Shutdown fight—to save the average American family $13k in Obamacare health insurance subsidies. GOP want to dissolve this and then allow rates to rise to any amount.

TYLENOL—“Why hasn’t the CDC refuted it? Well, RFK Jr. fired CDC director Monarez....and the acting director has no medical background is a speechwriter for Bush. So if you’re a speechwriter, you too can become a CDC director someday if you really believe in yourself” www.pennlive.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump Becomes Dr. Death & Declares War on Tylenol Trump, an ignorant man without any medical experience, repeats dangerous, unfounded, & reckless claims about Tylenol & autism in another step advancing MAGA's pro-death march. W/ @drericding.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉

Breaking—RFK Jr’s self appointed vaccine committee voted Friday to end the CDC’s universal recommendation that people of all ages get Covid shots, moving the decision from individuals to one made in coordination with doctors instead—read: more difficult to get COVID shots.

⚠️DUMBEST ERA OF HUMANITY. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s handpicked slate of vaccine advisers voted to no longer recommend a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) for children under age 4. Some committee members said there was no evidence to support the move.

BREAKING—in rebuke to RFK Jr—the West Coast Health Alliance—health officials in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii—recommended every resident 6 months & older receive the flu vaccine, most get Covid-19 shot, including pregnant women and all kids 0.5-2 yrs Gift 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

Dooming our dogs—A new study has found that US dog owners who harbor mistrust in the safety and efficacy of childhood and adult vaccines are also more likely to hold negative views about vaccinating their four-legged friends. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Across the NIH and NSF, billions in research grants have been frozen or cancelled. The National Cancer Institute faces a $4 billion slash - a 37% cut. Those aren’t abstract numbers. Those are cancelled Alzheimer’s trials. Stalled cancer studies. Dead-end cures. open.substack.com/pub/drericdi...

Because of RFK Jr., “CDC scientists were blocked from using clinical data to make decisions, public communications about vaccines were halted, Covid and flu preparedness programs were scaled back,” former CDC staff tell Congress. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

ONLY MASS VACCINATION WILL SAVE KIDS—Cases of Hepatitis B in kids and teens dropped 99% in the 1990s only after the CDC recommended universal vaccination at birth. Trump/RFK Jr now wants to reverse that, despite hard lessons from 1980s that casual vax wasn’t enough. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

📍RFK Jr. has crossed the Rubicon. The war on science isn’t looming - it’s here. I had hoped that after the darkest days of the pandemic, we could start rebuilding a stronger science world. I was wrong. So, starting today, I’m back. And I want you to join me. drericding.substack.com/p/im-back-be...

⚠️Lies, damn lies, and…. RFK Jr testified to Congress that ANYONE can get a new updated coronavirus vaccine... ➡️ total bullshit lie. Many people now have to go out-of-state to get a shot, or even get off label prescriptions from their doctor! Gift 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nbXgO6

⚠️DEFYING RFK Jr’s CDC—The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reaffirmed its support for COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women, breaking from flawed advice in the most recent CDC immunization schedule set by RFK Jr. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

MUZZLED CANCER REPORT—For past 3 years, the alcohol industry, aided by its allies in Congress & Trump WH, sought to discredit and bury a major analysis linking alcohol and getting sick and dying, including cancer. They succeeded. Author says says Trump WH blocked it. www.vox.com/health/46008...

We are in big trouble and entering dark times.

BREAKING—new CDC director being booted—Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the CDC, is being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple WH/HHS sources. Unclear why yet. She’s been CDC 1 month. 🎁link wapo.st/4n7Dkfm

📍FDA has approved new variant-adapted COVID vaccine formulation (Novavax too)— but now only for those age 65+ or those “higher risk”, which is vague. Still needs CDC’s clearance—but now controlled by RFK Jr’s new dubious ACIP vaccine committee. Gift🎁 🔗 wapo.st/45RvyPx

PRO DEATH WHITE HOUSE—The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” says one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

JOB LOSSES—Worst monthly payroll drop off (layoffs) in recorded U.S. history since 1979… with exception of April 2020 (when that pesky virus “would just disappear”). ➡️Worse than even 2008 recession!

⚠️DARK DARK DARK—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines and mandates what preventive measures insurers must cover. Removal of USPSTF means we are about to enter a very dark era. ➡️Mega insurers like United Healthcare are gleeful right now.

RFK Jr Rescinds Endorsements for Some Flu Vaccines—HHS guidelines no longer endorses flu vaccines with thimerosal, a preservative that anti-vaxxers FALSELY linked to autism. This came after a presentation by the former leader of an anti-vaccine group. Gift 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

YOUR DAD SAYS NOT TO TALK ABOUT THIS

Never forget.

No words. This measles surge is a product of misinfo and disinfo. It will only keep getting worse.

Killing prevention—Trump health secretary RFK Jr abruptly cancels US’s official preventive care committee meeting—WITHOUT ANY REASON GIVEN. Public health scientists fear the cancellation of the USPSTF meeting is prelude to further chaos. www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/u...

Gosh, if only someone had warned the public about these damn cuts….

Make rich people richer again. Make poor people poorer again. That’s Trump’s big ugly bill.

⚠️Hundreds of EPA employees accuse Trump officials of undermining its core mission to “protect human health and the environment.” ➡️Trump’s EPA allowed a private prison to spray toxic disinfectant at an immigration center, removed clean air/water standards, and allowed PFAS to be legally used again.

A WIN FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH & PUBLIC HEALTH—The NIH has now moved to reinstate ~900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration

I predict the stupid will happen — that RFK Jr-appointed CDC vaccine panel (of dubious anti-vaxxers) that is slated to scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule… will water down / block / make difficult access to life saving vaccinations. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

⚠️TRUMP/RFK Jr’s CDC IS ALLOWING FALSIFIED VACCINE STUDIES—CDC vaccine presentation cites study that DOES NOT EXIST. In a review on the use of thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented to the CDC's vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as study's author said.🧵

New sea surface temperature record just set (red line). We are on track to set more ocean temperature records this year. Oceans can buffer a lot of temperature increase — so for ocean temps to rise this much means we could be bigger climate trouble sooner than we thought.

An 11-year-old girl who is a U.S. citizen and has a rare brain tumor was deported to Mexico when ICE deported her parents. The girl’s condition has not improved. Trump’s State/Homeland have yet to approve her humanitarian request for treatment. Shameful. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

The poor will get poorer. The rich will grow richer… on the backs of the poor.

Lies, damn lies, and RFK Jr… “We won’t take away anyone’s vaccines.” However, recent policy changes under his leadership—coupled with the unprecedented sudden dismissal of CDC’s entire vaccine committee—have proven that a lie. time.com/7292898/rfk-...

📍OUTRIGHT LIE—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised Sen Cassidy: "If confirmed, [RFK Jr] will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes." ⚠️Yet, RFK Jr fired all CDC ACIP scientists today. www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

BREAKING—RFK Jr has abruptly fired CDC’s entire expert panel of vaccine scientists, claiming the action is needed to restore faith in vaccines. This is a dark day for science and public health. Disinformation now has an iron grip on Trump CDC/HHS. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

PAGING RFK Jr— “The assumption that children and teens recover completely from COVID has been shattered by mounting evidence that their developing respiratory systems are uniquely vulnerable to long-term damage.” rollingout.com/2025/06/03/l...

Dear MAGA & DOGE fans—National Weather Service is now so understaffed by 20-40% in Florida & Southern US, that meterologist urgently warn they cannot confidently predict hurricane 🌀 paths anymore. These senseless cuts will endanger your life.

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RFK Jr is wrong again—"No matter what the politics say, the science is the science”. All current evidence on the safety and efficacy of getting a COVID vaccine in pregnancy all points the same way: the shot is important for maternal and fetal health. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

FRAUDULENT—RFK Jr’s report on “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) cited completely FAKE studies that do not even exist, & completely misinterprets others. Truly wild. This is the same guy who bypassed all CDC scientists to put out anti vax nonsense. www.notus.org/health-scien...

HEINOUS—Trump HHS’s RFK Jr just ended US recommendation that healthy pregnant women & kids receive COVID vaccines. 📌Extraordinary move that bypasses scientific system of vaccine guidelines from CDC!! Kids & women are not immune to Long COVID! Gift🎁🔗 wapo.st/4kk4DlE

⚠️Criminal charges needed—UHC secretly paid kickbacks to nursing homes to block/reduce hospital transfers of nursing patients to the 🏥. End result is $$$ in UHC pockets—while your grandma dies without hospital care… how is this not committing outright murder? Asking for a guy named Luigi.

⚠️Tariffs On Medications Will Make America Sick We might soon see Trump WH impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals—patients will suffer and die. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that these tariffs are coming in the “next month or two.” What will this mean?

⚠️Tariffs On Medications Will Make America Sick We might soon see Trump WH impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals—patients will suffer and die. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that these tariffs are coming in the “next month or two.” What will this mean?

GHASTLY—Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee HICPAC, which issued guidance about preventing the spread of infections in health care facilities—hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients. The committee is now dead; long live hospital infections.

📈15 major chain restaurants increased ⬆️menu prices by more than the rate of inflation between 2020-2025, on average by 42%. Price gouging.

The White House needs to understand: Teachers are their union. It's how we collectively have a voice. When you attack unions, you attack teachers. When you leave us out of the conversation, you ignore teachers voice.