The idea that you can satiate people determined to create havoc and harm is ridiculous on its face. In the wake of the election in 2016 I witnessed harassment myself almost immediately.
Stephen Miller behind a lawsuit for an anti-vax activist seeking to silence internet researchers.
“a remarkably unprecedented state of affairs like that is an astonishing breach of norms”
Mike Johnson immediately introduces misinformation into the new Congress.
Mike Johnson read some kind of supposedly inspirational prayer upon being elected House speaker, but he inappropriately tried to claim that it was written by Thomas Jefferson, the historic figure so notoriously non-religious that he actually made a version of The Holy Bible that omitted all the miracles…
Rejecting Medicare DIS-Advantage.
Privatizing Medicare is where the fraud, waste, and abuse comes in.
Net neutrality rules struck down by activist federal court that maybe doesn’t like the fact that presidents change at intervals???
The federal court wants to decide on this, and decided it doesn’t like “vacillations” that happen at the FCC because of… democratic elections.
Anti-mandate IS anti-vax, once more, this time with feeling.
And, in fact, being against public health mitigation efforts at all is actually anti-vax because NPIs (Non-pharmaceutical Interventions) are actually needed to support the vaccines.
Embedded access journalism, the corruption of governance.
It’s a perversion of journalism in service of propaganda.
Bird flu ought to be taken seriously.
“Without immediate nationwide livestock testing and isolation, expanded wastewater surveillance, and rapid vaccine distribution to at-risk populations, the virus risks mutating into a form capable of sustained human transmission—repeating the catastrophic delays of COVID-19.”
H1B visas are bad for labor and really anyone outside of the tycoons who game the system.
with a sort of Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads that’s leveraged by managers for their bottom lines as well as their whims
Scuttlebutt is that the new Congress is hot to try the SAVE Act again.
LWVUS Opposes SAVE Act 5/16/2024 LWVUS joined coalition partners to oppose the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require citizenship documentation to cast a ballot, despite the fact that voters in every state are already required to affirm or verify their citizenship status when registering to vote. My letter to senators and congressperson: Voters […]
Stories about healthcare in the Altoona area of Pennsylvania.
Telehealth service should be a permanent option for all patients, and covered by all insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid. Access to in-network healthcare providers isn’t always easy, especially for people living in rural areas.
Egregious levels of health insurance denial.
This guy’s sister was approved for the same genetic condition drug, while he was in decline and being denied.
Dr. Oz has a long history of promoting things that turn out to be dubious.
Dr. Oz is a loser who has no place running an agency in the federal government…
Fossil fuel PR operative claims Harris lost Pennsylvania because people want more burning coal.
Write your reps and tell them how their constituent voters are not these big coal burning fans.
Don’t fall for AI hype
ECB has warned that the AI boom may be an asset price bubble that’s putting integrated global equity markets at risk.
Jay Bhattacharya is unqualified to lead the NIH — still promoting bogus covid cures in 2024
This person must not be installed in a position where he will jeopardize the health of Americans with his fringe pseudoscience ideas.
Ohio wants to force doctors to give quack cure to kids with covid.
The knock on effects of this would probably be many and very problematic.
FBI hopeful Kash Patel promoted misinfo fueled covid product.
The marketing claim promoting this quacky covid product is that it can “reverse” the effects of covid vaccines is based on misinformation claiming wrongly that the vaccines are giving people some type of damage based on things that don’t even make sense.
Youtubers respond to comments because it pleases the algorithm.
And now some will be using a chatbot for that.
Bird flu gets snow goose flocks in Pennsylvania.
Flocks of snow geese have been infected with avian influenza in the Allentown region of Pennsylvania.
Letters to reps.
each person who writes really makes a larger difference than you might expect
The problem with going to social media for “information”.
Yes, this is something I hear about regularly, people saying how they’re relying on social media sources for “good information” and seeking it nowhere else.