RFK Jr’s “evidence” doesn’t support ending mRNA vaccine development. It makes the case for expanding it. Thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r...

Your tax dollars pay around $7 million per year for Russell Vought’s personal security detail, while he and his friends incite stochastic violence against scientists and the CDC. 1/2

A federal judge in Rhode Island has sided with a coalition of domestic violence support groups, including one in Pennsylvania, in momentarily barring the federal government from enforcing a newly imposed set of restraints on Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) grants. From @rhodeislandcurrent.com

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally stumble into an insurrection?

Wes Moore on Fox & Friends: "Our National Guards are not trained for this ... we know the missions that they are trained for. Municipal policing is not one of them. If we want to be serious about making people safe, let's actually do the things that make people safe."

Hundreds of bullets. An officer slain. A silent Trump. After CDC shooting, shock turns to anger. From Atlanta, myself & @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com Edited @fenitn.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Dr. Michael Osterholm cuts to the chase on why cutting mRNA research funding is such a dangerous idea.

🚨New peer-reviewed commentary that I co-authored with Chris Beyrer is now out in the journal Vaccine, gift link below We show the ways in which the MAHA & MAGA guys—RFK Jr, Makary, Bhattacharya, Prasad—have dismantled the US vaccine regulatory framework authors.elsevier.com/a/1lbDt,60n7... 1/5

#nature #toad

Trump sent 450+ federal officers from nearly 20 agencies onto D.C. streets in a weekend ‘crime crackdown.’ Arrests? A dirt biker, a fugitive, and a suspended-license driver — while violent crime is down 26% from last year. www.fox5dc.com/news/450-fed... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #LawSky

Note to Kristi Noem: It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.

#yellowgardenspider #orbspinner

Exclusive: The former senior CIA officer who helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election says DNI Tulsi Gabbard and the White House are “lying” when they claim that it was an attempt to sabotage Trump.

Mark Walter who owns the Dodgers and the Lakers is in business with Palantir Technologies the app that tracks people and also in Alligator Alley. Stop supporting his businesses!!

Ghislane Maxwell is a child sex trafficker that Trump just gave immunity to in exchange for her silence on him. Wanna bet she only names democrats now and magically gets pardoned in a few years?

Folks. What have I been saying since the beginning. This advisory panel is responsible for making the recommendations on what cancer screenings and preventative measures must be covered by insurance. This. Will. Impact. Everyone.

Lots of Venezuelan-Americans in south FL voted for Trump.

#lunamoth #nature #iNat

This morning, federal agents arrested & search homes of multiple people who were protesting against ICE arrests in Spokane on June. This is a photo from the father of one of the protesters www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

#swallowtailbutterfly #nature

It was only 5 months ago that Trump said he would only go after the worst of the worst. Now they are disappearing people including U.S. citizens. Next they want to create a national database of citizens. Will states send back individual voting data? If anyone thinks they are safe, they are wrong.

I worked at Planned Parenthood. They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.   Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.

7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill: Cuts $930 billion from Medicaid 16 million lose health care Slashes nutrition aid by $186 billion Less income for bottom 40% of families Increases debt by $3.3 trillion $45 billion for immigration jails Billions for defense contractors

Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."

"Most economists and politicians acknowledge that many of America's agricultural workers are in the country illegally, but say a sharp reduction in their numbers could have devastating impacts on the food supply chain and farm-belt economies."

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten: “American people don’t see this as a big, beautiful bill. They see it as a big, bad bill. They hate it, hate it, hate it! They think it’s awful, awful, awful!”

The Phoenix Indian Center is organizing a donation drive to help those impacted by this fire. More info below:

🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

I called my representatives. Did you?

Elon Musk continues to warn against the GOP budget bill

Sen. Murkowski knows what’s at stake: GOP leaders are scheming to gut Medicaid and gut rural care with it. In Alaska, that means real lives lost. They’re delaying taxes to game the rules—but the cruelty is the point. Don’t let her cave. Hold the line. #MedicaidSavesOurLives

9 Hospitals in TN at critical risk of closing if the BBB passes! There's still time to save our rural hospitals. Call your Senators and ask them to vote NO on the Medicaid cuts in the budget bill. #ProtectMedicaid #SaveRuralHospitals

By Bill Bramhall

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. This is legit. And yes, ICE is abducting immigrants who are not criminals and are showing up for immigration hearings so they can obtain documentation. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/06/18/u...

Share this with every damn Republican. Your GOP slashes SNAP, Medicaid, & rural hospitals while abducting brown people. You say you want greatness, but what you mean is whiteness. Immigrants built this country. They feed it. You voted for a feeling. He’s not the cure. He’s the sickness.

The time to act decisively and swiftly is now. #DemVoice1

TOMORROW, senators plan to vote on the GOP’s Big BustedAss Bill Act. If passed, it will literally KILL people, take food from families, and add trillions to the national debt, all to give tax breaks to the richest of the rich. This is a life or death fight. Stay in it. 💪 I see you.👏 Keep going.

Oh, for fuck sake. Why? Why, can’t they figure out the difference between correlation and causation?

@lukelukeluke.bsky.social can you help me identify these itty bitty bright orange fungi?

Scanlon: They're flat out lying when they say they're just kicking undocumented immigrants off Medicaid because those folks were never eligible for Medicaid in the first place. The truth is Republicans know that kicking millions of Americans off of health insurance is unpopular.

No, they don’t.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

Three years ago, a corrupt Supreme Court seized our rights and overturned Roe v. Wade. The resulted is just what we predicted. Women dying because they can't get basic healthcare. Doctors afraid to treat patients. We will not stop fighting until abortion rights are restored.

"Answer the question, Mr. Vought ... I don't want to hear about the Biden administration. You're here on behalf of the Trump administration." Jon Ossoff was not putting up with Russ Vought's lies about cutting crucial CDC funding and workforce.