The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

The man is the #1 public health menace in the United States. Measles comes in second place. At least measles can’t destroy the entire vaccine effort in the United States. RFK Jr can and is doing so.

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

NEW: FDA rejects rare disease therapy from Disc Medicine, the first experimental drug to go through the commissioner's fast-track voucher program. STAT previously reported that top official Vinay Prasad became personally involved in this review. www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/d...

I can't say who the official was, because I agreed to the terms. However, I want to highlight how very unusual it is for senior officials to require anonymity at an official press conference. Why not put your name on it? No reason was given.

The only way to stop him is to impeach him and we have to stop saying it can’t be done. Figure out how to do it, Congress.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained. The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

Say what now

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The article points out: "The rejection also exemplifies the agency’s increasing unpredictability writ large. ...Industry leaders have said that the lack of clarity threatens drug development, and by extension the availability of safe and effective medicines for patients."

This is outrageous, and (though it was completely obvious he should never have held this spot), Vinay Prasad needs to go. This vaccine candidate deserves review, not ideologically motivated rejection. Lives are at stake. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

*Great* question and very well stated. As for the answer... 🤣 The level of ignorance and dishonesty is just staggering - which the host is pretty good at making clear as well...

"The fact is that the public does not actually believe us [that mRNA vaccines are safe and. effective]." Here's Jay Bhattacharya back when he did his best to help make sure that this become reality.

And for more context on his original comments about mRNA vaccines, which saved millions of lives from COVID and which rightfully won the technology's developers the Nobel Prize, see: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thought I would head over there to see if he’d commented yet and yes.

This is Richard Ebright’s longstanding dream, to get rid of this within NIH. He hated Fauci and NIH doing biodefense and pandemic preparedness going back nearly 25 years, esp because he worried it would cut into his funding.

Shameful.

“Autism destroys families, and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. These are children who should not be suffering like this … And these are kids who will never pay taxes. They'll never hold a job. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” RFK Jr. 4/25

What if the biggest conspiracy is our government’s refusal to believe more than a 1000 women (and children) for many decades?

I’m no public-relations genius, but I question the judgement of photoshopping the facial tattoo of a convicted rapist onto the NIH director’s face, especially in the context of multiple other administration officials being linked to sexual abuse via the Epstein files. But hey, what do I know 🤷🏻‍♂️

Welcome to the rest of your unhappy life- where you will be shunned, booed, told off, insulted, and heckled. Actions have consequences 🤷🏻‍♂️

Trump strikes CDC again www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...

President Donald J. Trump appeared to run away from a journalist today when she asked him about Rwanda violating a cease fire with the (DRC) Democratic Republic of Congo. It's one of the eight conflicts Trump brags about ending. The violence has never stopped in that region.

I forgot who said it, but “genocide by rug pull” really is an apt phrase for this outcome.

oh that’s disgusting

It's the accountability stupid. Once again every Democrat who is running for federal office in 2026 and 2028 need to lay out clear plans or vision - on how they are going to push for accountability and justice for those responsible for abusing and dismantling our govt anchored in democracy.

Truly now or never for business leaders to step up! I know they don’t stand for much, but dumping nearly a billion into a trial just for one man to arbitrarily refuse to review your application. This doesn’t just stop with vaccines!

This opinion from @wsj.com editorial board targeting Vinay Prasad is pretty telling. “… FDA has rejected only about 4% of applications without a review, typically when they are missing important information. That wasn’t the case with Moderna.” www.wsj.com/opinion/vina...

This is how you frame a question.

Correction: it is 16 unfilled directorships. I missed counting NLM, which has had an acting director since 2023.

NIH has lost another Institute Director today. Linsey Criswell was not renewed at NIAMS. 15 (of 27) Directorships are now unfilled, creating a leadership vacuum and opening the door for Trump to install more cronies like former JD Vance roommate Kyle Walsh. insidehealthpolicy.com/share/153675

JB Pritzker's chief of staff tells us that people appalled by ICE brutality badly wanted to join the fight. So Pritzker encouraged people to start recording. This takes seriously the role of information warfare in the age of Trump, enlisting ordinary people in it. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2059...

High Court rules ban on Palestine Action unlawful. As we knew all along, the government were acting illegally. Pardons, apologies and compensation should now be extended to the nigh-on 3000 people arrested for showing their support of a Legal organisation. Shame on you Starmer yet again.

“If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” - The New Yorker

NIH will no longer characterize basic experimental studies involving humans as clinical trials   buff.ly/oTnoqMM

Meanwhile in #MAHA Land.

A reminder that a large proportion of politicians and public organisations continues to be present on Elon Musk's hellsite. If he ran a pub no respectable person or institution would ever go inside.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

For my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com, wrote about FDA's disastrous decision--or, really, it seems Vinay Prasad's singular choice--to turn away Moderna's flu vaccine application without a review. The problem is much bigger than this one vaccine. (🎁 link):

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again I’ve been genuinely astounded at how quickly & effectively RFK Jr & his allies—Drs Prasad, Bhattacharya, Makary, Høeg, Oz, & Kulldorff—have been able to dismantle the US vaccination system, including vaccine R&D I thought guardrails might slow them, but nope

"I'm not scared of a germ... I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." This is a direct quote from the secretary of Health and Human Services. I lack words to describe how unhinged it is to have this person dictating healthcare policy for 350 million people. news.sky.com/story/robert...

Nope, I live by very strict Dogme-style rules with these Still Lifes, I allow myself to add, remove or move nothing at all, I just photograph whatever is on the table at the end of the day.

the bargain between Trump and Kennedy that basically sealed the election for Trump in exchange for handing American health policy to the most dangerous and irresponsible people on the planet will go down as one of the most costly deals in human history

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

There needs to be a class action suit against RFK, Jr., NIH, and Donald Trump for endangering the lives of Americans with their kooky, unscientific negligence.

Four Seasons Total Embarrassment

#BBCNews - IOC criticised for selling Nazi-era Olympics T-shirt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So awesome that this guy is in charge of America's entire healthcare infrastructure.

'In 2016, Dr. Mehmet Oz, now the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, invited Epstein over for a Valentine’s party—eight years after Epstein was registered as a sex offender.'