Literally The Median Voter

Can we help make this the latest example of The Streisand effect. 👇

Whoever called the faction of the press who still want to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner the ‘Access of Evil’ I salute you

"Your apathy and enabling will automatically and permanently become what you actually chose to do in April 2026 when powerful disinformation forces threatened science and medicine. You’ll be an accomplice. Everyone will know it, and no one will forget it. "

The Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, a major U.S. pediatric conference, is hosting a panel on transgender youth healthcare. The conference's sole panel on trans health is affiliated with Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a group that opposes gender-affirming care.

more people probably died from diarrhea, malaria and typhoid during the civil war than actual fighting

In a recent testimony before Congress, Secretary RFK Jr argued against the use of a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine because he confidently claimed that the death rate in children was practically zero for hepatitis B. As usual, he was wrong.

this was a great webinar

Hi friends, sharing this short roundtable webinar on how permanent daylight saving time disproportionally impacts vulnerable groups If you're supportive of DST - it's worth a listen, there are some important equity concerns www.neurologylive.com/view/health-...

I was shocked to have a) not heard about this tragedy, and b) when I saw about kids being mass murdered, that I didn't know it was their dad

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Vaccine "skeptics" will read an article like this and their takeaway will be "nobody died" .https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/report-details-tetanus-4-unvaccinated-us-kids-including-refusal-post-exposure

Fighting for each other makes us proud bc it makes us good. It makes us better versions of ourselves. We see our own works & can't help but think that we deserve that pride. There was a time when just being queer in public required a bravery we could be proud of. Today, lets ask more of ourselves.

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Tuberculosis Outbreaks in Nunavik, Quebec Worsening While Province Ignores Calls to Declare Public Health Emergency New research finds lack of resources, language barriers persist in this Inuit region, where Red Cross has been called to help with TB pressprogress.ca/tuberculosis...

comcast technical support. "aside from the issue you called about, how is your day going?" i mean, it'd be better if i weren't on the phone with you?

I'd like to take a second to explain all the ways that this comment is disqualifying as a marker of legitimate expertise in vaccination. 🧵 www.nytimes.com./2026/04/09/h...

More than 100 pediatricians who work for Packard Children's Health Alliance, part of Stanford Medicine Children's Health, have filed to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). excellent!! www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbase...

This feels SO beyond that. He’s like that fungus that makes ants into zombies.

Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization. Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do? Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

Groundbreaking brand new tool by @mikehoney.bsky.social : FOr the first time we have a pandemic to investigate age preferences of a variant. It is especially relevant now that BA.3.2 shows a marked prevalence in infecting kids.

I think this is SUCH an important discussion, and she was so great. Reupping so people know this is out there. I raved to my husband about it all evening— she was fantastic.

Infection Control Today: 'COVID‑19 showed respiratory viruses spread through a continuum of airborne particles, not just droplets. With multiple viruses circulating, hospitals must prioritise ventilation, respirators, and stronger air‑exchange systems.' www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/droplet...

how are people winning on this downcoding bullshit?

Swalwell: "I want to knock out this argument we even need ICE doing what they're doing in the first place. If they are so easily moved from our streets, where they are terrorizing people, to passing out bottles of water in the airport, did we really need them terrorizing people in the first place?"

In case you needed any more proof that the institutional transphobia and pro-genocide ideology reaches up to the executives of the NYT, here is their PR account issuing yet another blatantly false fact check.

any pediatric urologists I can ask a quick question to?

"There are a number of studies that show one of the benefits of COVID vaccination during pregnancy is the passage of antibodies to the newborn, and then that protects the newborn against COVID" Thanks @npr.org + @tarahaelle.bsky.social. #MedSky + #ObGynSky. www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Over the last decade, Helen Lewis has written 40+ versions of the same anti-trans article. 2015: 1 2016: 3 2017: 1 2018: 4 2019: 2 2020: 4 2021: 4 2022: 4 2023: 6 2024: 7 2025: 7 It's quite remarkable to see them as a list, so I compiled one here: www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

if you'd asked me i'd have said this wouldn't be how i'd organize a global economy. but nobody asked me

Notes from a rabbithole I fell into: AI-generated rabbis are trending on Instagram, antisemitic conspiracy theories and disinformation included. I found 35 such accounts with a total of 2.3 million followers. English version here: ohje-internet.de/en/2026/03/1...

Jews head into Shabbat with apprehension & devastation after antisemitic attacks on synagogues in Michigan, Toronto, and Belgium. Fear and grief can be exceedingly lonely experiences. But we are not alone. We are all too aware that the fear many of us feel right now is shared by our Muslim cousins.

something like 30-50% of pediatric prescribing is off label

CDC requests the following modifications to my slides for an upcoming presentation: This presentation includes language on slides 7, 9, 12, 67 that may go against executive orders. Suggesting removal of “pregnant person” to be in compliance.

Seed snails, including some seeds I saved from last year's harvest

The way they talk about real places with real people as if it's Narnia is just such a consistently gross part of American media

@repemilyrandall.bsky.social why did you vote to block the release of congressional sexual misconduct reports?

farella spreads falsehoods about vaccines during legislative testimony www.factcheck.org/2021/05/scic...

Hard-hitting quote -- “I guess I just don’t have the right barometer to deal with this kind of capricious hate.”

Erin's reporting is, as always, impeccable. What many may not know, however, is that once a license is issued, the holder has a property interest in that license that is protected by the 14th Amendment. This goes back to Bell v Burson (1972). For more, keep reading... 🧵

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

why is washington not in on this lawsuit?! www.doj.state.or.us/media-home/n... @atg.wa.gov

So Abby, if you’re listening, From your syndicated chair, Maybe tell ‘em loving neighbors Means caring about the air. A shot’s a start, not the finish, And comfort’s not the facts— It ain’t over ‘cause we said it was, You can’t just vax and relax.

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

She's running to replace Dick Durbin and, uh, to say this is a welcome change in tone and attitude would be a hell of an understatement.

3 months ago, Vinay Prasad "leaked" a memo promising a "profound revelation" that the COVID vaccine killed at least 10 children. If taken at face value (😂) they are hiding the evidence. My latest on the incompetence and malevolence at the FDA.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.