Kaplan-Meier curves so separated you could drive a battleship between them - best possible proof that an intervention works, and a visual that a child (and maybe even MAGA politicians) can understand…
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Kaplan-Meier curves so separated you could drive a battleship between them - best possible proof that an intervention works, and a visual that a child (and maybe even MAGA politicians) can understand…
Must be the Presidential Landscaping Medal of Honor….
I prefer they use the term ‘unhinged wack job’
Eccentric is a feature, not a bug…
Anti-vaxxer? Unethical alarmist? Dangerous lunatic? An embarrassing quack?
This is the way
Sure, who ya gonna believe - thousands of scientists and medical professionals whose careers require following facts, or the brainworm and raw milk guy (who has a vested interest in lying to get the position)? Were these R congress people born yesterday? 🤦
Does he have his name on his shirt so he remembers who he is..?
the mystery of Schrödinger's Psychopath has been solved
I never go there, never will. 👎
TRUMP IS AMERICA’S BIGGEST LOSER.
I believe ‘functionary’ may be an appropriate term for what he will be under Kennedy (and probably also what he was under Thiel too?)
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Three of the most iconic photos of the Vietnam Protests. Oct 1967 - Arlington, VA. 17 & 18 year old protestors stand in front of a line of National Guardsmen with flowers, placing the stems in the end of the barrels.
Can’t forget the fascination with dead animals and the eugenicist overtones. The guy has got it all. 🤣🙈
Yes at the very least get his eugenicist tendencies on the public record, so it will be known what Trump (and Bill Cassidy and the rest of the R Senators) unleashed on this nation.
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
FDA does not really regulate research though, but rather the licensing (based on safety/efficacy) and quality control of medicinal products, food, etc…
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC. Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship. gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
And Memphis - let’s not forget Memphis, TN, perhaps the most dangerous city in the country. Thank you, Governor, for this public service announcement. 🫡🇺🇸
Where is Trump’s attention to this matter?
AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Thank you, Justice Vance, for reminding us of that part of the Constitution that codifies the right of the Executive branch to ‘clean up the streets’ 🤦
Unfortunately it will be more than just the base that suffers…. Hard to imagine a worse choice for HHS Sec.
Maybe don't have unqualified, anti-vaccine cranks without medical degrees as the director of our Health and Human Services, right? But Republicans and Trump vouched for RFK Jr and now their base is going to die. MAGA www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
We the people are paying for this travesty. It’s just ludicrous. Words fail
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Raw milk and bleach for everyone! And sunlight, don’t forget the sunlight! 🤣🤮
Yeah none of it makes sense. Except the power grabbing and corruption…
The many that died might disagree - but then we just didn’t hold out long enough for herd mentality, I suppose 🙈
Fair enough - but the vaccines were Dear Leader’s signature achievement in his first term. Guess he won’t top that this time around, with or without another pandemic…
OK, do they want there to be another pandemic, or do they (foolishly) think there can’t be another one? In any case, pathogens don’t care about political preferences…
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:
Mass exodus from the CDC of top scientists and leaders. What could possibly go wrong? Republicans, especially human dial tone Bill Cassidy, hope it was worth it.
Cannot ‘like’ this post enough! Yes there is crime in Chicago. But it’s worse in other, ‘redder’ places. The hypocrisy and the cherry-picking of anecdotal data has got to stop. If Trump wants a police state, let him say he wants a police state! 🤦
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
OK - how MANY carjackings were there in the 20 day period this year vs last year? And same question for the previous 20 days this year vs last year? Eg, was there already a downward trend before the feds came in?
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Praying for of all those affected by today’s horrific shooting in Minnesota, injuring and killing innocent young people who were simply starting their school year. We are all too accustomed to awful news like this, but must never accept such suffering and loss as normal.
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
Knowing what i know now, probably would choose somewhere else to live, probably in Europe or maybe Canada. Though California is among the better options in the US (esp if cost were not an object)
If ever there was a sign that thoughts and prayers are not a sufficient solution…
Does he actually ask them to grovel, or do they all just assume that is what he wants? (And when one of them does it, they all need to…). It’s supposed to be a Cabinet meeting, not an ass-kissing session 🤮
Just wait until the criminals move out of the invaded blue state cities and relocate to… the red state cities!! 😮
In any case, none of the cities Trump keeps talking about sending troops to - DC, Chicago, LA, SF, NYC, Boston - are in the top 10 of the worst…
They are constitutionally incapable of mentioning urban crime without mentioning blue state cities, and simply cannot mention red state cities. Data and reality means nothing to them. They are beyond useless
I guess there’s some sort of cosmic phenomenon that prevents any crime from happening in red state cities, eh? No murders in Memphis, NOLa, Miami, huh? Or just maybe, the blue state criminals will relocate to those cities then, since there are no troops there? 🤔
He even has to lie about the Chicago mayor’s low approval rating - it’s 26%, NOT 6%. But we know Trump is not good at numbers… abc7chicago.com/amp/post/chi...
Does this mean he’s moved on from tariffs as the solution to everything, and the new grift is extracting wealth from US companies and academic institutions? 🤦
The government already benefits from having US patents and the business that they could drive. Sure, universities can stop filing patents; or the best researchers can go to other countries and the universities there can own their patents; etc
RFKj - our new secretary of Greenpeace🤮. Is this an absurdist comedy skit?
Great, so she’ll be encouraging kids to NOT learn to think for themselves..🤦
Certainly no expert in natural intelligence…
What an a-hole. The students get an education, the country benefits from technologies and scientific advances, companies are spun out from the patents and inventions, and patients benefit from biomedical progress. It’s been this way for many decades. Is he claiming China does it better than US?
Yep Hitler never even thought of negotiating during WWII. His own evil henchmen tried to persuade him to surrender, to no avail (and at the cost of many German citizens lives)
Trump’s firing of Fed Board member Lisa Cook reeks of corruption By law, a president can only remove a Fed official WITH CAUSE Another illegal action—& it will be challenged in court I discussed @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social
Yes, most reasonable people would agree with that. Wouldn’t be fair to those cities to send Miller there…
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Hell, drop him in Memphis or East St. Louis or Birmingham, AL…. Let’s see him order at a BBQ joint or stop for a drink in a blues club.
I think it would be a great reality show to drop Stephen Miller in the middle of say, Mumbai (it has to be a foreign city, because 🤯), and then watch what happens. Honestly, I’m curious
You can just tell he has not felt a feeling in a very long time. Maybe never. The soul has moved on…
Journalists need to retire “unprecedented.” What Trump’s doing isn’t—it’s a fascist consolidation of power, by the books. & everyone else needs to give up “wannabe,” as in dictator. Face facts: he is. Let’s contend with that.
A grateful nation salutes and thanks you, Governor. History will remember well those who push back against the despotic, divisive, and wasteful nonsense emanating from the White House occupant. 🇺🇸🫡
I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.
Yes. Please.
Whatever it is, he’d better not hope the only treatment is an mRNA vaccine… his buddy RFK Jr won’t let him have it! 🤦
Now they’ll be strolling around with guns…🤔
Whoopsy
She was right all along… try and imagine how peaceful and pleasant it would be living in the USA if she was president
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
realestate.usnews.com/places/ranki... More than half of top 20 are in red states. None in top 20 are DC or Chicago…
From redistricting to the District of Columbia, we are facing a bona fide fascist takeover of the United States. trib.al/7OfpbNv
Yes.
What’s that saying about what happens to those that don’t know history..? 🤔
War on Cancer: RFK Jr and Elon killed US biomedical research infrastructure War on Truth: still raging…
Revolutionay War: Surrender Civil War: Surrender WWI: Surrender WWII: Surrender Korean War: Still going (?) Vietnam War: US withdrawal War on Terror: I kinda feel like we made it worse and then just pretended it's over. War on Drugs: Drugs won War on Christmas: Imaginary
Ah yes… the historic ‘Treaty of Hitler’s Bunker of Death’. Some great photo opps for Harry! 🤦
Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
Who knew that ‘Greatest Pitchers of All Time’ was a proper noun? 🤦 What a maroon….
For anyone wondering about where crime is worst across the USA - the majority of the top 20 cities on this list are in red states. 🤔 realestate.usnews.com/places/ranki...
First words out of his mouth should have been about how crime rates in many red state cities are worse than that in DC… call out the hypocrisy from the get go. And work in the words ‘fascism’ or ‘dictatorship’ early on!
Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.
Definitely not a MICRO-organism! 🤣
Like a pandemic but without the pathogen..
Frost: We just heard about 24 hours ago that the judges ruled that Alligator Alcatraz has to shut down… When you don't have all the power you want, you damn well use all the power you got
Agreed, not helpful. But at least not blatantly harmful like Fox and that ilk. Nonetheless, the idea of reasonable people (aka, ‘radical librerals’) debating MAGA acolytes (‘conservatives) as an example of ‘fair and balanced’ is just ridiculous…
Ed Martin, the Trump crony who heads the DOJ vague weaponization task force, posted a picture of himself outside the home of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who he is investigating over flimsy mortgage fraud allegations.
Is there a doctor in the thread? Need an expert opinion…
The lunatic is on the grass….
Is he gonna be wearing a pretend badge?? Maybe a face cover too? 🙈