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Deborah Cohen 🌈🌻☕️
Deborah Cohen 🌈🌻☕️
@debcohen21.bsky.social
Proud lesbian, kickass progressive, lover of math, history, and art; on a mission to create a future without belief in supremacy myths. She/her. 🌈🌻☕️
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At face, the lack of an ACIP board seems like a DC red tape thing, but this is a sneaky eugenics effort. When vaccines are not recommended by ACIP, they are not covered by insurance or available for free through Medicaid…meaning the most physically and financially vulnerable don’t have access.
There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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“US vaccine recommendations are in limbo, access to vaccines is suffering, & some of the uncertainty may continue for years following major blows to vaccination by the Trump administration” I have been genuinely surprised at the speed & magnitude of RFK Jr’s dismantling of vaccination in the US 😢
There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines (part 13): The NIH “Vaccinology and Immunology Center”: NIH has been studying vaccine adverse events for years, and new clinical trials should be science-based. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de... via @sciencebasedmed.bsky.social @gorskon.bsky.social
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Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, and experts warn that uncertainty may continue for years after major blows to vaccination efforts under the Trump administration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr. is not even close to being done with destroying public health. Republican Congresspeople are 100% behind him in this effort. Vote for public health.
HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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I am by no means a smart man, but “Running for president to avoid imprisonment” should really be removed as a viable plan.
Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...
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This is how Biden should have gone for Trump but this is the problem when you go through life thinking you have no apex predators. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Flávio Bolsonaro has been banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports following his presidential election defeat, amid investigations into suspected influence-peddling, money laundering and other alleged financial irregularities.
Brazil's, Trump backed candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro faces a corruption inquiry over R$134 million sought from jailed banker Daniel Vorcaro, who is also linked to suspected influence-peddling involving associates of election court chief Kassio Nunes Marques.
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Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...
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Zelenskyy calls out monthlong wait for Hegseth to sign off on Patriot missiles
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yup.
This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”
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Replying to @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Jesus fuck, the Arab world is where *SO* much science came from. While the Christians in Europe were in the dark ages and dying of plague, the Islamic world in the Asia was preserving books and knowledge and figuring out so much shit in basically every single scientific field.
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Replying to @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Ah yes, what did Arabs ever contribute to the field of mathematics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathema...
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They put him w/ a bunch of 5-year olds bc he was very advanced at soccer... and then called the police bc he was kicking the 5-year olds asses. Part of me is sad but the other is glad this origin story is being covered so widely for when he ends up becoming the face of pro soccer.
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
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3 years-old.... I had my first experience with racism when I was six. My Mom explaining to me at six about what I would sometimes face moving through life. This breaks my heart.
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
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This is a chilling satirical statement and also, I believe, a real risk of allowing the idea that nebulous, unproven biological advantages should result in bans on classes of people in sports to gain purchase.
I support banning biological Black toddlers from youth sports if it’s an issue of fairness and safety.
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Ok, seriously, THERE IS NEVER A REASON TO CALL 911 ON A 3 YEAR OLD. Never. Even if it's trying to stab you. Take the knife away. We're building prisons for CHILDREN. Calling 911 on toddlers. WTAF is wrong with you? Fix yourselves FFS!
A Florida family says police escorted them from a youth soccer field after parents complained that their 3-year-old son, Nevada, was dominating games against older children. His parents say he scored multiple goals despite being repeatedly substituted.
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White people calling the police on a Black toddler and police responding are why it's always and forever the racism, not "economic anxiety."
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
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That's not because of AI. That's a company eating an upfront cost to 'Right Size' their company for an incoming Recession.
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Even though these are national and global layoffs, one should read its timing as Microsoft’s effort to stop WA’s millionaires tax, as right-wingers will blame that tax for these layoffs despite there being no actual connection.