ME! For decades, BTW. My parents put we Garrett kids in the front of every vaccine line as the polio, measles, tetanus, pertussis -- each new vaccine rolled out. And as an adult I've eagerly taken each new vax, suffering no more than shoulder aches at injection sites.

In case you haven't noticed, GOOGLE has eliminated its primary search portal for climate and environmental news. The entire tech world is buckling to Trump, largely because they need more energy to power their AI and cybercurrency data farms.

When are right wing opportunists going to get it through their thick skulls that going to work for Donald Trump is a job from Hell? He demands absolute loyalty. He gives back nothing in return. And SNAP! he can turn around and destroy you.

Here's my direct transcription: “We’ll continue to talk to the Democrats but I think you could very well end up with a closed, closed country for a period of time & we’ll take care of the military. We’ll take care of Social Security. We’ll take care of the things that we have to take care of." MORE

🌍 Climate change & health New research shows human-caused climate change has already led to millions of deaths, illnesses, and economic losses worldwide. Heat, air pollution, infectious disease, & extreme weather are among the major drivers. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SciComm #ClimateHealth 🧪

Parachutes have some adverse events. Sometimes, they fail to deploy. The harness can cause localized swelling, redness and pain. If it were up to RFK Jr.’s ACIP, parachutes would be banned.

It will likely only become more difficult to reverse the fallout of these policy decisions on the United States’ relations with its closest allies, writes Josh Kurlantzick.

Ossoff: "There are families in NE Georgia now who will not have local access to child birth services ... I mean, we are the wealthiest country in the world. We should be building new hospitals. We should be building new clinics."

At 4:30pm eastern yesterday Trump held a quick press conference in the Oval. He was asked about free speech. I have tried to transcribe verbatim his response: “I’m a very strong person for free speech. At the same time, when you have networks that, like, where I won an election in counties -" MORE

Red Alert: "Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall mtg & instructed to halt work on most research papers. The researchers were told that...studies wld be subject to a new review process. The decision was made by political appointees." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

"We all see where this is going, correct?" www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Make measles great again

The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/

Google appears to have eliminated its go-to site for quick-access environmental and climate change news. Is this a glitch, or censorship?

"The stakes for American science and university scientists couldn’t be higher.” New in @forbes.com, Michael T. Nietzel highlights this year's Gold Goose Award honorees as examples of what we stand to lose without federal funding for discovery research. Read more: https://bit.ly/42Cadst

David was a brilliant scientist, humane, strategic, and dedicated. And he was a friend. R.I.P., David.

The move comes after two federal courts have already ruled Trump doesn’t have the power to fire Lisa Cook.

STRANGE DEFENDERS AND OFFENDERS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT open.substack.com/pub/lauriega...

I honestly thought this might have been AI generated. But it’s real. TUCKER CARLSON, calling out the Trumpsters for violating the 1st Amendment, using Charlie Kirk's assassination: “A human being, with a soul – a free man – has a right to say what he believes.” x.com/maddenifico/...

7 NE States plus NYC have formed a regional public health alliance, aimed at countering whatever efforts RFK Jr and the Trump Administration take to block access to health, drugs, vaccines and essential services.

they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice

Insisting the Left is responsible for the killing of Charlie Kirk, the Trump Admin is pushing firings & suspensions of public & private employees who express any "support" for the murders. And insisting that terrorism is the work of left-wingers in America. lauriegarrett.substack.com/publish/post...

REPORTER: Do you think Trump needs Congress's authority to conduct strikes on boats? AGUILAR: Yes. I think the president needs to make the case to the American public that striking boats is in the national security interests of the US.

What Are Americans Allowed To Say? I have compiled a list of people fired or punished for comments related to the murder of Charles Kirk. open.substack.com/pub/lauriega...

!!! "The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

GREENLAND "The sheet is melting. It has lost 5,500,000,000,000 tons of ice since 2002. If you dumped that amount of meltwater into Olympic-size [pools] you could provide a 660,000-gallon lap pool for every person living in Africa & Europe—all 2.2 billion." pulitzercenter.org/projects/gre...

Brian Kilmeade's statement today was NOT an apology. No where close. He's a psychopath-sociopath (ASPD). Fire him. Now.

Take 2 minutes, 50 seconds to watch this. x.com/i/status/196...

The Washington Post fired Karen Attiah because she quoted Charlie Kirk, saying, "Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot." She added no comment -- merely an ACCURATE quote. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

1-in-6 parents are not vaccinating their school kids. "The American parents who are choosing to skip or delay vaccines for their children are more likely to home-school their children, be White and very religious, identify as Republican or be under 35" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... MORE

"The US tariff rate has already ^ed from 2.5% to 15%. Tariff revenue is rolling in at an annual rate above $300bn -- 4Xs the pace this time last year. Economists assumed that...tariffs would strengthen the $ ...Instead, it suffered its worst fall...since the early 1970s." www.ft.com/content/bb35...

Trump justifies his economic actions on his assertion that America is in a state of financial emergency. Not so, says Benn Steil of CFR: "In short, there is no identifiable economic “emergency.” But if there were one, the president himself would be fueling it." www.cfr.org/article/emer...

Day by day, Project 2025 is being written into existence by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress. And there’s another plan in the works as conservatives prepare to “do it all over again,” says Angelo Carusone of Media Matters for America. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

"The existing elites can no longer rest easy. Having reconciled themselves to the regime’s radicalism, they may have now sealed their own doom...But the larger lesson of the recent purges is quite different: Putin lacks a reverse gear." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/russi...

Norm Ornstein & I joined David Rothkopf for his DSR show, focusing on 9/11, Charlie Kirk, Trump & RFK. I drew parallels between the rxns to Sept 11, 2001 & today's American conundrums - including the Bush admin's response to the health hazards from the burning WTC pyre & RFK's public health inanity.

Yesterday was the 24th anniversary of the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history. @lauriegarrett.bsky.social, @djrothkopf.bsky.social, and @normornstein.bsky.social have a conversation to memorialize 9/11, and discuss the challenges since. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... youtu.be/0Izv8lqqUbw

The day's near -- America's power grids can't handle storms & heatwaves. AI, crypto & server farms eat all the electricity our nation's aging system can handle. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... "This combination of higher prices & lower reliability poses a direct threat to US nat'l security."

The democratic governors of Oregon, Washington and California are forming a new public health partnership aimed at preserving access to vaccines.

Oh.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ll always see Dr. Fauci as a national treasure as well as an American hero whilst I see deranged chaos agent RFK Jr as an unqualified dirty piece of shit charlatan as well as a disgusting murderer.

Harvard secures a win in the fight with Trump over federal research funding. A federal judge said the Trump admin "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?

Long Covid has more than 200 potential symptoms. Selective gullibility is one of mine

There's an expression in Italy -- "fascist architecture," referring the enormous, ugly buildings erected by Mussolini, imitating those built by ancient Roman dictators; meant to make people feel tiny. Now, Trump commands that all new bldgs in Wash DC do the same. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Trump is waging all-out war against renewable energy and energy infrastructure in USA. Meanwhile, our grids are failing and electricity costs are soaring, 3 years in a row, with no end to energy inflation in sight. futurism.com/electricity-...

Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣

I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!

Remember the HUGE scandal in Obama Admin of Gen. David Petraeus having a love affair? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeu... Well, what about Trump's UnderSecretary for Defense? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...