Notices by AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org), page 3

Rex Huppke:

"All he wanted was to celebrate his 79th birthday with a massive military parade that made him look powerful, scary and beloved. Instead, thanks to millions of Americans, he got a derpy, dull parade overshadowed by massive nationwide protests denouncing him.

Look what you all did! You made the poor man completely lose his mind and start babbling like a maniac who capitalizes words For No reason!"

I hope you’re happy with yourselves.
I certainly am. 😈
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/16/trump-military-parade-ice-protests-no-kings/84223316007/
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But there are lots and lots of posts and pics of the No Kings protest gatherings from across the nation.

This one is from San Diego along the waterfront.

#Politics #NoKings #NoKingsDay
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Some glum and bored looking spectators at the trump vanity parade.

Oh wait, that's trump and Rubio. 🤣

#Politics #NoKings #NoKingsDay
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Awfully quiet at the Xitter site, hardly any tweets on trump's vanity parade, which started 30 minutes early at 6:00 EDT to avoid the rain.

No one seems to be crowing about crowd size or posting images.

We wonder why 😉

These images are from a CSPAN video, with a very small crowd along the parade route. What a waste of taxpayer money.

#Politics
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Bernie Sanders was indeed there today in Stowe, Vermont.
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#Politics #NoKings #NoKingsDay
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For those who cannot make it to a No Kings Day event today in person, here is a link to the livestream which will start at 1:00 p.m. EDT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JfIaD9VBs
Also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnjg5hr25A
#NoKings #NoKingsDay
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Tragic news from Minnesota.

MN State Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark are dead.

This is the sort of violence we can expect from an increasingly unhinged party and its supporters untethered from reality.

All the more reason for us progressives to show our support for each other in No Kings Day events around the nation today.

You can bet there will be MAGA trouble makers trying to disrupt events today; let's stay focused, united and peaceful.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapolis-targeted-shooting
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Bernie Sanders will be there today in Stowe, Vermont, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Large, peaceful, crowds are gathering at many locations already this morning.

Find an event near you at https://www.nokings.org/

#NoKings #NoKingsDay
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Facts vs Disinformation on vaccines.

From 1974 to 2004, vaccines averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years.

Many more millions of lives were saved before 1974 and after 2004.

The pic below shows Martin Kulldorff (white shirt) and the new NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya (left) spreading disinformation about COVID vaccine at some conference.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/story-measles-five-charts
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00850-X/fulltext
#Politics
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WSJ Ed. Board adds -

Except for Meissner, the ACIP members seem to know little about vaccines.

Kulldorff and Malone have served as paid 'expert' witnesses in lawsuits against vaccine makers.

Levi isn't involved in medicine or biology, is a business school prof. at MIT.

Hibbeln is a nutritional neuroscientist with research focus on omega-3 fatty acids.

Pagano has written 2 novels and denounced a study finding that ivermectin was an ineffective Covid treatment.

https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-vaccine-board/
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On lives saved by COVID-19 vaccines -

"Based on reported COVID‐19 deaths, vaccinations prevented an estimated 14.4 million deaths from COVID‐19 in the first year.

If excess deaths were used, this estimate rose to 19.8 million deaths prevented, equating to a global reduction of 63% in total deaths (19.8 million of 31.4 million) during the first year of COVID‐19 vaccination."

Bhattacharya and others claim 25k lives saved and 500k deaths due to COVID vaccines??

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9537923/
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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
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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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