Jdaniel54

Jdaniel54

@jdaniel54.bsky.social

Former Getty Images staff sports photographer (ret) based in Chicago; Proud dad to Luis; Av Geek; NBA, PGA fan; "relaxed minimalist" Opinions and language my own, thank you...

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Folks, if you hate authoritarianism, you should be feeling good this morning. In Serbia, a student-led movement just ousted a longtime strongman, peacefully. And we Americans should be paying attention, because we have a chance in November to send a similar message. (link below)

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My friends, can you please offer prayers and send some good energy to the Navajo Nation Reservation and surrounding communities. Pilamaya — thank you 🙏🏾 🪶✨

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The bad: measles cases in the U.S. are more than double what they were last year, with 96% of cases being unvaccinated. The good: Pennsylvania has so far administered 14,000 more vaccines this year than last. The dream: The anti-vax movement is deservedly shunned and everyone gets vaccinated.

npr.orgU.S. measles cases more than double what they were last year as outbreak spreadsPennsylvania is the worst hit state, with at least 1,338 cases of measles confirmed in 44 counties so far this year, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

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Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

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RFK Jr. likes to claim that the current measles outbreak isn’t his fault. Nobody here will be surprised to hear that he is lying again. Under his “leadership”, the CDC didn’t respond to a request to validate a test that could diagnose cases faster. They said they had other priorities.

nytimes.comC.D.C. Ignored Request From States to Validate a New Measles TestThe agency replied two months later, saying it had “competing priorities,” officials from a coalition of Western states said.

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Replying to @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

Thanks Elizabeth….this is really important. Long Covid will last for another decde but could be easily prevented by routine vaccination against the yearly appearing omicron variants.

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I do think it’s significantly more difficult to communicate that vaccines can prevent or reduce the risk of chronic illnesses as well as infectious disease, so I’ll just say this: I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with a cancer (cervical) that can now be prevented with a vaccine (HPV).

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Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

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Asking Marsha Blackburn how she’d stop rural hospital closures is like asking a lifeguard who watched 18 people go under for swimming tips. On her watch, 18 rural Tennessee hospitals closed or stopped inpatient care and now we lead the nation per capita in closures.

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California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

theguardian.comThe ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire taxTech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and

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Trump waiving sanctions against Russia is the most predictable thing ever. The silence of some GOP elected officials is likewise the most predictable thing. Throw the trash out in November. This isn’t funny anymore

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“Driving through Arizona on a Saturday morning, I saw a line of cars nearly a mile long stopped along a high-desert highway. I slowed, thinking there had been an accident. Then I realized that all of those people were waiting in line for food”. More than 450,000 Arizonans have lost SNAP benefits.

theatlantic.comGoing Hungry in Trump’s EconomyThe president said the “American dream is back.” Rural Arizonans don’t think so.

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Thanks to RFK Jr, the USDA scuttled a plan to combat bird flu that included vaccinating chickens, because Brooke Rollins “was concerned about whether it would clash with the Health secretary’s anti-vaccine views”. Seems like a good time to deploy the word shitbirds for these government officials.

politico.com‘It's time to get a vaccine in place’: RFK Jr.’s views helped stall bird flu planUSDA shelved strategy for inoculating birds after the Health secretary criticized the idea.

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Lung cancer remains far too common. Wishing Pope Leo a full recovery. His experience is a reminder to know your risk, understand your family history, and get screened if eligible. Early detection saves lives.

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“RFK, Jr.’s time at HHS gives us an unfortunate opportunity to see what happens when such expansive denialism acquires power to make policy” “Denialists in positions of power notoriously assemble advisory panels to support decisions they have already made”. RFK Jr. must be impeached and removed.

skeptic.org.ukDenialism as health policy: case study of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr - The SkepticRFK Jr, the most senior figure in US health, has spent decades undermining vaccines, denying the reality of AIDS, and endangering Americans.

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If the Hepatitis B vaccine trial RFK Jr. has funded in Guinea-Bissau were ethical, he’d be doing it in the U.S. Instead, he’s preying on infants in one of the poorest countries in the world, which also happens to have a high prevalence of Hep B. Infants will suffer b/c RFK Jr. is anti-vax.

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De Niro: The Trump administration knows that their policies are unpopular. They’re not stupid. Well, okay. They are very fucking stupid. I mean, really stupid. They’re stupider than I ever thought. But they recognize what they’re doing is turning away people.

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Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.