You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

All it would take to end the murder of 🇺🇲citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach & remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public & end all of this. G Elliott Morris 5/5

It just now strikes me that the United States, unlike every other democracy in the world, has never ever ever had an early presidential election. This seems like a problem? Like you need to have an institutionalized path for designating an entire administration illegitimate and voting for a new one?

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

"Do you believe (X) is a threat to Canada?" 🇺🇸 USA: 🔴 Threat: 71% 🟢 Not A Threat: 16% 🟡 Neutral: 13% 🇷🇺 Russia: 🔴 Threat: 61% 🟡 Neutral: 24% 🟢 Not A Threat: 14% 🇨🇳 China: 🔴 Threat: 60% 🟢 Not A Threat: 21% 🟡 Neutral: 19% Nanos / Nov 2, 2025 - (Released Today)

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

*Hits head on desk* PUTTING ALL PERSONAL OPINIONS ASIDE... it would be so, so easy for Dem leadership to say what's happening right now is making it harder for actual law enforcement to do their job. It's removing trust and safety from the community! Etc! They could spin this SO easily.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Measles - it's all over SC and starting to spill into western NC as well. The North Carolina Dept of Health and Human Services just rolled out a new measles case tracking page; unfortunately I'd guess that they're expecting a lot of cases (2 today). www.dph.ncdhhs.gov/programs/epi...

If you want international protection, demand that whomever you elect next vows to make the US an ICC signatory. Step 1: Submit the treaty for Senate approval; requires 2/3 of Senators present to consent. Step 2: Deposit instrument of ratification/accession. Step 3: Start 60 days from deposit.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

1). The US is in the middle of the worst flu season in a decade. 2). Pertussis cases are the highest they have been in 20 years. 3). Measles has rebounded and elimination status has been lost. RFK.Jr. has not recommended vaccination, instead he is aggressively rolling back vaccine policy.

This thread I put together a few weeks ago is especially relevant today. De-recommending routine childhood vaccines which have proven benefit, when the overwhelming evidence shows their benefits for a particular population is the definition of an anti-science and anti-health approach.

Kennedy unilaterally guts the US Vaccine schedule. Public health is the great equalizer, but this administration does not want a more equitable America. And children will die. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

Well 2026 got to being 2026 in a big damn hurry didn't it

This video speaks for itself. No commentary needed.

RFK Jr. went from conspiracy-peddling nepo-baby to America’s top health czar, despite knowing nothing about medicine and distrusting it all. Now diseases are back, science is out, and “MAHA” somehow means more fear, fewer vaccines, and bigger checks for him. newrepublic.com/article/2044...

The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

He thinks equipoise is an incontinence pad for horses.

STAT: Former NIH leader Jeanne Marrazzo sues administration over termination 🔥 @drjeannem.bsky.social bit.ly/4al9Jfg @statnews.com by @aniloza.bsky.social

"(Memoli's) actions look like those of a leader who has been given broad discretion to shrink down the agencys infectious-disease work—an area where he may have a few personal grievances. “People are afraid of him,” one official said, pausing. “I’m afraid of him.” www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Their 1-year-old screamed in pain and struggled to open her eyes. When they rushed to the hospital, the doctor had to call poison control because they’d never treated such a young child for pepper spray exposure.

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

Our government

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

We need a CDER director that is a. Qualified. b. focused on actual CDER responsibilities. We do not have it in Dr. Høeg. 4/4

Just your daily reminder that the occurrence of frequent uncontained measles outbreaks in a country is not a flex, it is a marker of under development and a failed public health system.

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Vaccines prevent lockdowns. The most anti-lockdown thing you can do is be pro-vaccine. Do you get it yet?

She was giving birth at home without a qualified medical attendant.

🚨There’s a measles outbreak in South Carolina involving Spartanburg County with 111 cases reported to date. The outbreak has been ongoing since October but has recently seen an increase in new cases with 27 reported yesterday. dph.sc.gov/diseases-con...

“Anna and the Apocalypse” is my annual holiday movie - fantastic!

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

AAP on the ball and already out with comments about the ACIP meeting: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

One of the first patients I saw “talk and die” in the ER had liver cirrhosis and a GI bleed from hepatitis B. He came in totally lucid and said “I feel like I’m going to die.” Then he proceeded to vomit up his entire blood volume, and despite all our efforts, he died. This is why we’re so mad.

Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

They were 8 and 11 years old

15/ And the "severely ill" patient in Washington State confirmed to be infected with bird flu last week highlights the threat of a virus that has the potential to spark a pandemic. Read more about this deep-dive into the Ohio/Indiana outbreak here: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

9/ One tool could help: vaccines. After researchers in France discovered bird flu was traveling on dust and aerosols, they turned to vaccinating the country’s ducks. The results: A near-total reduction in cases. But USDA hasn't authorized their use in poultry here in the U.S.

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...