It's there in the closed captioning. Wonder why they changed it? Or are two versions out there?
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It's there in the closed captioning. Wonder why they changed it? Or are two versions out there?
False. Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose). This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
Appreciated the opportunity to join Dr. Ali Khan and @richbesser.bsky.social via @wsj.com to discuss recent changes to public health and what this means for health and preparedness @altcdc.altgov.info www.wsj.com/video/three-...
There's a whole dissertation to be written about this video. The title font, the lyrics and what they say about relationships and gender dynamics in 2025, the various movie references including Rocky Horror, damn. (NSFW). youtu.be/V9vuCByb6js?...
"Kennedy “seems to be pursuing two opposite theories” on changing VICP, ... Make it easier and compensate more, versus blow it all up." via @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com with @annakirkland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Was this the one in Hudson?
Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page. Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."
In some states, as a trans man who passes for male, I'm legally banned from using a men's restroom but practically banned from using a women's. My choice is between breaking the law and being arrested for breaking it. Few Democrats are talking about how much trans people have lost, and how quickly.
Epis watching bird flu...
And also Kennedy knows that Trump has the attention span of a gnat and takes direction from the last person he spoke to, so likely taking advantage of that.
His base has booed him for promoting OWS at rallies so he's probably pre-disposed to listen to Kennedy's garbage takes on the vaccines that came from it.
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
Well there is that also but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
Reading a bio about president Garfield. His oldest kid died from diphtheria. A series of shots we call Tdap immunizes most kids today against diphtheria by 6 years old.
Right? Clutching my pearls.
Kennedy has repeatedly said that the COVID vaccines are "the deadliest vaccines ever made," hyping stats about reactions in VAERS and about myocarditis risks that he's claimed the pharma companies are hiding. Likely this is where Trump is getting these ridiculous ideas.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
what the fuck do they mean "there's never going to be a COVID reckoning"? Everyone in power has spent years sobbing and apologizing for saving lives and swearing they'll never do it again. We have an anti vaxxer as the secretary of HHS. The reckoning happened and these people won.
9 past CDC directors condemn Kennedy's destruction of the agency. Gift link.
Deaths from a disease with a nearly 100% effective vaccine (if given before symptom onset) are at highest level in years? Shocked. Just shocked. Disinformation kills. 🤦🏻♂️
'Early on in her life, Esther defied societal conventions by pursuing biochemistry, against recommendations from her teachers who believed that a career in science was too difficult for women' academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
Terra but I answer to whatever.
There are so many Taras on here. I didn't know a single one growing up and we are multitudes on Bluesky.
I was impressed that he made Cavill look small when they were side by side. Like I knew he was big but damn.
Still, you gotta admit the one thing that always works is scolding the electorate to suck it up instead of demanding better candidates, it never ever fails and has worked literally every time and *holds finger to ear* hold on I’m receiving new information
It's been a minute but I could go with hoot. There were some fight scenes that were A+ hilarity.
Eh, I thought it was fine. Popcorn flick, not deep.
wow
Clear anti-science attack from US govt officials. Very bad sign. Why aren’t the officials wanting to hide what they said publicly?
It is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS that RFKJ, without any medical training or knowledge, has set up barriers that are now preventing (hopefully just delaying) Americans from accessing COVID-19 vaccines… even including infectious disease experts like Dr. Titanji. I will keep calling my representatives.
We analyzed hundreds of hours of his public comments from 2020-2024 to show this and refer to him as an anti-vaccine activist in our reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
It's not hyperbolic to say that the alt med/wellness industry has been instrumental in the rise of fascism. And Big Pharma has profited from it greatly, which is one reason the industry is supporting Trump.
@theguardian.com covers Prasad's censorship of @joho.bsky.social
"He noted that snippets of Prasad’s comments still appeared on anti-vaccine social media accounts, suggesting Prasad was directing his removal demand only at a critic and not anti-vaccine influencers. In the past, Prasad has complained about censorship by social media companies."
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Maybe vaccinating ALL people for highly transmissible infections isn’t such a bad idea 🙄 fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...
From this week's It's A Hellscape, Friday Night Live — www.patreon.com/posts/137679... The MAHA eugenicists want to suppress demand for the COVID vax so they can kill it off completely. That's one reason you should go out of your way to get the COVID vaccine
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Just adding this where he uses almost the same description when specifically comparing vaccinated v unvaccinated kids. (Click link & check replies for video source from X).
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
"Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That’s a great slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since coming into office President Trump and Mr. Kennedy have done exactly the opposite."
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
UCLA Health ended an NDM-1 Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak by tracing it to an ICU sink biofilm via whole-genome sequencing, then eliminating it with targeted disinfection, plumbing changes, and staff education—showcasing the power of diverse IPC measures. #AMR www.newswise.com/articles/the...
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year). Just read it. My God.
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. “Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
"Some CDC employees are bracing for what they & many medical experts say could be a death knell for the credibility of public health in America: A declaration from Kennedy that vaccines can cause autism" This is like the NASA chief declaring the moon is really made of Swiss cheese wapo.st/4myP0HW
Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%
People are losing convenient access to vaccines depending on where they live—limiting their freedom to choose prevention. As I told NPR, Colorado is one state leading the way in safeguarding access. Unfortunately, we’re among the many states facing barriers. www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
Here’s your reminder that Vivek Ramaswamy moved his own business out of Ohio to Texas #gobucks #hornsdown
Awful but super unsurprising.
Frustrated about the difficulty in getting a COVID19 shot and wondering who to blame? It’s not healthcare workers, pharmacies, public health or Big Pharma. It is Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and every Republican Senator who voted to confirm him, especially Bill Cassidy.
A leading scholar in the area but had to get a "genius grant" to score a full-time faculty position.
"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...
Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness. On a plane, I want a pilot. In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence. Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data. Ignore it and we all pay the price.
Mine is on order!
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
🧵There's a lot of talk today to the effect that "public health shouldn't be political," & with respect: The notion that government has a responsibility to guide & support the health of every last resident, regardless of background, status, & to some extent even citizenship, is PROFOUNDLY political.
Indeed but if he was involved for a documentary that was released in 2009, his history here is deeper than at least I realized. Heard this from a person who was in the movie but haven't had a chance to speak further with them yet.
Direct link to our petition here: stand up, speak out and don’t forget to sign!! chng.it/MfN48Fcykm
Fight back against the undermining of public health - join us in siging the petition cited in this article by @benjaminmateus.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Ill be on BBC 4 in the UK in about an hour discussing, alongside Frances Lee, whether Covid-era NPIs are responsible for the surrent backlash against public health in the US. Spoiler alert: They’re not.
That's awful. Kiddo got off fairly easy with like a single hand blister, so much so that we didn't realize that's what it was until we visited my sister and inadvertently infected my 3 nephews who got it much worse.
Here is a script. Please, please call. We cannot sit by and we cannot let our representatives sit by as our nation’s public health infrastructure is destroyed.
@gorskon.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @taghivscience.bsky.social to start
/puts on tinfoil hat Those of you following HIV/AIDS denial for awhile--did you ever hear that RFK Jr financed House of Numbers? Heard that claim today and I don't recall that before but maybe someone has more info.
Y'all Federal workers clearly reached a breaking point this week. Solidarity.
I saw! Kiddo had it when he was a toddler so I'm hoping he has some immunity if/ when it hits y'all. And told him to wash hands often but who knows if that happens while he's at school.
My YouTube channel has like 300 followers and 99% of it is just videos of our medical establishment. Today, I learned they are trying to censor me, instead of doing their job.
I have a message to the staff at CDC who have dedicated their careers to protecting Americans from health threats of all kinds: Thank you. Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it. We’re with you.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
He was 16. He was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered. The horror haunts him still www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1...
Worth reading CDC's Pledge to the American People from 2024. It is, put simply, the antithesis of RFK Jr.'s actions in office to date. www.cdc.gov/about/pledge...
Received two reviews on a paper I am a co-author on that was submitted the @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports. Both reviews were written by ChatGPT & clearly not edited with hallucinations. Shame on the editors for letting this unethical nonsense out the door.
Marta Urquilla, a D.C. resident and mother of two teenagers, won't let her kids ride public buses to school. Families in her neighborhood near Howard University have organized walking groups to the grocery store. Similar plans would be in place for school commutes.
Still won't this morning FYI. I'm in NE Ohio so guess they're just not stocking here yet. I tried a few areas within about 20 mins of me.
Love him.
What's fun is that when I leave a voicemail for my senator saying stuff like, "He thinks he can see into the mitochondrial conditions of children at the airport" and "And the new guy was on camera saying it should be legal for people to sell their kidneys," I sound like *I'm* the crazy person.
I can't even participate in those "what I would tell my younger self about what's happening today" bits, because at this point I know that there's nothing I could say that WOULDN'T make my past self say, "Oh, no, future me becomes a raving lunatic."
Nothing but as a lawyer, he knows the Poling case.
Yep. No epis seem to be involved.
Yep. And David was doing so without a medical license. Just the absolute worst.
Did not know that.
What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Senate Finance Committee as its members considered his nomination:
If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
In Ohio?
Addendum.
Now I get this message when it goes to geographic location. Tried it twice. I'll check back in the morning.
I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows. Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
It doesn't list Ohio but that was the message I got when I tried to schedule an appointment earlier today.
I noted that in the OP. There are 2 from 2 different decades that discuss maternal & infant health & family planning. Not abortion.
Happy to translate but sad I've followed him long enough to know what's in his worm brain.
That's assuming that they do everything above-board. Clearly they're not if Geier is trying to change published studies. I would not be surprised at all if Geier was working with no IRB clearance.
Do we know he was approved?
Ughhhh I'm so sorry. It's so hard.
Sarah Meyer leads the CDC Immuniz Safety Office. We will have no vax safety monitoring if this office is nuked by RFK. "Jernigan said he..refused HHS’s request to remove Sarah Meyer from the..vaccine safety office she led. Meyer told co-workers..she was no longer in that position" wapo.st/46aNJB0
Certainly was a key goal of Project 2025.
I'm so sorry. I've written here before that my dad went all antivax conspiracy the last decade of his life and we couldn't talk about stuff other than basic pleasantries, the kids, etc. It's so hard with family like that.
As expected. Noted antivaxxer Geier, who has had many retractions in the lit and was fined for practicing medicine without a license, is who Kennedy hired to "find the cause of autism."