I’m a doctor. I’m also a survivor of sexual assault & the co-Editor-in-Chief of Vaccine. My uncle led efforts to eliminate HBV in Alaska Native communities. You know him. We all know this wrong, but you voted for RFK Jr. & Blanche anyway. I’ll never forgive you for either.

I do not think we should have handed over responsibility for children's health to the stupidest and most ignorant people alive

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

"Vats of vaccine are currently pumped into your child's body" -- Trump from the Oval Office is pushing debunked claims about vaccines and autism being linked

Very interested in this for my own son (and patients) -- clicking through a few layers into resources, www.unwomen.org/en/articles/... has specific recommendations

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4h ago

In my new OpEd, I discuss the health harms of the MAHA-MAGA-manosphere & ways to prevent them I explore what clinicians can do when they see boys & young men in clinic, what the public health community can do, and what parents can do IMHO, the MAHA-MAGA-manosphere dudes are terrible role models

"You say MMR is quite lethal, is there any evidence of that?" "No. What I've heard is that there are some people who say it is that way." great. super. what a fantastic way to determine policy.

Democrats, please start describing these EOs as such: they want your children to suffer from infectious diseases. they want you to get fired for missing work for all these visits. they want you to go bankrupt from copays. #vaccines

Please start referring to it as "gold-leaf science." Thank you for your attention to this matter. #vaccines

Centrist orgs like Third Way aren't afraid that a progressive will lose the general in 2028. They're afraid that they'll win www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

Have you ever heard of a PBM filing a complaint about a provider with the state's regulatory board?? For "potential fraud, waste, or abuse" ? And they indicated they are a mandatory reporter!

Curious if anyone in bsky land has been able to open an ABLE account for their autistic child? Helping a patient family and running across roadblocks.

I cannot even believe that Byram Healthcare customer service phone line closes for lunch. On central time. A company that size can't stagger lunchtimes?

Sunday: I’ll do a quick fact check of this insane RFK Jr interview Monday: Up to 40 lies & it was only a 3 min clip! Tuesday: Ready to defend my 2nd PhD thesis on fascist quackery That's why @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social & I are holding him accountable rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-...

RFK Jr is Asking to Be Proven Wrong Again So Here Are 40 Examples From Just One CNN Interview

He's just creating work for us at this point

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

Vote no on I-100 and I-638.

No Hate in WA State@nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 3w ago

On The View, soccer champ Megan Rapinoe brought attention to the dangers of WA's I-638, the most extreme MAGA measure of its kind in the US. "It's more than just a couple of trans kids being able to participate in youth sports. It's an attack on women." Vote NO on I-638 this November. #NoHateWAState

Water is wet 🤷‍♀️ (And COVID is airborne. And FFS, yes, asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic little kids can make granny very sick and what are we even doing?!)

Jon Douglas@atranscendedman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Statens Serum Institut studied 1,106,493 grandparents. Recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection was 9.9% more likely after grandchildren’s birthdays and 15% more likely after preschoolers’ birthdays, implicating small family gatherings. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

npr.org

This ban prevents companies that own 350 single-family homes from buying any more—well, kinda. It imposes a fine of either $1 million or 3x the purchase price (whatever is greater) if they buy more than that. So, not really a ban. And like, not meaningfully solving the problem.

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock@warnock.senate.gov · 4w ago

Some good news.

A very generic land acknowledgement. Just "they" who are the stewards of "the traditional grounds." 😬

Why don't they set their aspirations at "the exact set of preconditions that led directly to our current crisis"? Don't they realise that's the best way out of this crisis?

“This isn’t about any individual story,” civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who said the project took her two months to complete, told me. “This is about the whole corpus of how they’ve covered trans issues over time.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds

A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.

advocate.com

this would be good for cup feeding newborns

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Samantha Cristoforetti demonstrates why a normal round cup doesn't work in microgravity, which is why a special "space cup" was developed to make liquid transfer easier via capillary-action at the narrowed end. It reminds me of *something*, but I can't quite place it.🤔

This is not to say that shitty software doesn't pose a risk to you. Iranian schoolgirls are not made safer by crappy "software defined warfare" targeting fusion any more than Black people are safer because facial recognition sucks shit on Black faces. The cops are happy to collar ANY Black person.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2mo ago

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

WA-10: Marilyn Strickland

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · last yr.

76 House Dems joined Republicans in voting to repeal a Biden rule requiring cryptocurrency brokers to adhere to the same tax reporting rules as stock brokers. A yes vote is a pro-fraud, pro-tax-evasion vote here.

this completely validates my perception and it's why I dropped my NYT subscription in 2022

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

RFK Jr. will oversee disability education policy

The dismantling of the Department of Education continues apace.

motherjones.com

CDC has just released some incredibly sobering projections for the Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo Virus (BVD). I'm going to step through the report here and the full text is linked below. CDC modeled several scenarios to project how large this outbreak might get in the next 3 months.

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... he's editor in chief of your journal and you kick him out for handing out copies of the editorial printed in your journal?

Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting

Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions

medpagetoday.com

Attorney for @ameracadpeds.bsky.social and other medical groups suing HHS says Executive Order on vaccine schedule flies in the face of federal judge's March ruling on ACIP. My story for @medscape.com #IDsky #healthlaw #healthpolicy #vaccines #pediatrics #publichealth #familymedicine

Executive Order on Vaccines Defies Federal Ruling

Any attempt to change the vaccine schedule without proper process and evidence will invite further legal action, say attorney for physician groups.

medscape.com

🧵OF KEY CONCERNS We've now read Alan Levinovitz's WIRED piece on Long Covid. Our concern isn't that it discusses psychological theories. Our concern is that it repeatedly conflates criticism of evidence with creating a "climate of fear". Those are not the same thing. /1

WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

Six years since the height of the pandemic, the scientific community remains baffled by long Covid. But there might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.

When the Domestic Workers endorse a billionaire, you gotta ask why. I did. Turns out Steyer met personally with Union reps who traveled to Sacramento. He heard their concerns and offered ways forward. Becerra declined to even give them a rep to meet with.

this seems like a very big problem

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨REMINDER: "...final step is contaminated hands touching nose, mouth or eyes...despite this assumption being at heart of global IPC policy...🚨no satisfactory physical mechanism exists to explain how virus particles transfer from hands to..receptors in nasal cavity & respiratory tract🚨"

Bean & Sprout's Mom@beansproutsmom.bsky.social · last yr.

Prof Clive Beggs masterclass testimony to the UK COVID inquiry with respect to infectious disease transmission can be viewed at the link below. It is worth every minute of your time to watch and listen. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/hearings/imp...