Read @boghuma.bsky.social’s piece on RFK Jr’s HBV vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

Thinking of so many journalists and pundits, from Singal to Ryan to others who mainstreamed this hate, and continue to do so, while too many centrists and liberals continue to frame trans people's rights as a "distraction" and "fringe"

Denying infants a safe and effective Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in Guinea-Bissau, where ~19% of adults are currently infected with Hepatitis B, is akin to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated to study the natural progression of disease.

Mifepristone doesn't contaminate drinking water; this is an absurd campaign to stamp out access to health care and to surveil where mifepristone IS in the water, and by extension surveil WHO is using it >>

This is not anti diversity. This is pro eugenics. The goal is a perverse and sickening desire to stamp out pluralism from all of public life, so workplaces are re segregated, disabilities are buried, trans people are eliminated.

While inflicting illegal cruel anti trans terror essentially Makary is supporting gender affirming care for cis men who feel they want it

Just like Rubio claims $13 billion in cuts to global health funding didn’t kill/isn’t killing anyone—it’s propaganda for the regime, pure and simple

Against all the horrors and downsides of the neoliberal age, one counterweight was the steady global fall in child mortality rates. But now, catalysed by the rapid, surprise and malicious removal of US support for medicines and food aid, that trend too is headed into reverse. A moral catastrophe

then why aren’t you supporting your members who are trying to impeach him

Important writing by @melodyschreiber.com. Also an example of how to run an accurate headline about compelling news when many outlets' coverage of actions by Battacharya, Makary, RFK Jr, Prasad, Høeg et al is functioning as a mouthpiece for propaganda and scientific disinformation.

think about it--2025 could have been a year of powerful progress in global health. Instead we have carnage of children as a result of the deliberate decisions of Trump, Vought and Rubio.

Almost a quarter of a million more children are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024, for the first time in this century--despite the fact that these deaths are almost entirely preventable. No wonder Trump is worried about getting into heaven: www.wsj.com/health/for-f...

From fake science courtesy of the Temu ACIP (h/t @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social for that) to fake law courtesy of Roberts’ Temu SCOTUS

state sponsored rape state sponsored hepatitis B infection in children state sponsored GLOBAL SPIKE in child deaths for first time in decades state sponsored racist detention targeting Black and Brown folks state sponsored obstetric violence +++ this was all preventable

“Putting Tracy Beth in charge is like dropping an atom bomb… She has never supervised a drug review, never has conducted a clinical trial. She doesn't understand laws and regulations." www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

SCOTUS is systematically taking away elections as a tool that can get us out of this hellscape by overtly sanctioning racist gerrymandering. We have to confront SCOTUS as thoroughly corrupt and captured and illegitimate institution it is www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Gutter bigotry.

The Maryland Department of Health affirmed the recommendation for all newborns to receive a first dose of a hepatitis B vaccine after CDC vaccine advisers rescinded it. Anyone know if other states took similar steps? health.maryland.gov/phpa/OIDEOR/...

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.

Everyone should respond as clearly and forcefully as Senator @wyden.senate.gov to #ACIP ruling to take away newborn vaccination for hepatitis B. A day of shame: www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

At this point a magic 8 ball is more reliable than this ACIP. Surely cheaper too

Liberating drug lords Murdering 82 people Snatching babies’ life saving hep B vaccines Racist attacks on immigrants Racist theft of the right to have your vote matter Decimation of global health programs and a corrupt Supreme Court green lighting all Trump wants —Another Friday in America

📍𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀: Amnesty International says people held at Alligator Alcatraz — a detention facility used by ICE — endured conditions amounting to torture: cramped “box”-cages outdoors, 24-hour lights, overcrowding, lack of water/sanitation, medical neglect, and enforced disappearances. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

Tracy Hoeg is a fraud. She advertises "orthobiologic" therapies on her website, ALL unapproved by FDA. Now she's in charge of CDER. She is a joke. Unqualified. Full-stop.

The outcome of this vote will kill kids. Make no mistake

No matter what they might claim, ACIP just voted in favor of kids getting infected with hep B and dying or getting chronic disease. States must publicly reject and shun this recommendation by a clown death cult and demand nevertheless that providers offer it and insurers cover it #ImpeachRFK

He has all the levers of power at his disposal. And by pulling on them he could begin to try to make amends for his having provided the decisive vote for RFK, then, that is allowing RFK to wreak havoc, now. Complicit Cassidy has another night to wring his hands; voting postponed until Friday

eugenics on display today so many places in this administration, from Trump's anti Black racism targeting immigrant communities in Minnesota to RFK and his fake ACIP snatching the life saving, chronic disease preventing hepatitis B vaccine birth dose

What RFK Jr is doing is not some vanity side project of this administration--an anti-science agenda is central for consolidating power of racist authoritarian regimes: denying science, relentlessly spreading disinformation, embracing eugenics.

this article is a very good reading companion if you are watching ACIP mtg now, which features presentations by anti-science, lying clowns intent to steal our vaccines. Link here: www.youtube.com/live/LpthhPB... and follow @enirenberg.bsky.social & @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social for live tweets

NEW: An inside look at how RFK Jr. has walled himself off from government scientists and installed old allies in key positions to advance the vaccine agenda that has animated him for 20 years. "Vaccines must be a culprit," he told me. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Temu ACIP the laugh I need right now as public health is under attack thank you

if it happens, it will be an egregious, immoral attack on children's right to health, right to life and their right to benefit from scientific advancement.

Might seem to be a minor detail. It's "just" hep b vaccine dose timing, right? think again--tomorrow is when the ACIP will decide whether more kids should die totally preventable deaths from hep B infection, or not

5/ Arguments for selective HBV vaccination assume maternal screening works reliably, but it doesn't. ~12%-16% of pregnant women in the US have no record of HBV testing during pregnancy. Some never receive prenatal care.

Stop and read this thread—ACIP’s vote on HBV vaccines this week means lives are literally in the balance. Eliminating the birth dose means less protection, more death, more chronic infection.

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Happening *this week*: A vote by ACIP members against universal hep B vaccination at birth will be a vote for pediatric death and disease.

the government's comment is next level trolling and they know it: "an awareness day is not a strategy." So, are lawless cuts to lifesaving HIV programs an HIV strategy? Comments from me on #WorldAIDSDay in a time of Trump, from @npr.org: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

abolish ICE.

Terrifying. Birth doses save lives. 90% of newborns infected w/hep B may develop chronic disease. 1 in 4 of these may die from complications (www.health.ny.gov/press/releas...) ACIP's decisions, unless stopped, will condemn people to grave chronic illness & death. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

Thank you for your activism ❤️

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Honestly, when there is a reporter on the story with the expertise to say it, they can simply say it. Some things are just true. Like "FDA offical makes unprecedented claim, with no evidence, that Covid vaccines killed children." Nothing here needs an "experts say" to back it.

"Dissonance" @nytimes.com? What? Dissonance is tension during a chord progression, resolved pleasantly at the end of a musical phrase this is: Powerless get murdered (80 & counting). Powerful get granted freedom and protection www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u... it is not about drugs people

at this point, journalists who are not yet on this list should be examining their coverage of the White House, asking "why didn't I do better?" and "how can I defend those being demonized?" naïve of me