They're only delaying the inevitable. Waiting until after November won't change anything, especially over summer cuz i'm mighty damn sure there'll be numerous large outbreaks.

Powerful piece on the new CDC director—the Great Barrington Declaration/MAGA/MAHA/Brownstone bro who campaigned for RFK Jr when RFK Jr ran for president This nails it: "As much as he may claim to be working to restore trust in the agency, his actions seem far more likely to achieve the opposite"

So basically they want to wait until measles elimination status is lost before they talk about it.

"As the acting director of the CDC, Bhattacharya’s tenure will likely be brief; ...But Bhattacharya clearly wants something from the agency." www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/... via @katherinejwu.com @theatlantic.com

Meeting on U.S. Measles Status Is Delayed Until November www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

There are several bills to remove mandates around the country, but these are not easy bills to pass. Most people want their kids' school safe from disease. "Florida’s Legislature won’t change the state‘s vaccine laws this session." www.miamiherald.com/news/politic... via @miamiherald.com

Did Tom Shimabukuro Say COVID Vaccines Were Causing Debilitating Illnesses? No. He acknowledged reports of it and said they were investigating. Investigations did not support the claims. Anti-vaccine leaders mislead their followers. vaxopedia.org/2026/03/02/d... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social

Portraits of some of the researchers that The Regime has run off. We are losing so many excellent researchers.

Talk about a brain drain. 95k is a lot! www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Good scientists are leaving NIH. Counter to the quote from HHS, NIH is struggling to recruit qualified scientists to replace them. My own role sits empty. NIH cannot replace me since I am still employed but prevented from working. This admin is gutting science. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

Thoughts and prayers! is the policy solution to the tens of thousands Americans unable to get home.

2. Americans in 14 countries were not advised to evacuate until three days after Trump began major combat operations in Iran. By that time, much of the region’s airspace and most airports had closed.

4. On Tuesday, when Americans called a phone number publicized by the State Department, they received an automated message: “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation. At this time, there are currently no United States evacuation points.”

3. Before the 2003 Iraq War, in contrast, the State Department advised citizens to prepare to evacuate weeks in advance and ordered a final evacuation days before fighting began.

1. FACT: The Trump administration started a war in the Middle East with NO PLAN WHATSOEVER to ensure the safety of the hundreds of thousands of American citizens in the region.

My Sunny is also an ear-tipped cat and it took a year for him to let me pet him, but now he makes biscuits every day and sleeps in the sun

Is there such a thing as "gold standard union busting"?

They have religious exemptions. That means the parents are liars, tbc, because no major religions object to vaccines…but they do usually have moral objections to lying! People lying ab their religion are putting other people’s kids & the broader community at risk in schools w/21% MMR uptake rates.

Still very alert around us, but trusting more: enough to it right next to me (of course, as soon as I got up she ran).

RFK Jr's non-expert #ACIP Has Scheduled a Meeting Next Month, looking to misrepresent the data on COVID-19 vaccines risks and ignore the fact that ACIP has already discussed vaccines risks and VAERS reports many times. vaxopedia.org/2026/03/01/r... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social

Opinion | Should Doctors Engage With Misinfo Spreaders? Dr. @realdoctormike.bsky.social and @pauloffit.bsky.social Weigh In, moderated by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles: rising exemptions are playing a big role in the measles outbreak that is sickening, hospitalizing, and killing children in the U.S.. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u... @nytimes.com

Um, it’s obvious. The U.S. has measles.

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The COVID vaccine myocarditis signal was real but is now resolved. ACIP's March agenda pretends otherwise. via @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

"...authorities from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) plan to meet in April. They will determine whether the United States has lost its measles-free status....North America has a measles problem, regardless of PAHO’s decision." teen.gwnews.com/articles/mea...

Why you shouldn't lecture parents whose unvaccinated kids suffered or died with measles: targeting that is not going to make parents rethink vaccines, says Karen Ernst from @voices4vaccines.bsky.social www.ms.now/opinion/vacc...

For our latest #CRNSpotlight, we spoke with @utah.edu Professor Leslie Francis, who co-chairs CRN 9: Law and Health alongside @doritreiss.bsky.social (@uclawsf.bsky.social) and @amwhelan.bsky.social (Georgia State University)! bit.ly/CRN9Spotlight #HealthLaw #VaccineLaw

Also in Hazel news, today the socks I put out for L to wear were, through some unknown process, under Hazel’s favorite chair. (Hazel likes to play with pairs of socks. L nicknamed her “socks”. Attached is a picture of a pair of socks she put on the cat tree).

Let’s be clear. TRUMP’S FORMER Surgeon General said do not approve!

One year of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary: The Lancet reacts, and so do I: He's a liar, and deserve to be called out. But The Lancet has still not made up for the harm they did with Wakefield. @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/one-year-of-... via @sciencebasedmed.bsky.social

Former surgeon general Jerome Adams: The Senate must not approve someone who can’t practice medicine as the nation’s top doctor www.statnews.com/2026/02/27/c... via @statnews.com

As True and the GOP are retreating from anti-vaccine misinformation, Governor DeSantis doubles down on it - while his state is seeing a growing measles outbreak. floridapolitics.com/archives/782...

After CDC vaccine changes, states push to keep childhood shots free, accessible www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-... via @nbcnews.com

Guess who came for petting. #hazel #catsofbluesky.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Hundreds of lawsuits have piled up since Trump’s executive-order dump on Day 1 of his 2nd term. The litigation explosion is a sinkhole of time and money, but also, for now one of the only ways to stop/slow Trump's razing of America. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/can-lawsui...

I can’t stand all this winning.

The meritocracy! abovethelaw.com/2026/03/law-...

All you need is the willingness to follow orders; being actually smart or good at the law is irrelevant.

You're watching the hypnotic movements of a flock of Red-billed queleas, taken by Johan Vermeulen in Zambia. They're the most populous species of non-domesticated bird, with global population estimated at 1.5 billion. So why move like a rolling cloud? Let's talk about "Africa's feathered locust."

Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.

I wrote last night about #SCOTUS's grants of emergency relief in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases, and how the only thing uniting them (beyond the fact that they were issued simultaneously) is the Republican appointees' wholly unprincipled—and selective—impatience:

9/9: This may seem hypertechnical, but it underscores the broader point I made in "One First" about *both* of the Court's grants of emergency relief last night—that the Republican appointees' impatience is leading them to run over settled legal constraints to reach the merits in these cases. /end

8/9: But he can only make that claim by distorting the order of events, and by igoring the fact that the applicants could have gone back to the Court of Appeals after the Appellate Division's 2/19 ruling, but *chose not to.* Thus, the ground on which Alito rested #SCOTUS's jurisdiction is bollocks.

7/9: Alito thus claims (in the next sentence) that the applicants had "nowhere else to turn" for relief besides #SCOTUS, entirely because he asserts that the Court of Appeals' 2/11 ruling transferring the case to the Appellate Division was *effectively* the final word of the state's highest court.

6/9: Now come back to what Justice Alito wrote about all of this. Read the last sentence here closely: Alito makes it seem as if the Court of Appeals' February 11 transfer to the Appellate Division came *after* the Appellate Division had already denied a stay. But it came *eight days beforehand.*

5/9: At that point, nothing would've stopped Malliotakis and the other defendants from going back to the NY Court of Appeals and asking it for relief again, now that the intermediate court had said no. Instead, they filed ... nothing. That fact, alone, should have deprived #SCOTUS of jurisdiction.

4/9: Instead of waiting for the Appellate Division to rule, the defendants then went straight to #SCOTUS — filing their applications for emergency relief the very next day, i.e., February 12. But on February 19, the Appellate Division *did* rule, and it denied the applications for stays:

3/9: In this case, after losing in the trial court, Rep. Malliotakis and the other defendants *simultaneously* sought relief from NY's highest court *and* its intermediate court, the "Appellate Division." On February 11, the Court of Appeals said "you have to go to the Appellate Division first":