Lot of fancy media class people pretending that the analysis here was tough. It was not:
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Lot of fancy media class people pretending that the analysis here was tough. It was not:
I livestreamed a bit of the work I'm doing to prep for RFK Jr's hearing before Senate finance tomorrow and the discussion we (chat + me) had... www.patreon.com/posts/138080...
Trump is clearly a pedophile. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-drowns...
Have you ever been a student at MIT?
If you need yet another lawyer to tell you that this is murder: this is murder
@rokhanna.bsky.social has a discharge petition with Thomas Massie on the Epstein files, the Dem Whip is reminding Democratic Members to sign...
The thing is, Chris Wright knows he's lying about this — he did course 2 and then an EECS masters at MIT.
wrote about the Republicans on the Supreme Court giving Big Balls and the other DOGE youths the homie hookup to your Social Security Number ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/big-b...
people are awful
keep hope alive
he's alive - not looking great, but alive
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(but don't get info from anyone who doesn't know that ambulances are a standard part of motorcades, that is DC 101, I fear)
it you are having fun hoping for things at home, I do not wish to yuck your yum, but there is truly a weird mix of people who do not know enough to know what's unusual, people whose hope is making them say silly things, and people straight up lying, it's not always easy to figure out what's what!
It’s just bullshit misinformation all the way down…
Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District should be removed from the bench for a basic failure to understand our constitutional system if he lodged the complaint Atty Rashid discusses here ⬇️
I too want the good news, but I don’t see how lying to people about the relative positions of College Park MD (take off from the White House flying north, it’s at 2 o’clock) and Walter Reed (it would be at 11 o’clock) helps anyone?
I am always astonished at how much more energy than me people who aren't chronically ill have, so I'm sure there are a lot of people who would have the energy for both the public facing work and the consulting work, but I'm just not one of them.
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ETFs are riskier right now than most retail investors realize
CDC staff keep showing up to work, despite their buildings taking over 150 rounds of rifle fire. And this chuckle-fuck has the goddamn temerity to denigrate that? Fuck you buddy. Fuck you.
And this
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A message about the need for good public health comms containing this sort of sloppy, inaccurate, sweepingly demotivating bullshit is really quite something. Excellent comms dude, really fucking brilliant way to discount the work and risk of those standing up for public health.
A message about the need for good public health comms containing that sort of sloppy, inaccurate, demotivating bullshit is really quite something.
I just want y'all to know that "nobody is rushing to save it" is categorically false.
see, this is it:
😔
How is this strategy working out?
This is the guy who is doing the right thing. If your goal is to encourage other politicians who have been in federal office for decades and decades to follow his lead, excoriating *him* (instead of *them*) just seems like a bit of an odd choice.
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How is this strategy working out?
(I guess I am a 'dem consultant' for some definitions of 'dem consultant')
Public health facts no longer matter to a significant majority of federal electeds from both parties. I don't know how we come back from this.
Anyway, every once in awhile I check which lists I'm on because occasionally it triggers a real threat assessment
this is the funniest goddamn thing i've seen all day
*they actually wrote "are you" (i.e. Matthew) "forfeiting the chance...." 🙃
Someone messages to ask if by not doing more this weekend are we* forfeiting the chance to expand access to the covid vaccine. No. It's a holiday weekend, outside advocacy efforts aren't going to be seen by the vast majority of state policymakers until Tuesday.
you imagine the clerks are rotating naps....
This is totally fine and normal
It's real bad that major news outlets have decided to report on Trump as if he's the king of america
The federal government must not enjoy the presumption of 'good faith' because the regime does shit like this:
Still time to call your members of congress this weekend if you haven't yet. (Thank you to everyone making the calls, it is much appreciated.)
And I've learned that how we talk about this stuff matters **even more** than I believed AND I learned that we have to continually not just teach, but prove, to allies how to talk about this stuff
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
This is a HUGE motivation for me to be at a public opinion research firm because simply telling ableds "eugenics is happening, it will eventually come for you" wasn't working.
At its best, public health is noble work that strives to improve the wellbeing of everyone, while deeply respecting the individual dignity & worth of all people PH must not be a field that demands the needless deaths of its practitioners. CDC employees deserve to not be killed at work.
I'll be up with a call to action targeting state-based action on vaccine availability this afternoon, I just need to do meds before I start writing.
This is straight up nazi shit from the trump regime.
Why people think a MAHA-collaborating epidemiologist is an expert on public health law is beyond me 🙃
perhaps - the logistics are going to depend on which state you're in. moderna is the only vax authorized for kids that young. technically FDA has only approved it for kids who have a condition on that CDC list of conditions. do you have a good pediatrician?
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If you think you don't qualify due to the bullshit restrictions the MAHA FDA imposed on the vaccine? Just how physically active are you realllly.....
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
Very little risk for someone in your situation
We were talking about measles during our It's A Hellscape, Friday Night Live on patreon.com/mattbc so I'm reupping this piece on checking if you're still protected from measles: www.patreon.com/posts/123491...
Hey, friends! Please take some time to do this today, and as many days as you can. 🙏
Tell our reps to cancel RFK Jr. Script: 👇
I called my members if Congress asking them to demand removal of RFK Jr as HHS secretary. Have you?
Are any of you on iOS 26 beta? Is speech-to-text messed up for you?
If you have not called your elected representatives yet to yell about RFK Jr., the CDC resignations/purge, and the abysmal new vaccine rules, NOW is the time to do it! Bug them. Be sincere. Get intense—we live in intense times. Or if you'd like a script, here's one; the important thing is to call.
Keep calling. Now is the time to apply pressure to congress, they're looking at hearings in the near future
I called my senators and representative about RFK Jr. and urge you to do the same. This is a critical moment where putting pressure on our elected representatives could make a difference. Below is a great script you can use!
We have learned from years of covid vaccine rollouts that whenever there is a change to the ruleset, implementation is not uniform, even within the same pharmacy chain! The CVS near you may be doing something different than the CVS near me. I want to help as many people as possible navigate this.
This is phase-1 of the crowdsource request that deals with scheduling the appointment. When it comes time to actually go to the pharmacy and get the shot, I'll have another set of questions. Thank you so much for considering taking the time to do this. www.patreon.com/posts/137652...
Blocked a bunch of people today who didn't click through and who wanted to use excerpts to try to drag me into Discourse. I'm just not interested.
there's a lot of ableism in the pharmacy space and they may have actually been personally offended that 'you used up so many vax shots' 🙃 immunology is complex and its not like every retail pharmacy has a strong grasp of it 🫠
there's also state regulators in the mix
totally agree - it looks like walgreens NY lets you make an appointment, but you've got to have the Rx at the apt
desperate people read (what's a good word?) aggressively
okay, here's what you said: "Walgreens in MD is making appointments if you say you qualify, no Rx needed." And I'm not comfortable leaving that as an uncontextualized assertion in my replies.
Right, I understand. But you can't tell people there's no Rx needed, you simply do not know that yet
So, and this is the point, you don't actually know what's going to happen when you get to the pharmacy.
but it was the walgreens website? if so, thanks, i can find that
Did you get vaccinated today?
(What notice?)
Sincerely, An actual goddamn expert who has been in the fucking fight since 2020 and who knows what it's like to have people rely on them for information about their health
Confidentially telling people "oh the website says [THIS] so that means self-attestation is all that will be required" is, bluntly, malpractice. And you shouldn't regard anyone who is doing that as an expert, and you should not rely on their claims.
The truth is this: we have learned from years of covid vaccine rollouts that whenever there is a change to the ruleset, implementation is not uniform — even within the same pharmacy chain! The Walgreens near you may be doing something different than the Walgreens near me.
The new acting CDC Director (permanent director = requires senate confirmation) is one of those SeaSteading jackasses who doesn't believe they should have to live in a society
We're seeing people who fancy themselves experts making very confident assertions about how to get the covid vaccine — those people don't care about you, they don't care about your health. They pretend to be experts, but they're charlatans who care more about internet clout than about accuracy.
Important thing mentioned: Fewer people getting the vaccine = ammo for the quack regime to claim it's not wanted. Get vaccinated for the benefit of everyone.
really glad you're here with us
in the city? or someplace else?
Those under 65 CAN get the Covid booster this way, and help protect the immunocompromised by doing so.
that drives traffic!
i dunno, are they really the least cost avoider? or would it be cheaper to just not have any children, anywhere, ever?
I'm aware that there are other models, I know I'm not doing what one does if they want to do the biggest possible numbers, reach the most people. That is a deliberate choice I have made.
Call your congress people!
wut
This is an account for people who click through. If that's not you? Then I'm not for you 🤷
He's one of those people who want to create new micro-states in international waters extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...
RFK Jr. is installing his deputy secretary, Jim O’Neill, as acting CDC Director. O'Neill is a "biotech investor" and Peter Thiel acolyte. You can get a sense of what kind of crank he is via his Senate disclosure form, extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...
You mean the star of Miss Americana? And the NFL player who was in Pfizer's covid vax commercials? And Ralph Lauren that just released an Oak Bluffs x HCBU collection? This is masterfully done bad-faith-rage-bait designed to drive traffic to the FT
#DidThisToday I called my reps this morning!
the fuckkkk
Yes, if you click through to the full write up, you will see instructions for finding the phone numbers to all of the offices your reps have; No, the post is not paywalled, but yes, you do need an account; bsky.app/profile/matt...
Yes, I am chronically ill and also an expert in this sort of advocacy and I am not wasting your 🔋 with this CTA (I'm in the middle of a med change, no one has energy for bullshit) No, you don't need to use an app or third party site to call your reps. The Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121