Bruce Mirken on nostr

55% of Americans say their personal finances are getting worse. By the way, this comes from a nonprofit news site that's now in the middle of a fundraising drive. I support them every year, and you should, too.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/americans-finances-worse-poll

Bruce Mirken

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Here is what #RFKJr and his minions don't want you to know about the effectiveness of #vaccines for #COVID. https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-heres-the-covid-19-vaccine #ImpeachRFKJr

Bruce Mirken

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👏 "On Earth Day in 2022, President Biden spoke in Seattle, announcing an executive order that created the first-ever national assessment of nature. Two and a half years later, President Trump rescinded the effort on his first day in office.

"But the team that had started the work — led by a professor at the University of Washington — refused to give it up. "https://www.knkx.org/environment/2026-04-22/trump-canceled-national-nature-assessment-scientists-will-publish-anyway

Bruce Mirken

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I'm getting tired of reading about great #ElectricVehicles we can't buy in the U.S. because our government is run by idiots. https://electrek.co/2026/04/24/kias-ev-sales-surge-54-in-q1-with-a-full-lineup-of-sedans-to-vans/

Bruce Mirken

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"A report showing the efficacy of the #COVID19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, according to three people familiar with the decision..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/22/covid-vaccine-report-blocked-cdc-mmwr/

Bruce Mirken

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"Women are very often elevated into leadership at exactly the moment an organization is broken. Handed the keys to a burning building and told to fix it." How the highly qualified woman nominated to lead the #CDC is being set up to fail. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/120858

Bruce Mirken

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Hmmm... there seems to be some sort of pattern here. I wonder what it is.

nostrich · 1w

Ian Bremmer wrote that there is a "20 year life expectancy gap inside the United States" based on data from the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx), a comprehensive repository of worldwide health and demographic data maintained by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a Show more

Bruce Mirken

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This: "Indeed, #Trump’s behavior has been so erratic that any deal might be metaphysically impossible. One cannot make a bargain with an entity that is categorically incapable of behaving in a consistent manner." https://prospect.org/2026/04/20/trump-sabotages-his-own-much-exaggerated-iran-deal/ #IranWar

Bruce Mirken

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It's about time #JaredKushner's shameless corruption got proper scrutiny. https://www.commondreams.org/news/kushner-pawn-of-saudi-monarchy

Bruce Mirken

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#Republicans have nlood on their hands. https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-gop-blocks-iran-war-powers?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=900049261d-Top+News+%7C+Tue.+4%2F14%2F26_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-998917937b-600541243

#IranWar

Bruce Mirken

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Happy #TaxDay for all in the U.S. who celebrate. If you wonder why all we seem to get for our taxes is unaffordable #healthcare and unaccountable #billionaires, let me direct your attention to point 10 of Defend Public Health's People's Health Platform: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/resource/peoples-health-platform-0

Bruce Mirken

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"Reopening the strait has become an economic imperative for #Trump whose approval ratings have sagged amid spiking oil prices and growing anxiety about the war’s toll on an already turbulent global economy." Of course, it wasn't a problem before he chose to start his #IranWar
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#Hormuz

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