People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

Noncontroversial takes:
+ Vaccines save lives
+ Science and research deserve support
+ Tylenol does not cause autism
+ Earth is a sphere
+ 📖🪱 > 🧠🪱

The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley).

Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died

It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

Interrupting hearing coverage for this article.
We are starting our day sad. CDC career staff and scientists are not withholding this data and article. This article is not being published in CDC's MMWR because of RFK Jr and Jay B don't want PRO-vaccine information publicized.
wapo.st/41JhAhb

So exhausted. Check on your fed friends (any agency). Check on your public health and science friends.

Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says The move alarmed some public health experts and legislators, who warned that it would weaken troop readiness.

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Removing the flu vaccination requirement for military personnel increases:

➡️ the risk of rapid outbreaks in close-quarters settings

➡️ the likelihood of undermining workforce readiness

➡️ risk of severe illness and hospitalizations

➡️ transmission to surrounding civilian communities

My #medlibs contract ends July 15th, we'll see what's ahead!

If I'm still in the field next year it'll be a must-go for me, extended time with local family + hiking = win win!

Ppl forget she also served in the Union Army as a scout and spy as well as leading the Combahee River attack that freed 700 enslaved ppl (inspiring the Black feminist Combahee River Collective’s name). She was made a one star brigadier general in the Maryland national guard posthumously in 2024.

Congresswoman Summer Lee grills RFK, Jr. on black maternal health.
This health crisis in the U.S. is a persistent emergency where Black women are 2.5 to 3.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women, with rates up to 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births.

Marriage 18 Apr 1893 St Louis, Missouri, United States

Tomorrow is my great-great grandparents' anniversary there. Never questioned their wisdom in leaving to help SF rebuild (he was a carpenter) after the 1906 quake.

#BLM OTD 1947 Jackie Robinson, 28, becomes the 1st Black player in Major League Baseball's modern era when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for over 50 years.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory

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TAX DAY PRO TIP if you're filing by mail: Do not rely on a mailbox or a letter carrier today for filing your return on time.

Go inside a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter.

Otherwise, your tax return may not get an April 15 postmark date and the IRS may apply penalties

Jesus at the door

Knock knock.
Who’s there?
The Doctor.
Jesus Christ, be right there!
That’s Dr. Christ to you! I didn’t spend a decade in medical school to be so disrespected!

Would gladly listen to this on repeat forever instead of a single click to that

PSA

It’s ok to not be ok. It’s ok to be angry, unfocused, traumatized. It means you still have a shred of empathy left

Do not try to weather this alone. Reach out to friends and allies. Many of us are feeling the same things. Support each other. Remind each other of the good still in this world 💚

This is a hard story to read. Imagine being asked to ignore a dead coworker to maintain productivity that further enriches shareholders.

What would that do to your mental health? How could you return to work the next day?

The human costs of our late-stage capitalist economy are all too real.

This, esp as I watch various grifters wrap vague interfaces over LLMs and get six and seven figure contracts

Side-by-side meme format. Left panel labeled “How it started:” shows three news headlines on a dark background: “Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites” (404 Media, Feb 4, 2025); “NASA Websites No Longer Promote ‘First Woman’ on the Moon for Artemis” (Orlando Sentinel); and “NASA Wipes Vow to Land Woman on Moon from Website Amid Trump DEI Purge” (Axios, Mar 25, 2025). Right panel labeled “How it’s going:” shows a dramatic photo of an astronaut’s silhouette gazing at Earth through a spacecraft window.

Three black-and-white portrait photographs of Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson, African American mathematicians and engineers who made significant contributions to NASA's space program in the 1950s and 1960s.

NASA official portrait of astronaut Sally Ride in her blue flight suit (left), and a recent photograph of Tam O'Shaughnessy, Ride's life partner of 27 years, science educator, and co-founder of Sally Ride Science (right).

Astronaut Victor Glover gazes at Earth through a spacecraft window aboard Artemis II, his silhouette illuminated against the vivid blue and white curve of the planet below.

You can remove our colleagues who are women or Black or Brown or LGBTQ from agency websites & their images from agency walls

But you can’t erase this: bc of those heroes of the past we have these heroes today inspiring future heroes

Thank you Dorothy, Katherine, Mary, Sally, Christina & Victor ❤️🚀

ooh same

SO many thoughts as one of those families who can trace generations back including men.

A UW iSchool student was abruptly deported yesterday with his son. There’s a GoFundMe to support the family while they try to get them back to Seattle: www.gofundme.com/f/9wup9u-hel...

Roughly half of the 50 Spryng Break (yellow & red striped) and Spring Tide (red) tulip bulbs bloomed, rabbits dug up the rest and are already chowing down on these. A 2024 pot of yellow Deronicum flowers seem to be safe from the carnage.

Today the fall 2025 🌷bulbs hit full bloom, so there's that.

we'd better be able to celebrate 2026 Team ♉!

“A whole civilization will die tonight," is plainly threatening genocide and war crimes. Congress MUST step in.

Republicans need to join Democrats to take action.

Call Congress back into session—we should vote to end this war immediately.

I was not prepared to see astronauts crying and hugging in space as they remember their friend and colleague’s late wife. 😭

Good morning everyone today is MOON DAY 🚀🌖🥰 #Artemis

recall lead found in Walmart brand Dino shaped nuggets throw out or return to the store

🚨 ALERT: LEAD IN DINO CHICKEN NUGGETS 🚨
Check freezer for Great Value Dino-Shaped Chicken Nuggets.
USDA issued a health alert because nuggets may contain high levels of lead.
Brand: Great Value (sold at Walmart)
Size: 29oz. bags
Best Used By Date: FEB 10 2027
Lot Code: 0416DPO1215
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