Heath Haussamen: Public excluded from New Mexico Public Records Task Force haussamen.com/2026/03/09/p...

​​Native Students Receive Excessive Discipline in This New Mexico School District, Report Finds The Navajo Nation report echoes a 2022 investigation by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica that found Indigenous students were punished more harshly than other students in the state’s Gallup-McKinley ...

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Navajo Nation report cites discrimination in Gallup-McKinley schools; AG finds troubling practices - New Mexico In Depth A report released Tuesday by the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission (NNHRC) describes harsh discipline of Navajo students, pervasive discrimination and a climate of fear and retaliation in the Gall...

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Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...

For a deep dive into formaldehyde regulation under the Trump Administration, see ProPublican Sharon Lerner’s excellent Dec. 8 reporting: www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

US EPA turning a blind eye to formaldehyde's cancer risks, critics contend A coalition of 13 Democratic state attorney generals is urging the Trump administration to drop a “dangerous and scientifically unsupported” revision to a federal formaldehyde-inhalation risk assessme...

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US EPA to roll back restrictions on upwind pollution Despite worsening ozone air pollution in much of the country, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to weaken a key safeguard against cross-state emissions that fuel it. The announcemen...

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Climate change policy rollbacks ignore what the science is telling us loud and clear: climate change is driving a present and escalating public health emergency.

Weakening climate protections increases health risks for current and future generations.

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🆕 Greater transparency for oncology clinical trials reporting

Chief Editors of The Lancet’s specialty journals discuss enhanced scrutiny in the reporting of oncology clinical trials

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🔴Online now: Ultra-hypofractionated versus conventionally fractionated radiotherapy for localised #prostatecancer (HYPO-RT-PC): 10-year outcomes of an open-label, randomised, phase 3, non-inferiority trial

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FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case

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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 “Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year...

A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky

CMS Takes Action to Rescind Minimum Staffing Rule Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule rescinding part of the minimum staffing rule in nursing homes, the most significant increase in protections for.....

Read more about the demise of the federal minimum nurse staffing rule for nursing homes here: theconsumervoice.org/news/cms-tak...

‘Everywhere you go is short staffed’: New Mexico nursing homes in crisis - New Mexico In Depth New federal staffing standards meant to improve the care of millions of Americans in nursing homes could go into effect in as soon as two years. New Mexico’s nursing homes aren’t ready. Not even close...

This week, the Trump administration repealed safe minimum staffing rules for nursing homes—and the CMS requirement that nursing homes have, well, a nurse (an RN on-site 24/7).

My 2023 report on the nursing home staffing crisis in New Mexico:

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US appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to halt grants for school mental health workers A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health worker...

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Why is science under assault and what forces are behind it?

My review @thelancet.com of “Science under Siege” by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

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What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15

8️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi extend root systems up to 100 times their normal reach, enabling plants to access hard-to-reach nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen.

See the top 10 list (www.spun.earth/articles/top...) and follow for new fungal facts.

The myth of academic indoctrination

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There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
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‘Alarm bells of the highest order’: APD chief's testimony reveals years of deleted police texts to avoid public records - City Desk ABQ Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina testified under oath that he and other high-ranking APD officials have been routinely deleting text messages about official business since 2018, violating state ...

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💥 🍃 🧬 🧪 Gene Therapy for Hunter Syndrome

CRISPR unlocks a new way to defeat resistant lung cancer Scientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor growth. The technique worked even when only a fraction of tumor cells were ed...

How exciting!

CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers.

CRISPR has so many applications.

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Chart showing that since 2016, a vast majority of U.S. adults have said healthy children should be required to get the vaccine to attend public school because of the potential risks for others when children are not vaccinated. But support for school MMR requirements dropped from 82% in 2019 to 69% in 2025. This decline is largely because of a steep slide in support among Republicans. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, 79% of Republicans said healthy children should be required to get the MMR vaccine to attend school. This share sunk to 57% in 2023, then to 52% in 2025. In contrast, Democrats’ views on school MMR requirements have remained stable, with solid majority support.

Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
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Chart shows far more Republicans than Democrats say parents with young children should have a major role in policy decisions about childhood vaccines Previous Center work has found that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to support scientists playing an active role in policy debates about scientific issues. Similarly, a much larger share of Democrats (85%) than Republicans (62%) say medical scientists should have a major role in decisions about childhood vaccine policy. Views are reversed when it comes to the role of parents with young children. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say parents of young children should have a major role in policy decisions about childhood vaccines (71% vs. 46%). There are smaller partisan differences for the other groups we asked about. For example, 44% of Republicans say the general public should play a major role, compared with 30% of Democrats. And small shares in both parties say health insurance company leaders should have a major role (14% Republicans and 18% Democrats).

Who should have a major role in making childhood vaccine policy decisions?
💉Democrats are most likely to say medical scientists 🧪
💉Republicans are most likely to say parents

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Another reason RFK jr should resign

Inducing immunity against cancer via the gut Could a microbe that can smuggle antigens into the immune system of the gut provide a simple way to treat cancers?

Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.

“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

I see two

‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive

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