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US Government now has list of banned words for scientific publications

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-cdc-orders-pullback-new-scientific-papers-involving-its-researchers-source-2025-02-02/
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific journals to allow for a review by the Trump administration, a federal official told Reuters.

The sweeping order came in an email from the CDC's chief science officer on Friday addressed to all division heads at the agency, the official, who has seen the email, told Reuters. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The review is aimed at removing language to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order saying the federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female. Officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment.

The withdrawal order, first reported by the Inside Medicine Substack, goes beyond an initial directive on Jan. 21 that federal health agencies pause their own public communications to allow for a review of those materials by Trump appointees.

Inside Medicine published a list of specific words targeted for removal in the communications review, including gender, transgender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and nonbinary. The federal official said that such a list went out from CDC to its divisions.

The Friday withdrawal order involves all manuscripts written or co-written by CDC scientists. If CDC scientists are co-authors on a paper that originated outside of the agency, they are asked to take their names off the paper, the official said.

Public health experts said the removal of such terms threatens their ability to address all kinds of medical needs as they affect different groups, including those with HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Trump cuts funding for South Africa and opens US to white minority

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President Trump signs an executive order freezing aid to South Africa in response to the racist controversial land seizure law and the persecution of ethnic White minority as well as opening the USA to resettlement of South African Whites who are having their land stolen and being discriminated against.

Trump is the real deal.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-order-aimed-south-africa-white-house-official-says-2025-02-07/
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RFK Jr at Senate testimony claims black people have superior immune systems to white people

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/rfk-jr-hearing-black-people-immune-systems
During Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Senate confirmation hearing on 30 January, Angela Alsobrooks, a Democratic senator from Maryland, pressed the nominee on his past claims that Black people have a stronger immune system than white people and thereby, should receive vaccines on a different schedule than them. “What different vaccine schedule would you say I should have received?” Alsobrooks, who is Black, asked the health secretary nominee. Kennedy then referenced a “series of studies” showing that “to particular antigens, Blacks have a much stronger reaction”.

The exchange is cause for alarm for many, as it signified how close a man who holds medically racist beliefs was to becoming the country’s leading health official. Dr Richard Kennedy – an author of the study referenced at the hearing, who is not related to Kennedy – told NPR that while it’s true the immune response to vaccination can vary by race, sex and “potentially dozens of other factors”, the data does not support a change in vaccine schedule based on race.

Alsobrooks went on to characterize the nominee’s incorrect interpretation of medical research as “dangerous”, noting the potential for the misinformation to have far-reaching and tangible effects on people’s lives. Shannon Cavanagh, the department chair of sociology at University of Texas, Austin, agreed with this sentiment, telling the Guardian that ideas like Kennedy’s could be used to rationalize the lack of care for an under-served population. She noted that even though false claims that Black people possess a stronger immune system or higher pain tolerance persist, the demographic actually suffers from higher maternal mortality rates and lower life expectancy than other groups.
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Global Cost of Renewables to Continue Falling in 2025 as China Extends Manufacturing Lead

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https://about.bnef.com/blog/global-cost-of-renewables-to-continue-falling-in-2025-as-china-extends-manufacturing-lead-bloombergnef/

The cost of clean power technologies such as wind, solar and battery technologies are expected to fall further by 2-11% in 2025, breaking last year’s record. According to a latest report by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF), new wind and solar farms are already undercutting new coal and gas plants on production cost in almost every market globally. Meanwhile, China’s clean technology manufacturing overcapacity has led to rising protectionism in the form of import tariffs by countries to avoid cheap imports upending their own energy markets.

Trade barriers could temporarily stall cost declines, but BNEF still expects the levelized cost of electricity for clean technologies to fall 22-49% by 2035.
BNEF’s Levelized Cost of Electricity report indicates that the global benchmark cost for battery storage projects fell by a third in 2024 to $104 per megawatt-hour (MWh), as a glut in supply due to slower electric vehicle sales led to cheaper prices for battery packs. Meanwhile, the cost of a typical fixed-axis solar farm fell by 21% globally last year. Modules were sold at or below the cost of production, with no signs of the overcapacity in the solar supply chain easing in 2025. Batteries will cross the $100/MWh watershed in 2025, while global benchmarks for wind and solar generation are also set to fall 4% and 2%, respectively.
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Violent anti-trump protest

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An anti trump protest in Los Angeles turns violent as teenagers start stabbing each other. A victim is in critical condition.
https://www.newsweek.com/la-protest-teenager-stabbed-amid-trump-immigration-policy-demonstration-2028182
ALos Angeles protest against President Donald Trump's mass deportations has been shut down after a teenage boy was stabbed.

Aerial footage from KTLA television captured the aftermath of the confrontation, revealing a bloodied individual.

Newsweek has reached out to the LAPD via email for comment.

Why it matters
The new Trump administration has vowed to conduct the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history.

Since returning to office, Trump has signed numerous executive orders on immigration. They include deploying the military at the border, deporting migrants directly back to their country of origin, and expanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) powers.

Those new powers allow ICE to target migrants at sensitive locations, like schools and churches, for arrests and potential deportations.

While 55% of Americans broadly support Trump's deportation plans, the ICE raids and arrests across the country at sensitive locations have faced strong backlash.

Just before 2 p.m. PT, the LAPD reported that a Hispanic teenage male had been stabbed at Grand Park, located outside city hall.

He was promptly transported to a local hospital, where he remains in critical condition.

Video from the scene captured a violent confrontation between several individuals during the march shortly before the stabbing incident.

Local media reports that a teenage suspect has been arrested in connection with the stabbing, while the protest was shut down and declared an "unlawful assembly" by the LAPD.

Neither the victim nor the suspect have been named.
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Trump is very popular

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Trumps popularity places him fourth amongst a collection of world leaders, far above countries fuck as germany, Canada, France, Spain, Norway and Sweden.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-world-leaders-2027934
Donald Trump's Approval Rating Is Better Than Most World Leaders

Donald Trump's approval rating is better than most world leaders, according to a new poll.

The poll, conducted by Morning Consult between January 21 and 27, showed Trump beating all but four world leaders.

Why It Matters
Trump's strong approval ratings compared to other world leaders highlights his enduring political influence, both domestically and internationally.

What To Know
The poll showed that Trump's approval rating stands at 52 percent, while 38 percent disapprove of him. Ten percent of those polled answered that they don't know if they approve or disapprove of him.

Only four world leaders beat Trump in the rankings: Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter, Argentine President Javier Milei, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Modi had the highest approval rating of all the world leaders, with 75 percent saying they approved of him and 19 percent disapproving. He was followed by Sheinbaum with 66 percent approval and 26 percent disapproval.

Milei was next with an approval rating of 65 percent and a disapproval rating of 30 percent, while Keller-Sutter had an approval rating of 56 percent and a disapproval rating of 20 percent.

Among the least popular world leaders were Canada's Justin Trudeau, with whom Trump has been embroiled in a row over tariffs. Just 22 percent of those polled said they approve of Trudeau, who announced last month that he would resign after facing growing calls from within his own party to quit. His disapproval rating was 71 percent.

Germany's Olaf Schulz and France's Emmanuel Macron were also near the bottom. Only 20 percent said they approve of Schulz, and 18 percent said they approve of Macron.
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Local Hero and Prodigy David Hogg becomes Vice DNC Chair.

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David Hogg wins election as vice chair of DNC
By
Mabinty Quarshie
February 1, 2025 10:48 pm

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3307825/david-hogg-wins-election-vice-chair-dnc/

https://www.floridadems.org/2025/02/01/14002/

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Parkland, Florida, high school shooting survivor David Hogg won his bid to become one of three vice chairs during the Democratic National Committee election on Saturday.
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SOUTH AFRICAN MUSCLE MAN MUSK DONT NEED SECURITY CLEARANCE (ONLY GIRLYMEN FBI NEED IT)

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https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/23-year-old-elon-musk-rep-granted-energy-dept-it-access-without-security-clearance/

A 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, Luke Farritor, was granted access to the U.S. Energy Department’s IT system—despite lacking the required security clearance and background check, according to CNN. The decision, approved by Trump loyalist Energy Secretary Chris Wright, was made over strong objections from cybersecurity officials, raising major concerns about government security protocols.

According to sources familiar with the situation, members of the Energy Department’s general counsel and chief information offices strongly opposed the move. They argued that Farritor had not undergone the necessary security investigations required to access government IT systems.

'CUZ there ain't no doubt
I love DIS land
God DAM DA U.S.A.AAAAAAAA
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Elon Musk hijacks the United States Treasury!

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https://fortune.com/2025/02/02/musk-doge-treasury-payments-system-halt-us-govenment-contractors-lutheran-charity/
Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the US Treasury Department.

“The corruption and waste is being rooted out in real-time,” Musk posted on X on Sunday, saying officials reporting to his so-called Department of Government Efficiency are “rapidly shutting down” payments to a Lutheran charity.

The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to questions about the extent of Musk’s access. President Donald Trump has put the Tesla CEO — and largest donor to his election effort — in charge of an effort to modernize federal information technology.

Musk’s weekend statements follow last week’s departure of David Lebryk, the Treasury Department’s most senior career official, who had been in charge of payment systems at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

Those systems are tightly controlled, and could contain sensitive information on taxpayers, contractors and beneficiaries. Treasury officials have long maintained that its role is to serve as the federal government’s checkbook — and that the decision about whether to approve or deny payment belongs to individual agencies based on funds appropriated by Congress.

“The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once,” Musk wrote on X, the social platform he owns.

Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees.
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Trump lays out tax priorities to House GOP

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https://www.axios.com/2025/02/06/trump-no-tax-on-tips-social-security-overtime

>No tax on tips
>No tax on overtime
>Tax cuts for 'Made in America' projects
>No tax break for rich sportsclub owners

Not even you democrat voters and shills can hate this.
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