Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Declining. You Can Blame MAGA. – Mother Jones

…DeSantis and his administration’s anti-vaccine efforts have influenced the thinking of Floridians. Just 53 percent of Florida Republicans plan to get the new Covid booster, according to a poll conducted in September by the University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic University. One in four people surveyed said they believed the shots alter DNA. Last year, the statewide vaccination rate for two-year-olds was a meager 81 percent—down from 93 percent in 2020… Source: Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Declining. You Can Blame MAGA. – Mother Jones

Happy birthday Vivaldi Social! | Vivaldi Browser

A year ago hosting our social media platform looked like a distant dream! But Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance, was meant to happen.

We loved the idea of a decentralized social network and took up the challenge to give people a better platform to connect. And to our surprise, within three weeks, Vivaldi Social was up and running. Exactly, a year ago on the 15th of November 2022, we gave a new home to the Vivaldi Community and to thousands who were looking for better social media alternatives to connect…

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Marvel CEO Who Allegedly Said Black People ‘Look the Same’ Should Be Reinstated, According To Trump

Chances are, if you are a white man being boosted by Donald Trump, you’ve most likely done or said something racist. And true to form, back in 2015, Vanity Fair reported that Perlmutter allegedly said that Black people all “look the same” when it came to recasting Iron Man’s Colonel James Rhodes…

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