Evan

Medical student urging you to mask. Climate breakdown is the solution to the Fermi paradox (he/him)

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

icymi: over the next two decades, most of the planet is projected to shift into extreme conditions considered broadly unsurvivable for at least 25-50% of all Earth's species

[Liesl McConchie @Liesl4CleanAir]

I just delivered a keynote presentation to 1,500 educators in MN … while wearing a respirator.

The audience loved my message, and no one said a word about my mask.

Just another day of kicking butt at work and protecting my health.

[NKY Lefty @NKY_Leftist]

The 4th largest company in the world. It doesn't produce anything. It doesn't make money. It has no plans to make money. It wouldn't even have stayed afloat if not for taxpayer dollars. I mean y'all cannot be serious rn

[Yasha Levine @yashalevine]

everywhere you look in US economy you get a version of this:

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Dara in Chains @DarainChains]

So cool! It's what everyone wanted! The Bay Area. Right in the dead center. Obviously he got it from someone or rats. Either way it's DEAD FUCKIN CENTER of the Bay Area. Strap on your seatbelts and N95s. Here we gooooo! San Quentin is in a very population dense area. The kids in SF already suffer with TB on a large scale. And we know folks have LC immune dysfunction. Public health better get moving and not just typing and sitting around.

[Matthew Gross @HurricaneAddict]

I really don't think enough people fully comprehend the worlds that are about to collide here.

You already have people in geopolitical circles warning about the threat of famine based on surging prices / availability of fertilizer components, and you also have long-term weather modeling all converging on a worst case scenario for a building El Nino event, which will peak near the end of the year. These are two slow moving but entirely predictable disasters that when coupled together will each make the other orders of magnitude worse. (This will take months to fully unfold, but at this point, the die is cast.)

There's no event in our history books that combines the current global population with the impending fertilizer shortage and the strength of the El Nino that's coming. We are about to witness an unprecedented event that will push crops around the globe to their limit.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Very important to point out that he did not achieve this by increasing policing. Right wingers have no answer to this

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

this language is now indexed as a form of racial harassment. The mere mention of Palestinians and their ongoing mass killing, siege and starvation is treated as a form of bigotry. I don’t know what else to say other than this is completely dystopian and insane.

[Media Lens @medialens]

Obscene: 'The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans. The decision is sparking alarm among experts that US is taking eyes off the oceans at a dangerous time of record-breaking sea temperatures, an imminent super El Niño and fears a critical system of ocean currents could collapse, ushering in global chaos.'

[Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) @jeremyfaust]

Of all the things we predicted, Bill, this is the one we predicted the most.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Democrats will of course not use this to their advantage

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Elon deserves to be in prison for life

[tern @1goodtern]

Covid infections affect your ability to fight other infections.

That's obvious to anyone who's actually looking.

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

Mamdani is the Democrats’ worst nightmare because he’s living proof that they’re simply not doing their jobs.

[Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @KrutikaKuppalli]

🚨Colleagues in infectious diseases, public health, emergency medicine, global health, and related fields:

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The letter outlines concerns related to standards of care, access to advanced supportive and critical care, oversight and accountability, patient rights and well-being, and the potential diversion of resources from outbreak response efforts.

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[🔻Rio Slade 🔻 @RioSlade]

I would argue this is in direct response to people organizing against 🧊