“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
26 July 1920 | A Pole, Stanisław Salski, was born. A farm worker.
In #Auschwitz from 11 September 1941.
No. 20549
He perished in the camp on 18 April 1942.
Thanks to Trump’s Weather Service cuts, their 2 flood zone offices now lack a chief meteorologist, warning coordination meteorologist, senior hydrologist & staff forecaster.
And the top elected official in Kerr County, where the camp is, on their lack of a local warning system.
We’re not “losing” shit. We broke it intentionally. This wasn’t a solar flare that knocked out our satellites. This was us taking a machete to an advanced weather system because some dumbfucks thought it was going to own the libs rather drown their families
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
To clarify for some of you:
If you have "state insurance," that's Medicaid. It doesn't matter what the state calls it, it's Medicaid.
HuskyCare? MassHealth? NeighborhoodHealth? Health First Colorado? SMMC/MMA? KanCare Medical Assistance?
All Medicaid programs.
If only there was some kind of government agency assigned to monitor and give advance warning. Something like a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That would be a great agency to fund well and never gut it's funding to give early warning to save lives in these situations.
7 June 1882 | A Polish Jew, Pinkus Klapper, was born in Szyniawa. A worker.
In #Auschwitz from 25 February 1942.
No. 25271
He perished in the camp 17 March 1942.
7 June 1896 | A German, Josef Buhl, was born in Gläsendorf (today Szklarnia in Poland).
In #Auschwitz from 27 February 1942.
No. 25876
He perished in the camp on 21 April 1942.
CBP is revoking protections for the most vulnerable people in its custody — pregnant women, babies, the elderly.
Every day, I think that we have reached the apex of cruelty this administration can inflict on immigrants, and yet it still continues to grow. Read my full statement.