Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society has issued the following statement on our deep concerns regarding the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices December meeting and its impact on public health in the United States. pids.org/2025/12/05/p...

11/ He's pushing "too many, too soon" — 11 doses in 1986 vs. 50+ today. What he won't mention: a single 1980s whole-cell pertussis shot contained ~3,000 antigens. Today's entire schedule? ~165. More protection, 95% fewer antigens. I wrote about this - @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/t...

If you think about it @netflix.com ceo Ted Sarandos just expertly froze all competition in place for two years, even if the company does not get past regulators, unions, Trump’s rapidly decaying body etc. The Ellisons are playing checkers and he is playing chess.

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

It is crazy that we allow members of Congress to trade based on inside information. (Well, they’re allowing *themselves* to do it, but it’s crazy that we put up with that.) Members from both parties do it and should be forced to stop. Also presidents. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

Motherfuckers.

The decision to delay the vote came abruptly yesterday afternoon when the panel realized it still did not understand the topic or what it was voting on.

To be sure, this has been the strategy used by Trump for nearly every federal agency: Turn the positive into a negative.

Unfortunately, professional societies will need to stop referencing HHS health bodies as an authoritative policy source.

"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the [AI proponent]." -Rounders, paraphrased

this comic is how i feel when i play any online game after 2010

A claim that the U.S. is an “outlier” for having a universal hepatitis B birth dose is false. ACIP’s own September map shows many countries with universal birth-dose policies. We’d become an outlier only by rolling ours back. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

hm (official link to ACIP meeting)

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

We cannot sit still for this. Pediatric nephrology is in one of the worst spots, but the issue is endemic across all peds specialties. One of the root causes: Low pay as compared to adult specialties.

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

With O'Hare terminal capacity at the brink, the city says it cannot afford to close Terminal 2 to build a massive Global Terminal by 2023. Now city planners want to scrap the current construction schedule for terminal expansion set to cost most than $8 billion.

Did you know that Trump tariffed medical devices? Such as pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices (think "half a mechanical heart." One of those companies is also looking to get its money back, which would go back to customers (ie. children's hospitals.)

There goes “Take Your Daughter To Work Day” for the Pentagon press corps.

This kind of performative nonsense will not last one day in lady prison.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

The older ones may vaguely remember a time when presidents ordering people to commit crimes was frowned upon.

“the combat decisions HE has made”

NKF is here to cut through the noise by sharing the facts and explaining why staying up to date on vaccines is especially important for people living with kidney disease.

You now need a Real ID to board a plane. But fortunately for House Republicans, you still don’t need one to transport a minor across state lines.

You don’t need a merged system to solve this problem.

Looks like Trump and Hegseth might be preparing to throw the military under the bus on the second strike. This is why you don’t execute illegal orders. Because you are responsible

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15 minute exposure. 400 Satellites. And impossible situation for science.

Ken Roth: "Pete Hegseth suddenly notices that he could be prosecuted for ordering the summary killing of people in boats said to be transporting drugs. There is no armed conflict, so these people should be arrested, not executed." The backstory: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue? KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

LOL can't have those homebuyers realizing their Florida home is destined to join the Atlantic ocean and that their bucolic mountain home is at risk of catastrophic wildfire destruction. #climateemergency #Climate #RealEstate

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

“Dr. Prasad declined to be interviewed for this article.”

Have you *met* your parents?

The 2029 loser of Dancing with the Stars says

The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.

Internal memo at the FDA claims 10 deaths in children as a result of Covid vaccines — but does not include data Explosive story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...

the maus-zootopia universe

Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.

Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢