As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is moving forward -- and here are the details on how it will take place: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Gonna say it again and again until y’all get sick of me: America has become an authoritarian state.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterday

Breaking News: The Justice Department is investigating whether major TV networks violated federal antitrust laws when they briefly suspended pool coverage of President Trump, according to people with knowledge of the department’s action.

Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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Elon Musk's SpaceX has fallen months behind on a roughly $70,000 restaurant tab, leaving the owner struggling to pay staff and bills, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX blasts off without paying $70k restaurant tab: report

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has fallen months behind on a roughly $70,000 restaurant tab, leaving the owner struggling to pay staff and bills, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.“We’re the blue-collar guys cooking this food, hustling to make this work for these young kids making like six figures, and this ...

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Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Girl with cerebral palsy does an incredible dance routine Original post

“Christian” pastors cheering on public executions when the whole Christian faith is based on the abhorrence of the gruesomeness of a public execution shows how far Christian Nationalism is off the rails.

Todd Blanche has launched an antitrust investigation into ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and even Fox News after the networks suspended their coverage of Trump in protest of him barring three news organizations from the White House. This is insanity. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...

Trump: “We need an ocean. So I was thinking of either the Atlantic or the Pacific. We call it Trump Ocean or Ocean of the Americas, something like that.” Courtesy of @acyn.bsky.social

ALSO Justice and vengeance are two very different things. The government shouldn’t have the power to execute people, especially when our justice system doesn’t deliver equal justice. Race, wealth, and access to the best legal representation can determine who lives and who dies.

What a shock. So it turns out Scott Bessent lied about everything during his confirmation hearing. Including this.

BREAKING: In responding to one of two lawsuits challenging the legality of the Trump-praising DHS propaganda ads, DOJ tonight does not defend the ads on the merits — instead arguing that the ads are set to end on Sunday, so there will be no irreparable harm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d ago

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Cleveland and Tampa crash the ALCS on two of the smallest payrolls in baseball. Money can't buy October. It can only buy a ballpark naming deal and a president, apparently.

In an age where it seems like money is everything, it’s refreshing to have Cleveland and Tampa in the ALCS demonstrating that quality can’t just be bought

The crowd’s at Trump’s staged events are getting smaller and smaller. Probably why they’re holding them in high school gymnasiums. A rally deep in the red state of Tennessee was overshadowed by the copious amounts of empty seats.

“It’s a day to unapologetically be ourselves as Native people.” https://mrf.lu/28Fxs

Trump goes silent as rally speech disrupted within minutes: ‘Wacko screaming up there!’ - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/trump-heckle...

Trump goes silent as rally speech disrupted within minutes: ‘Wacko screaming up there!’

President Donald Trump praised Tennessee law enforcement officials Saturday after his rally speech appeared to have been disrupted by a heckler within minutes.Speaking in Clarksville, Trump complained...

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62 letters from 19,500 telling Congress a Trump donor doesn't get his own road through Yosemite. 62. You could do that before lunch: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway

Contact Congress today!

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You can see the woman in red behind him laugh after he says this and say "It's true."

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

Another terrible thing about the public livestream execution thing is that nobody was asking for it. It’s just being done to satisfy Trump’s far reaching bloodlust

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous

This one is going to age DELICIOUSLY.

The pedophile president who kidnaps and kills us says the darnedest things

when your campaign is going awesomely

Interestingly, Kimberly Guilfoyle is still the US Ambassador to Greece www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | At Davos, Kimberly Guilfoyle Boasted of Private Jet Trips, Luxury Stays

A recording captured the U.S. ambassador saying that Greek businessmen were paying for her travels and pleading for an invitation to an event with Eric Trump.

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Former VP Mike Pence: “President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.”

I guess one question I had is where does Russia get the diesel it is apparently planning to sell to Trump

Energy Costs of Iran War Are More Than $1000 per Household https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/10/energy-costs-of-iran-war-are-more-than-1000-per-household/?ap=b

Energy Costs of Iran War Are More Than $1000 per Household

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