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Mayor Johnson, CTA president defend security firings under fire from City Council's Black Caucus

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Acting CTA President Nora Leerhsen on Tuesday defended their decision to replace hundreds of unarmed security guards with “trained professionals,” a move drawing fire from the chair of the City Council’s Black Caucus.

Trump is using deportations to create an international concentration camp system. We need to shut it down.

Not only is this a massive betrayal. It’s cruelty offensive to any decent human being.

Beautiful!

Worldwide flu outbreak killed 45,000 American Soldiers during World War I In September 1918 there were two killers in the world. World War I, which would claim 20 million lives by its end, and the flu pandemic known as the Spanish Flu, is estimated to have killed between at...

~53,000 military personnel died in combat in WW1. ~45,000 other soldiers died from the flu. #PeteHegseth may be ignorant of history, careless about the lives of those in uniform, but the army remembers. www.army.mil/article/2104...

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Key GOP senators push back on Trump’s plan to cut NIH, reorganize HHS Lawmakers seem poised to reject cuts to biomedical research and public health spending for a second straight year.

One area where there is bipartisan pushback: Trump’s proposed NIH cuts

@chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social reports from the RFK Jr. hearing marathon

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Ilan, please count me in. Give me a task. Or ten. If starting an online ID #journalclub is what’s needed to resist a return to a platform promoting white supremacy and division amongst us for even more money for a few, then I count myself lucky. That’s not hard work at all.
#IDSky #ESCMIDGlobal2026

Could we one day get vaccinated against the gastro bug norovirus? Here’s where scientists are at - InSight+ Norovirus is the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis outbreaks worldwide. It’s responsible for roughly one in every five cases of gastro annually. Sometimes dubbed the “winter vomiting bug” or the ...

You got my hopes up but apparently there isn't yet a vaccine for norovirus. The other big GI virus is rotavirus and there is a vaccine for it. insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/31/coul...

Something tells me that every person who's evervgotten norovirus while on a cruise ship would've paid in gold for a norovirus vaccine, if there were such a thing!

whole thread worth a read if you want some serotonin 🫶

Robust flu protection may rely on B cells that are long-lived residents in the lungs Deep in the lungs, resident memory B cells stand guard against influenza reinfection—but whether they remain there may depend on how strongly they are signaled through their own receptors. New researc...

Deep in the lungs, resident memory B cells stand guard guard against influenza reinfection. Robust flu protection may rely on these cells that are long-lived residents in the lungs. By Delthia Ricks medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04...

U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.

Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.

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There is or was a man on X who did smart videos about public health. He was a former college football player. His analogy for vaccines is that it's like getting the other team's play book ahead of the game. You can then plan a perfect defense. Wish P.H. had listened to that man!

let me guess: they didn't taste good and nobody bought them

the first

Virginia governor’s amended collective bargaining bill would leave workers’ rights optional and large public-sector pay gap unaddressed This year, large majorities in both houses of Virginia’s General Assembly passed landmark legislation to extend equal collective bargaining rights to most public-sector workers. The Assembly’s collect...

Virginia was finally going to overturn its Jim Crow-era ban on state employee collective bargaining & strengthen rights for local govt workers. But Gov Abigail Spanberger inexplicably chose to significantly weaken the legislation. Here's @jensherer.bsky.social's response: www.epi.org/blog/virgini...

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Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.

The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."

My story:

Trump consumer finance watchdog ends key civil rights-era anti-discrimination protection The U.S. federal consumer finance watchdog agency on Tuesday formally ended certain civil-rights-era antidiscrimination ​requirements for the lending industry, according to a notice in the federal register.

The U.S. federal consumer finance watchdog agency on Tuesday formally ended certain civil-rights-era antidiscrimination ​requirements for the lending industry, according to a notice in the federal register. The ‌change from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau m...

TAT: [Weakening civil rights]

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

#Measles Having #US #HHS #Dept.OfHealthAndHumanServices denialism officials like #RFKJR in charge has and will cause many future children/adults deaths…

A mother’s agony of losing a child who caught measles, & passed away from it’s complications years later…
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

I didn’t know any of this!

Came here to mention 1918, which began on an army base!

there's a japanese antidiarrheal whose packaging proudly claims to have won the russo-japanese war because it was so effective in addressing dysentery

virginians, if you planned to vote in today’s election & have not already: don’t forget we have same day, in person registration AND if you’re 17 but will turn 18 before nov 3, you can register and vote today.
(post from the charlottesville office of voter registration & elections)

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

Who do I know at the Detroit Free Press? I need to find an email for somebody!

Honestly this is my dream, but as somebody with chronic impostor syndrome I still can't quite believe it. AUTOMATIC NOODLE is a finalist for the Hugo, the Locus, and the Nebula awards. Thank you so much to everyone who voted. I am flustered but very happy!!

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