This is just part of RFK Jr.'s body count. And Russ Vought? His destruction of the ranks of CDC (and NIH etc) are making it impossible for remaining staff to do their jobs. This is what he wants. As he said he wants bureaucrats to be traumatized. Does this sound like a normal human being? 5/
Russell Vought is such a monster that he destroyed the science and scientists that helped save his daughter from cystic fibrosis Only 40,000 Americans have that disease yet we still rightfully poured $84 million/year into research for it Here's his wife grateful for taxpayer funded drug Trikafta
Are there any normal human beings in the Trump Administration? Hell no!
Withholding vaccines, killing people off is the plan. Covid saved Social Security billions. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
Is weaponizing the CDC in Project 2025? What is the purpose of killing us?
Eugenics? Making you so desperate you're maleable?
Seems to already be working on MAGAs
Because they're brainless. This is to hobble the resistance.
He’s pure evil.
No, they are political warlords destroying our country's protective infrastructure #PutinsGlee
Let us not forget his own daughter benefited from research done for Cystic Fibrosis which she has
I sincerely want Russel Vought to be traumatized.
Hideous
Fail son loon looking for an insane body count.
Someone need to traumatize Vought.
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It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
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The corporate heads and major investors in the media companies are all white men who agree with, and are profiting from, the actions of Trump, Vought, & RFK Jr. And you don’t see outrage from the greater white male community about this - because the white male majority agree with it all.
Exactly.
We nolonger have a free independent media
Inmates in charge of the asylum…and a mad king at the helm…
THIS THIS THIS and not only the health system has been captured by psychopaths. they're everywhere in this admin, first of all the abomination in the white house who unleashed this to protect his ego.
The both-sides myth is part of what got us here: “Independents” who claim all politicians are corrupt, refusing to recognize there are differences in scale; and main stream media’s obsession with presenting another side even if it’s based in falsehoods.
It's the "Merchants of Doubt" effect. By split screening an actual health professional against someone like RFK you are giving a platform to confuse an issue & muddy objective facts as 'subjective'. The idea is to directly cause people to lose faith in truth & facts. It's dangerous to a society.
I broke with a long time friend over this. He insisted "both sides are equally bad" and used that to justify not voting at all. I never understood that. "I don't like my choices very much so I'll just voluntarily give up my right to choose at all." Just whyyyy? 😡
It's cool to be cynical? Misguided purity of action? Watch the documentary "Merchants of Doubt" and see how this learned cynicism is promulgated among the population, degrading trust in our institutions. Part of why Finland is the Happiest country is that they trust their institutions.
The price of eggs? Wait until you see your ACA premiums. Got cancer? The hope for new cures has been dashed. If H5N1 develops mutations that confer easy human-to-human transmission? Fuggedaboudit. 7/
The only thing all this has to do with eggs is that these bigoted people only buy the white ones.
Cheese. $10
I think these guys are evolutionary eugenicists. They do not want artificially induced immunities to save peoples’ lives. They want people to die, so that those with “natural” immunity will survive and reproduce. Vought for creepy religious reasons. RFK, Jr. just to fuck over people who dissed him.
Wife has stage 4 metastatic cancer. Drugs only hope to keep it at bay. Doc says eventually they won't and only hope is new drugs in pipeline come on-line in time to provide the next defensive line. Resigned that those drugs will now not be available because of this "pro-life" crowd.
We’re dead
I am fighting cancer. I was in two experimental programs. One of them (that was working well) has been cancelled, and my doctors and I are very concerned about the other. My options are limited. Fuck RFK Jr and this whole administration.
Why I’m staying in my job to keep the healthcare for my family. Insanity what will happen with ACA!
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I've lived through two epidemics (HIV in the US in the 80s/90s and in South Africa in the 2000s) and through COVID with the rest of us. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing has been as terrible as what is happening now. 8/
Let's not forget that Trump 1.0 did not lift a finger to get PPE during COVID. We had refrigerated trucks full of corpses. The only good thing he did was the vaccine push, and with RFK who knows what will happen next time.
Every American has to decide what they are going to do now, because your government is out to kill you. Perhaps in January, this might have seemed like hyperbole, but in late August, it sounds like just another Thursday morning in the United States. 9/
I don't disagree with the goal being to kill as many as possible, it's obvious. But I don't understand why. Don't they need populace to buy all the goods the billionaires are selling (so they can have that yacht) and pay the taxes Trump craves? Seems counterintuitive. Can anyone explain this part?
All I can say is their logic is far from impeccable.
When you put it like that, yeah.
Despite their wealth, I'm not at all convinced that any of our billionaire oligarchs can correctly calculate a Return On Investment.
Murdering ☠️ Americans 🇺🇸 Gop 🐘 Approved 🏴☠️
Your government gives rapists medals from a Muslim who deported more than any president
They are actively trying to “thin the herd”. All part of Project 2025. They want to get rid of the dead weight, or undesirables, so they don’t have to share resources with them.
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Hey hey RFK. How many folks did you kill today? [Repurposed from a Vietnam-era LBJ chant.]
Yes, there are many crises going on--this is the firehose of autocracy at work. But I am begging anyone who cares about health to take a breath and make a plan. 10/
Please. @unroll.skywriter.blue
The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:bcen47iol6hccqoufvtk7wt6/post/3lxhbomjq5s2t.
People who have the resources to make a plan aren't the ones who most need to.
That Covid fatality rate is more than double the U.S. combat-death rate during the height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Absolutely- thank you so much for this important thread.
We've got to use all non-violent, peaceful means to stop these people. And non-violent doesn't mean weak--from Gandhi to MLK Jr--we can move mountains without raising a hand. 11/
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#Satyagraha
Boycott all professional sports: no tickets, no games, no events, no merch, no food, no media coverage, no betting. Bring down the pro-Trump, sports oligarchs. Sports are both luxury and lifeblood of the U.S. Destroy the profits of oligarchs. @pklugman.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social
And don’t even watch it on TV or your local. And skip the superbowl.
You said it all perfectly!!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I said the day they put him in charge, “They just appointed a serial killer in charge of our healthcare” This is premeditated murder by the GOP pedophile ring. The are trying to kill us it is all part of the plan.
When Caroline Kennedy a US ambassador went on media to name her cousin as a "Predator", with many examples, asking he not be confirmed. I knew he was more than crazy, he was going to bring mass death in his wake. Then he got confirmed. I have been wearing a mask ever since.
He apparently drove his first wife to an untimely death … his cruel treatment and alienation of her in a fragile state. Cheryl Hinds is a fool
I'm seeing 3 broad strategies to get us to Nov 2026: 1. Gut it out. Everything Gregg lists below is essentially here. Maybe it's enough if we get some wins soon. Maybe not. 2. Take up arms. Violent. Let's avoid this. 3. Shut it down. Basically a general strike to get corporations to demand change.
Can we? Right now it’s cutting health care. What if they decide that we are not dying fast enough and start using machine guns? Remember, it took millions of deaths and billions of bombs & bullets before Hitler was toppled.
We have concentration camps in the first months of this administration. It almost seems inevitable that they will become killing fields next. Everything they do now is to test out methods of authoritarian rule. Next year it won’t be a test anymore.
camps that we keep shutting down. get out of the (de)fetal position and fight back already.
Yes. That's the right attitude. Look for the helpers. Help them. Don't go gently.
Thank you for this post. Thank you for sharing more information and for showing compassion at this critical fork in the road for America’s future wellness 🙏✨
This is a five-alarm fire, most definitely, and this thread is so important that I've already shared it widely, but in an authoritarian/fascist country such as this, a nonviolent response is merely spitting into the wind. If that is our only response, we are resigning ourselves to fascist rule.
Thank you. I live in Texas. Yesterday RFK Jr. visited our state Capitol and complimented Gov. Abbott for his MAHA policies. And a bill making ivermectin available without a prescription has been approved. This is coming to other states too. It’s alarming and infuriating.
They're still pushing the ivermectin bullshit? Holy hell, these people simply cannot accept that they can ever be wrong.
My adult son has cancer. We've gotten emails from our maga family members suggesting he try ivermectim. His oncologist related to us, after we laughingly told him of the emails, that at his recent meeting of Brevard County oncologists, they had to discuss ways to stop the disinformation 😕
Sorry about your son having cancer. What your family members wrote you is insane!
I'm glad you and your oncologist are on the same page about all this. Best wishes to your son and your family. (When my father was dying of kidney cancer, my California sister kept trying to tell him to eat more whole-grain bread, as if that would matter. He could barely get down sugar cookies.)
who makes this stuff and who has shares in that company
Bingo. Greed wins again. Power and greed, the downfall of mankind.
Exactly. They say they are against big pharma but hello ivermectin is produced by someone who’s making money out of it
At the vets, you can buy 5 gallon jugs of it.
you can buy at grain stores where horse feed etc is sold.
They clearly are trying to kill people. A friend’s aunt has breast cancer but isn’t taking those “toxic” drugs the doctor recommends. She’s insisting the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are helping even as the cancer spreads.
So ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine cure cancer too? Sad for her but she voted for this.
The makers of ivermectin should just lean into it and make their horse de-wormer in Miller Lite flavor.
They're making ivermectin available without a prescription but RFK Jr thinks I shouldn't be able to get my ADD meds from my doctor.
I'm here, too. I saw that stupid bill passed right after I saw that I won't be able to get a covid vaccine this year. They are trying to kill us all.
I am wondering if I can get the vaccine. I have asthma so I should qualify. My husband had diabetes so he should qualify. But our kids would not. And with low immunity in the population even if I get the vaccine it will not be as effective. Plus mutants can evolve faster.
The list of exceptions and qualifying conditions is a baffling mix, and includes "physical inactivity", depression, ever having smoked, and some others that seem pretty easy to say you have. The barrier may be getting an MD to order it, if that's how it's going to work (details still unclear).
That's one of my worries. Now a doctor has to order a vaccine instead of me deciding for myself that I want a vaccine. And then convince said doctor that I suffer from "physical inactivity" to which her response will be "well, exercise." So RFKjr gets to dictate - drink unpasturized milk instead!
All sorts of home remedies are allowed -- and ivermectin is only highly dangerous when people substitute it for known better options. Otherwise it's like cider vinegar, not effective but not particularly harmful either.
Thanks for your sobering status-update, Mr. Gonsalves. I have wondered for months, wrote to people w/ big social media follows, why can we not amass a huge general consumer strike, boycotting all but (local) essentials? Our $$ feels like a still-indisputable power. Again, thanks.
Agreed! When general strikes are large enough and last long enough, the people can take power. This will become more obvious in a year or two as more people suffer and Fox News can’t spin it. The MAGA reality distortion has to fail first.
Can you name even one instance in the past 200 years where that has actually happened? I see it a lot on social media as a given "fact." But as a historian, I can't think of any examples. What am I missing?
If you can't think of one instance in the last 200 years where a general strike worked, you're a shit historian or you're lying. Look it up.
Check out the amazing trainings from No Kings/ @indivisible.org — they can really answer your question and help you start organizing and getting involved. Recommend strongly! Here’s the first one to check out - the next two get more specific and task related: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlem...
The Solidarity movement in Poland. It brought down the regime and kicked off the decline of authoritarian rule through out Eastern Europe.
Non-violent also does NOT mean non-destructive. It means don’t get caught doing your sabotage.
Excellent thread. 👏👏
But it means organizing in your neighborhood--create a small team. Figure out how you can raise the alarm. Local papers? Local radio? PTA meetings? Kiwanis? Chamber of Commerce? 12/
Thank you for talking about solutions after laying down the dread. Too few commentators don't follow through with what needs to be done. I hope it doesn't take a pandemic to get people active.
The American people don't care. If they did, we would never have gotten to this point. The destruction of our national health agencies is just another domino falling as we watch the end of our democracy. Education, Justice, Commerce, and even the SCOTUS itself has already fallen. NV won't cut it.
Then join up with others. There are Indivisible chapters and other groups organizing near you. Make yourselves the local health caucus to keep these issues front and center. 13/
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And dog your members of Congress. I don't care if they are Republicans or Democrats. Show up at their offices every week. Bang on about CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS (and learn about these agencies, what they do, how they function in normal times). 14/
No one is acting as if this in an emergency, except those of us who work in these fields. But we see the tsunami approaching--a wave of sickness and death that will wash over us all in growing numbers down the months, down the years. 15/
We just need 4 House Rs to stop the NIH cuts. Many are vulnerable and would damage their districts' economies with the cuts. tpasinet.github.io/nih-budget-c...
I love this idea.
They are trying to murder the people they dont think deserve to live
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Co-sign. This shit has to be stopped.
Co sign what? What does signing anything have to do with this? Signatures mean nothing to these people. Am I just not understanding your post?
It's a figure of speech that means I agree with Gregg here.
Thanks- guess I hadn't heard that and thought you were saying something like we need to make a petition- like that'll do anything at this point!
I want my enemies to be crushed beneath my heel. Does that really make me such a bad guy?
If these people are systematically killing us, why must we limit ourselves to non-violence? I don't see leadership or a movement with the size, power and commitment that could make Ghandi or MLK changes to society. If that's the way, we better get moving.
Then take the lead in your community. Start a group if you're not a part of one. Go to town hall meetings if you can. Call, write & fax your reps daily. Join local protests. Staying peaceful means less chance of martial law. They want us violent.
You don’t think we’re doing that already? That’s engaged citizenship. We need to build an unstoppable mass movement
This country was not founded peacefully and no meaningful or lasting change has ever emerged in the United States without struggles erupting in violence. The current situation is no different. The only question now is, will we fight back?
How about we withhold our taxes en-mass?
We do this at @voices4vaccines.bsky.social Please email me and we can meet kernst @ voicesforvaccines dot org
I keep reading this, "everyone needs to make a plan" I've thought on it & came up empty Why does everyone have to make their own plan? It feels like "do your own research." I don't do that, I put trust in expertise. Isn't there SOMEONE more qualified than me who's "made a plan" I can just follow??
The pandemic guidelines should help: wear masks, wash hands, avoid sick people, stay at home if sick, avoid superspreader events… Financially, cut down spending as if you were living in a war economy because *gestures broadly at everything*. Learn about Mexico’s Medical Tourism. 🤷♂️
Oh, I can make - and tentatively am making - a *personal* plan to ride this out. Which yes even features a "get out of Dodge" option as last resort. But that isn't what was being callled for here. This is a call for a plan to do something to, for example, make sure cancer cure research continues.
Voting in November was the thing to do but people didn’t care. There’s no going back. Even with brain drain, there’s no one who can replace the funding that used to be provided by the federal government.
Just call it fascism Gregg. That's what it is.
Personally, I think we are long past the point where we're going to "love-in" our way out of this. The perfect solution, as I see it, is about a thousand snipers working in concert, but, that's not going to happen. 1/2
But if the American people don't take this bull by the horns NOW, in a few years, the other countries of the world will bomb our cities into rubble and do the rest for us. 2/2
I have been feeling like they are trying to kill us since November and it frustrates me to no end that our media continues to go with the “he’s just a little skeptical!” line
trump's revival of Covid is the warm up act. 400,000 excess US Covid deaths due to trump mismanagement and Americans are being set up for much worse.
Fucking idiots! trump is good for nothing and I think they know it but they want to be nasty because he supports that bad behavior.
Russ Vought is a bitter petite bourgeoisie Christo-fascist whose enmity for elites goes beyond political disagreement. His goal is the destruction of the symbolic capitalist class.
Vought’s one of the largest insider threats this country’s ever faced.
Not just a threat, but a confirmed destroyer. And absolutely no one elected Vought, which is what is most infuriating.
that’s how appointments work; they were not subtle about these plans
Or a responsible senior leader? Let People die for his ideology?
Funny (not funny) how they don’t think that they are bureaucrats.
None of these “administration officials” are normal decent humans!!!! They’ve got their weirdo freak show in the Oval Office as a distraction, and now the power grab and destruction of the USA is playing out with enabling republicans.
