Feeding into antivax conspiracies/RFK rhetoric from an activist role also contributes to the violent radicalization. Conspiracy and inaccuracies are invalid critiques and don't improve public health, yet *everyone*just leans into them. Mostly silence on the shooting from COVID aware folks too.

"We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted..." Words really don't mean anything anymore, do they? The incompetence is staggering, the political motives, clear as day. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

This goes out to all the people who won’t shut up about optimism and what a great opportunity this is to “fix” science by gutting the training pipeline and eliminating peer review

That over budget line is equivalent to 400 5-year biomedical research grants.

More to go, but this is a good start. Hopefully the court order is obeyed!

I just spent 15 minutes engaged in mortal battle with a cricket at 1:30 AM. Little shit jumped everywhere, including inside of my shoes and clothes.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Apparently there’s no money for life saving science, but there’s money for a parade.

No more detailed reporting. No more preventative health. No more research. No more accessibility. You want to argue eugenics, that’s fucking eugenics.

Everyone… It doesn’t just stop at ACIP. The strategy is not just approvals but will eventually filter down to how your provider will be able to operate Every single one of RFK and companies goals is to completely incapacitate the current medical institution and keep everyone in the dark

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

Anyways I double checked to make sure this was accurate and the account links to his blog and describes a Rush and UCLA trained EM physician so it appears to be genuine. It also means I did more fact checking than those fuckers at Alt CDC and Alt NPS.

NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.

just so it’s clear why spokane is protesting and what triggered this in the first place, so it won’t get lost www.krem.com/article/news...

NYC, please don't fuck this up... Over the past week I have received so many Cuomo fliers disparaging Zohran so it's clear the momentum is in his favor. Please make the correct choice. DO NOT RANK CUOMO.

BEGGING LIBERALS TO READ THIS

Another reason to go get your vaccines/boosters ASAP. Get your titers drawn if you need to. This list is the worst of the worst. No new vaccines seems likely, and we'll see how many of the ones we have get revoked. If we get H5N1, we're cooked. BAD.

The attacks on the civilian population of LA are becoming more violent and more overtly authoritarian, and brutal. These are the tactics of a paramilitary terror force nothing else. These are rightwing death squads in the making. America is under attack by fascist governmental forces

I’ll probably never really get over people on the “left” attacking me for warning that Jay Bhattacharya was just a right-wing operative who wanted people back to work for the economy. Dude was a favorite with business-aligned right-wing dark money groups, but I was the sellout. Well, now look…

Removing pepperball residue from clothing and other items. This is based on my (unfortunately extensive) personal experience and experimentiation. Pepperballs contain powdered PAVA, an oily, synthetic capsaicin analog. The only reliable way to remove it is with a good surfactant soap and water. 1/

Soldiers are being used as a right-wing political prop, and these 20-year-old boys seem eager to play the part. No one should have any faith that the US military will not do horrible things to the US public when asked or even simply given the chance by Trump and his associates.

this is going around as people finger wag about optics and peaceful protests and i just want to note that the cop here - john pike - received retirement, 8mos of suspended leave pay, and $38k for the pain and suffering of macing kids the students received $6k-30k, most at the lower end

Stop whining about flags at the protests, if you don’t like what’s being flown go out there yourself with the “right” one

Better get vaxxed while you still can. Check your titers if you need to by going to the doctor if unsure. Might be good for folks to dig out their masks again since vaccines aren't perfect and rates will continue to go down because of RFK.

Saying the bad people are bad in the streets instead of online works! (no disrespect intended to Raphael) There certainly are intelligent folks losing their livelihoods currently that can learn a lesson from this!

Avoiding US schools is increasingly becoming a necessity if one wants to get anything like an actual education. I’ve some family in Europe and have been strongly encouraging those kids to pursue university educations there, not here.

lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

Perhaps Newsom should have spent less time chumming around with authoritarian buffoons on his podcast and more time preparing and strategizing for the entirely predicable thing that is happening in his state right now.

ER doctor here! Please seek medical attention (go to the ER) if you are hit in the head with a ballistic. “Less lethal” weapons kill people all the time, in addition to causing permanent disabilities. If you don’t feel safe disclosing that you were protesting just say you were hit in the head, etc

People don’t realize just how much damage this administration is doing to American science—and confidence in American science globally. Everyone I speak with inside is horrified…

game conferences

I opened bsky and looked to see what clips there were of the NBA finals game winner. I clicked the topic and was immediately greeted with vile, untagged, uncensored porn instead. Not even purifying flames of God feel like enough to rid me of that sight. Social media is just unusable now.

Yes. Any who think they could/ should bring him into the fold needs to own this.

It's illuminating right now how many people care more about rich people publicly crashing out than the lives said rich people have taken, ruined, or otherwise altered by gutting science. I get the desperation for a win but this isn't it. Get organized and stop focusing on the dangling set of keys.

Maybe I'm the only one, but I much prefer the media spending time on the tremendous damage two individuals have done to science, public health, security, and the economy, as opposed to what insults they're hurling at each other on their own social media chiefdoms. We all know how this works.

He can go fuck himself, actually.

I don't wanna hear anyone asking me why a future pandemic is happening when those working to prevent it have to resort to this to survive. This was made reality on purpose by politicians and their sycophants with no formal opposition.

See the below for why the allegations of a secret Chinese Communist plot to destroy the American food supply are a bunch of nonsense. Some folks made a bad decision about transporting a specimen across borders via plane. If you didn't know science, you'd think we foiled a terrorist plot. We didn't.

lmao as stupid as it is - they’re feeding Republicans!!! There are people starving, services being gutted, people being kicked out of jobs and entire infrastructure is being compromised and they are GIVING FREE FOOD TO REPUBLICANS

...are we gonna see NIH money redirected to the IDW types? That's an omen if nothing else.

people are getting disappeared, innocent men sent to foreign gulags, the civil service hollowed out, thousands left to die without foreign aid, and schumer is saber rattling about iran. these people make me fucking sick.

It is important to recognize that a homophobic bigot decided to take this man’s life. This talent is gone because of unjustified and irrational hatred. Rest In Peace, Jonathan, and know your legacy is carried with love. May the world change for the better, with peace for all.

It takes the collective to enforce this since public health refused to since 2021. Most retreated into individualism long ago. Reinforcing individualism with "your throat will feel like razor blades if you get sick" doesn't work.

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

“Abolish ICE” is now the bare minimum. “Abolish and prosecute ICE” is where we need to be.

This seat is open because asshole Democrats in the Senate wouldn’t confirm Biden’s pick for the 3rd Circuit because Biden’s pick was Muslim and did pro bono work for Muslim clients.

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I think we're going to have to re-conceptualize what our civic duties truly are in short order. Too many people limit or qualify their pushback to any given policy too easily. Threats of no healthcare? Call Congress one time, nothing else. No research funding? Protest once for a bit.