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ICYMI: Important Context broke a story this week. Liam Neeson narrated an anti-vax, pro-RFK documentary. A spox for Neeson, tried to distance him from it, saying he’s not anti-vax, citing his work as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, and noting he didn’t have anything to do with the editorial content

Liam Neeson narrated an anti-vax doc, Plague of Corruption, and the claims are already collapsing. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/secret-influ...

I was worried he was trending because he'd died but like this is worse.

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Liam Neeson lent his voice to a new anti-vax doc glorifying RFK Jr.’s rise at HHS— a stunning reversal for a UNICEF ambassador who once called vaccines “a remarkable human success story.” His publicist now insists he’s still pro-vaccine. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

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Great to see our march against RFK in DC used as the banner photo!! I think thsts @rdmorris.bsky.social stacking some of the >150,000 signed petitions to oust him… H/t @cdelawalla.bsky.social & @standupforscience.bsky.social for great planning & execution! www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The CDC just updated its vaccine safety page with debunked claims linking vaccines to autism. Under RFK’s HHS, scientists have been fired, research gutted, and ACIP replaced. Experts say the agency is now “coopted” by anti-vaccine ideology. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

In response to the changes, Dr. Frank Han, a pediatrician and cardiologist and scientific advisor to @accountabilityji.bsky.social, told me “The CDC has fully turned into the antivaccine personal mouthpiece of RFK Jr and can no longer be trusted.“

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya just accepted an award from an RFK Jr.–aligned anti-public health group founded by a man accused of serial sexual harassment— and called it “the most fun I’ve had in ten months.” www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

For example: My nonprofit, @accountabilityji.bsky.social, helped a group of science and medical-focused organizations like @scienceai.bsky.social and @standupforscience.bsky.social on a march that happened in DC this week. That’s in addition to reporting on this admin. We’re just getting started.

I am really proud that @accountabilityji.bsky.social helped make this happen. Hell yeah!

It's time. Stand Up Speak Out Join the 911 March for Health and Science Tomorrow, 4 PM. www.911forhealthandscience.org

📢It's time. Stand Up. Speak Out. 📍Join the 911 March for Health and Science. November 5th, 4 PM. National Mall, at 7th Street SW. www.911forhealthandscience.org

T-minus 2 days until a coalition of public health and science groups descend on DC to hand deliver petitions with over 150k signatures calling for RFK’s impeachment. We’re proud to have provided support for this effort. More Info: 🔗 www.911forhealthandscience.org

In two days, science groups are descending on DC for a march to demand the removal of HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. Proud that @accountabilityji.bsky.social is supporting the march. www.911forhealthandscience.org

Friends, @accountabilityji.bsky.social is helping a number of science and public health groups as they organize a march in early November. Details: www.911forhealthandscience.org

The fight continues! Join us in DC on November 5th to deliver thousands of petition signatures to Congress calling for RFK "The Quack" Jr. to be impeached! 🐥 ❌ 📣 🚨 911 March for Health and Science! ⏰ November 5th, 4pm ET 📍From the National Mall to the House of Representatives 🔗 zurl.co/fapcS

Enough is enough. We refuse to let these cranks further erode the health of our children, our communities and our democracy. @origgio.bsky.social sunshine.optout.news/email/e1fc5c...

Enough is enough. We refuse to let these cranks further erode the health of our children, our communities and our democracy. sunshine.optout.news/email/e1fc5c...

The Aug. 8 CDC shooting put public health misinformation under the microscope. Our investigation shows Trump officials inside HHS have spent years attacking vaccines and the CDC itself. ✍️ by @walkerbragman.bsky.social and @natalieejon.bsky.social www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

ACIP member & anti-vax conspiracy theorist Dr. Robert Malone smeared former CDC Director Susan Monarez, suggesting she was “trained to lie by the intelligence community.” ✍️ by @walkerbragman.bsky.social www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

No thanks, we choose journalism. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

I suppose I should thank Ben for driving traffic to Important Context. You can support our work either by subscribing or donating to @accountabilityji.bsky.social. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/donate

Media outlets need to be clear about what we’re facing. At @accountabilityji.bsky.social, we are trying to set an example for how to cover the Right. Our latest piece about Charlie Kirk, by @tinadesireeberg.com and I, describes the New Right a neo-fascist movement. Because that is what it is.

Rewriting Extremism: The Right wants the nation to mourn Charlie Kirk as a “martyr.” But Kirk wasn’t a hero—he was an ideologue, conspiracy theorist, bigot, and agitator who glorified violence. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/dark-money/r...

This document was authored and signed by some of the scientific communities bravest and brightest. We are fortunate to have a few of them on our scientific advisory board. We hope you will join them in adding your name to this list. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...

FEMA workers can warn all they want. The government knows that this is bad and will end up killing massive amounts of people. That's why they did it.

Calley Means, a former lobbyist turned anti-vax wellness dude and ally of Robert Kennedy Jr., attacks @angierasmussen.bsky.social for defending vaccines. Means, who is working as a special government employee, cites her affiliation with @accountabilityji.bsky.social—a dark money group, he says.

ICYMI : 182 FEMA workers warn Congress of “impending disaster” under Trump’s cuts. Their Katrina Declaration says history is about to repeat: unqualified leadership, gutted staff, climate denial, & sidelined science—all as hurricane season begins. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

Launched today! Join 6 Nobel Laureates, 27 Members of the US National Academies & the Scientific Advisory Board of @accountabilityji.bsky.social in signing this petition demanding RFK Jr.'s resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...

The MAHA assault on vaccines will kill people & usher in a scientific Dark Age. RFK Jr has got to go. Please join me, my fellow @accountabilityji.bsky.social advisory board members, Nobel laureates, National Academy members, & colleagues calling for his resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...

For more of an in-depth look at how this story I outlined unfolded, check out the archive at importantcontext.news. To support this work exposing right-wing attacks on public health, please consider donating to the @accountabilityji.bsky.social. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/donate

Trump officials & GOP lawmakers are set to join extremists, hate groups & conspiracy theorists at next week’s NatCon 5 in DC—where Trumpism meets Christian nationalism. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/dark-money/t...

RFK Jr.’s HHS slashed $500M in mRNA research using “evidence” from a bibliography authored by anti-vaxxers tied to a supplement company selling bogus COVID “detox” pills. Pseudoscience is shaping federal health policy. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

The day after a gunman killed a CDC officer over vaccine fears, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya went on Steve Bannon’s War Room to push mRNA misinformation—fueling the very distrust driving violence. www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-direct...

Reporting from AJI co-founders @walkerbragman.bsky.social and Alex Kotch was cited in this opinion piece from Yale epidemiologist. Dr. Gregg Gonsalves in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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The ouster of anti-vax FDA official Vinay Prasad has the MAHA world in turmoil. Allies are turning on each other. Pharma conspiracies are flying. And MAGA infighting is on full display. ✍️ by @walkerbragman.bsky.social www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

This is good news - but what is guaranteed not to be good is news is whoever they replace him with.

The pipeline of crunchy left to antivaxx right was a main source of support for our era’s fascism after the pandemic. The sign from Loomer is now to reject these hippie allies precisely because of their origins in progressive spaces.

So, the guy who single-handedly overruled professional staff on vaccines in service of the antivaxx agenda is pushed out by....even nuttier people?

There is a great need and desire from the public to have access to journalism that is fact based and researched. @accountabilityji.bsky.social is a new journalism addition to that effort - #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks

We’d be funding courses at universities to teach students about right-wing disinformation. We’d be running info/public service ads about groups like the Heritage Foundation and PragerU to inoculate people to their billionaire-funded propaganda… Speaking of, if you want to help us:

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