Jennifer Bean
@brainofbean.bsky.social
Actor, sometime painter, catmother, healthcare worker bee
Why would you hold a vote on something this important without all the supporters present?
The vote failed on a 49-49 tie. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat, was in Korea for an ocean conference. Mitch McConnell, who also supported the measure, also missed the vote.
Later today the Senate will vote on my bipartisan legislation to end Trump’s tariffs. This has a real chance of passing. I encourage everyone to make your voices heard with your Senators if you feel strongly about this issue. I’ll be working to get it across the finish line. More soon.
May 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Why would you hold a vote on something this important without all the supporters present?
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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.
Ethical violation as POLICY.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Greetings from Boston.
April 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Greetings from Boston.
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"Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today.
With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor."
With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor."
March 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today.
With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor."
With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor."
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Reposted by Jennifer Bean
Just putting this here to remind everybody that we’ve been recipients of corporate propaganda for decades. And we’re living some kind of grand climax of this propaganda paradigm coming to a head in the age of 2025.
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
February 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Just putting this here to remind everybody that we’ve been recipients of corporate propaganda for decades. And we’re living some kind of grand climax of this propaganda paradigm coming to a head in the age of 2025.
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
Penny, you're not supposed to be up there
February 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Penny, you're not supposed to be up there
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Also worth noting that they put aside organizational differences to align behind this message. No organization is named here. Just the signatories.
And we’re Jews. We argue over everything. This is a minor miracle of conscious.
And we’re Jews. We argue over everything. This is a minor miracle of conscious.
350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.
February 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Also worth noting that they put aside organizational differences to align behind this message. No organization is named here. Just the signatories.
And we’re Jews. We argue over everything. This is a minor miracle of conscious.
And we’re Jews. We argue over everything. This is a minor miracle of conscious.
I want to go to a timeline where alter-me is having a good time.
February 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I want to go to a timeline where alter-me is having a good time.
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Reposted by Jennifer Bean
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
February 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
I think we're going to have to do a general strike. Making noises of displeasure is not going to be enough. A march is not going to be enough. And for most of us, withholding labor is the only other tool we have.
February 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I think we're going to have to do a general strike. Making noises of displeasure is not going to be enough. A march is not going to be enough. And for most of us, withholding labor is the only other tool we have.
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Reposted by Jennifer Bean
Reposted by Jennifer Bean
One of the hospital departments I serve provides care for transgender children and adolescents. I don't know what the future holds, but I know these doctors. They will not comply in advance. I hope this is challenged in court and never comes to pass.
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
January 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One of the hospital departments I serve provides care for transgender children and adolescents. I don't know what the future holds, but I know these doctors. They will not comply in advance. I hope this is challenged in court and never comes to pass.
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Reposted by Jennifer Bean
Listen up.
It’s time for a Pokes Thread on Gender at Conception. The EO signed yesterday defines gender as “the one assigned at conception”.
BLUF: there are several possible genders at conception. They can differ from how the baby looks at birth.
Let’s dig in.
1/?
It’s time for a Pokes Thread on Gender at Conception. The EO signed yesterday defines gender as “the one assigned at conception”.
BLUF: there are several possible genders at conception. They can differ from how the baby looks at birth.
Let’s dig in.
1/?
The Trump executive order against trans people defines "female" and "male" *at conception.* Not birth. This is fetal personhood language (in addition to being scientifically inaccurate). www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Listen up.
It’s time for a Pokes Thread on Gender at Conception. The EO signed yesterday defines gender as “the one assigned at conception”.
BLUF: there are several possible genders at conception. They can differ from how the baby looks at birth.
Let’s dig in.
1/?
It’s time for a Pokes Thread on Gender at Conception. The EO signed yesterday defines gender as “the one assigned at conception”.
BLUF: there are several possible genders at conception. They can differ from how the baby looks at birth.
Let’s dig in.
1/?
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January 22, 2025
January 22, 2025
Marc Caputo of Axios reported today that Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes for that day’s events, including those who attacked police...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
January 22, 2025
What's the best way to carefully figure out a stranger's politics? Assuming you have to coexist/work with them in the future.
January 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What's the best way to carefully figure out a stranger's politics? Assuming you have to coexist/work with them in the future.
At least my plant is happy.
January 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
At least my plant is happy.
Do we think Donald is mad that Elon stole his "shock and awe" thunder by throwing a Nazi salute? There were more photos of Elon than Donald in the news.
January 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Do we think Donald is mad that Elon stole his "shock and awe" thunder by throwing a Nazi salute? There were more photos of Elon than Donald in the news.
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Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him
January 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him