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Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
Grandparents must lead on vaccines. We remember the dangers of vaccine preventable diseases. Our message- it is crucial that every child be vaccinated following the AAP childhood immunization schedule. @donnagaffney.bsky.social and my op-ed is here: www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/us-v...
Gen Mark Hertling: I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.
Isn't that half dome???
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
1. The president is an obvious bigot 2. His administration is pursuing a panoply of racist and sexist policies 3. Lisa Cook is the first Black woman on the Fed board and has done research on economic effects of racism How are we not talking about this? paulwaldman.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
"This is Death of Stalin stuff!" - @timmiller.bsky.social
from the biggest public health association “RFK Jr. must be removed from his position.”
Please amplify everywhere.🧬🧪🥼🔬#ScienceMattersToAllOfUs
Wow! I knew something shady was going on. Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was ousted because she refused to go w/ MAGA shady agenda. This a “warning to every American: our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within” Science is under attack. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Grateful to Dr Demetre Daskalakis for his voice tonight 🔥 🛟🧪🩺
Livestream has ended but the video can still be watched. The CDC belongs to YOU. It was created to protect YOU. I admire the integrity of the scientists resigning in protest over RFK's abuses. But it's appalling that it has come this. To make your anger better informed, please watch and share:
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
LIVE VIDEO discussion right now on the un-fucking-believable crisis at CDC tonight. www.youtube.com/live/RzQycCk...
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Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
This too is criminal.
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Yes, this is criminal.
This is so, yes, criminal. I am often asked for my medical thoughts. My first answer is always "get the best doctor you can." This is national scale malpractice and is lethal.
After the Department of Health and Human Services said Susan Monarez is no longer the CDC director, her lawyers said she did not resign and had not been fired, accusing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of “weaponizing public health for political gain.”
The wave of CDC resignations is simply extraordinary.
This is so, yes, criminal. I am often asked for my medical thoughts. My first answer is always "get the best doctor you can." This is national scale malpractice and is lethal.
Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
August 25, 2025
Great leaders understand the need for disagreement, dissent, and debate. But perhaps no one understands it better than the soldiers who have lived through the consequences of plans made in echo chambers.
Don't agonize — organize! Here are five steps you can take between now and the midterms to resist Trump's tyranny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W-l...
Democrats cannot defeat authoritarian fascism without an agenda that stands squarely on the side of working people. We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before.
Thank you @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social for promoting our letter. Together we will #SavePublicHelath! We would not have survived the pandemic mentally without you. You are a public health lifeline. Thanks for being in the trenches along side us. There is still time for everyone to sign.
This is your reminder that no one in Congress should be trading stocks. Who’s with me?
Here, fixed it.
NEW: More than 750 current and former federal health workers have accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of contributing to harassment and violence against them.
Resistance www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Over 750 HHS current and former employees are *on the record* criticizing RFK Jr in the aftermath of the CDC shooting. They call him “complicit in dismantling America’s public health infrastructure ... by repeatedly spreading inaccurate health information." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Don’t let anyone tell you it couldn’t happen here - it already is.
COVID Vaccine for children
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
You'd think by now Mark Zuckerberg might have learned that destroying human lives in order to serve "the company's emphasis on boosting engagement" might be a problem, but no
Most of Trump's corrupt money-grubbing is happening through crypto, which is the perfect vehicle not only for the huge sums sloshing around and the limitless supply of scammers and criminals involved, but because it's so complex and confusing that ordinary people can't hope to understand it
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has posted statement saying: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is UnAmerican”
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
Trump and America got nothing from Putin. But the question is what did Putin get from Trump? Do we know?
The CDC shooter actually believed that COVID 💉are dangerous. That's a tragedy. 🧠🪱 & his cronies don't. They're inciting violence against our govt for political gain. That's treason. #FireRFKJ #FireBhattacharya #FirePrasad(again)
🧵CDC friends, many of us are experiencing insomnia, nightmares, nausea, trouble concentrating, memory loss and more. These can all be caused by trauma. Now is not a time to “be strong”. It's a time to get help. If you are worried about getting help through CDC, see below for outside resources 👇
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Jack White responds to Newsom’s IG post that used “Seven Nation Army”: "Fans of this song and also democracy, notice that I'm ok with this track being used in this manner. Not so much when trump and his gestapo try to use one of my songs. Keep hitting him back Gavin!"
Chris Murphy: "I think the most important element of that just peace is that it is a negotiation between Ukraine and Russia, not a negotiation between the United States and Russia."
Lest we forget—while Trump needlessly deploys hundreds of National Guardsmen to D.C., which he claims is "a cesspool of crime and homelessness"—he has yet to release the Epstein files, and his BLS pick allegedly "wandered" to the Capitol on January 6. trib.al/ogtqKeC
Medical journal the Lancet has estimated that DOGE’s dismantling of USAID may result in >14M deaths, 1/3 of them children, by 2030. That’s like killing *everyone* in New York, Los Angeles & Chicago. These deaths from disease, malnutrition, & hunger will be largely out of sight for most Americans.
Despite warnings that their actions are illegal, NASA Administrator Duffy & other senior officials have been secretly directing NASA employees to draw up plans ending two major satellite missions that monitor global CO2. (Eos not pulling many punches in this article.) eos.org/research-and...
Good morning. Let’s start by honoring the laboratorians 🔬—still walking past bullet holes and shattered glass after last week’s CDC shooting. While most of us telework today, lab staff work through fear with no choice—keeping America safe. Essential work, unjustly theirs to carry.
The immorality of Trump warmly welcoming the war criminal Putin, who murders and kidnaps children and other civilians, disgusts me.
The Trump administration’s strategy to “Make America Healthy Again” will bypass aggressive action on farm-used pesticides or regulatory crackdowns on ultraprocessed foods, according to a draft document obtained by CNN. Read more: cnn.it/3HCtVNv
Last Friday, a gunman who believed vaccine conspiracy theories fired 500 rounds at the CDC headquarters, killing one officer & sending employees into lockdown for hours. Trump has STILL not made a statement about this. He has more than enough time to terrorize unhoused people in DC, though!
Not only did federal goons show up to try and intimidate our governor, they did so on hallowed ground. Gov. Newsom was speaking at the Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum, which I helped found so we do not repeat the horrors and injustices of the past. Shameful.
This article highlights the role of misinformation in the CDC shooting last week. RFK Jr. won’t even mention the underlying reasons for the attack, and the MAHA movement is silent on it too. Defend Public Health had already completed our IHAT report before this tragedy. But three of our pillars…
🚨BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. is a danger to this nation. Don’t give in to Trump & his cronies: we are NOT trading innovation for ideology. We demand the immediate IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL of RFK. Stop the quack. Protect Science. Protect Democracy Sign & share here: zurl.co/PEPyD #StandUpForScience
Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."
We meme'd it! We fixed one of the photo op pictures of RFK Jr in a CDC building. Picture taken on Aug 11, 2025.
Kennedy is killing science. That will end up killing people.
Even if Putin doesn't effectively get the concessions he wants on Ukraine itself - and he well might - he's already gotten the prestige of the president of the United States treating him like an equal. www.thebulwark.com/p/alaska-sum...
They are taking away our rights, our cities, and our health.
The shooting at CDC was domestic terrorism. It was instigated by the HHS Secretary's years-long campaign against an agency he oversees. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high. Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy — but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance. Nothing trickles down to workers.
Wow…
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
The vicious cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers. 3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.
RFK Jr had his video posted the HHsgov’s Instagram account, too. Where is our humanity? CDC staff have been traumatized and here RFK Jr is posting fishing pictures and gym videos. Shut the front door! We are in another level of the twilight zone.
Officer David Rose died protecting us. A true hero. Thank you. 🔗 Link to Officer Rose’s speech: m.facebook.com/watch/?v=109...
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. James Baldwin
Some European leaders say that Ukraine must be included in any talks with Russia over ending the war.
On FTN, Jerome Adams, who was surgeon general in Trump's first admin, slams RFK Jr. re the CDC shooting. "It took him over 18 hours to issue a tepid response to these horrific shootings, and that's not even considering how his inflammatory rhetoric ... contributed to a lot of what's been going on."
This was an attack on a federal institution. An attack BECAUSE it is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This was domestic terrorism. Why isn’t it getting more press coverage? Some coverage, not enough. Domestic. Terrorism.
He did not "appear to target cdc," he fired at least 60 bullets at CDC buildings with good hardworking people in them
Pritzker: Neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level has the authority to arrest these Texas Democrats They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.
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It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
Urge the Department of Energy to continue saving Americans money action.consumerreports.org/nb-20250709-...
Going to war in Iraq over bad intelligence destroyed the reputation of everyone involved. And now we're about to do the same thing in Iran.
It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.
Typical toxic nonsense from this tiny man
Sen. Murphy continues to regularly say the things that many of you complain that no prominent Democrat is saying.
Acting FEMA Chief Told Staff He Didn’t Know About U.S. Hurricane Season ... morons are running the govt. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...
“The art of the deal” …..😂
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A crowd of people gathered today outside a Milwaukee courthouse today for an emergency protest to support Judge Hannah Dugan after her arrest. She has since been released. Keep ICE away from our independent judiciary and demand due process for everyone!
If you needed any further proof that the arrest of Judge Dugan was a propaganda opportunity and a fear tactic, here you go. Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism!
