Holy shit Russell Brand, Andrew Wakefield, Joseph Ladapo "In the conference exhibit hall, MAHA hoodies were on sale for $60 and glass ornaments featuring the health secretary’s likeness were priced at $15" Ah yes, it's all about the grift, the deadly MAHA grift www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

So proud of my dear friend Sam for writing this. So furious he has to go through it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Companion article: www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/m...

💉Flu season is here! Get your flu vaccine, especially if you have underlying medical conditions. This goes for kids too. Last year, 280 kids died from influenza: 56% of them had an underlying condition and 89% were unvaccinated. #FIGHTFlu www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

You are a woman? Be sure to read this report by Dr. Jen Gunter ⬇️😇 https://bsky.app/profile/drjengunter.bsky.social/post/3m5d5mmy25c2j

Been a rough year for federally funded scientists, and I hate to add another tab to this spreadsheet. So far, the shutdown has resulted in cancellation of 161 CSR study sections. 🧪https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing

🇺🇸 Today is Veterans Day 🇺🇸 To our veterans: you deserve so much better: affordable housing, mental health care, food security, and more. Thank you for fighting for us. We are fighting for you Want to honor veterans? Consider donating/volunteering at local/national veterans helping veterans programs

MAHA: The "we're not antivax" mask has been dropped www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/11/10/m... via @gorskon.bsky.social

"Nearly 1,650 cases of measles in 42 states have been confirmed this year .. a new health survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) finds that the public is less informed than it should be of the dangers of measles...." penntoday.upenn.edu/news/public-...

The "Long COVID roundtable" was a crankfest. And they stated they're making a website that will promote quacks and their bogus treatments. There will likely be a similar roundtable to promote chronic Lyme quackery. bsky.app/profile/lyme...

New embryo testing company says it can predict lifespan, height and IQ of potential children www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVM... - grifters gonna grift... 🤑💰💵

“We can have an active, robust discussion as a group of medical experts spontaneously, and so we’re doing more of that,” Makary said of his preference for convening roundtables. Guess what roundtables don't have? FACA requirements to occur in public with the opportunity for public comment.

There's an exclusive, closed-to-media MAHA summit tomorrow. Here's the full agenda I was leaked In attendance will be JD Vance, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Makary, actor Russell Brand (who is facing rape and sexual assault charges), and dozens of other MAHA influencers and people in Trump's orbit

Will Bunch nails what I have been trying to say about the Dems folding. It's not just the fight, but the spotlight on the fight, a light that just went out...

Steve Kirsch unknowingly identifies the fatal flaw of an antivax “report” from the McCullough Foundation: it included junk (even retracted) studies, low quality evidence, and pretended correlation is causation. sciencebasedmedicine.org/antivaxxer-s... Can't tag people here today.

BREAKING: Longtime cancer regulator Rick Pazdur named director of drug center at FDA www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/f...

SCOTUS6: POTUS can fire anyone. IGs: Even IGs? SCOTUS6: Everyone but Fed Chairs. IGs: Even IGs who discovered someone framed a Fed Chair? www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Can you help me get the word out? We are having trouble reaching government attorneys due to the shutdown. This is 6 hours of CLE of FREE through the ABA. But you don’t have to be an attorney to sign up! Thread of topics we will cover:

If Pete Hegseth believed in prioritizing merit in the military, he would have stepped down a long time ago. I’m proud to stand in a long line of badass women who have served or are currently serving their country, even when people like Pete Hegseth refuse to give us equal opportunity to lead.

“Bottom line: partisan sources + lobbying conflicts + a choreographed leak = a weaponised attack on public-service journalism.” #BBC #journalism #Trump

2 things to emphasize here: 1. unusual process FDA took to come to this labeling change. 2. some of the unsubstantiated claims senior FDA officials and others made about the benefits of menopause hormone therapies yesterday. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/d...

Now a story: www.abc4.com/news/politic...

Hello Royal Society

The Panorama edit was poor journalism, not sure how it happened (more than 15 yo when I worked there we all had to go on a course because someone made the Queen look grumpy about something in the wrong order). But of all of it, this is the only piece I’ve read that properly nails the issue…

You won't believe what goes on at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de . Again!

That the virus was more dangerous than the vaccine was pretty clear 4.5 years ago, though an enormous propaganda machine led by our current medical establishment claimed otherwise. sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-and...

Some quacks choose to be homophobes #QuackZywiec

RFK Jr & the MAHA institute are selling anti-vaccine onesies. When I say they PROFIT by causing preventable illness & death, this only scrapes the surface of their deadly profiteering. RFK Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. He an anti-vaxxer. He is a danger to society. 1/

Last week my dentist informed me that I grind my teeth at night.

The New York Times has quietly sued for access to video footage of Trump's flagrantly unlawful boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Still desperate for a good question. I probably confused everyone -- the mainbar of the newsletter is largely about the Democrats on Capitol Hill (and the history lesson is Dick Cheney) so maybe something else Please

From Paul Kim on leucovorin: "Proffering a proactive guarantee of approval on the basis of a limited, non-trial-based dossier effectively broadcasts that the FDA is prepared to approve new drugs without clinical trials." www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

Canada lost its measles elimination status. The US is likely next (our 12month countdown ends in Jan). What an embarrassment. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

there’s this really dumb idea among the brain dead liberal punditocracy that you shouldn’t even mention ICE but nah this guy ran aggressively against them in a purple center/center-right county and won.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Join us this Wednesday for our monthly Vaccine Advocates workshop. We’re going to be talking about how to navigate vaccine conversations with family members (with the holidays on their way). We’ll have fun and learn a lot. Sign up here: bit.ly/4i1i7SP

We are not done fighting and we're never done serving. www.federalunionists.net/press/statem...

Thousands of EPA employees are furloughed. Some of those who remain are busy loosening pollution regulations, a key priority of the Trump admin. Great reporting from @mollytaft.com

US FDA chief Makary asks drugmakers to remove warnings from hormone therapy reut.rs/3LwMh4j

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

I’m leaving this post up for transparency’s sake, but I just got some clarification on the federal RIF reinstatement/moratorium. It only stops them from re-firing people until January of 2026 - I thought it was also a year. So yeah, there’s not much of a win here. Apologies for the misread.

Long investigative piece in @wsj.com on human embryo editing firms by Emily Glazer, Katherine Long & Amy Dockser Marcus. www.wsj.com/tech/biotech... Like my quote on human embryo editing to make babies: “Responsible adults agree we can’t do it now because it’s unreasonably unsafe,” said Stanford

Compliance under Trump 2.0 - zip, nada, zilch, get stuffed. Five warnings over 2 years and a warning letter and the manufacturer is still selling its unapproved device. lifevac.net/collections/...

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

@dankaszeta.bsky.social Suggestions for first aid for 1 yo (pepper spray)?

he understood the consequences better than anyone. he had the choice between giving up his career and causing mass child death at home and all across the globe. if this isn’t an evil man, then i don’t know what is

🚨CTA: PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESS MEMBERS & TELL THEM TO EXTEND ACA SUBSIDIES. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE IN THE U.S. WE ALL MUST CALL, IT'S CRUCIAL! ALL 100 U.S. Senators DC Contact Information Phone #: Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville 202-224-4124 Senator Katie Boyd Britt 202-224-5744 1/18

The Trump Coin open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Some good doggos available for adoption in the Bay Area!

I know the bsky collective has decided anyone associated with DHS is ICE because ~messaging~, but just reiterating that this is BP Which, yknow, wildly waving a gun around flagging multiple other LEOs seems like the sort of thing other agencies might want to distance themselves from