This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.

Must read. “Americans are needlessly losing lives and money,” said Galvani, director of Yale’s Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis. “Medicare for All would be both an economic stimulus and life-saving transformation of our health care system.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Sandy Hook should have been a wake up call...but no. Over and over we simply ignore the violence. This isn't what a civilized nation should do.

on this day in 2012, 20 children and 6 adults are killed in mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. And with the awful shooting at Brown University yesterday, we still haven't done anything on meaningful national gun laws. Enough is enough.

Anyone else find it alarming that the FDA Commissioner is sharing deranged conspiracy theories about HIV coming from a lab and Lyme disease being a bioweapon made by Nazi war criminals in a USDA lab during the Cold War? Just me? rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...

🐶🆘DON’T KILL PEPPER Pepper was very fearful at 1st, surrendered w/ a sibling, she lost everything but she’s grown comfortable & social w/ the handlers she trusts Now, she even gets the zoomies & happily bounces into people’s laps. It’s only been 2 weeks, why kill her? 🙏Repost to find a #foster

Remember, Trump is just a mindless mouthpiece for every special interest that owns the right. In this case the NRA. They write the talking points, he clumsily and mindlessly regurgitates them.

US labor market failed many Americans for decades. A few years ago, we put $$$ for folks to fix bridges & ports, replace lead pipes, build semiconductor & clean energy factories. Now we put $$$ for folks to just hang out for many hours to try to arrest 2 roofers. $$ for more guns or more hammers?

Mice seeing @defendpublichealth pop up again www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We are literally at the point where you* are required to carry your citizenship papers to avoid the possibility of a brutal detention lasting days *applies only to persons of color

Another excellent #CovidTidbits from @drjudystone.bsky.social today. Much information on covid, long covid, the damage it does, flu, bird flu, measles et. al. drjudystone.com/coronavirus-...

The hero who grabbed the gun away is Ahmed el Ahmed

“It's time to protect ourselves by demanding that legislators pass sensible gun control and value children over guns.” It’s loooong past time. My daughter and I wrote this in 2018 when she was in middle school. She’s now a college student. Furious at politicians and heartbroken for Brown students.

📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. But ProPublica did. @natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Wtf

🐶🆘DON’T KILL PHOENIX Her human says she’s super sweet & loves to cuddle, lived w/a child & 2 dogs. Loved baths & car rides In the shelter she’s anxious & bewildered, became dog reactive & vocal over time. She’s saying get me out of here! Repost to find a #foster

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

By never falling asleep in public, Joe Biden spread effete elitist expectations about the workplace. Donald Trump is showing real men how it’s done. by Marc Thiessen

What Mr. Rashid said.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Every time there's a horrific mass shooting, which is often at a school, I think to myself: "Surely THIS TIME, the U.S. will see all those dead kids and realize the time has come to do something about unfettered access to guns." I hope this time is the time.

And yet in RFK Jr’s recent MAHA report, published by the White House, called “Make Our Children Healthy Again,” there was not a single mention of guns Not one mention of the top cause of child death in America It’s almost as if they don’t actually want to do anything to improve children‘s lives

Why did Rome fall? Because it became too woke.

This is so important. The conspiracy theories Makary promotes all implicate vaccines, vaccine research, and vaccine scientists in causing HIV, creating Lyme disease, and starting the Covid pandemic. They are anti-vax lies but they serve MAHA goals. bsky.app/profile/save...

I learned that Makary & his top vaccine regulator Vinay Prasad forced FDA scientists to withdraw a paper from Vaccine. I am co-Editor-in-Chief of Vaccine. The data had been presented publicly. It showed the benefits outweigh the risks of COVID vaccines for all ages. bsky.app/profile/save...

There are currently 14 job openings at the USPS in the entire state of Iowa. The highest paying one starts at $21 an hour.

We’re def going back to the “roaring 50s” with a nice measles outbreak. Nice work MAHA n stuff

Mark MD bravely recalls the small child he cared for before the Hib vaccine was developed. Haemophilus influenzae type b is an aggressive form of meningitis, difficult to treat in small children and often fatal. These are the lived experiences Grandparents for Vaccines share.

We had our flaws, sure. But I feel like we had a pretty decent thing going before we decided to start stabbing ourselves in the face.

Just saw someone refer to the entirely preventable measles outbreak in South Carolina as “Freedom Freckles” and I am deceased. 💀 (And seriously, please get vaccinated. This is absurd and absurdly dangerous.)

Oklahoma joins FL, TX, LA etc. in the "make our state dumber and poorer" sweepstakes. OU faculty & research staff w. options R looking. Smart, ambitious OK high schoolers will too, as the effect on OU becomes clear. OK will lose the econ. impact of a thriving R1, while its best young folk leave.

Yes, all three!

“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are... contrary to, the president’s official duties. In this country, no one... is above the law.” --Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998) www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...

A HUGE French study, which examined data on 28.6 million adults, showed high effectiveness & safety: Vaccinated people had a 74% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 in hospital & lower all-cause mortality over 4 yrs The MAGA/MAHA crew are just playing politics to serve their masters: Trump & RFK Jr

Thanks RFK!

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

Obviously, measles cases were going to be low in a year (2020) with limited international (and domestic) travel and lots of precautions against respiratory viruses. Such hackery.

The Trump-Vance admin has been committing illegal strike after illegal strike. They're trying to normalize it. They're counting on you to lose track, to be too overwhelmed to remember the gravity of what they're doing. But we're keeping track of every single strike. So far: 22 strikes. 87 killed.

Anti-vax advocacy kills people. Lots of them kids. Back it the 18th & 19th c. there were at least plausible evidence 4 some anti-vax arguments. Those same arguments are still being trotted out—but they've been overtaken by radical advances in knowledge & vax-tech. They are now deadly lies.

I hope to God we don't have a bird flu outbreak.

My son is at Brown. Thank goodness he is safe but likely more than 20 dead. Maybe someday we will do something to prevent this.

The RFK, jr effect.

25 Top Virginia Political Stories of 2025: “Federal Fallout”; 11/4 “Blue Tsunami”; New Redistricting Amendment; Dems Fight Back Against Trump, Jump Into U.S. House Races; Youngkin Goes Even Further Far-Right; etc. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/25-t...

As Trump's power wanes, he will become more dangerous. Even though he's losing his political power, he will retain the powers of the presidency.

I want to reiterate that it is ABSURD that WE BORROW money to give to Israel, when they are perfectly capable of borrowing themselves. We put OUR children in debt, so that their kids live debt free. They have free education & health care. WE DON’T! On what PLANET does that make sense?

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Jeffrey Epstein called her “my great defender.” Emails and texts show Goldman Sachs’ top attorney Kathy Ruemmler disparaged reporting on Epstein’s abuse as “rehashed crap,” in 2018 and helped craft a 2019 publication relations comment denying he got a sweetheart deal. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...