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#Via Dr. Jeff Masters
@DrJeffMasters
Apr 22, 2025, 11:58 AM

"Not a strategic move prior to hurricanes season: 'The NWS office in Houston will soon be without any permanent management staff: their meteorologist-in-charge, warning coordination meteorologist, science and operations officer, and electronics system analyst will all be retired by the end of April.' "

balancedweather.substack.com/p

🚨"It should HORRIFY you that it took a major news story for #DHS⬇️to say publicly that it imprisoned someone in SLV 5 weeks ago.

The man never once got a trial. No judge ever found him to be a public safety threat or a member of a gang. No due process/nothing.

After secretly sending Mr Prada to be imprisoned in SLV w/o a trial, DHS now has the chutzpah to claim that nothing untowards happened.

Until today -didn't even acknowledge that this had even happened."
-A Reichlin-Melnick

#CECOT #USPol

“Rümeysa Öztürk is my constituent, an accomplished scholar, and a valued member of our Massachusetts community. Like Rümeysa, Mahmoud Kahlil has committed no crime and is being punished by Donald Trump simply for exercising his right to free speech,” Pressley said in a statement to CNN.

Congressional delegation visit...

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The adulteration of milk with chalk and/or formaldehyde was one of the reasons the FDA was formed in the first place.

So what could possibly go wrong?

FDA suspends milk quality-control testing program after Trump layoffs

Effective Monday, the agency suspends its proficiency testing program for grade ‘A’ raw milk and finished products
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

So the Dow has recouped almost all it's losses from Monday on the strength of news that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a group of investors Tuesday that there "will be a de-escalation" in the trade war with China.

Somebody prove that this is not market manipulation, please.

Tom Cotton is a racist piece of shit.

'Reconsider': Tom Cotton begs Trump for disaster relief — after opposing it for Dem states
rawstory.com/tom-cotton-disast

#TomCotton #Arkansas #GOPShitBag #USPol

Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. Vaccination has saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than six lives every minute of every year.

Our technical ability to develop vaccines has outpaced our social, political, and financial systems for ensuring their use. Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.

The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.

We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use.

It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.

Read our latest editorial in @PLOSBiology: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism

#vaccines #vaccination #immunization #WorldImmunizationWeek #measles #outbreak #vaccinehesitancy

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

#Trump issued an order targeting former #officials from his first term who publicly rejected claims of voter #fraud.

nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/

CW: gory hand injury pictured.

Jabali was having his beard trimmed at his Yonkers Avenue shop when he flew into a rage, telling the barber that “he has a right as a Muslim to punish Jews.” Jabali, a Muslim originally from Yemen, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

#Ukraine is between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, it is trying to defend itself from Russia’s army, which includes about 14,000 North Korean soldiers that the Kim Jong-un government has sent since 2024.

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NEW: The govt claims that after the Fourth Circuit's powerful order in the Abrego Garcia case—which the govt describes as a "clarification"—the State Department "has engaged in appropriate diplomatic discussions with El Salvador regarding Abrego Garcia." But it refuses to say any more.

Don’t confuse “a situation that worked for me/ us” with “this is something *everyone* *must* do.”

To celebrate Earth Day 2025, the Trump regime has decided to kill more species...
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In what could be one of the most significant actions the Trump administration has taken on the environment, officials have proposed redefining what it means to “harm” a plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act, excluding habitat destruction from activities deemed a threat to protected species.

Officials said the move would reduce an unnecessary regulatory burden. Conservationists warn it would open the door to more logging, mining, home construction and other ecologically damaging ventures in places where endangered creatures live.
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FULL STORY -- archive.ph/0ihcu
DIRECT LINK [paywall] -- washingtonpost.com/climate-env

#USA #Politics #Science #Environment #Climate

@tony @grayface_ghost

Conservatives: so much energy spent fearing people with a penis that might chose to wear a dress, and so little energy spent recognizing the threat from people with a penis who are wearing business suits.

We live in a time of high contrasts.

Well thanks to #Trump #China has given #Brazil all of its Soybean trade and this will cost #American Farmers dearly!

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