Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

My anti-Harvard bias grows stronger.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

I wake up to NPR and this was the quote in the newscast that I heard this morning. I raged briefly to my husband before fantasizing about a number of things that I can’t write down in Trump’s America that involve me saying “tough it out” to a certain person or group of people.

In honor of the Rapture today/tomorrow/whenever it's supposed to be, I've watched all the Left Behind movies. Listen I can't explain why, I just did. Here are the reviews:

Anyway, today I met with someone who is running for state senate and started doing more planning for my own campaign next winter/spring, which gives me a certain amount of hope for the future.

This struck me the most about the Covid votes, where only one was an actual vaccine recommendation and the rest were…not in the purview of ACIP and totally unenforceable?

I stand by my justification for my resignation. Sending strength to the scientists being held hostage at CDC.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

unreal

we need parents everywhere to be calling their reps in congress to protect vaccines + remove RFK Jr they are literally letting random internet cranks dictate your children’s health care

Important reminder: it is currently the recommendation to give the MMR and Varicella vaccines separately at the 12-15 month visit. The combo can be given if parents prefer, after a discussion about risks/benefits, but this whole discussion is performative. #ACIP

Jimmy Fallon for the rest of his days:

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

He must be fired or impeached. Plain and simple.

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

TL;DR Everyone may get vaccinated Some people SHOULD get vaccinated

good lord.

would not have predicted five years ago that I’d be getting a vaccine in each arm ahead of a health department meeting where a guy who deposited a bear carcass in Central Park might limit access to immunizations

I was ready for HepB birth dose to be moved but pushing to AGE FOUR?!?! No. That is the stupidest idea. Will have so many downstream impacts. Awful.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Did you know? Universal Infant Hepatitis B vaccination is a public health policy success story. The US initially tried a risk-based approach to Hepatitis B vaccination in the 1980s. But vaccination rates remained low. New cases continued to increase. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview....

I realized yesterday that I am rapidly expanding the assorted things I am doing which keeps me pretty busy. In addition to work, I am taking on a (hopefully temporary) stint as Democratic Town Committee secretary, serving on Town Meeting Rules Committee, planning my next local election…

The short answer is nothing good will come of this meeting.

Let's go full dessert mode on Bluesky. Best pie: pecan Best ice cream: Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy Best donut: Boston cream Best bar: sure, Twix Best cake: The intense chocolate cake from the local shop that may lull you if you eat too much Best other: I’m on a blondie kick right now

I looked at the ACIP draft meeting agenda this morning and am feeling slightly panicked that they pointed out VFC votes on MMRV and HepB but not for COVID.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Well ok another seven members where only one appears to be not anti-vaccine, that’s great.

If you don't know, this is a secondhand account of what measles subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is like. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...

💔Heartbreaking to read of the death of a child in Los Angeles from SSPE, a measles sequela that occurs in 1/10,000 cases, but 1/600 infant cases, years after apparent recovery from measles. This child was infected as in infant too young to receive immunization. This is why "herd immunity" matters.

Death from sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in a child in Los Angeles SSPE is a rare sequel of #measles infection that appears years after the initial infection, and is uniformly fatal. So sorry for this family. As things are going on the US, we'll be seeing more of these cases.

Work has been a bit grueling this week but I’m glad I can have this conversation with an indirect report.

I picked a hell of a day to be offline and have all my texts on silent, eh?

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Up to 40% of Hepatitis B infections are acquired in childhood. There is a 90% likelihood of developing chronic infection (rather than clearing the infection) if it is caught in infancy, and up to a 50% likelihood if caught before age 6. Chronic Hepatitis B causes liver failure, cancer, and death.

Flashback to when I took Intro to Islam in college and essentially announced to the class that I was on my period when I didn’t pick up the professor’s intricately decorated Quran. Also like all religions, the core of Islam is beautiful.

it really is wild how many cops and guards are out here having full-on panic attacks and are taken totally 100% dead seriously *as fetanyl overdoses* when people who have chronic anxiety and actual overdoses get like zero compassion

"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line. Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.

Trying to triangulate a position on trans rights is like trying to find a middle ground on the satanic panic, how do you compromise with the belief there is a secret agenda where schools are trying to make kids transgendered? Engaging with trans panic discourse only serves to legitimize it. 3/x

There is a small part of my soul, having been forged through the review of my epidemiology comprehensive exam in order to graduate with my masters, that is SCREAMING

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

Man without uterus declares that it’s all the uterus-bearers fault that people are autistic because how dare they take a pill to not suffer. Also, ALSO - pretty sure this is very easily debunked with existing data.

The fun (?) thing about this besides that it is bullshit, is that pregnant people already have very few choices in pain relief and constant emphasis on potential harms to the fetus leads to fewer and fewer effective pain medications during a time when people's bodies are changing and being stressed.

I’m still hung up on the fact they say there are 61 funded immunization programs. There are 66. I spent a long time trying to figure out which five they must really hate. I can’t figure it out. PLUS they keep calling the Vaccines for Children Program “VCP”. It’s never been abbreviated like that

I have fantastic news courtesy of the USPS. This is being worn tomorrow.

Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office