Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said a gay leader at the CDC who resigned last week in protest of HHS Secretary RFK Jr. had “no business being in government” due to the “lifestyle” he led.👇🏻
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said a gay leader at the CDC who resigned last week in protest of HHS Secretary RFK Jr. had “no business being in government” due to the “lifestyle” he led.👇🏻
Fire RFK Jr. Now👇🏻
They can't seem to stop promoting ivermecting and hydroxychloroquine. They keep practicing medicine without a license.
I went to Truth Social to see if a screenshot was real (no) and the ads continue to be absolutely wild. Here’s Charlie Kirk’s face being used to promote ivermectin on the sketchiest online pharmacy I’ve seen in a while. “Helps disrupt the viral components of the virus.”
Bullies bully. It’s what they do. Leaders lead. It’s what they do. You tell me who is the leader and who is the bully. Don’t let anything distract from the fact that what is at risk is health not the fragile egos of men. Fight for health not for clout.
Everytime he speaks, he is wrong. He is wrong this time too.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said a gay leader at the CDC who resigned last week in protest of HHS Secretary RFK Jr. had “no business being in government” due to the “lifestyle” he led.👇🏻
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.
Fire RFK Jr. Now👇🏻
💯 BS really.
Sounds like a bs reason for a hyped presidential address.
I assume this address is just to prove he is alive & well. And it's obviously not working.
Seems like the US has lost 20 IQ points as an average since Dumbo got reelected.
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Of course. Whatever they can use to make money on stupid.
And serums are obviously not working. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
These people are ridiculous in their stupid beliefs.
Trump's Department of Energy: EXTINCTION IS GOOD FOR YOU "The DOE's Climate Working Group consisted of 4 scientists and one economist who have all questioned the scientific consensus that climate change is a large threat to the world and sometimes frame global warming as beneficial"
Autistic dogs...I mean....
Oh holy hell. Rabid antivaxxers. RABIES IS NEARLY 100% FATAL
This idiot really just said monkeypox only infects homosexuals
The destroyed public health and healthcare will forever be Cassidy's legacy!
So annoying. Journalists should stop calling anti-vaxxers vaccine skeptics. There is no such thing as vaccine skepticism.
Same! 👋🏻
Many states don’t let you get a COVID vaccine without a prescription as they had existing laws that tied access to official CDC approval. This made sense as a safety measure, but now the CDC has been taken over by antivaxxers, several states are rightfully modifying these laws to reinstate access.
Good news. The House of Representatives stands behind the NIH budget with no cuts.
“Prasad’s comments still appeared on anti-vaccine social media accounts, suggesting Prasad was directing his removal demand only at a critic and not anti-vaccine influencers. In the past, Prasad has complained about censorship by social media companies.” Yeah, cause he is an antivaxxer and a fraud.
RFK Jr will testify before the Senate Finance committee on Thursday. Should be interesting. Hopefully the Senators are ready to hold his feet to the fire and flatly call out his lies.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org.web.brid.gy @gorskon.bsky.social
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.
We have to continue to push. People should push their legislators. This is a matter of life and death literally.
Yup, the dude who was silent when could speak up and leave that admin with integrity. But started speaking after and kept revising his own participation in the pandemic response.
Are you surprised knowing his background?
By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky and Mandy K. Cohen 👇🏻
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
Medicare 2026: premiums ⬆️, coverage ⬇️, prior authorization ⬆️. Maybe some drug price negotiations (small list of cheap drugs?), maybe free vaccines if on ACIP list (will there be any?).
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.
The pre-vaccine era was HELL for kids. We have already failed them on gun safety, we cannot fail them on the issue of vaccines. #VACCINES cause Adults!
here’s what we need to be more focused on. more of this
The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last week’s firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.’s war against vaccines. Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is working hard to take away your vaccines, if he can. Here’s a progress report.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
New episode with @wendyorent.bsky.social discussing the carnage at the CDC and the heroes who fought back. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
I like the rebrand.
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
Source:
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Covid vaccine saved lives! Blaming covid vaccine for erroding trust in CDC is garbage!
"What eroded trust was the COVID vaccine" No, it was the fucking dipshits like RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad who spread misinformation and contrarianism as a profiteering industry.
There were wrong decisions the CDC made but covid vaccine is not that.
Covid vaccine saved lives! Blaming covid vaccine for erroding trust in CDC is garbage!
Stupid is forever.
Terrific and terrifying piece by William J. Broad for the @nytimes.com: “'Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had,' Dr. Josephson wrote. 'He’s certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
This is the crux of the problem. Invisible agencies don’t get public support. That’s why the military requests flyovers at football games and advertises on TV. We need to recognize teachers, nurses, and scientists during football and basketball games. We need their stories told
Kennedy is going to break the backs of the CDC and the NIH once and for all and all elected Republicans are doing, if anything, is making mild tweets of concern about it.
Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s powerlessness to stop him.
It will be worse
They will kill ACA by making it unaffordable. Many people will have no healthcare starting next year if nothing changes.
The “AI Action Plan” is what some of us feared: no ethics, no equity. By erasing vulnerable groups from data, it locks racism into medicine, deepens inequities, & will leave certain populations without care - a blueprint for exclusion/extinction disguised as innovation.
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
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oxymoron (noun) | ox·y·mo·ron A combination of contradictory or incongruous words; broadly: something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements Example: “Meta Ethics”
The “AI Action Plan” is what some of us feared: no ethics, no equity. By erasing vulnerable groups from data, it locks racism into medicine, deepens inequities, & will leave certain populations without care - a blueprint for exclusion/extinction disguised as innovation.
We should all worry about the chaos at the CDC But there’s an even larger and longer-term health threat quietly unfolding For @theatlantic.com I wrote about how the Trump admin’s ‘AI Action Plan’ risks hardwiring bias and inequity into medicine for decades. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Medicare will begin denying claims utilizing A.I. companies that get paid depending on how many claims they reject * Medicare For All
U.S. health science is crumbling. If Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, et al — all once associated with academic biomedicine — had a thimble of courage and integrity they’d speak up. But silence. They must know their legacy is now darkness. #ScienceMatters
Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/prasadfailure/
“Has America run out of actual health practitioners with demonstrated experience improving public health outcomes?”
If I lied with my whole ass like this to my 1 million twitter followers I would be fired and I would deserve it.
Trump’s immigration raids are destroying our agricultural workforce — inflating costs, creating worker shortages, and destroying communities. On California Farmworker Day, we honor the hardworking men and women who power our economy. We will not stop defending your rights.
Incredibly concerning and more so each day wapo.st/4myP0HW
Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
Good morning! MAGA/MAHA dude Jay Bhattacharya will forever be remembered as RFK Jr’s biggest champion (he campaigned for him/spoke at his rallies) & the NIH director who presided over the destruction of US health research—including childhood brain cancer research 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Another great piece by @kieraevebutler.bsky.social & @annamerlan.bsky.social Kennedy must be removed from office NOW before we completely lose public health, healthcare, and medical science. His destructive actions will not be easy to recover from.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
this should be a scandal. jonathan is one of vinay prasad’s most incisive & vocal critics. prasad is actively censoring his non-government scientific critics. and his position of power means youtube will do whatever he says
O'Neill is a "longevity guy" and is buddies with Bryan Johnson and... "He has also supported the libertarian idea of creating new geographic zones, possibly at sea, in which residents can live by their own rules (including, notably, permissive regulatory regimes for new drugs and therapies). "
This admin and particularly RFK Jr is the root cause of public health epidemic in this country.
Getting Covid-19 vaccine may become complicated depending on the state you live in. In many states, its not just go to a pharmacy and get a shot.
This admin and particularly RFK Jr is the root cause of public health epidemic in this country.
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
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...
It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.
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I am really fucking tired of women's personhood, privacy, and agency being obliterated by tech companies that monetize our sexuality without our consent. They shrug when we report rape threats and gendered harassment. Why? Because they're secretly encouraging this behavior. It's good for business.
Another great piece by @kieraevebutler.bsky.social & @annamerlan.bsky.social Kennedy must be removed from office NOW before we completely lose public health, healthcare, and medical science. His destructive actions will not be easy to recover from.
Except it isn’t just clear NOW that Makary and Bhattacharya are unqualified hacks. It’s been clear for the past 5 years- longer for Makary. (My comment is not directed at Gavin, who knows this.)
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Trump is close to batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led the Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first place.
Trump told donors—who were paying $1 million to be there—that he wished he could talk more about Operation Warp Speed, the government program he initiated that helped expedite the development of the vaccine, attendees said.
As President Trump sat with top donors at his New Jersey golf club this August, he made a private admission: He believed the coronavirus vaccine was one of the biggest accomplishments of his presidency, but he couldn’t bask in it.
RFK Jr has to go before we go back to 1800s.
This entire AP article about how the state of Florida screwed itself over with this Alligator Alcatraz stunt could be summed up in the words, "You fucking idiots." apnews.com/article/flor...
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.