AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>The problem with discussing RFK Jr's attacks on autistic Americans is that we're talking about two separate, but deeply intertwined issues. Kennedy is indisputably pushing a reactionary conspiracy theory about vaccines causing autism to justify a HHS "study" that will undoubtedly "confirm" his conspiracy. Furthermore the Health and Human Services Secretary's comments about autistic people are factually wrong, ablest, eugenicist, and dehumanizing. In other words, even if you believe there's nothing but sheer ignorance and hubris behind RFK Jr's behavior, everything about his fraudulent quest to "fix" autism is insulting, reactionary, and dangerous. </p><p>The truth however is that none of this is happening in a vacuum; Kennedy does work for a fascist regime employing eliminationist rhetoric, Kennedy himself has already demonstrated a profound disregard for human lives, and the unhinged eugenicist themes in RFK Jr's arguments about autistic children in particular, do point to an even darker purpose behind his odious actions. Listening to Kennedy speak, one is forced to wonder what he intends to do when, not if, it turns out he can't "fix" the existence of autistic people? Which is why news that the National Institutes of Health is now compiling highly sensitive and identifying medical records, as well as creating "a national registry to track Americans with autism" is extremely alarming. </p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-seeks-broad-access-to-health-records-for-autism-research/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-s</span><span class="invisible">eeks-broad-access-to-health-records-for-autism-research/</span></a></p><p>RFK Jr. Seeks Broad Access to Health Records for “Autism Research”</p><p>"Disability advocates argue that rather than investing in surveillance-style data collection or reviving long-debunked theories, the federal government should be focusing on supporting the needs of autistic people. This includes funding home care, accessible education, and individualized services. However, the Trump administration has stalled disability rights cases, moved to cut health care funding, and is attempting to dismantle disability protections in public schools."</p><p>Hey, if so-called "conservatives" want me to stop comparing the Trump regime to the Nazi Party, they should stop doing the exact same things Hitler and his minions did on the road to Auschwitz. There are literally no good reasons whatsoever for the US government to be compiling a "national registry" of autistic Americans, and that's without even considering that the HHS Secretary seems to regard them as something less than human and a drag on "productive" society. </p><p>The first thing a fascist government has to do if it wants to mass target specific groups of people in our society for confinement, suppression, or elimination is to establish lists of targets; which is why the Trump regime is funneling previously restricted government data on migrants to ICE, and anti-trans eliminationist GOP officials keep demanding the medical records of trans people. Now I'm supposed to pretend its totally fine to give identifying medical data on autistic Americans to a fascist collaborator conspiracy crank who doesn't care if his woo nonsense kills children, and considers autistic people to be broken and in need of fixing? Are you fucking kidding me? There is no way you can convince me that this story ends well. </p><p>I can't predict the future, but everything about Kennedy's time in government so far tells me that dismissing him as a woo-reactionary crank is a mistake. We're talking about a guy who claims to be trying to "solve" autism, while simultaneously lying about, demonizing, and dehumanizing autistic people on live TV. Kennedy knows his anti-vax rhetoric is bullshit, he knows that he's not going to "cure" his "epidemic." If he didn't know before he took the job, there were plenty of actual doctors at HHS already who told him so; to say nothing of the numerous advocates, rights agencies, and autistic people themselves who've pointedly told Kennedy how harmful and unwelcome his efforts to "help" have been. </p><p>So if RFK Jr knows without a doubt that none of this ends in helping autistic people at all, what's his plan? Let me make that question even easier; can you think of any possible way whatever Kennedy is trying to do is about helping autistic people, or public health? You don't build a surveillance apparatus to monitor a targeted group in society unless you intend to use it. What about anything Kennedy has said or done suggests to you that he intends to use it to accomplish anything good? Right, the best scenario I can come up with is legalizing quack "therapies" to prey on parents willing to try and "torture the autism out" of their kids, and every other scenario I can think of is arguably even more fascist, eliminationist, and terrifying. </p><p>Everything about Kennedy's behavior so far points towards something horrifying and sinister; RFK Jr isn't your drunk uncle, he's a danger to us all that must be stopped before its too late to dodge a eugenicist nightmare. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RFJJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFJJr</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiVax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiVax</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MassSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassSurveillance</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhoopingCough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoopingCough</span></a> infections spike as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> rates drop</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> has reported more than 8,000 cases of whooping cough cases this year, more than double from this time last year. NBC News’ Sam Brock looks at the surge in this <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contagious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contagious</span></a> bacterial <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/infection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infection</span></a> that spreads through droplets.</p><p>“We’re seeing a return of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dickensian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dickensian</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diseases</span></a>” w/ the dissemination of anti-vaccine <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antivax</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/whooping-cough-infections-spike-as-vaccination-rates-drop-238123589553" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video</span><span class="invisible">/whooping-cough-infections-spike-as-vaccination-rates-drop-238123589553</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The 2021 study found 52 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> cases among people living within 1.5 km of the plant, a prevalence 44% higher than national levels, producing 36 cases.<br>That translates to an additional 16 people, out of a sample of 777, who contracted cancer within the previous 23yrs, said Ruhan Nagra, lead author & a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> prof at the U of Utah.<br>Within a 2nd concentric circle extending to a radius from 1.5 to 2.5 km from the plant, cancer rates dropped to virtually even w/the national level.<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>One peer-reviewed 2021 study, the only one to examine effects in the surrounding community, found elevated levels of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> & other maladies for people living closest to the plant.</p><p>Denka dismissed this field survey, which was prompted by concerns from a community advocacy group & led by the progressive University Network for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>, as "flawed & biased" & cited an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> assessment that called it "uninformative."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Denka said the lawsuit relied on flawed & outdated data that emerged from studies of mice, while an updated 2021 survey of humans showed no increase in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> deaths.</p><p>Denka criticized <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> reliance on the data that assumed affected people would have to breathe chloroprene emissions 24 hrs a day for 70 yrs. Moreover, Denka said the plant's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> were reduced 85% after a $35M upgrade completed in 2018.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CancerAlley</span></a>, a nickname dating to the 1980s, is an 85-mile stretch from New Orleans to Baton Rouge that is home to some 150 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChemicalPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChemicalPlants</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> refineries.</p><p>Multiple studies over years point to elevated <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> risks, including one in 2022 that found nearly EVERY census tract in the area ranks in the top 5% nationally for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> risk.</p><p>In 2023, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> admin sued Denka, demanding it eliminate the dangers posed by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/chloroprene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chloroprene</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Asked to comment on the findings of this story, an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> spox directed Reuters to a video stmnt by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s new <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> administrator, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LeeZeldin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeeZeldin</span></a>, who has outlined a strategy emphasizing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deregulation</span></a>, saying the US can protect the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> & promote economic growth at the same time [note the absence of concern for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> & populations in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LowIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LowIncome</span></a> communities].</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"It's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> being treated like a four-letter word," said Linda Birnbaum, a retired toxicologist & fmr director of the National Institute of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environmental</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sciences</span></a> who spent 19 years at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a>. "People who are already most impacted by high <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> are going to be most hurt by the loosening of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulations</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Those <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> inequities are the legacy of racial <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> that was legal from the country's inception until 1965, the type of historical <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>injustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> policies were designed to correct.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> also rescinded a 1994 EO by fmr Pres Bill <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Clinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clinton</span></a> that directed every <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgency</span></a> to develop an agency-wide <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> strategy to address adverse health or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> effects on *minority* & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LowIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LowIncome</span></a> populations.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>3 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> researchers & 5 fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> ofcls interviewed by Reuters say the end of the EPA's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> programs—which seek to ensure a healthy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> for *minority* groups that often live closest to sources of contamination - will be most felt in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hispanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hispanic</span></a> [& <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latin</span></a>] communities that have long endured the harmful effects of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin's press release announcing the end of the lawsuit said the dismissal fulfilled Trump's Day One <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> to eliminate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>equity</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inclusion</span></a>, & that it aligned with the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a>'s new pledge to "end the use of '<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a>' as a tool for advancing ideological priorities."<br>[read as opposite of what they say]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"She's not even 8 months yet, & has to be subject to breathing all that," said Gerard, referring to the plant's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/chloroprene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chloroprene</span></a>, which in 2010 the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> classified as a human <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/carcinogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carcinogen</span></a>.</p><p>7 wks after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> took over in Jan, new EPA leadership withdrew the suit against the plant's Japanese owners, Denka Performance Elastomer LLC, siding w/ the company who disputed the lawsuit's contention that emissions were linked to significant <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> risk.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Gerard lives along the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MississippiRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MississippiRiver</span></a>, just a few blocks from a synthetic rubber plant that the admin of fmr President Joe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> sued, claiming it posed an imminent <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> hazard. Gerard, like more than 90% of people living within 1 mile (1.5 km) of the plant, is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeographicInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> ends <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a>, *minority* communities pay a price<br>From her home on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a>'s "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> Alley," Lydia Gerard looks down at her 8-month-old great-granddaughter & wonders if she will one day suffer the same fate as her many friends & relatives whose lives were cut short by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/trumps-epa-ends-environmental-justice-minority-communities-may-pay-price-2025-04-23/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/sustainability/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate-energy/trumps-epa-ends-environmental-justice-minority-communities-may-pay-price-2025-04-23/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As a doctor in training more than 20 years ago, she cared for a teen boy who died from a degenerative neurological condition linked to his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/infection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infection</span></a> as an infant, when he was too young to be vaccinated.</p><p>“There are really bad, scary things that we can protect our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> from,” she said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aporophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aporophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> officials have tallied 65 cases & one death of an unvaccinated adult. These are the first <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deaths</span></a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> since 2015.</p><p>Dr. Alex Cvijanovich, a pediatrician in Albuquerque, said NM has one of the nation’s highest rates of childhood <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> & says she is terrified about what could happen if the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a> program is scaled back.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aporophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aporophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> cuts threaten free <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a> program for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kids</span></a> amid <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/outbreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outbreak</span></a> </p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccines</span></a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Children</span></a> program is funded by the U.S. Centers for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disease</span></a> Control & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Prevention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prevention</span></a> [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a>] & administered by state <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> officials. With an annual budget of roughly $5 billion, the vaccines program is responsible for about half the jabs administered to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> children every year.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aporophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aporophobia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HealthInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EconomicDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicDiscrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-cuts-threaten-free-vaccine-program-kids-amid-measles-outbreak-2025-04-23/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/healthcar</span><span class="invisible">e-pharmaceuticals/trump-cuts-threaten-free-vaccine-program-kids-amid-measles-outbreak-2025-04-23/</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>Day 25 cont 💰💰💰💰🏇🏉⚽️🏟️</p><p>“The <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> MP <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JeromeLaxale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeromeLaxale</span></a> has expressed his “disappointment” in the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Albanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Albanese</span></a> government’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>failure</span></a> to restrict <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/gambling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gambling</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a> and called on the party to “honour the legacy” of the late <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PetaMurphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PetaMurphy</span></a> if re-elected.</p><p>Laxale, a left-faction MP who is trying to hold on to the ultra-marginal New South Wales seat of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Bennelong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bennelong</span></a>, said he was “sick of seeing betting odds linked to live sport” and told <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a> in his <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/electorate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electorate</span></a> there was “a strong <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a> package coming”.</p><p>The Albanese government has not taken changes to <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/gambling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gambling</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> to this election and has faced sustained criticism from <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> experts and political pressure for shelving plans to restrict gambling ads, in the face of opposition from <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/sporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporting</span></a> codes and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/broadcasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broadcasters</span></a>.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/22/labor-mp-jerome-laxale-albanese-gambling-ads" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/22/labor-mp-jerome-laxale-albanese-gambling-ads</span></a>></p>
Bruce MacDonald<p>Don't avoid this interesting story.</p><p>"Although people mostly talk about the Black Death, plague killed millions of people through three distinct pandemics in human history: the First (541-750s), the Second (1346-1700s, beginning with the Black Death), and the Third Pandemic (1855-mid-20th century). …</p><p>"These researchers decided to focus on and distinguish human fleas due to the fact that rat fleas are known to prefer to bite rats. Theoretically, if a human flea became infected after biting an affected person, they could transmit the disease by also biting other people living in close proximity."<br><a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-history/youve-been-lied-about-rats-and-black-death" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-</span><span class="invisible">critical-thinking-history/youve-been-lied-about-rats-and-black-death</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/plague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plague</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MedicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicalHistory</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The suspension is another disruption to the nation's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FoodSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodSafety</span></a> programs after the termination & departure of 20,000 employees of the Department of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> & Human Services <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a>, which includes the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDA</span></a>, as part of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s effort to shrink the federal workforce.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Milk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Milk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dairy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a></p>
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