Susan Monarez in WSJ today: "I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric. That panel’s next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 18-19."
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Susan Monarez in WSJ today: "I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric. That panel’s next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 18-19."
"She of course is wiser than all of us."
Texas’ top law enforcement official is set to appear alongside a man known as the “Lectern Guy” who served prison time for being among the crowds that broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-a...
You don't prevent domestic crime by having guys in military armor walk up and down the street. What an utterly bizarre theory. It is just more Big Tough Guy Television for rightwing media, and many Guardsmen are sick of being used as political props in this way. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Still fuming about this: "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?" You are the Florida Surgeon General. It's your damn job as the executive in charge of the Florida Department of Health.
"One could make the argument we should have sided with Hitler," a guest told Tucker Carlson's podcast last month. Yair Rosenberg writes about the MAGA influencers who want to rehabilitate the Nazi leader—and what they hope to gain by doing so.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
BREAKING A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from freezing Harvard funding and said the administration is using antisemitism as a “smokescreen.”
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
Hamill on Kimmel just now said “It’s great to have you back” to Kimmel. Yes it is. 💯
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Supplement manufacturers have capitalized on the explosive popularity of diabetes control and weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound by flooding the market with their own pills, powders, drops and patches bearing “GLP-1” branding. https://to.pbs.org/40CGTRY
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
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Shockingly, it turns out that when CBS handed $16 million over to Trump's "presidential library," it didn't placate him in the least. Kristi Noem has now used precisely the same scam, a phony accusation of deceptive editing, that Trump used to extort CBS last time! newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.
Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda: It's so hard to heal knowing there are people out there who know more about my abuse than I do. The government is still in possession of the documents with my name on them that could help me put the pieces of my own life back together, but I don't have any of it
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
“.. Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening," said former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou. 🤡 @cbsnews.com @macfarlanenews.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
Again, why did these people spend the time, energy, and money to win their jobs only to so willingly defenestrate themselves. Also, John Kennedy (pictured) knows better ( www.politico.com/live-updates...
Ok but what about the guy next to Trump wearing a tan suit in September?
Kimmel “God abandoned us this year on January 20 - grabbed his keys and left”
Jimmy Kimmel is back from his summer vacation
Ok here is some good news
Donald Trump has recognized the basic truth that a critical mass of Americans will cheer the more brutal you are to people they see as criminals.
It’s a campaign to drive LGBTQ+ people back into “the closet.” It’s easier to control people who are closeted.
BREAKING: DC Circuit, 2-1, reinstates Biden appointee Rebecca Slaughter to FTC despite Trump attempt to fire her without cited cause. Majority: Millett (Obama), Pillard (Obama). Dissent: Rao (Trump) www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Huh.
Man who left the military because he was ignorant about the safety of the COVID vaccine wants a job protecting our borders.
Deploying the National Guard to DC for a fake emergency: $1 million per DAY. Finding out your authoritarian president doesn’t give a damn about not wasting your tax dollars: Priceless!
Denied pregnancy happened with one of my fellow students in MBA school. People often mistakenly think it only occurs with morbidly obese low income women. My fellow student was slender but had always worn oversized button down shirts so her expanding abdomen was not detectable.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
To see the cost of Trump’s bullying, tally the world leaders flocking to China
I have a vague memory of Japan giving schoolchildren influenza vaccines and finding that the result was a decrease in deaths of seniors from influenza. America’s evangelical Christians need to be challenged on the command by Jesus to “love thy neighbor as thyself.”
I fear that the “medical freedom” movement )which is just antivax in disguise) puts absolutely no value on protecting other people in our communities.
Why is it I never see anything about the importance of vaccinating kids to reduce the risk of their grandparents getting COVID infections? A lot of kids spend hours with their grandparents every week.
Ok but did you eat that bread while pedaling on a Peloton?
"Investments by other countries in mRNA vaccines will be essential as the United States abandons its role as global leader in vaccine research and development— all in service of Kennedy’s personal, endless campaign against proven, effective, life-saving vaccines." thebulletin.org/2025/09/rfk-...
It’s an oasis
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. https://to.pbs.org/46d1uiJ
To be clear: This is about an outstanding status report from *attorneys for the children*—not DOJ. DOJ has now filed each of its required status reports. bsky.app/profile/anna...
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
My city provides a once a month “bulk pick up” of refuse at the curb. The big truck and “the claw” came today - on Labor Day. Seems wrong to make employees do it on this holiday.
Three demential chess I tell you
Is he talking about vaccines or Paxlovid/monoclonal antibodies? The mention of Pfizer makes me think it could be Paxlovid, which would be a new line of attack from the admin.
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Pete Hegseth’s move to reinstall a Confederate statue is, at worst, a move to show that “he and the Trump administration are making common cause with apologists who believe that the wrong side won the Civil War,” Mike Nelson argues.
“We send a resounding message to the federal government: we do not need nor want an unconstitutional, illegal military occupation of our city. We do not want military checkpoints or armored vehicles on our streets. We do not want to see families ripped apart.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Good, stop the appeasing
FYI: Hopefully more states will join.
This is like saying you don’t have a fishing license because you didn’t know you needed one.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan now orders the govt to explain why it has failed to meet her 4 p.m. ET deadline to give a status update on the Guatemalan children who are supposed to be removed from planes and returned to Office of Refugee Resettlement custody.
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
Right wing is erasing societal acknowledgments of LGBTQ people www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/u...
wow
Streaming this as a distraction today
Disappointed the judge did not demand a list of the names of all the minors.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
“Then I realized the ocean was gonna win.” Luckily, Jake remembered to “swim parallel to the shoreline” -- the most important safety tip for escaping and surviving a rip current. Learn more at weather.gov/ripcurrent
It is great to see the local news interviewing pediatricians and emphasizing the importance of vaccines. “Janco said the most common illnesses doctors see once the school year starts up are COVID-19, pertussis — also known as whooping cough — influenza, strep throat and respiratory syncytial virus.”
America’s failure to support India on a core security interest and decision to punish it over trade has shattered trust among Indians, some of whom had always warned that dependence on America was dangerous
For real: Are Republicans not embarrassed by stuff like this??
Su: The BLS collects statistical information — things like the nation’s inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Thread with some interesting history
The Trump administration is responsible for deaths due to cancelling life saving foreign aid programs, dismantling important domestic programs and spreading anti vax misinformation. Shame on every Christian who voted for Trump.
Deportation of a firefighter who has been in the US since he was 4 years old
If you haven’t watched it yet, the latest episode of this podcast covers the ridiculous RFK Jr restrictions on COVID boosters youtu.be/rZIwo9rvB7o?...
His wife has cancer
The New York Times ran a whole piece speculating that Joe Biden had Parkinson’s and suggesting his neurologists were lying to the public. archive.ph/0u9ht
Please follow Dr Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social
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The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
The wellness industry extracts money from someone I love with claims about supplements, the MTHFR gene, naturopathy, essential oils, chiropracty, etc. It’s impossible to convince someone who has been sucked into it that it is a money making scam once it becomes their worldview.
“Wellness has come to represent a wonderland free from constraints of scientific scrutiny. The industry flows with pseudoscience & to say it’s lucrative would be an understatement…The term has morphed into dollar signs, drawing us into a never-ending cycle of treating problems we didn’t know we had”
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Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
Plus: root cause, sensory processing disorder, castor oil, leaky gut syndrome
Did the damage to the Burning Man orgy tent get repaired yet?
Some of you did not learn to not touch your faces when COVID hit in 2020 and it shows
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
I’ve written quite a bit about the EWG’s long and lucrative anti-science activism and lobbying efforts as well: news.immunologic.org/p/the-enviro...
For those who want to understand HOW RFK Jr makes money by lying about vaccines, please read this article I wrote: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
Despite backsliding in the US, global investment in renewable energy stayed strong in the first half of 2025. This is the energy of the future, and the GOP is letting the rest of the world develop it.
Congrats Trump voters!
MI Walgreens employee here - we had to SEND BACK our stock of COVID vaccines because of the "deauthorization"
Written order to come within 30 days (he issued it now bc the law is supposed to go into effect Monday. Rough holding is that it likely violates the 1A to compel companies issue disclosures related to DEI and ESG they don't think are true. Trump-appointed Judge Alan Albright.
The Trump administration has cut funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, which operates clinical trials for children with brain cancer. The Consortium has been forced to stop enrolling new patients and will soon be phased out.
www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/pati...
I laughed. Not sure what that says about me.
Leader Schumer is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "By keeping Robert Kennedy in charge of HHS, Trump is doubling down on his own failure. President Trump must admit his mistake and remove Kennedy now."
Since the NYT article is paywalled, you can find the explanation by CVS of its different rules on the COVID boosters in different states in this article: www.nj.com/healthfit/20...