Robert Hurst

Robert Hurst

@rhurst.bsky.social

COO at The Hapiy-Hurst dis-Organization (think about it). Retired from employment, not from work. Optimistic curmudgeon. If you stop following the money you lose sight of the motive.

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1. www.propublica.org/article/meas... 2. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... 3. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn... 4. www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/r...

propublica.orgThe CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for VaccinationsThe move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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ProPublica@propublica.org

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

propub.liInternal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing AgencyOne million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
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Drs gave us "Stockholm syndrome." Die Hard gave us the "Helsinki syndrome " Pres Zelenskyy demonstrated the "Kyiv syndrome": maintain your cool while your abusers go absolutely fucking nuts*. *"absolutely fucking nuts" is not yet a medical descriptor. With Kennedy-lite leading HHS, it soon will be.

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History will be, in my opinion, kind to both Biden and Garland. Neither man compromised their values to "go after" TFG; values which the Founders shared when creating our democracy. That the majority of Americans are indifferent to these values and a vocal minority ridicule them is disheartening.

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Asha Rangappa
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The incoming Trump administration is not sending their best. They’re sending people with big problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re rapists. They’re alcoholics. They’re criminals. And some, I assume, are good people 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Institute for Policy Research (IPR)
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Conditional welfare often excludes and stigmatises, but there’s a better way, says Dr. Neil Howard. On the blog, he explains how unconditional basic income can boost health, education, and dignity. 🔗Learn more here: https://buff.ly/3Ps4deT #BasicIncome #SocialImpact #PolicyChange”

buff.ly‘We can’t believe you would just trust us’: why social assistance shouldn’t come with strings attachedDr. Neil Howard highlights the flaws of conditional welfare, which often excludes and stigmatises. His research on unconditional basic income in India and Bangladesh shows it reduces poverty, impro…
Robert Hurst
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TFG plans on renaming the Gulf of Mexico? Look out New Mexico! Look out New York! Look out New Hampshire! I missed Rand/McNally giving $1b to the inauguration. 🤔

Robert Hurst
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A Tesla automobile blew up in front of a tRump tower. Folks are joking about how poorly constructed Teslas are that we can't tell if it was a bomb or a malfunction. Stephen King would like a word.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
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If you are new to learning about the anti-vax movement, I’m grateful you’re here. But I want to be crystal clear that after conducting research on the anti-vax movement for more than decade, once a person has wedged themself into an anti-vax position, facts cannot be used to convince them otherwise.

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LynnZ 🦋
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Not one school shooter has ever been given the death penalty. Not one. U.S. government is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Magione. Proving that one rich CEO is worth so much more in this country than any child. Disgusting.

Robert Hurst
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New Year's Day As we move closer to the new administration, let us resolve to hold accountable all of its members. So too, the press tasked with covering the administration's tasks and actions. Follow the money.

Robert Hurst
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Remember when the House of Saudi invested $2 billion as start-up capital in Jared’s fund? At a modest maintenance fee of .1% annually, he's earned $8 million over the last four years. Yet, big media still focuses on blah blah blah.

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ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect. propub.li/4fF71QR

propub.liAre Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.
Robert Hurst
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70 degrees in north Texas today. The plants are showering everyplace with pollen. I garden using organics, don't litter, drive a hybrid, and teach my children that conservation is a wonderful system. Why is Nature punishing me so?

Robert Hurst
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James 4:17 New International Version "If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them." Can't wait for the Christian Nationalists to call out several industry CEO's for their sins of omission.