This is how to cover this. NPR did a spot on the award and said nothing about 2020 and Giuliani’s lies.
This is how to cover this. NPR did a spot on the award and said nothing about 2020 and Giuliani’s lies.
"To me, there are six clear reasons we should be talking about this more than we are and why the press corps should be digging more deeply and more seriously around this topic." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff on the health of the current president. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
This is what a united front looks like -- nine former CDC directors who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents explain what's not normal about RFK Jr and how we all lose when he attacks science. Leaders in other fields need to unite against autocratic capture of their institutions.
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
wow
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Biden was jogging and biking at this point in his presidency. Can anyone imagine Trump being physically capable of that?
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces? Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
Number of Meteorologists at F.A.A. Is Critically Low, a Federal Watchdog Warns www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/w...
Article:
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon newrepublic.com/article/1998... via @newrepublic.com
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
It’s messed up. She knows what she is doing. Release the Epstein files.
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Let’s be clear, RFK is now currently limiting access to vaccines by preventing pharmacists from doing their job. This is playing out as we speak. In several states, pharmacists cannot vaccinate if the CDC and relevant advisory groups fail to give recommendations. @msnbc.com
Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
News Analysis: The independence of American institutions is in question after President Trump has fired or taken steps to fire their leaders. Trump officials say the president is well within his rights to fire officials who do not share his agenda.
Viewpoint: The sudden removal of all Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) members and changes to #COVID19 vaccine policy have critically weakened the US vaccine program. ja.ma/3JrU5TU
Thank you for continuing to cover this. Please find out if the Vice President, his wife and children intend to forego COVID vaccination this year.
CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
So the acting head of the CDC will no longer be a physician?
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Thank you. I contacted my elected reps (including Sen. Warner) this morning. This is insane.
Sen. Patty Murray is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired." "I hope my Republican colleagues who have come to regret their vote to confirm RFK Jr. will join me."
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Thank you, Dr. Daskalskis.
Thank you for amplifying this. I will be calling my elected representatives tomorrow. Please ask Ivanka if she and her children will simply be forgoing COVID shots this year.
The FDA approval doesn't include people who live with immunocompromised people, no. As the article discusses, doctors can legally give the vaccine off-label to people who don't meet the FDA criteria, but it's a question of finding a doctor who's willing.
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2
You cannot get a shot even if you live w someone who is immunocompromised????
Thank you for amplifying this. Frightening.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Covid vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. This change to the vaccine label, which has been driven by falsehoods, may put vaccines out of reach of many Americans who want to protect themselves and their loved ones from illness. People deserve facts, not fear and confusion.
If Mr. Trump is hoping to somehow beautify the tourist parts of DC for the rest of America & the world to see, he blew it. Nobody is visiting. The museums are near empty and restaurants are half full. He has scared everyone away.
Why haven't there been front page stories about the bizarre, North Korea-like 3 hour Trump "cabinet meeting"? The absence of such coverage of the conduct of Trump and his cronies explains why most people don't know how truly dangerously unhinged our government has become.
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
One thing we are seeing is an amalgamation of security forces, with ICE at the top of the food chain
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
My dad had dementia and was like this the last few years of his life. His brain could no longer process complexity or dissent. He became extremely agitated if he was questioned in any way.
Those Epstein files must be sooooooo bad.
Seriously, Kash Patel?
Our default assumption has to be that the FBI raid of John Bolton’s house is an act of retribution. If they find classified documents and charge him with a felony, it does remind that Trump should have been convicted for the same.
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Tremendous crossover move right here:
What’s happening in Texas is very unusual—and what Americans are facing right now is completely unchecked power. From Congress to the Courts there is a lot at stake here. Democrats need to fight back right now.
"Bongino will soon be sharing his four walls in DC with a buddy. Instead of firing him, Trump will let him kick around the building for a while until he gets bored enough to declare victory against the Deep State and take himself home." — @lizdye.bsky.social
The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May)
Life comes at you fast
Trump’s Selective Stance on Justice: Redemption for Some, Scorn for Others www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
Right?
Yes. And release the Epstein files.
Somehow Trump's BLS nominee--the guy with the Nazi boat fetish--was seen leaving from BOTH sides of the Capitol during the terrorist attack. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
At one point, Judge Breyer pressed General Sherman to say whether he would deploy troops, if asked by the administration, to enforce tax collection or an “unpopular” law, even if no violence was threatened. “Absolutely,” the general said. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
MRNA is as close as science has gotten to a miracle. Now, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will squander this life-saving innovation. Must-read piece by the GOAT @citizencohn.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-ken...
"Question everything, say nothing. Keep meticulous records. Leverage your advantages and harbor those who have none. Get in the way. Tell the story. Archive the truth." Danish history has something to say to us in this moment. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Geometry Solves Gerrymandering www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
Trump Pulls Military Into Another Political Issue www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
Instead of taking over the DC Metropolitan Police at a time when crime in the capital is declining and is lower than it was during Trump's first term, wouldn't it just be easier to release the Epstein files?
It’s wild that he has been allowed to just move on from January 6th
Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
As a reminder: Trump’s first act was to pardon HUNDREDS of J6 rioters who assaulted and beat DC police officers. Trump’s been responsible for a large percentage of the total assaults (and many of the worst/most brutal) on DC police in the last decade.
Mexico sets minimum export prices for fresh tomatoes reut.rs/4maCkHh
The press needs to have Mr. Trump watch this tape and then comment on it—is this what he wants for Ivanka?
The U.S. now has the highest tariffs in place since the Great Depression. Expected impact on prices: * clothing +37% * shoes +39% * electronics +18% * fresh produce +7% This is a self-inflicted would of epic proportions. All because Trump doesn’t understand economics.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
Another shakedown, the more you cave to the autocrat the more empowered he feels.
Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
Reuters interviewed 12 members of extremist groups, nine experts on political extremism and reviewed data on far-right violence, and found Trump's rhetoric has galvanized a new wave of far-right activists, fueling growth in white supremacist ranks reut.rs/4ftv4ne
This is so breathtakingly cruel that my soul glitched. I’m never surprised by the depths of depravity, per se, but having to process it still exacts an emotional cost. www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...
This is CBS’s total surrender to Big Brother. George Orwell and Edward R. Murrow would weep. We all should. What will we see ABC and NBC do?
EXCLUSIVE: @timmiller.bsky.social spoke to Andry as he shared his journey through U.S. detention that led to imprisonment in El Salvador. He speaks about abuse, survival, and rebuilding his life through faith and his hope for the future. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...
The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:
The House committee's subpoena list for matters tied to Jeffery Epstein excluded Alex Acosta — who was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida whose secret non-prosecution agreement with Epstein created a spark that has turned into an inferno of controversy nearly 20 years later.
“Peter Hotez, a pediatrician who directs the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, criticized the HHS announcement on Tuesday. It will “promote their pseudoscience agenda and weaken our nation’s biosecurity”, he said to CNN.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Fox News scoffed that Andry Hernandez was “just a gay barber” when Trump sent him to a torture prison. Now, Fox ignores reporting that he was sexually assaulted there.
Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
"In older people, confabulation is one of the clearest early signs of dementia...Once you have seen that Donald Trump is confabulating, it cannot be unseen — and all sorts of other mildly disturbing incidents suddenly fall into place." thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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Doesn’t this also show that Mr. Trump has no clue how the economy works? Wouldn’t that jobs report have been evidence of a down-trending economy, which would lead to the cut in interest rates that he has been clamoring for?
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Wow
Not surprised that Hegseth feels threatened by thinking.
It’s bad enough that Deputy AG Todd Blanche used to be Trump’s OWN lawyer. Now he’s skirting DOJ protocols to interview Ghislaine Maxwell in secret? Everything about this reeks — and it brings ZERO transparency to the Epstein case. Release all the files and transcripts NOW!
So now when Trump tells people that there is no hurricane heading there way, when in fact there is, the experts are no allowed to give out the correct, live-saving information? Is that the new Trump Administration position?