Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

You think we weren’t prepared for the last pandemic ….

This is good and important www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it. Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!

Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel

It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

huffingtonpost.co.uk

I believe we have breaking news in Inside Medicine. I spoke to a member of the FDA vaccine committee who confirmed that the meeting to decide the 2025-2026 flu shot composition was abruptly canceled today. My on-the-record Q&A with the FDA advisor: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-...

Scoop: FDA vaccine meeting abruptly canceled. Meeting was to determine 2025-2026 influenza vaccine composition.

Hi everyone,

open.substack.com

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

"The buck stops here"- Harry Truman "I don't take any responsibility at all."- DJT

“Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong” Brilliant and much-needed takedown of the latest anti-vax misinformation and propaganda from the pseudo-scientists, ahead of the RFK hearings.

Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong

A methodological autopsy of flawed research that contradicts decades of rigorous evidence

theunbiasedscipod.substack.com

Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books

Who hasn't bowed to the Felon publications: Pro Publica Rolling Stone PBS Vanity Fair (I’m not sure, but maybe The New Yorker?) Mother Jones Deadline Whitehouse with Nicole Wallace, The Rachel Maddow Show, The ReidOut with Joy Reid, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, All In with Chris Hayes.

You’re not violating a reading rule if you opt not to finish a book that's not resonating with you. Life is finite and we thus have a finite number of books to read. Reading shouldn’t be a chore. You needn’t feel guilty for ensuring that your time reading is spent reading things that you love.

I’m trying to strike a healthy balance between being informed and being oblivious.

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

The thing about Twitter versus Bluesky is that the right needs liberals on Twitter to make it feel worthwhile, whereas the left doesn’t need conservatives on Bluesky to make it feel worthwhile.

Bluesky right now feels a little like all the Whos gathering to sing after the Grinch stole their floofloovers and jingtinglers.

In case you need a primer explaining why RFK Jr. being the head of the HHS would be a DISASTER. 👀 ⬇️

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax fakery was tied to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa. And he lied about it. As head of HHS, he could do much worse here. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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