'“The idea that we would accept the deaths of 200 children a year from Covid, when it is highly preventable with vaccination, just blows my mind,” he said.'
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"Surveillance will continue for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, but has ended for six others: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio, and Yersinia. Those six pathogens are often found in chicken or other foods, causing illness and death each year."
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
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ow ow ow ow ow
I'm glad you weren't hurt badly, but still!
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'charged with lighting a fire in an undesignated area and lighting a fire in a manner that causes damage to real property or park resources. Both counts are Class "B" misdemeanors, also known as petty misdemeanors… the lowest category of federal offense.'
Barely managed to concoct fed charges
BREAKING: Federal prosecutors in D.C. have filed two criminal counts against Jan Carey, the NC veteran arrested for burning a flag in protest outside the White House this week. w/ @sophrosenthal www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Prosecutors file criminal charges against veteran who burned flag outside White House
Jan Carey, 54, of North Carolina, said he was protesting an executive order from President Donald Trump attempting to ban flag burning
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The Chief Data Officer of Social Security blew the whistle on DOGE staffers sharing everyone's data on an insecure server, and now he has been forced out.
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Wait: that's me also!
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Corcoran and his cronies and enablers are "on board." NO ONE I know at USF is! Keep Sarasota-Manatee part of One USF!
‘Everyone’s on board again,’ New College says about takeover. USF disagrees
A backdoor plan to hand the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College was revealed in public records last year and eventually dissolved. Observers have anticipated the issue could come up again.
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"It’s time for USF to start making reparations toward the communities that have been disappointed and ignored. USF can start by hanging these flags back up, proudly…. USF is not playing neutral. It is playing dumb." www.usforacle.com/2025/08/26/o...
OPINION: Reinstate Pride, BLM flags at USF
In July 2024, WUSF reported that identity flags, such as Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, were removed from the University Student Center at the USF St. Pete campus due to visitor complaints. Five ...
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I started to laugh and then I started to SCREAM Honestly can't tell you how much was amusement and how much was horror
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the first, and then the second. I almost canceled my subscription right there. But then I got a live human agent who recognized the problem quickly, and it took a long series of steps to resolve, but they took me through each one and could explain a different way if I didn't get it the first time.
