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Got 34 videos of #QuackPrasad loaded into the Internet Archive including those by his goon "The Chief Nerd" tweeted for him. archive.org/details/@adr...
Good news. The House of Representatives stands behind the NIH budget with no cuts.
Ah yes... The authors of the #GreatBarringtonDefecation. Best to NOT call it a "declaration".
Prop 50 is about defending democracy. Republicans already stole seats in Texas without voters having any say. California is doing it differently: we get a one-time shot to fight back, then it reverts to our independent redistricting commission.
Not today, Satanâźď¸ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about âdemocracyâ? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Donât let the cheaters write the rules.
This is pretty remarkable but not that unusual. A lot of people want to portray RFK as having some Good Points. But no-one is objecting to more exercise and healthier foods. It is the anti-science (and specifically anti-vax) ethos that defines RFK and MAHA.
Trump mused about wanting to get into Heaven -- then his administration tried to deport 600 unaccompanied minors to Guatemala. My Nation take on this monstrous effort. Please contact your elected representatives and get them to talk out on this deportation plan. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The inevitable has happened: Disconnect is back on Ghost after trying Substack again. I didnât just ditch another US tech platform; I learned the Substack network isnât as helpful as it used to be, and certainly doesnât justify putting up with the platformâs support for Nazis.
Blaze(right-wing outlet) not buying Peter Thiel's Antichrist schtick. "It's interesting and maybe questionable that someone who makes a lot of money through technology would say that stopping technological innovation is actually going to...usher in the Antichrist.â www.theblaze.com/shows/relata...
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
The Nate Silver bit verifies, anyway: www.huffpost.com/entry/nate-s...
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
No one is "disregarding" this, it has been the subject of relentless coverage from media and politicians since 2020. Everyone knew school closures were going to be very hard on kids. The trade-off was that not closing them was going to result in mass death. No win-win scenario was on the table.
Compare the murky, indeterminate data on school closures to the stark, decisive findings on vaccine hesitancy. Republican policies and rhetoric killed hundreds of thousands of people! We donât need to bolster this fake narrative. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
California and Florida are on opposite ends of the school-closure spectrum and the differences in test scores are a wash. Some individual schools and districts definitely stayed closed too long but it just isnât the case that this is some huge, obvious, foreseeable blunder.
This âblue states closed schools too longâ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but itâs arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
This is VERY. BAD. Russell Vought at OMB wants to rip away Congress' most important power, the power to set the budget, and put it in the hands of a president-king. This illegal impoundment stuff runs contrary to the most important principle of Anglo-American gov'tâ
Rural communities and people with disabilities will have even more limited access to health care. Families with low incomes who rely most heavily on community clinics and health departments will have fewer resources available to them. Children will lose access to lifesaving vaccines due to cost.
Before I add anyone to my block lists, I check them out. Scrolling down the troll's feed, I saw so much trash (ViroLIEgy dot com and an Alex Jones Sandy Hook defender) I knew that made the cut. Archived just in case - archive.ph/wZ2te
Block the troll. Notice the when name is broken down it reads "Covid isn't real 19".đ§ @covidisntreal19.bsky.social⏠has been added to my Quacks, Cranks, and Liars Block List. bsky.app/profile/adri...
oh hey it's a cartoon that sadly did not become immediately outdated on friday www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
2 years ago. Still the same.
The Peace Bomber.
#CDC #RFKjr #vaccine #measles #covid #news #science #GOP #AMA
Thereâs still time, @mcdonalds
This drawing got taken down the last time I posted it but letâs see if Metaâs coziness with prolific pedophiles has softened over time.
The trumps are laboring
Heâs up for re-election in 2028. This demands a primary challenge. Surrendering on this bullshit narrative that COVID mitigation went too far is utterly disqualifying.
Medicare 2026: premiums âŹď¸, coverage âŹď¸, prior authorization âŹď¸. Maybe some drug price negotiations (small list of cheap drugs?), maybe free vaccines if on ACIP list (will there be any?).
He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are. What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.
Trump on RFK Jr., the CDC, and vaccines (a translation). He seems to be saying that he was shown data about COVID19 vaccines being safe and effective, but that the pharma companies didnât show those amazing data to anyone else, like RFK Jr. He thinks this is why there is a âmessâ at CDC.
Redfield claims heâs bombarded with vaccine injured patients, says mRNA vaccines are possibly dangerous, and doesnât think COVID and flu vaccines work very well. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
âThis is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.â -almost every former living CDC Director with the conspicuous exception of lab leaker-turned-anti-vax fabulist Robert Redfield www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Now this is how I'll be talking about Labor Day to my MAGA relatives...
And for those wanting data data data - yikes, this is a scarily long laundry list of how Trump has stripped away protections, freedom, and $$$ from American workers.
Disability and ableism are interminably linked to the capacity to work. Unions were created due to the increasing cost labor had on the body, leaving many disabled and economically devalued. This #LaborDay, I celebrate disabled workers who helped gain safer working conditions and better benefits.
The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last weekâs firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.âs war against vaccines. Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is working hard to take away your vaccines, if he can. Hereâs a progress report.
#CDC directors going back to 1977 tell the truth about #RFKJr: he is endangering the health of every American. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
One. I like head features like the eyes and ears. The shadow along the back that extends to the tail looks good too.
I like the rebrand.
Chris Van Hollen is a Maryland Senator and thus he represents #NIH. @vanhollen.senate.gov has been a great leader on many issues. Wherever you come from on this one, bearing witness to the reality of Gaza is important and van Hollen deserves credit.
For all they saw in 2019, he could have diagnosed with essential tremor and not Parkinson's back then. www.brainandlife.org/articles/thi...
Lost my mom to PD in 2021. Three years after her diagnosis, she had aphasia but at least she understood what was said in Spanish and English. The Lewy-Body dementia with motor function loss made her last years tough but I took care of her.
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinsonâs in 2021. Weâre just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and wonât be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Why is Trump letting RFK Jr dismantle agencies and upend public health? Shared grievances and skepticism about vaccines, a growing personal bond â and a belief that itâs good politics. Inside their alliance, with @emilydavies.bsky.social and Natalie Allison www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Perfection.
Correct. To them science policy is a weapon. They view funding scientific grants in much the same way that the Godfather viewed his favors and patronage, as rewards for loyalty and service or as a favor given that mandates a "service" in return, as demonstrated by the very first scene in the movie.
Exactly! The FDA video posted on Twitter by MAHA PAC of Dr. Prasad is already uploaded to Internet Archive. archive.org/details/ssst...
![Publication date 2025-07-05 Topics Dr. Vinay Prasad, FDA, COVID vaccines, FDA, COVID vaccines Language English Item Size 5.0M Then, the FDA made a bombshell announcement. Dr. Vinay Prasad [director of FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research (CBER)] announced a new safety warning for myocarditis associated with mRNA Covid vaccines. He revealed that in the highest-risk demographic, young men between the ages of 12 and 24, the rate of myocarditis and pericarditis is âabout 27 per million.â Text and video posted on Twitter/X by MAHA PAC (@MAHA_PAC) on July 5, 2025: https://x.com/MAHA_PAC/status/1941571320795340893 Addeddate 2025-08-31 17:07:55 Color color Identifier ssstwitter.com_1756659573629 Links https://x.com/MAHA_PAC/status/1941571320795340893 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0 Sound sound](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a4vzqbxgf57l5xv7fzzstwwn/bafkreif2bbbi2wpp3wtzebi6qbuhs7ch2slcjppjj4qgl7ilqkwbvohiy4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Judge Sooknanan isn't buying it... The plaintiffs are telling me, she says, that the children do not want to go back to Guatemala, that no request has been made, and that they fear returning to Guatemala, and may be subject to harm
Terrific and terrifying piece by William J. Broad for the @nytimes.com: â'Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had,' Dr. Josephson wrote. 'Heâs certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.'â www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Here is my new YouTube channel by the way. Unlike the last one, I will actually be offering brief commentary. Please subscribe to teach the censors about the Streisand effect. youtu.be/3pOk6XNwyT8
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Groups like The Brownstone Institute and Independent Medical Alliance (formerly Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance), which formed to oppose pandemic mitigation measures, served as a bridge between Kennedy world and the mainstream political right.
Donald Trump believes public health cost him in 2020. He wanted to move past the pandemic quickly. But the experts kept pushing back. Kennedy is a man whose career depends on attacking and undermining public health. Their alliance is political.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administrationâs effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children âare in the process of being removed" today.
9.9/10 times the right wing machine can generate a news cycle better than a few anti-populist lib accounts that appeal to like, hashtag Resisters and newly activated gen X and Boomer suburbanites. I donât care how many followers they have between them. Just saying.
This is so cursed. The right invests in propaganda outletsâthink tanks and mediaâthat at least look official. They have a web of them to echo messaging and funnel stories into legacy media. The other side? A jobs program for âRegina George liberals.â Solid reporting, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he isâa predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
I HAVE BEEN SILENCED and CENSORED BY OUR GOVERNMENT!!!! My latest⌠sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadl...
If you care about the discourse over vaccines and you care about censorship please read my latest about how a major critic of the Trump administrationâs public health officials had his YouTube channel deleted www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is the interim CDC Director. He is accusing pre-Trump CDC staff of âmanipulating health data to support a political narrativeâ. This man and his boss Kennedy are the ones who are manipulating data for a political narrative. This is an existential threat to the United States of America.
globalextremism.org/post/orban-i...
News in this piece: 1) JB Pritzker's health officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines in bulk to distribute to constituents 2) Mass Gov Maura Healey is leading a coalition of mostly blue states that could coordinate purchasing of pediatric vaccines Read all about this here:
Rest assured. The seeds of Trumpâs destruction have already been sown. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-263
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
An important piece of context here is that Democrats controlled both houses of Congress for only the first two years of Obamaâs presidency. Republicans currently control not only Congress and the WH, but also the SCOTUS. And still, Trump is governing by EO and fiat.
Got three last week in the mailbox and thought "WTF?". All the GOP assholes like Carl "de mayonnaise" De Maio can fuck off. BTW, I still remember when that little dickhead was on the San Diego city council. calmatters.org/politics/202...
CALIFORNIA FRIENDS - IGNORE THE DISINFORMATION. VOTE YES ON 50 Stop Trump from Rigging the 2026 Election
HAPPY LABOR DAY Let's keep and strengthen: âď¸8-hour workday âď¸Unemployment Benefits âď¸Workers Compensation Laws âď¸Employer-Based Health Coverage âď¸Family and Medical Leave Act âď¸Workplace safety AND THANK A UNION
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New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Hereâs your chance to send a little note to human dial tone Bill Cassidy, yâall.
Re RenĂŠ Girard (Peter Thiel's professor) on.ft.com/4mJ81HQ
The Financial Times published my letter about Peter Thiel, "The Sovereign Individual," and the nation-destroying aspirations of crypto. on.ft.com/47mldxs
Important @jennycohn.bsky.social thread on Leonard Leoâs Supreme Court. Itâs not the Roberts court. Leo close confidants - like Tim Busch - recognize it for what it is. Leoâs court and a huge victory for the efforts to Opus Dei America. Next up - President Opus JD.
Budget cuts made it âchallenging to do my work,â says Dr. Jennifer Layden, a fmr. CDC official who resigned this week. âThe work of public health often goes unnoticed until there is a major outbreak,â says Layden, which makes Trump and RFK Jrâs undermining of the CDC so risky. #Velshi
Remember when Trump trotted out an innocent Black child who was a cancer patient, like he was a prop, and then MAGAs pretended to be offended when we didn't celebrate that publicity stunt? Yeah...Trump's fascist policies have defunded pediatric brain cancer research. MAGA wants Structural Eugenics
Masked ICE arenât about safety; theyâre about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Republicans had a chance to protect public health. Instead they chose to put a dishonest quack in charge of it. They own the nightmares to come.
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They arenât leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
A recent Rand study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90% of income earners. The problem in America is not a lack of abundance. The problem in America is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding all the abundance for themselves. www.levernews.com/how-to-end-d...
Fire RFK Jr NOW