Had Bari Weiss just ran the story, it would have been seen by a couple million people tops. The bootleg has now gone viral, and may end up being the most-watched 60 Minutes segment ever. It might be time to rename the Streisand Effect.

Dr. Hotez is a brilliant scientist. 👇This is frightening. Why are they doing this? mRNA vaccines saved many lives during Covid pandemic. Trump could have taken credit for Operation Warp Speed but no, he and Bobby, Jr. are destroying years of progress. MAHA is NOT making America Healthy Again.

Study finds that despite broad COVID vaccine availability, COVID still deadlier than #flu in hospitalized patients A #COVID diagnosis was associated with 76% higher odds of death within 30 days. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

First we had Elf on a Shelf, now we have....🤭😅🤣

Here's what the cowards as CBS decided to hide. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

An unlabeled, 12-second video from the most recent DOJ Jeffrey Epstein files drop is circulating social media, purporting to show Epstein’s suicide in his prison cell. But it’s actually a fake clip from 2019. Here’s how it wound up in the latest Epstein files dump.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

1000 Marriott points is about $8.

Dear programs interviewing residents, please don’t do that the week before and after Christmas. The flights are extra expensive and they’re hard to afford in the first place. #medsky

MB allows two transfers a month only. He had one generous person this month so far. Mine are only at a few thousand, so he gets cash and I will hold onto these points until another month when enough to actually be helpful. Unfortunately, UA charges $30 to transfer points, the greedy assholes.

Does anyone have a pile of Marriott Bonvoy points that are not being used? They can be converted to UA points. If you feel generous enough to donate them, give me a DM and I’ll walk you through it.

Yet another reminder that when billionaires take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. The super-rich won't hesitate to sell out the American public if it means getting merger approvals or deregulation that helps their bottom line.

It would be great if people could stop referring to Bari Weiss as “Editor-In-Chief” and start referring to her as “Trump-selected EIC with zero journalism experience” etc. Stop legitimizing these people’s fake and undeserved titles.

SARS-CoV-2 is so dangerous precisely because of its insidious nature. Its propensity to continually re-infect. The superficial similarity of the symptoms it causes to those of other common viruses. The unseen risk of sequelae. That wretched molecular shark tricks almost everyone.

The states identified are led by Republicans — Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia.

If you know my story, you know I beat cancer, lost my father during medical school, was on the brink of homelessness and I’m determined to become a urologist! Help me accomplish this journey and match successfully! Anything helps! #medsky #urosky

To be blunt: if you are doing anything at all right now to reduce your risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2, you're being smart. As a result of the current high prevalence of flu, masking is back in the media. Ignore anything negative said about it. Political nonsense is irrelevant.

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

My law firm is litigating 75 voting and election cases in 39 states. This is an extraordinary number that reflects the scope of the GOP's attacks on free and fair elections and serves as a warning of how hard the fight ahead will be.

Hi Trump.

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"The horns and whistles work..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@gottalaff.bsky.social I tried to warn everyone way back in 2013, but would anyone listen? Nooooo....

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Re-upping this long thread, ICYMI: #Epstein

Trump is heavily focused on getting a military that's personally loyal to him, from the generals to the rank-and-file. He needs it for when he asks them to fire on protesting American citizens, or staging his next coup

UPDATE: The DOJ just filed an additional lawsuit against Wisconsin.

Renaming the Kennedy Center is yet another stroking of the Narcissist-in-chief's ego.

'John Muir, co-founder of the Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation, a UK charity campaigning for the improvement of clean indoor air, said any investment in the devices was well worth the money'. There's a poll in this article - please vote. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...

It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week! This time we cover RFK Jr.’s false claims that vaccines cause allergies. Great work by the team as always! @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

It’s been a busy day, but I want to draw your attention to this critically important paper by @jonshaffer.bsky.social and colleagues. In it, they show that since its strict abortion ban was enacted, Texas has seen a significant increase in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies.

Keep 'em coming

++++1M unemployed.

“He and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”- George Carlin

+ what about admitting to starting a war to get oil? (not drugs, which is still crazy) + admitting to blowing up boats and murdering people until "Maduro cries uncle"? Isn't that terrorism?

So many concepts, so little (much) time...

++++more unemployment

The Contrarian

While this is to be lauded, it always frustrates me that masking is *initiated* when levels are high. The best time to mask in hospitals is always; the second best time is when it is patently obvious that prevalence of flu / RSV / Covid is low but *increasing*. www.derryjournal.com/health/face-...

Read the study and think about population level implications, remembering that the vast majority of people have been infected multiple times. What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae? What are the implications for societies now? news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...

This is a great piece from Lucy at Pandemic Pages Podcast drawing comparisons between masking during the 1918 - 1920 influenza pandemic and today. Strongly recommend! pandemicpages.substack.com/p/the-case-for…

This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug. We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

As the Trump administration gutted USAID this year, officials, including Marco Rubio, said over and over that lifesaving operations would continue around the world and that nobody had died because of the cuts.

It's rampant.

Happy Wastewater Wednesday! What’s the current sitch with COVID? We’re using two sources to help us keep track of the country and our state of Oregon. Thank you to @michael-hoerger.bsky.social for the map and graph, and OHA for continuing to track data coming from our wastewater treatment centers!