Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

To be very clear: ACIP is still recommending BOTH the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and Varicella (chickenpox) vaccines, just not the combined MMRV shot. This is due to a reported increased risk of febrile seizures from the MMRV compared to when the MMR and Varicella are administered as two shots.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Friends, the DFL Feminist Caucus annual meeting on Tuesday was painful. Trans DFLers - our friends and neighbors - were deliberately harassed. Please read this letter, and sign on if you’re a DFL voter or volunteer. Does the DFL think trans folks deserve human rights and dignity or not?

People need to understand that Gamergate is the most important domestic political event of my lifetime

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot. And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

Yep. Allina is struggling right now. Hiring freezes, staff shortages, revenue/reimbursements not keeping up with expenses. Sure would be nice if the CEO took a paycut instead...

My statement on tonight's DFL Feminist Caucus Annual Meeting. This statement is being emailed to the Feminist Caucus Chair, Alicia Gibson, and to the State DFL Chair, Richard Carlbom. This caucus should be ashamed of itself.

I got mine at Cottage Grove CVS today (they only had moderna), just had to check "yes" on the online appointment form that I had one of the conditions the CDC stipulated. Looked most of the CVS locations nearby also were stocked with vaccine.

My hospital is no longer requiring the flu vaccine for their healthcare workers, and not even offering the COVID vaccine anymore at the free shot clinics for workers. This will be a fun respiratory season, I'm sure... #twincities

the past few weeks i’ve heard a lot about how great it is that slop rhetoric not backed up by action “makes trump mad” (you can swap trump with any tyrant) and i keep thinking “that’s not an achievement; it’s a very low bar; they’re always apoplectic” and yeah to everything in this thread. 🔥🧵

Florida’s decision to erase school vaccine requirements will cause preventable illness and death. Not just for kids in Florida. For whole communities. Of all ages. Across the country. Because pathogens don’t follow state lines. 1/

Happy Labor Day 🙂

Too coherent, uses em dash, and almost no exclamation points or random all caps. This is AI.

The Trump administration tried to snatch unaccompanied minors from foster homes, put them on planes and deport them illegally, on the weekend, during the night lawyers worked through the night to prevent it, while kids sat on the tarmac words fail me

Businesses having Labor Day sales while preventing their workers from organizing

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you

Protect MN and Moms Demand Action are coordinating a community vigil at 8:00pm tonight at Lynnhurst Park, 1345 W Minnehaha Pkwy. Please join us.

List of countries I've found so far that already have/will stop shipping to the USA this week: Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany, France, Britain, India, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria, The Netherlands , Thailand (?), Japan, Switzerland.

Please read this story by Strib columnist Ka Vang about the terror the U.S. government is inflicting on one Hmong family, just one of thousands of families experiencing this terror and trauma (no paywall)

Biomedical research isn't a YouTube video, you cannot hit pause for an indefinite period of time and then hit play whenever the regime wants. Samples are destroyed, labs dismantled, scientists leave...

Nice.

We had actual an actual assassination of a Democratic legislator in Minnesota two months ago & it’s completely disappeared from the National Conversation™️. This happens <all> the time over & over again 👇

Me, starting a new show: this shit better be gay

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

So few people realize this about starvation. Once you’ve starved a population to near death, food won’t bring them all back. You need complex medical interventions, like tube feeding carefully monitored in hospitals…which we let be bombed into ruins.

Good thread, take a peek:

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

I remember when this story first broke everyone with any sense was like "in a few months and we're going to learn that everything the police told us about their response to this shooting was a lie" because the people who implicitly don't trust the police are basically batting a thousand.

You cannot criminalize your way out of homelessness. You have to build homes and invest in people’s lives.

Thimerosal is safe at the low doses used in vaccines. Removing it reduces access because thimerosal is used in multi-dose flu shot vials which helps with convenience. This move will force providers to use single doses, increasing costs.

RFK just announced that HHS will officially require manufacturers to remove thimerosal from all influenza vaccines. He claims the move will "restore trust with Americans." This is BS. Ignoring scientific evidence and reducing access to a tool that has saved millions of lives disintegrates trust.

“migrant tent camps” is a funny way of saying “concentration camps for long term american residents who have been convicted of no crime and face deportation to places they’ve never set foot in”

#OnThisDay July 20, 1934: "Bloody Friday." With 45,000 of the city's workers on strike, Minneapolis Police shoot at unarmed Teamsters trying to prevent trucks from moving in the Warehouse District. 67 picketers are wounded, most of them shot in the back. Two are killed.

This is my Tom Holland lip syncing Umbrella. Every time I see this photo I must repost it

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

thank you. My first thought was that boring Amy Klobuchar is engaged in identity politics. She just believes that her identities are "normal."

This is genuinely dangerous shit that can do people real harm. *Stop Using These Tools*

A Twin Cities system is considering using an AI whiteboard in some new hospital wing construction. It has the ability to use AI to record and document encounters as well as video monitoring. Lots of privacy concerns, ask your healthcare providers about AI use!

Fucking cowards

Pride month @amyklobuchar.com tracker, day 30: Skeets supporting Pride: 2 (extremely tepid) Skeets supporting trans rights: 0 IMO, this is a pathetic showing for anyone claiming to be an ally. Here's what I know about Klobuchar's silence on LGBTQIA+ issues, particularly trans rights. 🧵 1/

Duluth nurses are going on strike ✊✊✊

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

Well. That's pretty bad.