N Tyson Smith-Ray @nthazel

Danielle Sassoon’s single voice of principled protest should become a chorus loud enough to drown out the treachery of Emil Bove on behalf of Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s co-presidency. Everyone’s gotta read her eloquent words: big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2…

⚠️WORST FLU SEASON ever since 2002-2003 when we began to track flu (red, first graph). Worst hit this year are children ages 0-4 and 5-17. ▶️We also have significantly LOWER flu vaccine uptake this year, one of the lowest flu vaccine coverages (red 3rd graph). Indisputable facts.

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Kindness matters. But kindness does not = justice. Civility counts. But calling for civility is not the humane response to injustice. Justice is. Love is essential. But love is not a passive, weeping bystander. Love puts in work.

Here is the oath all executive branch employees take. It is to support and defend the Constitution, not to “implement the president’s agenda.” If the two purposes diverge, the Constitution prevails.

The first step in fighting back is understanding what we're up against.It's time to say what this is — it's a coup.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

I love this - every teacher would find this helpful.

At nearly a thousand pages, Project 2025 is longer than most @StephenKing novels — and a lot scarier. Here's what you need to know.

💥Oh this is brilliant!💥Mehdi summarizes all 30 chapters in the MAGA manifesto known as #TrumpsProject2025 Y’all need to check this out and then make your plan to VOTE🗳️for Democrats up and down the ballot! Let’s get this win!

Whether he’s speaking to Black journalists or Christian evangelicals, LISTEN to what Trump is saying. He keeps giving the game away…

This entire video is incredible. "Thanks for bringing us home."

Don’t miss these morning sessions on Thursday, August 8 at the National Autism Conference! Join us at #NAC2024 with Willow Hozella from the @mayinstitute and Rosemarie Griffin in making a difference for students with ASD. More info on #NAC28: tinyurl.com/PaAutismConf

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Amen! Let's get back to actual, accurate reporting.

Dan Rather @DanRather

2 years ago

If I may, there’s something I need to get off my chest. As democracy remains under siege, it has been frustrating to watch how the press covers politics these days. I am reminded by lessons that came to me during the Nixon years as a CBS News correspondent, which I’ll add here:

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Nearly 60 years after Black folks got the right to vote, we are forced to go back to the old ways of teaching our history and preserving our heritage. It’s a damn shame we have progressed so little, in some ways, over such a long time.

NBC BLK @NBCBLK

2 years ago

From Jacksonville to Miami, nearly 300 Black churches in Florida are offering Black history lessons for their communities, teaching everything from the Civil Rights Movement to Juneteenth to mass incarceration. nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/fl…

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I believe this is true - and this is a way we will destroy ourselves.

The Atlantic @TheAtlantic

2 years ago

"The more our social connections keep stratifying and fragmenting—separating experts from nonexperts—the more frail our networks of trust will become," @dkroy writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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⚠️BEYOND ANGRY—Lots of confusion on CDC’s new isolation guidelines— why? Because The CDC MADE THEM CONFUSING & VAGUE ON PURPOSE. Proponents claim it still has “some isolation” & still “some precautions”. But if you read actual guidelines (which are clear as mud)—see if you think they are vague/confusing… 1) stay home if symptoms “not better explained by another cause” ➡️ummm WHAT THE HELL??? Do people need to both likely ask doctor to exclude all other causes, or SELF-DIAGNOSE and play SELF-EPIDEMIOLOGY to attribute symptom causation to be <50% other cause? How do people even do that? Give me a frigging break. 2) If no fever, “Symptoms getting better overall”—➡️how do you define BETTER and OVERALL? 💡What if sneezing less frequent but runny nose still bad? 💡What if coughing less, less headache, but sneezing more? HOW THE HELL DO PEOPLE WEIGHT THESE DIFFERENT SYMPTOMS?!?! (Also keep in mind 50% of all COVID transmission is asymptomatic…. So this one is disingenuous to begin with). What the heck @CDCgov — you know this is outright dereliction of duty to put out trash guidelines like this! 3) After you go back to school/work/social settings—➡️for next 5 days (which does NOT guarantee you’re not infectious anymore at all to begin with)… “take precautions such as …. [LIST]… and/***or*** [LIST]”… the 🔥key detail I want to highlight is the super vague “or” near the end of that sentence! Why? Well, the explicit meaning therefore is simple “CHOOSE ONE OF THE ABOVE [LIST] OF PRECAUTIONS”. Thus, the @CDCDirector is basically telling you that you can do almost nothing and casually do one like “Simply TEST” and you can be around others—the CDC doesn’t even say “Only if you test negative”—just simply “test”! This is honestly one of the WORST guidelines the @CDCgov has ever written. It is purposefully vague and allows a myriad of loopholes and subjective interpretations— exactly the kind of stuff corporate executives and politicians love — they can say they are complying with the CDC while doing virtually nothing much at all to protect people and public health! This on on too of the already horrible shoddy data/analysis that the guideline is supposedly based on (see earlier 🧵), and based on data from likely illegally enacted CA guidelines (see other legal complaint 🧵)…. ➡️This is honestly one of the worst despicable disingenuous corrupt guidelines that the @CDCgov @CDCFlu has ever done and @CDCDirector has ever rubber stamped. The CDC used to be a shining beacon on a hill—it is now inept and/or complicit and has betrayed its mission to disease *control and prevention* that is in its very name. (Share if you agree. Or explain in comments if you disagree.) P.s. to my friends inside the CDC network—know that I respect you very much for your tireless work and efforts.🙏 The arc of the moral universe is long—but it does bend to justice. Keep doing quality science, keep internally fighting the good fight for public health, and know that your efforts to voice your opposition to CDC leaders will not in vain. The inept political leaders do not represent for all of you, and do not take away from your best efforts to protect public health. Don’t be afraid to stand up for reason, stand for good unpolluted science, and stand on the right side of history. In a world of public health—Don’t be a Mandy Cohen, be a Rosa Parks. Stay strong.✊🏼 cdc.gov/media/releases… cdc.gov/respiratory-vi…

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The flags in Kyiv representing those Ukrainians we’ve lost is now a sea of blue and yellow 🇺🇦🇺🇦 Over 100,000 killed, missing or abducted. Just last night, 5 children murdered in Odesa. My heart breaks, but Ukraine will fight on. There can be no real peace until Russia is stopped.

Women working together can change the entire world for the better!

Amen - now let's do the work.

Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres

2 years ago

Food needs To be treated as a National Security Issue…👍🏻

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Antarctic rush hour.. 😅