Every time ACIP meets, Bill Cassidy (R, Coward City) makes pathetic mewling sounds about how bad the committee is. It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body. Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.

I’m old enough to remember people claiming it would be problematic to add a bunch of Supreme Court seats when it might have been feasible with Biden in the White House. As @elienyc.bsky.social noted, there would have been zero downside. This court makes a mockery of the law, justice, and government

Now that’s how you lead into an opinion piece.

“I urge this committee to make sure that you do your job appropriately so that we can take care of our patients and not political theater which [is] what this has become.” Jason Goldman, MD FACP, President of the American College of Physicians to trump and rfk jr’s farcical ACIP

I’m old enough to remember when Buffalo was a desirable place for a WR to go

In case it wasn’t already obvious these are show trials against all vaccines.

So Hillary Clinton thinks the Haaretz staff is composed of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.

What is the quintessential Onion headline? theonion.com/mason-dixon-...

While Spotify is in the national conversation this week, we’re hoping you will continue to boycott the platform and urge others to do the same until Spotify stops running recruitment ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...

“What good is listening to logic and proof? Throw all those facts away” Song starts about 2:55

Lol, now there’s a catch-22

I became a physician after being inspired by the work of Jonas Salk. I became an infectious diseases to honor the lives of people with and who died from HIV/AIDS. I refuse to let this backwards US government hinder our resolve. Today is #WorldAIDSDay. Please find a way to commemorate it.

If you don’t remember who the “Front Line COVID Critical Care Alliance” is, they did not work on the front lines but sold millions of dollars of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin - and merch - at flea markets and online and both of the founding members had their medical board certifications revoked.

Apparently Walmart doesn’t have enough money to pay for their Grinch to have green hair in their commercial

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

My take on the significance of recent developments regarding vaccines at the CDC and FDA. 1. The CDC now falsely states on its website that "studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." and that "Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities."

Jesse Goodman, who led CBER during the George W. Bush administration, said…“When you send a letter to a thousand people or more, this is a really extraordinary claim that would normally merit a very detailed scientific analysis and presentation at an appropriate forum.”

they are so obsessed with white skin even their roast turkeys are pale and sickly

I didn’t see the game so have no idea what happened on this play but hard disagree that instant replay is positively correlated with trumpism. “Truthiness” as used by Colbert is a central tenet of trumpism: refusing to accept that objective fact exists, in favor of believing what you want. 1/2

And of course if pressed on this, he’ll claim he doesn’t believe it, he was “just repeating what he heard.” Now that the harm has been done and the head of the FDA spread this garbage further. I don’t believe in hell, but I wish I did for people like this.

Winning the youth vote since 2004.

I knew all these early games this week were traps. I don’t gamble but in the Jersey Mike’s pick ‘em game I didn’t make any picks until the Sunday slate.

If only republicans in government cared a fraction as much about polls as Democrats do

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Turkey is an elite meat. The only reason we don’t cook it more than once a year is it’s so big it takes forever to cook. We eat deli turkey all the time. Does anyone think it’s better than freshly cooked turkey? No, it’s just easier.

It was never about stopping crime

You know who else removed books about topics or by authors they didn’t like? Nazis.

Same thing for DEI as a whole

If you were to count the items we’ve intentionally brought into our home, dirt for plants would be number one, grains of rice two, and books three. I still maintain more than half of the cables are not obsolete, though I wouldn’t bet much on it.

My name is Charlie Brown. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

No, no, no, no, no, Charlie Brown. Both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Charlie Brown. Something’s gotta be done about your kids!

Not to mention the nepotism alone would’ve sunk anyone who had a shred of shame.

Sunday Taquitos #3: Thanksgiving Edition. Art by Ivan Ehlers.

It's clear now that what we really meant by "Recession" & "Suffering From Inflation" in 2022-24 was "folks liked the large income spike in 2020-21 & wanted more stimulus checks & welfare spending like what came with the ARP, perhaps permanently," but we are clearly not ready for <that> discussion.

An old guy was outside the Albertson’s I just went to trying to get people to sign a petition to “protect Proposition 13”. I did not sign. As far as I understand, it’s a significant part of why homes in CA cost so much.

Trump take beer

If they think they can get away with this shit with A-listers, imagine what they’ll do with the rest of us.

Imagine you are in a post-apocalyptic world with zombies. There is a spray you can use to ward off zombies. It works well, but is short-acting. Someone made a new spray that is more long-acting. You want to test it out to see the difference.

Excellent epidemiology work here, importantly complete with appropriate caveats. The kind of work that our government is INTENDED to do but won’t because of asinine politics and myopic financial opinions.

Trump grumbled about a new NFL kickoff rule, and this was a veteran special teams coach's response Trump genuinely has no idea how anything works (outside of rape and real estate fraud) it's historic criminal malpractice that U.S. journalism didn't communicate that loudly for the last decade

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Anyone with any education in science should be ashamed to call themselves republican at this point. Well before now, iwbh.

Fuck Jim O’Neil and his boss RFK Jr. and his boss trump and his boss Putin.

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

“Finally, we got an ICE agent who crossed the line so bad, he got arrested,” Attorney Greg Kirakosian said in a statement to L.A. TACO. The full story: lataco.com/gerardo-rodr... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Hey Billy Bob, care to explain why I can’t get signal at my home in LA County, in a town of over 100k? Still want to claim @tmobilesupport.bsky.social has actually anything like acceptable service?