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A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks whose whose cells resulted in countless medical breakthroughs will be built in her birthplace Roanoke #Virginia

The statue replaces Gen Robert E Lee

#BlackCoSo
#tuesdayvibe 😻

https://abcnews.go.com/US/henrietta-lacks-hometown-build-statue-robert-lee-sculpture/story?id=95541987&fbclid=IwAR1gu8U2lBELLPxSTng6D_V0jTUkGNDh00K7OOR9Is-WwaRQCzePVqt8WMc

#China

US must disconnect strategic supply chains from China, say experts.

"It is not certain that voters will accept the burden of 'de-risking' a broad swath of raw materials and technology-oriented industrial policies," they wrote. "Defense planners, in particular, must be ready to deal with those outcomes."

by Avery Ruxer Franklin

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-disconnect-strategic-chains-china-experts.html

Full Report:

https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/chinese-behemoths-what-chinas-rare-earths-dominance-means-us

PSA:

With the Covid-RSV-Flu trifecta it may be worth your while to start masking up again.

If you need masks, projectN95.org is an excellent source.

Vaccination rates are falling, and its not just the COVID-19 vaccine that people are refusing
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04341-9

Society’s best defense against childhood diseases is waning. What needs to be done to help it recover?
The failures and inequities in the global public-health response, coupled with politicization of the pandemic, have also undermined confidence in the institutions and people that coordinate and conduct immunization efforts.
#Science

Last time the GOP was in charge, you had to stand in line to buy toilet paper, like you were in the old Soviet Union.

I have created a digital 100th anniversary edition of "The Kobzar of Ukraine", a selection of poems by Taras Shevchenko originally translated & published by my grandfather, Dr. A.J.Hunter (1868-1940) of Teulon, Manitoba in 1922. Dr. Hunter was a medical missionary who worked with Ukrainian immigrants in Manitoba. He was instrumental in building schools & a hospital in Teulon. The current hospital bears his name.

#Ukraine

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Elong is a rotten person.

https://twitter.com/GabeHoff/status/1603566652016283648

Former #twitter employee, Ahmad Abouammo, 45, formerly of Walnut Creek CA & currently residing in Seattle, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison followed by supervised release for acting as a foreign agent (to Saudi Arabia), conspiracy, wire fraud, international money laundering, and falsification of records. He accessed, monitored, & conveyed confidential & sensitive info that could be used to identify & locate twitter users of interest to the Saudi Royal Family. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-twitter-employee-sentenced-42-months-federal-prison-acting-foreign-agent

According to #Ukraine 's Defense Ministry, Russians have robbed almost 40 museums in Ukraine. One of the recent victims of Russian barbarism is the Kherson Regional Local Lore Museum, which used to have around 180,000 exhibits in its collection.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1603854601366736924

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"Innerfields", an art collective from Berlin, created a mural in their hometown titled "Absent" dedicated to Ukrainian women who lost their loved ones in the war. -- Ukrainian Defense Mnistry

#Ukraine

Desperately seeking live fish that are about 6-12 inches in length, and they can be dropped off anytime between 9am-5pm. to feed this recovering pelican at the Dane County Humane Society's Wildlife Center Madison WI
Please share far and wide so this baby can get fed

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