Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael

Where is that student loan expert guy from Twitter? I need a money person to tell me what to do about this SAVE thing and if I should just switch.

Nesting is a very real phenomenon and every time I come home with a Home Depot bag I see another small piece of my husband die on the inside.

My husband is mad that I’m making him paint our bathroom so he’s listening to Creed while he does it to punish me 😂

But tweeting about someone is not direct communication? It’s indirect…

Before RFK Jr. announced healthy children no longer need coronavirus vaccines, the CDC’s data showed more than half of young children admitted to the ICU for covid had no underlying conditions wapo.st/4kk4DlE

IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” *Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽

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See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

RFK Jr. is dangerous.

A few months ago I started having palpitations which I thought were either from (1) too much Coke Zero while on a busy consult service or (2) the collapse of society under Trumps 2nd term — or both. Turns out it was a secret third thing.

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

This breakfast sandwich in San Francisco from a place that no longer exists 😭

Irresponsible public health leadership is dangerous and it kills. The head of DHHS routinely tries to practice medicine without a license via podcasts and TV interviews and encouraged Vitamin A as treatment for measles. This is the direct result! www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/h....

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

PEPFAR in a nutshell #CROI2025

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He nails it.

1/ Being an infectious disease expert in the U.S. today feels like standing in the eye of a storm. Science should be our shield, but instead, we’re under attack, our expertise disregarded, our funding slashed, and public health increasingly politicized. 🧵

Every vaccine already requires informed consent by law. This is pure antivaxx disinformation, now coming from the CDC.

Just a reminder that the HPV vaccine literally PREVENTS CANCER and the series can be started as early as 9 years of age.

Every day is a good day to remind you NOT to get medical advice about your healthcare or vaccines from people who are not trained or qualified to make these kinds of recommendations. If I am in legal trouble I talk to a lawyer If I want to learn about vaccines I talk to my doctor.

When your grandfather has an open fracture but his biggest concern is that you send him the pictures so he can show his friends at assisted living….

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Woohoo! "In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets". Now let's see if they listen. #medsky #academicsky #standupforscience

First they came for immigrants & we spoke up because it’s the right thing to do. Then they came for trans people & we spoke up because it’s the right thing to do. Then they came for federal research dollars & we spoke up because we don’t want to die of diseases that scientists can cure.

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

We’re saving sooo much money

With the game this lopsided and the Chiefs shut out you have to think Harrison Butker would’ve found more satisfaction and purpose and happiness if he’d just stayed home and raised his kids and done domestic chores

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."

Pandemics do not begin with official announcements. They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern." Pay attention.

broke - Kamala Harris: “i will follow the law when it comes to transgender individuals” woke - Stephen Smith:

Last year, the American people got to know Project 2025. And they hated what they saw. Donald Trump wanted to win an election, so he swore he had nothing to do with it. But now he’s nominated one of its chief architects to oversee the federal government's budget office.

Senator Bill Cassidy is a physician w/ an active license in Louisiana. In 30 yrs in public hospitals, he says his greatest accomplishment was a program to provide no -cost HepB vaccines to kids after he saw the harm of vaccine-preventable disease (liver failure) He voted to advance RFK’s nomination

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden are calling on the Government Accountability Office to investigate Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's decision to grant access to sensitive government payment systems to Elon Musk and other DOGE employees. tinyurl.com/4n7wt25d

Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

BLACK PEOPLE: Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy has indicated he will vote for RFK Jr. which means he will be confirmed. Listen to me: look at your immunization records. You can request them. You have a right to them. GET YOUR BOOSTERS. - TDap - pneumonia - COVID - shingles (for the elders)

An EO doesn't change that - STI rates are high & need effective diagnosis and treatment - US still has highest rate of congenital syphilis among rich countries. - AMR is rising - There's an uncontrolled HIV epidemic in the US SE. Hiding access to treatment guidelines worsens these crises for all.

This is not just a "pause." It is an unlawful destruction now. Foreign aid is a cornerstone of national security with diplomacy and defense. USAID's work reaches 100s of millions worldwide and America will be harmed. Here are some of the lives at stake.

Trans rights are human rights.

Hidradenitis Suppurativa is usually a derm run consult but occasionally ID gets involves to help w antibiotic therapy in the setting of a severe acute flare. This seminar in @thelancet.bsky.social is a fantastic update on the condition. I learned a lot. #IDSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The communications pause for federal health agencies meant that the CDC couldn't publish the MMWR this week -- the first time in the publication's 60+ year history this has happened. Unhappy about this! Getting good data published on infectious threats is critical, especially as H5N1 looms. #IDSky