Notices by AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org), page 2

Here is some additional info on 5 of the 8 new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), who have replaced the 17 vaccine experts fired by HHS Sec. RFK Jr.

These are the zealots who will now make life and death decisions for millions of Americans and people around the world.

This comes on top of the firing of 1000s of scientists and healthcare experts in the FDA, NIH and CDC, with steep funding cuts to follow.
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https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ttdaexuq2ca4ok5hfphc2h5q/post/3lreieyokts2i
#Politics #Health
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Here are the 8 new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), who have replaced the 17 members fired on Monday by HHS Sec. RFK Jr.

As expected, many of them are anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, who have made a living trashing vaccines and scientists, and peddling quack treatments.

Instead of the glowing official bio, let's read how epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, and others describe these people.

https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-acip-vaccine-committee-9f58e1f004075b081718ff078de88d76
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A similar ad was paid for by Christy Walton in March, which ran in several newspapers around the nation.

Let's lend her our support. Since MAGA world is attacking her and Walmart, tooth and fang.

Pic posted by @azemon at https://fosstodon.org/@azemon@babka.social/114211871903153210
#Politics
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Christy Walton, Walmart heiress, 76-years old and worth ~$19.3 billion, paid for this full page ad in the New York Times on Sunday.

She ran the same ad in other newspapers over the past week.

She paid for similar ads without the "NO KINGS" line in a few other newspapers including the NYT in March.

Walton was a Kamala Harris supporter and she is one of a small number of billionaires to speak out against trump.

She has no role in running Walmart.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2025/06/10/billionaire-walmart-heiress-promotes-nationwide-anti-trump-protests-on-june-14/
#Politics
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Meet “Judy”, an exceptional sauropod specimen, unearthed in Queensland, Australia, with the fossilised remains of its last meal in its abdomen.

X-ray and neutron scans show that Judy ate bracts from conifers, seed pods from now-extinct seed ferns, and leaves from angiosperms (flowering plants) just before she died.

The study confirms that sauropods were herbivores, who ate their greens without much chewing – their gut flora did most of the digestive work.

https://theconversation.com/for-the-first-time-fossil-stomach-contents-of-a-sauropod-dinosaur-reveal-what-they-really-ate-258183
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Additional coverage of the "The Bethesda Declaration" from NIH employees -
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/health/nih-letter-bethesda-declaration
https://apnews.com/article/nih-letter-bethesda-declaration-bhattacharya-89724aee201f3e99fc1159adcbf9ac94
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-staff-and-biomedical-community-sound-alarm-about-agency-politicization-funding
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/nih-cuts-policies-provoke-employee-protest-letter-bethesda-declaration/
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-workers-protest-federal-cuts-bhattacharya-trump-american-health/
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NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies

"Dear Dr. Bhattacharya,

For staff across the NIH, we dissent to Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.

We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources. ..."

Will it bring change?

https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration?utm_source=pressrel&utm_campaign=bethesdadec
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We need a few more voices like Brian Schatz, U.S. Senator from Hawaii. Silence will only embolden the regime.

#Politics
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Ned Resnikoff writes -

"Now it falls to the rest of us to choose which version of America we like better. If Trump’s America is the one we want, then all we need to do is stay home. But if we choose multiracial social democracy, then we’re going to need to follow the example being set in Los Angeles. We need to demonstrate that we won’t be so easily cowed, and that Trump will never have enough soldiers to quash the protests. "

https://publiccomment.blog/p/los-angeles-california-121b
https://bsky.app/profile/resnikoff.bsky.social
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Former DOGE engineer Sahil Lavingia:

"The government has been under sort of a magnifying glass for decades. And so I think, generally, I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the govt. was. This isn't to say that it can't be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren't necessarily fraud, waste and abuse. These are just rooms to modernize and improve the U.S. federal govt. into the 21st century."

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit
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A former employee of the Dept of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time at the Dept of Veterans Affairs.

"Elon [Musk] was pretty clear about how he wanted DOGE to be maximally transparent. And so I thought, OK, cool, I'll take him at his word. I will be transparent."

Shortly after the interview was published, his access was revoked.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit
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Joyce Alene points out that the use of Title 10 "is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized."

#Politics
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The White House memo authorizing the federalization and deployment of at least 2,000 National Guard personnel in California.

Where is Congress?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/department-of-defense-security-for-the-protection-of-department-of-homeland-security-functions/
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LA is about to become a war zone as trump finds his excuse to deploy soldiers in California.

He wants to bring CA to its knees. First the move to starve CA out of federal funds and now this.
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Food for thought from David Rothkopf:

"One of the most important jobs we face in life is distinguishing between what is real and what is not.

It is American capitalism, as it is practiced here in all its Darwinian law of the jungle brutality, that is killing American democracy.

Many other societies offer a better quality of life. Many other countries provide more generously and wisely for their people. Many other countries are better democracies."

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-are-not-the-nation-we-thought
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The ispace HAKUTO-R RESILIENCE landing site is in Mare Frigoris or the "Sea of Cold, at 60.5°N 4.6°E, close to the north polar region on the near side of the moon.

https://quickmap.lroc.im-ldi.com/?camera=8561807.3289%2C8152.5348%2C173960.9062%2C-0.9998%2C-0.0009%2C-0.0197%2C-0.0197%2C0.0063%2C0.9998%2C60&showGraticule=true&shadowsType=all&layers=NrBsFYBoAZIRnpEBmZcAsjYIHYFcAbAyAbwF8BdC0ypcOKbRFOOZRBaAOnXfyJpVBFIA&proj=22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_2

#Moon #Space
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The ispace Hakuto-R M2 landing webcast will begin at 2:10 p.m. EDT (18:10 UTC).

Landing is scheduled for 3:17 p.m. EDT (19:17 UTC).

https://www.youtube.com/live/BVSMXQPeTcw
https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=7631
#Moon #Space
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After a close to 6 month journey along a low energy transfer trajectory, the Japanese ispace Hakuto-R Mission 2 RESILIENCE lander will attempt to land on the moon on Thu, June 5 at 19:17 UTC (3:17 p.m. EDT).

Hakuto-R M2 was launched on Jan 15, alongside the Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander. The mission will deploy a European-built mini rover named TENACIOUS and other science payloads on the lunar surface.
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https://ispace-inc.com/m2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_2
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Here is a closer look at the ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 2 landing site in Mare Frigoris. The landing site, at 60.5°N 4.6°E, seems to be located in a shallow depression at the northern end of a fairly flat area.

The camera angle is from the North looking South.

https://quickmap.lroc.im-ldi.com/?camera=740082.0796%2C49941.955%2C1663979.9771%2C0.5854%2C0.056%2C-0.8088%2C0.8066%2C0.0603%2C0.588%2C60&showGraticule=true&shadowsType=all&layers=NrBsFYBoAZIRnpEBmZcAsjYIHYFcAbAyAbwF8BdC0ypcOKbRFOOZRBaAOnXfyJpVBFIA&proj=22&features=4.6%2C60.5%7C4.6%2C60.5%7C4.6%2C60.5
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I did not get time to follow the landing webcast of the ispace HAKUTO-R M2 mission.
Any news?
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