Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

A covid vaccine study that the CDC halted over methodological concerns was published in a leading medical journal. It found that the vaccine reduced the risk of emergency room visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

10 Reasons to Love Solar Power 1. Zero CO₂ to run 2.Infinite fuel 3.sunlight 4Cuts air pollution 5.Creates local jobs 6.Low water use 7.Price keeps dropping 8.Powers homes + grids 9. Works off-grid too 10. Energy independence Future-proof tech

The cost of Solar panels and batteries has come down massively over the last 2-4 years. We should have these systems everywhere! Oil is a necessary evil, for now. But we need to rapidly move to renewables everywhere.

This is NOT false alarmism... this is an actual 5-alarm fire on science, research and innovation in the US. (In case you didn't think it could get worse... it continues to get worse). Public comment is open NOW. We need to continue to use our voices in what's left of our very broken system.

While we seem stuck innovating better ways to burn through tokens, actually exciting shit is happening in China. insideevs.com/news/797182/...

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Ohio gave Meta, Google, and Amazon a sales tax break for data centers. It was supposed to cost $136 million in 2025. It cost $1.6 billion. Gov. DeWine vetoed the legislature's attempt to end it, insisting the tax exemption is needed to lure data center developers. signalohio.org/ohio-data-ce...

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

Happy Decoration Day! This us a great article from my colleague Nicole Carr open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

People acted like we could just “vote against genocide” as if it was ever that simple. Poet June Jordan told us this in 1982 www.blackagendareport.com/poem-apologi...

Democrats convert empty warehouses into shelters for the homeless. Republicans turn them into concentration camps to torture people without due process. The two parties are not remotely the same.

On this day in 1898, Septima Poinsette Clark was born. She became a tireless advocate for education and civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., called her the “Mother of the Movement.” Her motto was “literacy means liberation.” #WeTheMen

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"My hope is that this commitment provides the stability and the spark NPR needs to innovate boldly and strengthen its national network," says Connie Ballmer, who gave $80 million of the $113 million. n.pr/4tRK4RR

The story here isn't that packages aren't getting to service members. It's that apparently we didn't send our military to war with enough basics - like food!? and hygiene products!?? Care packages are nice! But families shouldn't be on the hook to supplement the military supply chain.

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked my War Powers Resolution that would have ended Trump's unnecessary, unjustified war against Iran. These cowards have had four chances to stop this chaos in the Middle East. And they put Trump's ego before America. Every damn time.

Innovation is at the core of so many Illinois companies, including Rivian. Rivian’s partnership with Redwood Materials to reuse its own batteries is the kind of ingenuity that makes our state a leading player in clean energy and tech.

The Trump administration's illegal strikes on civilian boats near the Caribbean have now killed at least 170 people at sea. These extrajudicial killings must end. Congress and the courts must take immediate action.

Trump wanted to kill off PBS & NPR by defunding them. It hasn't worked as intended—viewers came to their aid & now a fed'l judge has held Trump's executive order unconstitutional. We also look at why Trump might dislike public media & a Muppet named Donald Grump. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

So many people I know have lost their livelihoods as a direct result of trump administration and I'm not even just talking about federal government employees either. That loss of income, loss of healthcare, loss of stability is all attributed to him

The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide.

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

Trump just threatened to wipe out an entire civilization. We cannot let war make us lose sight of our humanity. We cannot forget that Iranian children are children of God too. We cannot allow war crimes to be committed in our name. Congress must act now.

It's ALWAYS the right time for some Bob Marley Song-War

Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

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It’s not enough for Donald Trump to leave housing alone; he’s attempting to roll back civil rights protections in housing. Thank you, @ilattygeneral.bsky.social, for leading this challenge.

My favorite hbcu 😍😍😍 hbcugameday.com/2026/03/13/m...

1/2 🚨 The Trump admin just gave VA lawyers power to initiate FORCED GUARDIANSHIP over homeless veterans — stripping them of legal autonomy and forcing them into institutions. Nearly 33,000 veterans are unhoused in America. This is despicable. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Someone in NYC should do interviews with middle-school kids who take the subway to and from school every day, to see if they have any advice for Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy who can't seem to go a single day without pissing himself in fear over them.

They used to give people Like this sporks to eat with

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

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Jesse Jackson funeral arrangements tomorrow in South Carolina

"Pro-Trump activists who say they're in coordination w/the WH are circulating a draft EO that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a natl emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting It'd empower Trump to ban mail ballots & voting machines"

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.