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The New York Times @nytimes.com

Days after measles cases in the U.S. hit a record high, Senator Chuck Schumer called on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, to declare the spread of the virus a public health emergency.

jul 12, 2025, 10:10 pm • 648 155

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Ancient Lunatic Leftist @lunaticleft.bsky.social

Schmuck may be AIPAC's favorite arms dealers in terms of cash payments with the easily predicted departure of Genocide Joe Biden.

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jul 12, 2025, 10:25 pm • 5 1 • view
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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social

Is this pic from this week?

jul 12, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ancient Lunatic Leftist @lunaticleft.bsky.social

No. Not sure when taken.

jul 12, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Meghan @meghanclare.bsky.social

bad in any case was just curious

jul 12, 2025, 11:30 pm • 2 0 • view
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zac-neuman.bsky.social @zac-neuman.bsky.social

It would be nice if RFK "actually" did something! He is paralyzed by his own ignorance and cannot see beyond his own limitations.

jul 12, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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walkonthewildside.bsky.social @walkonthewildside.bsky.social

kennedy doesnt even know how to spell measles

jul 12, 2025, 10:28 pm • 3 0 • view
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Detective Sledge Hammer @spradlig.bsky.social

He doesn’t know how to spell FDA

jul 12, 2025, 11:31 pm • 2 0 • view
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Fuzz @tahoefuzz.bsky.social

Let me guess ... @schumer.senate.gov wrote another "strongly-worded" letter.

jul 13, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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Japhy Ryder @sangredelobo.bsky.social

2025: The return of measles and fascism

jul 12, 2025, 10:21 pm • 3 0 • view
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PicklesS🌻 @picklessorrell.bsky.social

RFK Jr has no interest in health in terms of combatting disease or saving lives. His interest is rooted in his personal quest for vitality & virility by way of superstition, fetishism & junk science. He tans to a crisp, takes testosterone, & consumes parasites. But vaccines? Those will kill you.

jul 12, 2025, 11:06 pm • 7 0 • view
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TRS-80 @trs-80.bsky.social

> called on Did Senator Schumer not have the paper to write a strongly worded letter???

jul 12, 2025, 11:47 pm • 3 0 • view
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marilynjs.bsky.social @marilynjs.bsky.social

Oh for heaven's sake what is this deranged hysteria, more kids get shot every year in the US than ever die of measles

jul 13, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
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humpyydumpty.bsky.social @humpyydumpty.bsky.social

It is not hysteria when you have a newborn baby and they can’t be vaccinated against the measles because they are too young! It is also not hysteria when in 2000 it was declared eradicated in the US! One of the most contagious diseases in history! Vaccines work! Believe it or not! Ask Jonas Salk!

jul 14, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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marilynjs.bsky.social @marilynjs.bsky.social

And before these so called vaccines we had measles catching parties, boomers are the last generation with fully functioning immune systems

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humpyydumpty.bsky.social @humpyydumpty.bsky.social

I am a boomer and my mother never took me to a measles catching party! She believed in vaccines when they were available. I had 4 children and never took them to a disease exposing party either! Funny, they got their vaccines and never had any problems. 4 functioning fully responsible adults!

jul 14, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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marilynjs.bsky.social @marilynjs.bsky.social

WE had polio only when I was a kid

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marilynjs.bsky.social @marilynjs.bsky.social

there were no vaccines when I was a kid so we had parties to all catch them at once and avoid multiple quarantines, for such a so called infectious disease my older sister and brother never caught it, not did most of our neighbours or my parents or teachers, but I did get whooping cough after Vax

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marilynjs.bsky.social @marilynjs.bsky.social

It is hysteria when we consider that the rich world whining about this allow 22,500 kids to die of starvation every fucking day and do nothing but cut food aid

jul 14, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐬 🍩🦖 @freezasaurus.bsky.social

Bro is more likely to start shooting heroin again.

jul 12, 2025, 10:41 pm • 4 0 • view
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Myanulrich @myanulrich.bsky.social

And Bobby answered ???

jul 12, 2025, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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S. Grisham @segmentis.bsky.social

Congratulations on your prominent role in all this, A. G. Sulzberger’s shit rag.

jul 12, 2025, 10:43 pm • 4 0 • view
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axiommegalomania.bsky.social @axiommegalomania.bsky.social

Fucked up future for USA

jul 13, 2025, 2:41 am • 3 0 • view
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Faith Feed @faithfeed.bsky.social

Proverbs 27:12 "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty." In times of rising illness, may we act with wisdom and compassion, protecting the vulnerable and seeking the welfare of all through truth and responsible care.

jul 13, 2025, 10:53 am • 0 0 • view
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The Evil Genius @evilgenius70.bsky.social

Send a strongly worded letter.

jul 12, 2025, 10:21 pm • 3 0 • view
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PinkFreud @alaskarebel.bsky.social

RFK Jr does not work for Americans. WHO does he work for? Russia?

jul 13, 2025, 5:22 pm • 2 0 • view
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annagreyhound.bsky.social @annagreyhound.bsky.social

Kennedy's dim wit does not know what he is doing, and he is dumb.

jul 13, 2025, 10:51 am • 3 0 • view
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northgirl.bsky.social @northgirl.bsky.social

All of these comments blaming Schumer are ridiculous. Dems have NO VOTES. Dems are doing what they can. If anything, this situation where one party has ALL three houses needs to be looked at.

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billga2603.bsky.social @billga2603.bsky.social

With no mention of the glaringly obvious cause of the aforesaid emergency

jul 13, 2025, 9:21 am • 1 0 • view
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sanityseeker25.bsky.social @sanityseeker25.bsky.social

Won’t happen. His job is to to kill old and sick people. And kids. He’s doing fine.

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Grown adults who believe in God xD @arrozconpollo44.bsky.social

No emergency to me, I'm immune. I know who aren't immune though. This to me is a god given gift, no emergency at all.

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Updog Sinclair @greaterhuff.bsky.social

My son doesn’t have the vaccine because he’s not old enough you fucking dickhead

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Grown adults who believe in God xD @arrozconpollo44.bsky.social

If you have other kids of age I imagine they are vaccinated. Keep your son safe if he is not yet 6 months, even if you live in a normal town, maybe keep him away from church for a bit. I bet you are doing all this and he will be safe. Talk to your doctor about protecting him at 6 months.

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Grown adults who believe in God xD @arrozconpollo44.bsky.social

You are right and I sorry, truly. I am very angry these days and I do not mean this for you or anyone similar. You obviously care about your son and intend to have him vaccinated bc you are not crazy. I imagine you don't expose your son to crazy ppl, churches or live in a fundamentalist area.

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Grown adults who believe in God xD @arrozconpollo44.bsky.social

You can be vaccinated as early as 6 months if its warranted. Your son will be ok.

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Grown adults who believe in God xD @arrozconpollo44.bsky.social

That will protect him for now, then after 12 months it will have to be given once more for lifelong protection.

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Detective Sledge Hammer @spradlig.bsky.social

Schumer “called on” RFK, Jr. to do something? Was it via a strongly worded letter? 🤦‍♂️ Calling on people to do things is a waste of time unless you have leverage over them.

jul 12, 2025, 11:30 pm • 3 0 • view
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Raj. S. Kumar @rsk-1m.bsky.social

He's not long been in the job and look at what's happened already....

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Bak3d Canuck ☕️🇨🇦🍩🍁 @bak3d-canuck.bsky.social

Floods and plagues so far. Locusts might be next

jul 12, 2025, 10:13 pm • 20 1 • view
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AntisocialWorker8647 @antisocialworker77.bsky.social

All part of #BobbyBrainworms turning HHS into his own, personal Death Cult

jul 12, 2025, 10:27 pm • 6 0 • view
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Bak3d Canuck ☕️🇨🇦🍩🍁 @bak3d-canuck.bsky.social

#10 death of a first born You've already had pestilence on livestock (chickens) lol

jul 12, 2025, 11:14 pm • 3 0 • view
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I’m Petty So Watch Your Mouth @fighttrump.bsky.social

This government is a failure, a failure on both sides. You have a rogue, sociopathic Republican regime and weak democrats. They tell you to follow the law when it’s lawless. Kidnapping and murdering people for a rapist, racist pedophile felon Trump. bsky.app/profile/ant3...

jul 12, 2025, 10:21 pm • 5 1 • view
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Andrew K @andykimy.bsky.social

Oooh that’s gonna be a hell of a strongly worded letter

jul 12, 2025, 10:28 pm • 5 0 • view
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Julian Swearengin @julian-swearengin.bsky.social

Also, he should resign

jul 12, 2025, 10:11 pm • 27 0 • view
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Linuxfranz @linuxfranz.bsky.social

In a normal country someone like him would have never been sworn in

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Crusader @attila-the-none.bsky.social

In a normal country, a domestic terrorist like RFK Jr. would be imprisoned to protect the public!

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Crusader @attila-the-none.bsky.social

Modern medical science and public health policy eradicated measles by 2000. Now RFK Jr. has reinfected the public with this highly contagious disease. The verifiable proof is Samoa. This is effectively domestic terrorism perpetrated by the Kennedy Department of Health and Human Services! 😣

jul 13, 2025, 10:51 am • 2 0 • view
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Randy Herman @rherman79.bsky.social

A Kennedy who spreads conspiracy theories is now supposed to lead the fight against a measles outbreak caused by conspiracy theories. That’s not irony. That’s negligence in a lab coat. 📜 dailyliesreport.substack.com/p/the-powell...

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NYC loves Zohran @jenniesvoiceyes.bsky.social

So Schumer wrote Kennedy a sharply worded letter? Schumer is basically a Trump dickrider.

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Rajendra Singh @notindian.bsky.social

If only there was something that people could have gotten that would've prevented this. 🤦🏽‍♂️

jul 13, 2025, 12:17 am • 3 0 • view
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Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social

Let’s put it concisely, NYT: Republican policies kill people.

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J.Squiggles @jsquiggles23.bsky.social

Good old Chuck, always there to tell your toddler to put down the knife without ever getting up to take the knife away.

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MediumRare @patronvet81.bsky.social

RFK Jr declaring measles a public health emergency would basically mean taking responsibility for it... Which, in any case, he's unlikely to do.

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Chris or whatever @cforsberg.bsky.social

RFK Jr. is killing Americans for no particular reason. Just cause a dead bear spoke to him, I guess? Maybe? Perhaps? If you can figure out his reason, let me know.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social

Wow, I'm starting to think the @nytimes.com shouldn't have worked so hard to put a bunch of anti-science fascists into power.

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quid-pro-quo.bsky.social @quid-pro-quo.bsky.social

The leaders of NYT are enjoying the fire that is the US from their thrones of lies All by design Never to touch them They have less integrity than Daily Mail & other such "news" rags

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RatatouilleCat @ratatouillecat.bsky.social

The only declaration that RFK will have is that America has never been healthier.

jul 12, 2025, 10:49 pm • 3 0 • view
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Captain Danger @realcaptaindanger.bsky.social

His brain worm says no

jul 12, 2025, 11:03 pm • 8 0 • view
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smithjb65.bsky.social @smithjb65.bsky.social

RFK is an anti-science POS.

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johnfbrowning.bsky.social @johnfbrowning.bsky.social

RFK Jr isn't going to do anything that makes any sense

jul 12, 2025, 10:40 pm • 4 0 • view
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Nope @neilbef.bsky.social

At what point do you think they’ll realise they were wrong to make vaccines the ‘boogeyman’?

jul 12, 2025, 11:42 pm • 2 0 • view
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northgirl.bsky.social @northgirl.bsky.social

They know it. They'll never admit it, but they know it.

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call-151.net @call-151.net

No. No emergencies. Just better leadership by people who aren't stupid for people who are stupid.

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call-151.net @call-151.net

Also, Sen Schumer please resign. And take that human tequila bottle with you.

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Just J @jasonleader1.bsky.social

you mean "Freedom Freckles" as RFK is rebranding them? i can't WAIT until he starts telling everyone that Bubonic Plague is actually good for the population.

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Chillee Mack @chilleemack.bsky.social

Please use this pic @nytimes.com .

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Kuragari @kuragari.bsky.social

He looks like a fucking hollowed out gourd.

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Elon Putz @boycott-tesla.bsky.social

Politicians like Schumer shouldn't be lecturing medical experts like RFK jr.

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NoMoreGuff @nomoreguff.bsky.social

Maybe writing him a stern letter will make him do it?

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boredscrollmaster.bsky.social @boredscrollmaster.bsky.social

@nytimes.com: We don't need any more emergencies - we have the biggest possible emergency of all in the White House right now. And he needs to be arrested for multiple violations of the Constitution and being an unregistered Russian agent.

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Wm Fenstermaker Sr @dr-wcf-51.bsky.social

RFK himself is a national health emergency

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Eric Daugherty @ericldaugh0.bsky.social

This is great news.

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baldmanrisin.bsky.social @baldmanrisin.bsky.social

It's ridiculous and a complete waste of money. Leave it to Republicans to increase unnecessary spending and then have no plan to pay for it.

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Larkus @larkus86.bsky.social

RFK, Jr (and I guess the rest of them) don’t give a rats ass about what his legacy will be.

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Brian @brhi.bsky.social

Better idea. Lean on hm to resign.

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seeking1910.bsky.social @seeking1910.bsky.social

The GOP only declares emergencies that don't exist.

jul 13, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
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Karolina Muchova Fan Club @irvineghost20.bsky.social

Why are you publishing Russian propaganda??? bsky.app/profile/igor...

jul 13, 2025, 11:20 am • 1 0 • view
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tag-bot.bsky.social @tag-bot.bsky.social

#measles-outbreak #public-health-emergency #chuck-schumer #robert-f-kennedy-jr #united-states #texas #measles #outbreak-response #public-health #infectious-disease #health-policy #health-secretary

jul 13, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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pyotryllych.bsky.social @pyotryllych.bsky.social

I am not sure what Schumer intentions are here? It is my belief that he lives in an alternate world 🥲

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risklady.bsky.social @risklady.bsky.social

Won’t happen. RFK would have to admit he’s wrong. Not done in the Trump administration.

jul 12, 2025, 11:43 pm • 3 0 • view
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Chris Freeman @christopherfreeman.bsky.social

Are we great yet? So much winning

jul 13, 2025, 12:52 am • 3 0 • view
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fstop414.bsky.social @fstop414.bsky.social

“we’re all going to die”—joni ernst

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GeoBabs @blueearth2sky.bsky.social

I have teeth issues that are a result of having measles as a toddler whose permanent teeth were still developing. The ramifications will be continued far into the future for many of these kids.

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gildedtofu.bsky.social @gildedtofu.bsky.social

No @schumer.senate.gov , you need to condemn RFKJrs policies in the most emphatic terms. It is a health emergency entirely by the “health secretary”. GET A GODDAMN SPINE!

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gildedtofu.bsky.social @gildedtofu.bsky.social

Dammit, left out a word. “It is a health emergency created entirely by the “health secretary”.

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Stephen Rys @stephenrys.bsky.social

He's going to claim it's caused by the vaccine. Watch.

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Paul Burton @paultherev.bsky.social

🤣

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Anne SaraPDX @annesarapdx.bsky.social

Easy translation Senator Schumer is encouraging RF$$&K Junior to do his job

jul 13, 2025, 3:10 am • 1 0 • view
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gregden.bsky.social @gregden.bsky.social

Rebirth of a nation by Darwin

jul 13, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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treb @treblaw.bsky.social

Yeah fucking right haha

jul 12, 2025, 10:13 pm • 6 0 • view
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tuxedonoir.bsky.social @tuxedonoir.bsky.social

No fucking shit Sherlock.

jul 12, 2025, 11:28 pm • 3 0 • view
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angleintraining.bsky.social @angleintraining.bsky.social

Will childcare and schools still require vaccines? If not they are going to be a nightmare. With one hand they say they want folks to have more babies with the other hand they put them at accelerated risk of disease and death.What's next,a suggestion for those crazy chicken pox lollipop parties?

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danvae @danvaebel.bsky.social

Traveling to Europe? Diplomatic staff? Or vaccine, or local test with 12 days of quarantine. US reduced to 3rd world country

jul 13, 2025, 8:48 am • 2 0 • view
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FarkinAustralia @farkinaustralia.bsky.social

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tonyh111.bsky.social @tonyh111.bsky.social

Maybe he should have demanded Kennedy Jr. resign.

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Damie houlihan @leatherguyd.bsky.social

Take the bloody vaccine

jul 12, 2025, 11:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Mr Puttle @original-puttle.bsky.social

chukky who?

jul 13, 2025, 1:41 am • 2 0 • view
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Project2025=1984 @reader1970.bsky.social

I see good Christians wearing crosses. What I DON'T see are good Christians DEMANDING that Republicans stop wearing them too.

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professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social

He should be calling - daily and loudly - for that anti-vaxxer nutbag's firing or resignation.

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auntchovie22.bsky.social @auntchovie22.bsky.social

He wont since he makes money from vaccine lawsuits. What a disgrace of a human.

jul 13, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view