother, mother, wife, retired executive. Supporting those who focus on saving the planet, protecting women’s rights, fighting income equality and ending racism.

  1. Two prominent whistle-blower scientists filed that they had been removed from leadership positions at the National Institutes of Health after objecting to Trump administration efforts to undermine vaccines, defy court orders, withhold research money and politicize the grant-making process.

    Two former agency leaders said the administration’s “hostility” toward vaccines had spread to the agency’s top ranks.

    Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H.

    Two former agency leaders said the administration’s “hostility” toward vaccines had spread to the agency’s top ranks.

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  2. In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

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  3. "Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve, not a political voting bloc." From CDC immunization & respiratory diseases director resignation letter. Tragic. www.facebook.com/jill.lawrenc...

    A tragic resignation letter. Link to original on X in comments.

DrDemetre
@dr_demetre
My resignation letter from CDC.  

Dear Dr. Houry,

I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director....

    Jill Lawrence

    A tragic resignation letter. Link to original on X in comments. DrDemetre @dr_demetre My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director....

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  4. We must all call our reps, the WH and Cassidy’s office to voice our deep concern and anger over this treatment of the science at CDC. Let’s put a stop to the madness is we can. Let’s get LOUD!

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  5. i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

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