Author: Charley Naney
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Does Moral Bankruptcy Start With Racism?
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-haiti-race.html I think so. First to clarify all of the conservative judges, including the female one with enough sadism to adopt Haitian children (see their equality) and them use her “law” to wound their ancestors– an entire group of people because a Racist King told them to. Racism is not erasable with plaudits or sleazy…
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How We Serve Venezuela as Christians — Read Example from My New Favorite Pope
www.instagram.com/p/DaBVIsnDwq9/
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Why Must Just Law Be Subject to Crooked Judges
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/world/americas/haitians-syrians-deportations-us.html Everyone knows the conservative judges on the U.S. Supreme Court are profoundly underdeveloped when it comes to Emotional Intelligence and empathy. With this bit of theater however I would say they are morally bankrupt as well. I use bankruptcy, from Dr. King, because it means their ideas and positions are so indebted to lobbyists…
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“We 🇺🇸 will be there for our new important friends 🇻🇪 ”
No we 🇺🇸won’t. Part of improving as a species is recognizing the tired tropes of sad kings and preparing for the vacuum.
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The Press Has Duty Too Improve in Earthquake Coverage
www.bbc.com/news/live/c621z18wznet Please, please, please NYT, BBC, et al don’t just tell the same story over and over again. Be revolutionary with your privileged perspective. The airport scene is awful, that’s good to know. However structurally terminals are uniquely under populated and single leveled in design. They are also buildings more likely to be constructed with…
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People between Volcanoes and Across Oceans: How to Understand Earthquake in Venezuela
www.bbc.com/news/live/c621z18wznet You are searching for your mother or child after an earthquake. What do you do? You are trying to help this person, what do you do? In both instance the only way to answer these questions is real world examples of action. This is why it’s imperative that a neutral presence is on the…
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Earthquakes in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/24/world/venezuela-earthquake The press will now converge on Venezuela. It’s only human after all in a disaster. What will matter most though, is when they are there, the world will pay attention to the Venezuelan people in their dire hour of need? In the past hour the NYT has reported 3 deaths and the California Post…
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Why I Must Vote
Walking through the wilderness of American manifest destiny it’s easy to sway towards Democratic Socialists when you’re poor and Republican Fascism when you’re wealthy. Alternatively, there is the volatile and unpredictable center but isn’t freedom worth more than that? Therefore instead of deciding of who I want to lead I will instead choose why I…
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Trumpism Expands to Lay Waste to Wastewater Surveillance of Rare Viral Strains Known to Cause Epidemics
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/health/drug-testing-wastwater-sewage.html Right, the weak minded logic goes. If we can sequence squalor for the sparks of infection we can use it to track drug addicts. Here how its works. Trump’s army goes to poor places without country club watchmen, in the jagged periphery of municipalities, where a person on drugs used the toilet. Then they…
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Some bylines cannot be improved, spot on NYT: Flu Outbreak at Largest USAF Base after Sec Hegseth Abandons A Century of Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/flu-outbreak-air-force-base.html “A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release.”
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Forget The Cage Fight Party —- Trump Delivers Largest Ebola Outbreak🩸
apple.news/ArDumUhYjQnK-abkFrgC6bg Anyone who has ever seen a person die from Ebola knows there is no better shock value. A smashed face has nothing on hemorrhagic fevers. I think all the fans of Ultimate Fighting just need to prepare themselves, their blood sport is child’s play compared to Epidemics of Ebola. Which is why the headline…
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Increase in Wildfires Increase Greenhouse Gases and Temperatures..
apple.news/APv1psHvRSzGJzFMHeaAkcA Feedback loops dominate scientific mechanics, especially in thermodynamics. If you don’t believe me take a hot plate and glass beaker and fill it with 30 ml of water and record how long it takes for the water to evaporate. Choose different scenarios. Raise the temperature then lower it. To simulate our current climate emergency…
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Climate Myth Truth or Dare
apple.news/AdlhCHZmJTBqFvuvCZJWWeQ In this excellent article the author notes that in a recent poll of Americans, Climate Change was ranked 24th out 25 concerns. I think this is because of the size of the problem and human nature. Especially in a time with the U.S. President is locking us in to permanent climate change catastrophe with…
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Drought in Triad, NC
www.wfdd.org/weather/2026-06-12/drought-conditions-worsen-in-parts-of-the-triad
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The Folly of Trump’s Proposed OMB Changes for U.S. Discretionary Scientific Funding
I was reading Ann Druyan and Stalin’s perspective towards scientific research and was reminded about Trump’s proposed changes and suddenly it occurred to me. What do people think of Stalin today? They think he was a despicable. This brings me peace. Yes it is highly likely that Trump is hell bound. However, we can’t know…
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It’s True. Trump is an Autocrat and he Will Dismantle U.S. Science if We Let Him…
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/science/trump-science-autocrats.html I however along with being an enlightened scientist am a MF deist George Washington style. Let Trump destroy science and hasten the extinction of millions of innocent people and billions of organisms on Earth. We will nonviolently resist and soon enough the same distain he showed the world will be repaid in kind on…
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Without Question The Most Dangerous Threat American Science Has Ever Encountered
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/opinion/science-federal-government-funding.html
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I would vote for Jaba The Hut to take down Susan Collins The Great Wall to Human Rights
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/graham-platner-maine-rally-senate.html I avoided the bluster on this man. Honestly I don’t even care what his name is. Democratic Party is what you vote because of the soul sucking imbalance of power in America 🇺🇸 right now. Seriously this guy could have an affair with donkey and I’d still vote for him. It’s a tragedy for…
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Screwworm arrives in U.S. TX
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/texas-screwworm-first-us-case-emergency-response-abbott.html
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ASBMB Statement on OMB Proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
June 3, 2026 On Thursday, May 28, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a proposed revision to the regulations governing Federal Financial Assistance. This proposal seeks to fundamentally reshape how federal grants across many areas, including the sciences, are regulated and funded by granting the executive branch, specifically the budget office, sweeping authority…
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This is the right message
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010911616/us-aid-suspension-impact-ebola-outbreak.html
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Dr. Tedros is right, not about Ebola’s risk outside of Africa, but all the inequalities the African health systems must address along with Ebola containment
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/world/africa/ebola-congo-tedros-rubio.html Here is why any health official that tells you Ebola will not spread beyond Africa is wrong. Does Ebola transmit across species? Yes. Does Ebola transmit within species? Yes. Does Ebola surpass epidemic SIR models repeatedly in novel environments. Is Ebola one of the youngest, largest and most evolutionarily adaptable viruses in the history…
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Sure Criticize The WHO — They’re The Only Organization Between us and Ebola. Instead Maybe Ask Where Would We Be Today Without Them?
www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000010915385/ebola-who-tedros-rubio-congo.html I have fought many Pandemics in my career. Most people can’t really say that. I haven’t sparred with Ebola yet, but I know I will. I might not survive either. I’ll tell you something else too, the WHO is always at the front line and issuing the first signal long before I get anywhere…
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24|7|365 Tell These Stories NYT!
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/business/iran-war-somalia-usaid.html In 15 lines this story lays out plainly the corpus of catastrophe of our world. This Somali family’s walk and the absence of the refugee camp that would have been there. People in the South East, USA don’t see it anymore, but Jesus is walking with that family in Somalia right now. In his…
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Love the NYT but seriously dislike the way they report about Hantavirus and now Ebola virus.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/what-to-know-ebola-africa.html The NYT has always been a paper for deep thinkers, but to hear them report about infectious diseases nowadays … sigh. I know the real problem isn’t the NYT though it’s their sources. Vapid public health meanderings from Trump selected sycophants does not educate or motivate anyone serious about stopping this virus. If they…
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Every scientist needs their papers and their blog, and no they are not the same thing
I can think of no better illustration in this moment than this quote by one bard of Evolution the great Richard Dawkins (2009). “There is a risk that epigenesis will be confused with epigenetics, a modish buzz-word now enjoying its fifteen minutes of fame in the biological community. Whatever epigenetics might mean (and its enthusiasts…
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With Emphasis (Global Means All of Us) “WHO Declares Global Ebola Emergency”
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/ebola-congo-uganda-who-public-health-emergency.html Beyond my bluster key detail “There are significant uncertainties to the true number of infected persons and geographic spread associated with this event at the present time,” . Then there is the etiology of this disease and molecular structure and epidemiology of this virus. Trust me: all are terrible. I need not belabor nonexistent readers…
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Right, AOC and Not This Hack Reporter Is The Real Problem?
apple.news/A1GDYcIpLTYOdEi-uylDJGA I know articles like this will always have a loyal following in the audience Dr. King spoke directly to in Letters From A Birmingham Jail. Ah yes, the self-content moderate American, that pulled themselves up with bootstraps and then put their feet up. Nothing this reporter says about Rep AOC worries me. Don’t take…
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Welcome to Ebola Outbreaks in the Age of Trump
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/world/africa/congo-ebola-outbreak.html
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Man Who Truly Needs Psychiatry Wants to Break This System Too 😮
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/magazine/rfk-jr-antidepressants-ssris-psychiatry.html The question is will the great acquiescence machine that is government in my country allow it. The truth is I am surprised it took this long. I am not a psychiatrist but I can see why Kennedy has so much trouble seeing people healthy. Afterall, the system let him down, why not become a…
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American Founders and First Principles
Edward Dolnick summarizes his history on The Royal Society with something Trump and his disciples never will understand. The American Experiment was designed by honest scientists who stood on the shoulders of Newton, Liebniz, Halley, Hooke and so many others. Our liberty was secured with the scientific method. Now look at us. Social Media is…
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Instant Drought
Maybe it’s the Piedmont clay but I see where we’re heading environmentally. There will never be enough water to quench the living. Trees and animals will die and the AC systems will not cover the difference between the shade and direct sunlight. The loss of diverse landscapes will reduce the diversity of living organisms. Heat…
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All he had to do was leave in place the life sustaining programs in place. This is when I knew how bad things are. Trump has turned the whole world into his Gulag.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts.html When I think of the many unfortunate deaths that Trump and his cult have caused these children are top of mind. Infact in all of human history there has never been a Democratic Republic that gave the world so much hope only to stop and take the money for their own wealth and luxury.…
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Perhaps one of the most disturbing things I have seen in my Apple Books Feed
If it is true that most popular book in audible Apple Books right now is this then we the listeners have never been more ignorant. I did not always agree with something my teachers might have said, but I know none of them ever lied to me. Only the Trump GOP would be debase enough…
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WHO Reports: fatal Hantavirus cases on a cruise ship
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/well/cruise-ship-virus-fatal-outbreak.html Environmental exposures have been increasing for decades and now conspicuous cases on an actively surveilled cruise ship. Who is tracking Hanta virus in all the non conspicuous places these days with so many devastating cuts to support networks for the most vulnerable populations to hantavirus virus transmission. I shudder to think about their exposure…
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The Price of Trump’s Tyranny
Have you ever watched a starving crowd and thought never here—just wait. Have you ever organized as a community to sweep your neighborhood for dead neighbors in a Pandemic—just wait. Have you ever stood in line to vote only to be told your color isn’t counted this election—just wait. Have you experienced bread lines and…
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How Measles Spreads Under GOP Rule
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/well/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-ends.html
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Happy Earth Day
Photo credit to NASA. A decade ago my eyes opened to Nature and our beautiful planet. Now I am near the end of my Ph.D in biology. On this Earth Day I pledge allegiance to Gaia and the creeks, grasses, mountains, trees, and fellow Metazoans. If all my legacy becomes is seeds, let the canopy…
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Iran Cease Fire Starts and Fails Less Than a Day Later
Everyone one wants to be a sycophant when the plan is sane and effective. There is one lesson to learn here. When countries with our responsibilities throw away our duty to the good, for stagecraft and greed. We all fall down. Trump’s mind is gone. His heart never was. If you are man that wants…
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Master Class in Diplomacy
Just watched AP interview of Artemis II astronauts and POTUS. History knows from the President’s budget his perspective about Space Flight. Let no one tell you these outstanding astronauts in anyway communicated anything but duty and commitment to their exploration mission in this call. In addition to aspiring to one day fly in deep space…
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Sudan and Haiti in the fog of endless war
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/world/africa/sudan-un-attack-rsf.html When I was a kid my best friend was a WWII veteran so I gained a healthy skepticism and pride for good wars. Then my eyes were opened to Haiti. Then I went to college and September 11th and a retaliatory war turned into an oil crusade. Then I learned that genocide in Sudan…
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Pertussis Update from WHO
www.paho.org/sites/default/files/2026/03/25032026epiupdate-pertussisenfinal.pdf
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Thank you again NYT — report on the effects of U.S. sanctions on healthcare in Cuba
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/americas/cubas-health-system-us-oil-blockade.html The U.S. under Trump cuts off fuel and resources to an island for years, just like Haiti, Cuba. At the same time hunting emigrants who flee these places like animals. Why? The Trump Administration is free to commit these crimes without impunity. Why? A mother holds her child who has a heart condition in…
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No one wants to be an alarm clock, but when we need to wake up. Thank you, Spain!
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct717w
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U.S. State Department sends Israel 20,000 more bombs
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/us/politics/state-department-bomb-sale-israel.html
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Should give us pause
All the expats fleeing the now routine slaughter by the Netanyahu and Trump war machine. The inhabitants of the Middle East cannot flea the axis of Israel and U.S. aggression. Are the lives of the innocent in Iran long smashed between their own government and my own less worthy of existence. When will the good…
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Don’t get me wrong I will always appreciate Secretary Pete’s role as Captain America in Generation Kill
However, if we are going to continue our aggressive kill everything that moves strategy in Iran, I really think he should take his medications before the press conference. Not that focus and self respect are necessary in a secretary of defense but surely it will be useful especially if our military ever has to fight…
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How are the Iranian people supposed to take control of their country if we destroy all the infrastructure in it?
www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4zze5lzjpo
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I would argue Ukraine has the greatest military in the world
That is if judge a military by their capacity to defend themselves against a larger and more aggressive power. Maybe America and Israel had the greatest military but under Trump and Netanyahu it’s more like giving arsenals to 3 year olds to kill all the flying insects. Reporters keep using the word muscular. Seriously our…
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Are you kidding me “White House says Iran is ‘paying in blood’ for crimes against US”
Now this statement coming from the U.S. administration is exactly what the evil axis says. We are so much more noble than this trash. Every American needs to dig deep and acknowledge that no one appointed Trump and the GOP as the grim reaper and self proclaimed executioner of entire countries. Mark this too, that’s…
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Master class in Tyranny: Attack Iran and give folksy press conference while GOP strips women’s right to vote
apple.news/AwTp3ksvCStGotooq6BM-dg
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Let’s just bring back the Shah’s son, do you hear yourselves?
Listen to yourself news media and then crack a book. The Ayatollah Komeini came to power and started the Theocracy madness because the Shah was great for business but brutal to his own people. Break the cycles. Trump and Netanyahu are just the most blatant examples of a long line of foreign men thinking they…
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Since Iran is being smashed to pieces by Israel and it’s American mule, I figured high time to share a few more thoughts
Let me start by saying everything the U.S. is doing in Iran right now is wrong. Literally our President is the Ayatollah’s twin. Just replace theocracy with Trumpism. Otherwise their impulses and strategies are identical. Each ruleswith threats, zero tolerance, and marketing, and they love seeing their picture and name everywhere. Both have ruthless survival…
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Existential Threats — fact check that please
Correction my reporter friends. President Clinton and Obama negotiated peace agreements without leveling countries and single handily executing government leaders they disagreed with. If Iran was suddenly sprinting for ballistics then maybe Trump should have sent a better negotiating team than his son-in-law and a buddy. Every one, including myself, is somewhat happy this Iranian…
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The American Presidency and War. The Iran Cleric State and War. Netanyahu and War.
I too have fantasies of smashing my enemies for valor. Most boys and likely women, especially after marriage, have this impulse too. Sit in a soft chair, wear an oversized hat, savor the agreement of such stern faces around you. Then give the order: fleets, flights, and feet roll into motion. Time and attention fuse.…
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My Artemis Story (continued)
Self acknowledged space exploration geek, I went to the Galápagos Islands and had to find a place for my escape artist Boer goat — Houdini. By the grace of God I had spoken with an amazing goat farmer North of me. My farmer friend even agreed to breed Houdini with one of his bucks. Artemis…
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Trump Changes U.S. Global Energy Policy Away from Climate Change Mitigation
I hear in the news report that Trump shows up at another international conference and acts like a sociopathic petulant child and other countries grovel to our demands. The reporter makes a fond remembrance about the time when we had a human in chief that cared about future generations right to clean air, water, air.…
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What Dr. King Understood
I once saw a copy of Dr. King’s schedule in a book or something. My jaw dropped. I had never seen anything like it. I knew then although I totally understood his mission and tried to emulate it — well I know then how insignificant I was. The man was triple booked all over the…
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Trump orders EPA to stop valuing human life — Trump Index (Lives lost because Trump is President)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/climate/epa-human-life-value.html Like Hitler and Stalin and every other ruinous dictator in human history, Trump tells the Environmental Protection Agency to stop applying a value to the lives lost from his climate catastrophe policies. 🎉 The dictator puts his hand on the scale yet again. Does that mean any serious climate scientist will ever stop valuing…
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The Potential of AI
I am an old PHD student and professor and I understand the potential of AI. I also understand the risks. The greater risk though is that there isn’t a moral AI equivalent. Instead AI advances in the void of one of the darkest periods in the history of our genus. Morally bankrupt men and women…
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Can’t believe I am jealous of this excellent climate journalist voyage to the doomsday glacier, science is the art of miracles. Humans journeying is why we are here, is saving the planet some so artfully destroy a worthy cause? Yes!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/climate/antarctica-thwaites-glacier
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The Curious Case of Dr. John Snow
Why? The itch and the scratch. Most people know Dr. John Snow was a physician. Even more people know he was the father of Epidemiology. Many are aware of the linkages to Cholera and Victorian England, sewerage, sanitation and lest we forget the good Chadwick and Prince Albert. Here’s what less readers induct and take…
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Renee Nicole Good
I don’t know her personally but I am proud of her. I am not proud of her because she was part of a radical leftist movement. There is no such movement. I am proud of her because she was a widow of an Iraq veteran and a mother. I am proud of her because she…
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Well said Mr. Mamdani
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/nyregion/mamdani-inauguration-speech-transcript.html I tried to copy the section of the speech and paste it but the technology now prevents copying and pasting eloquent quotes, so I will paraphrase. If Mr. Mamdani can deliver on the promise of making the New Deal solutions to wicked problems like unemployment, segregation, and inequality real again, he will always have…
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… five hours later…
apple.news/AbNlxuz1_RoiFujQorqQNyQ I am trying to think of an equivalent example of Trump’s climate change denial. All I can think of is that Trump supporter who set himself on fire or the Tulsa Race Riots. In my lifetime I know people will be dying in their homes which will be wrecked every couple of years from…
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Note this is TEH commentary on Forbes reporting about Measles Outbreak in South Carolina
apple.news/ACYzoltDuTVCsf6Ex7iMdLw This is the state of the country. A money rag is is being cited by an epidemiologist to speak truth about the second most repugnant member of Trump’s decepticons — weRFKd. The master of disaster and foul faced Misinformation Czar. There are now 300 new measles cases in South Carolina for a 100% vaccine…
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RIP CDC
Listen y’all. I loved The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty years ago I became an Epidemiologist because of the CDC. The CDC paid for my MPH. The CDC trained the DoD Epi Consults that trained me as an Epidemiologist 2. I worked with the CDC for the two pandemics of my lifetime AND…
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The Problem with the Tyrant Trumps Climate Cult Argument…
I hear on NPR tonight that my stone cold stupid president doesn’t worry about climate change. “It’s all a hoax” the tragic fool stutters as social media scribes chase after each mad word and drop of spindle. Riddle me this then commander in thief. If your war on oxygen is worthy of coinage. Let’s do…
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Central Coast, Bay Area officials sound alarm amid ongoing spike in death cap poisonings
With wild mushroom hunting season in full swing, local officials and experts are warning that a large fruiting of a deadly mushroom is sweeping … Central Coast, Bay Area officials sound alarm amid ongoing spike in death cap poisonings
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“Demoralizing”: How Donald Trump Undermined Coal Country
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For a moment, Jacob Hannah saw … “Demoralizing”: How Donald Trump Undermined Coal Country
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Catalonia shuts natural areas as swine fever outbreak spreads among wild boar
The post Catalonia shuts natural areas as swine fever outbreak spreads among wild boar appeared first on InSpain.news. Catalonia is facing its most … Catalonia shuts natural areas as swine fever outbreak spreads among wild boar
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Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem
These are Latin words from Seneca, later exported to Rousseau and then most importantly to U.S., Thomas Jefferson. Translated to English, they mean I will take even feeble liberty over servitude. Did President Jefferson portend our wannabe dictator Trump’s rule or what? I think about Jefferson only in the context of President Lincoln, who had…
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