The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool. The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code. They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

Since I wrote this piece last month, Trump has called for the hanging of six Democrats who urged the military to follow the law. He's called a reporter "piggy." No rationality. No impulse control. When are news outlets going to get serious and declare that the president is out of his mind?

2/2 They found nothing, obviously, but they did destroy entire agencies and their dedicated staff, turned over reams of government data to Elon to train his AIs, dismantled our nation's soft power, and then slunk away with zero guilt, shame, or regret.

DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2

Texas would rather women die than get abortions.

Wild to realize that people in Nigeria, India & Russia were clocking in every day at the racism factory to post about how lazy minorities are committing crimes and getting paid by Elon Musk for creating engagement on X. Between this and DOGE, Elon Musk has damaged a lot of what makes America great.

Lord, I have seen what you have done for others. I humbly ask you to do the same for me 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾

Dear foreign tourists, Don’t come to the U.S. right now. We’re not fit for company. If you do come, wear makeup that makes you look very white. Otherwise, federal thugs may smash the windows of your rental car or tear-gas you. Or worse. Better stay away and see whether we defeat the fascists.

We have seen the Trump playbook before. In 2020 it was to pressure election officials to overturn the result of a free and fair election. Now it is to intimidate state legislatures to illegal redistrict. We defeated him the and we will do so again.

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” By @natlash.bsky.social

I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.

It is a shame that Brazil’s judges are so activist that none of them stepped in to change the laws for Jair Bolsonaro. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)

Kash Patel getting ready (by which I mean booking an even longer stay at Caesar's Palace) to become the nation's first FBI Director Attorney General.

from "the pro peace ticket" to "we're invading venezuela to steal their oil" in just about 12 month

Five years ago, we all applauded nurses, public health, and health care workers every evening for saving lives. Today, the federal government does not consider these workers professional. This says everything about the state of US health care.

As the U.S. Supreme Court contemplates whether the VRA has outlived its usefulness, having heard oral arguments in October questioning the constitutionality of the landmark law’s most vital remaining provision, the question of racism’s grip on America remains. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

Sometimes I think about how many people were convinced that the Vice President of the United States lost the presidential election because she didn’t contort herself to do this show. If it’s true it says a lot about this country.

Congressional redistricting is monumentally important. But for Black people in places like Fayette County, TN, it is the County Commn where the stakes are highest. What SCOTUS does in Louisiana v Calláis may threaten Black representation across the rural South. boltsmag.org/voting-right...

Rebranding inflation as “the affordability crisis” is a gift to Trump as it makes this out to be a new problem as opposed to the problem he claimed he was going to solve but instead made worse.

Fantastic trolling by Gavin Newsom based on Twitter’s new account location feature.

Foreign-based enemies of American democracy know MAGA is poison, so they spread it.

Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY

"Instead of a democratic global superpower, we are left with a world divided up into several smaller spheres of influence where the mightiest and most militarily ruthless regional power can operate in an almost imperialist fashion - democracies be damned. A gangland model of sorts."

The radicalizing dynamic that has shaped the Right still applies. We are now witnessing the next step on that trajectory. Whatever form MAGA takes in the coming post-Trump era, the idea that American politics will soon experience a return to “normalcy” is dangerously fanciful.

ICYMI: I wrote something about the MAGA mess. Trump is indeed in trouble as his hold over the Right is weakening, MAGA is showing signs of disintegration. But unfortunately, an opening for moderation this is not - all the energy on the Right is with the extremists.

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

Check this out folks. Thank you @drdemetre.bsky.social. We see you.

"When you remove scientists from science, you don’t get truth. You get ideology. " Signed D3- Deb, Dan, and @drdemetre.bsky.social

If you’re a sicko but not *sicko*, you should pay this trans creative for copy-pasting the latest paywalled Lizza post into Google Docs instead of paying him

bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital

Republican Elite: we are sticking with our plan to cut taxes for rich, raise taxes for working families & undermine basic safety net, terrorize everyone, and steal $billions for Trump Family, but now we call “Affordability” Corporate Media: Republicans pivot to Affordability!

For the last time, people, "Epstein" is the name of the criminal. The president is "Epstein's monster."

These people need to be prosecuted. Wow.

No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"

Give us more stories about what Trump does and fewer about what Trump says.

It’s notable that there’s practically no difference between what Elon Musk and MAGA influencers like Tim Pool post unironically and what Russian & Chinese bots trying to destabilize American democracy by posting divisive content do.

Thanks, John Roberts!

CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this? Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees: Nursing Public health Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech-language pathology Social work Counseling & therapy Health Admin A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As the President of the United States calls for the assassination of his political adversaries today, I’m reminded of an entire press corps that spent weeks trying to tell Americans that both parties have a political violence problem.

RFK Jr’s CDC posting lies about vaccines and autism on their website isn’t just misinformation, it’s intentionally weaponized eugenicist rhetoric that will kill people.

Trump and RFK Jr's CDC just added a page that is full of disinformation about vaccines and autism.

Meanwhile, Trump defended Tucker Carlson after Carlson did a friendly interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, who jokingly compared the murder of Jews in WWII to “baking cookies.” But sure, it’s wrong for us to make any MAGA-Nazi comparisons. Totally out of line. 🧵 2/

Under a new Coast Guard policy, the swastika is no longer a “hate symbol,” just “potentially divisive.” Meanwhile, Republicans are furious that Dems reminded the military that they should disobey illegal orders. In effect, the GOP accepts the Nazis’ Nuremberg defense: “just following orders.” 🧵 1/

Elon Musk’s anti-woke version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, cites neo-Nazi forums in multiple places as source. A great validation of the notion that when people say they’re anti-woke, they just mean they’re hyper racist.