“What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.” ~ G. W. F. Hegel Low tolerance for stupidity. Lawyer. And get the damn vaccine.
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4/ A weaker CDC means more vulnerable communities. Public health only works when the people leading it are strong, principled, and supported in their duty to protect and serve individuals and communities. That foundation is eroding at a speed I never thought possible. Our health security is at risk.
Quick politics analysis: Bill Cassidy is up for election in 2026. His absolute highest priority now is to avoid angering Trump. He doesn't want Trump turning Louisiana Republican voters against him. So what does that mean? Cassidy wants to pretend he cares about RFK, but not do anything real. 1/
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Georgia Lawyers for the Rule of Law weekly article—this week on the importance of the writ of habeas corpus. The Great Writ – Habeas Corpus into the Twenty-First Century - Georgia Lawyers for the Rule of Law georgialawyersfortheruleoflaw.org/the-great-wr...
Georgia Lawyers for the Rule of Law weekly article—this week on the importance of the writ of habeas corpus. The Great Writ – Habeas Corpus into the Twenty-First Century - Georgia Lawyers for the Rule of Law georgialawyersfortheruleoflaw.org/the-great-wr...
Happy Labor Day.
The Rule of Law matters.
What happened to your spine, Senator?
Cassidy could have stopped this BS.
Cassidy stating that someone’s post is “empirically not true” is just rich. Hey Senator, maybe you should haul RFKjr into the Senate chamber to tell him that his dumbfuckery is empirically not true. Quit with this performative BS.
Best thing I’ve seen today on Bluesky. Made me smile instead of ranting about the state of our country.
We Ran the C.D.C. Secretary Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky & Mandy K. Cohen The authors previously led in the C.D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Putin always knew that he can do whatever he wants. Trump was never a deterrent for Putin.
Happy Labor Day! Let’s celebrate the movement’s accomplishments and keep fighting for what #workersdeserve Find a local event 👇 www.mobilize.us/aft/?date=20...
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!
Memo to Bill Cassidy: It's ok to criticize RFK Jr. in public now. fyi: Your courage is still at the back door, right where you left it two years ago.
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
On this first Labor Day of trump's second term a friendly reminder that everything now costs more since trump took office, well except the price of being a bigot. Congrats, MAGA. You’re just a poorer kind of hateful now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... “If the labor movement does not fight harder than it has since Mr. Trump regained the presidency, its future will be dire.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... What an incredibly weak statement by former CDC directors.
He knew better. Chose personal political power over doing the morally right thing.
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Of course he’s stiffing them. He has a history of not paying his contractors.
Karma is a bitch
When I read @pgourevitch.bsky.social post yesterday, my initial reaction was: Yeah, even the Nazis had a use for science, forgetting what I knew about Nazis and science in that moment. The Nazis had a use for gadgets, not science for the sake of science.
I’m vaccinated. I have the same degree as RFKjr. But I know that listening to a scientist or doctor instead of a lawyer about vaccines is how to analyze this issue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
This is the “five alarm fire” people talk about. As a former CDC director said on CNN this morning: “This is endangering our lives versus protecting our lives.” WHERE ARE OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ON THIS?? WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS??
Hope this is how it plays out.
This is completely unsurprising when you consider Trump’s past history of stiffing contractors who worked for his business.
Yep
Yes!
You voted for this Senator
www.aafp.org/family-physi... Wrap your head around this: the American Academy of Family Physicians is not endorsing the CDC vaccine schedules. Wow.
Can anyone give an accurate prediction about what this ACIP might do?
Yet MAGATs believe Covid didn’t happen at all.
More of this!
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Republicans had a chance to protect public health. Instead they chose to put a dishonest quack in charge of it. They own the nightmares to come.
Nope.
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The Justice Department is Threatening The Rule of Law - Georgia Lawyers for the Rule of Law url:https://georgialawyersfortheruleoflaw.org/the-justice-department-is-threatening-the-rule-of-law/ Proud to be a member of this group of Georgia lawyers who support the rule of law in this country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u... “Galston, a senior fellow and … chair of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said the purge at the C.D.C. ‘replaces scientific and medical expertise with ideas about health and disease that have only a bare overlap with the truth.’” What could go wrong?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h... “In an interview on Thursday morning, Dr. Houry and Dr. Daskalakis said there was no single move that pushed them to resign. Rather, it was ‘death by a thousand paper cuts,’ Dr. Houry said. ‘We had so many of these instances where we just couldn’t take it.’”
For my husband, a decades long CDC employee, it’s not the thousands of paper cuts endured since the beginning of the year. The tipping point is thinking about being shot while going to his job.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a... Like the Rose Garden?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h... What could go wrong?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u... “‘Secretary Kennedy has been a crown jewel of this administration who’s working tirelessly to improve public health for all Americans,’ Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday.” Of course this ghoul would say that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... Thank you Senator for this essay. But now we need you to lead a take down of this witch doctor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o... Despite his assurances in January, Kennedy “is trying to fully dismantle the nation’s vaccination apparatus, regardless of what science says or what most people want. And less than a year into his tenure as health secretary, he is succeeding brilliantly.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... Well Senator Cassidy, what are you going to do now?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... Well Senator Cassidy, what are you going to do now?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o... Despite his assurances in January, Kennedy “is trying to fully dismantle the nation’s vaccination apparatus, regardless of what science says or what most people want. And less than a year into his tenure as health secretary, he is succeeding brilliantly.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... Thank you Senator for this essay. But now we need you to lead a take down of this witch doctor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u... “‘Secretary Kennedy has been a crown jewel of this administration who’s working tirelessly to improve public health for all Americans,’ Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday.” Of course this ghoul would say that.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h... What could go wrong?
Doesn’t Texas have some other issues it should be focusing on?
Now you’re insulting hillbillies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a... Like the Rose Garden?
For my husband, a decades long CDC employee, it’s not the thousands of paper cuts endured since the beginning of the year. The tipping point is thinking about being shot while going to his job.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h... “In an interview on Thursday morning, Dr. Houry and Dr. Daskalakis said there was no single move that pushed them to resign. Rather, it was ‘death by a thousand paper cuts,’ Dr. Houry said. ‘We had so many of these instances where we just couldn’t take it.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u... “Galston, a senior fellow and … chair of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said the purge at the C.D.C. ‘replaces scientific and medical expertise with ideas about health and disease that have only a bare overlap with the truth.’” What could go wrong?
The Justice Department is Threatening The Rule of Law - Georgia Lawyers for the Rule of Law url:https://georgialawyersfortheruleoflaw.org/the-justice-department-is-threatening-the-rule-of-law/ Proud to be a member of this group of Georgia lawyers who support the rule of law in this country.
And by “they had the means,” she means that the shooter had easy access to weapons. It’s the guns.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
A top CDC official shared a scathing resignation post tonight in which he accused HHS chief Robert Kennedy of ignoring experts and said recent policy changes threatened lives.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
📌This is what a hero looks like. This is Dr. Susan Monarez, who just announced she WILL NOT resign her post as C.D.C. Director underneath the anti-vax monster, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She is standing up for the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans, and we MUST stand up for her.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08... “Dr. Monarez then called Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican chairman of the Senate health committee, who in turn called Mr. Kennedy, according to the official.” Wonder how that call went between Cassidy and Kennedy.
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Sure, this makes sense.
This country is dangerously unprepared for many things now. Hurricanes, pandemics, terrorist attacks.
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He sold his soul to the devil.
federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/... My husband was in a union and now he’s not. Union busting.
federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/... My husband was in a union and now he’s not. Union busting.
Does he think he’s going to live forever?
WTF
The DOJ listened so well the last time.
I know many of us are tired. But we must keep pushing back. Making calls to our reps and senators shows that we oppose what this administration is doing. Please take a look at the list of topics and make a few calls today. We have voices, and we need to use them. #pinks #proudblue
Wish he’d been elected.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
6/ As cases rose, RFK Jr. exaggerated the power of vitamin A while spreading false rumors about vaccines. “HHS pressed us to insert vitamin A into all of our communications with clinicians and health officials,” one CDC scientist told me. www.cbsnews.com/news/measles...
FFS
5/ “It’s not that the CDC was delinquent,” said Georges Benjamin, executive director of @apha.org. “It’s that they had their hands tied behind their backs.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
3/ As measles took off in Feb, the Trump admin was interfering with CDC reports, censoring data, and laying off CDC staff. Amid the chaos, CDC experts told me they felt restrained from advising local health officials grappling with measles in Texas. www.cbsnews.com/news/measles...
Cull the herd—the mentality of this administration.
On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
Probably the best signature ever some people might say.
Who knew that Cracker Barrel could be so woke. 🙄
Jake will write about this in 2029. Don’t rush him.
Should we start a betting pool on how this SCOTUS rules?
Stop confusing JD with the facts!
Whether we like somebody or not, they are owed due process of law. Whether we like them or not, we can't stay quiet while Donald steamrolls the rule of law. I keep wondering, who'll be next? Dystopian times ahead.
Damn right we are.
Please don’t trouble JD with any facts.
Does it matter? The impact on science is the same.