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Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the ISS

https://newrepublic.com/post/208820/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-donald-trump

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been blocked from publishing a scientifically vetted study finding significant health benefits from this season’s COVID-19 vaccines, according to reporting by The Washington Post.

The move adds to longstanding concern among health experts that chaos and political interference under Kennedy—a staunch anti-vaccine activist who has long falsely maligned COVID-19 vaccines—is deeply undermining science at federal agencies and beyond.

CDC scientists and insiders told the Post that the COVID-19 vaccine study went through the agency’s standard scientific review process and was slated for publication on March 19 in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). But acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya blocked the scheduled publication and is holding the study, claiming he has concerns about its methodology.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/photos/p/1026255/a-strange-rock-formation-found-deep-in-the-forest

For more than four decades, GWAR has been pissing people off. They’ve “killed” countless controversial figures and it’s raised the hackles of emotionally weak fuck faces. It’s unavoidable. Yet the recent on-stage “disembowelment” of President Donald J. Trump pissed off the MAGA cult so you know what that means — they sent death threats to the guys parading around as fake intergalactic aliens in fake armor.

The main incident that got people up in arms was the band’s performance at Riot Fest in Chicago last year. During that particular show, they featured a little simulated murder of noted racist net negatives to society and wastes of valuable oxygen Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. It was all in good fun worthy of a good “hahaha” or a “hehehe” during your metal show.

Well, that was too much for the MAGA crowd. No, they couldn’t stand to see an effigy of their God Emperor and his minion getting fake murdered, so their influencers got all mad and condemned GWAR for their act for allegedly normalizing political violence. So they apparently responded by sending the band death threats, which is an act of political violence in its own right.

Never mind they’ve killed countless politicians over the years, but now was when they were fomenting violence. It was a situation that frontman Blöthar the Berserker laughed off at the time in an interview with Billboard.

“The idea that Gwar is normalizing violence is patently absurd.

“We’re not millionaires that are afraid of what people are going to say when they see what we do… Yeah, it pissed me off! We’re a group of artists that makes art, and it’s really the idea that what we have done is normalizing violence… there’s nothing normal about the violence that goes on at a GWAR show. It’s a cartoon, it’s Looney Tunes.”

Since then, GWAR’s only ratcheted up the vitriol, killing figures like now former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem. But that’s not to say the anger from the right has subsided at all. In fact, in an interview with The Guardian, guitarist Mike Derks (a.k.a. Balsac The Jaws Of Death) explained how the whole situation’s been frustrating and scary at the same time. He also took umbrage with a group of people who claim to be pro-First Amendment to then go on to try to censor a band like GWAR.

“In a sense, it’s just laughable, but it was scary when we were getting death threats over social media. It did get me very upset when people were trying to say: ‘Oh, you can’t do that.’ This is the country where we’re supposed to be able to do that! People were saying we can’t do it after we’d been doing it for 40 years.”

But once again the obvious should be stated: the MAGA cult is so rotten with nothing but a buncha whiny, pasty white, piss-soaked, crybabies that couldn’t take a joke if it were handed to them with soft kids’ gloves. Sure, their ideology is the catalyst for this country’s backsliding into fascism, but they’re still somehow just soft as baby shit.