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An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science.
Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.
Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.
This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data on Trans Patients, Then Quit the CDC — Assigned
John Weiser, a doctor and researcher, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science.
Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.
Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.
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The ECOA passed in 1974.
My mom divorced my dad in 1975.
These things are not unrelated. She was finally able to establish her own credit, buy a house, start her own business… all thanks to the ECOA.
1975 was the best year of my childhood too, when my abusive dad finally went away.
#ProtectECOA
My mom divorced my dad in 1975.
These things are not unrelated. She was finally able to establish her own credit, buy a house, start her own business… all thanks to the ECOA.
1975 was the best year of my childhood too, when my abusive dad finally went away.
#ProtectECOA
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The ECOA passed in 1974.
My mom divorced my dad in 1975.
These things are not unrelated. She was finally able to establish her own credit, buy a house, start her own business… all thanks to the ECOA.
1975 was the best year of my childhood too, when my abusive dad finally went away.
#ProtectECOA
My mom divorced my dad in 1975.
These things are not unrelated. She was finally able to establish her own credit, buy a house, start her own business… all thanks to the ECOA.
1975 was the best year of my childhood too, when my abusive dad finally went away.
#ProtectECOA
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
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Every American should feel daily shame that we have allowed ourselves to not only be represented by these people, but that they are using this position to destabilize the world, kill innocent people, and act as a rogue state.
Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.
Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.
DOOCY: Is Operation Southern Spear about drugs or oil?
LEAVITT: The Trump administration is focused on doing many things in the Western Hemisphere
LEAVITT: The Trump administration is focused on doing many things in the Western Hemisphere
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Every American should feel daily shame that we have allowed ourselves to not only be represented by these people, but that they are using this position to destabilize the world, kill innocent people, and act as a rogue state.
Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.
Let that shame be the fuel to act, to disrupt, and to defeat them.
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The social contract is now approaching “Do exactly what Trump wants, on everything, or your state loses all federal funding.”
This has always been a potential failure point in the federal system, and now it’s an actual one.
This has always been a potential failure point in the federal system, and now it’s an actual one.
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The social contract is now approaching “Do exactly what Trump wants, on everything, or your state loses all federal funding.”
This has always been a potential failure point in the federal system, and now it’s an actual one.
This has always been a potential failure point in the federal system, and now it’s an actual one.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
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sex criminals stick together
🚨 New York Times reports more details than we've had before on how Donald Trump's administration pulled strings to pressure Romania to allow Andrew Tate to travel while he was charged with crimes including trafficking minors and violently beating and raping a 15-year-old girl.
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
sex criminals stick together
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Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.
Trump says the Gold Card proceeds will go "an account where we can do things positive for the country. Many billions of dollars"
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.
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NEW (but deja vu): Texas and Florida are suing the FDA over its approval and regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone. The states are asking Judge Reed O'Connor to declare the 25yo approval unlawful and yank mife from the market—but judges can't do that
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
WICHITA FALLS DIVISION
THE STATE OF FLORIDA and THE STATE OF TEXAS, by and
through their Attorneys General,
Plaintiffs,
v.
U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; MARTIN A. MAKARY, M.D., M.P.H., in
his official capacity as Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. Food and
Drug Administration; RICHARD PAZDUR, M.D., in his official capacity as Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food
and Drug Administration; and ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Defendants.
Case No. ______________
COMPLAINT
1. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible
for “protect[ing] the public health by ensuring that . . . drugs are safe and effective.”21 U.S.C. § 393(b)(2)(B).
2. Yet the FDA’s approval and deregulation of abortion drugs have placed women and girls in harm’s way](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreiad4xu6gssl7uhp2x6zz2vomvxl6rkftyopu46yzghz7wcbtxu73i@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
NEW (but deja vu): Texas and Florida are suing the FDA over its approval and regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone. The states are asking Judge Reed O'Connor to declare the 25yo approval unlawful and yank mife from the market—but judges can't do that
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This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
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The Trump Plan will give Americans the opportunity to pay for their healthcare. One problem has yet to be solved: The healthcare will be unaffordable.
Q: What is the Republican healthcare plan?
TRUMP: If the Democrats go along with it -- which they don't want to -- I want the money to be paid to the people to go out and buy their own healthcare.
TRUMP: If the Democrats go along with it -- which they don't want to -- I want the money to be paid to the people to go out and buy their own healthcare.
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Trump Plan will give Americans the opportunity to pay for their healthcare. One problem has yet to be solved: The healthcare will be unaffordable.
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The midterms ads write themselves
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The midterms ads write themselves
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And so the cycle continues: Trump wrecks the market with his own policies, then uses taxpayer money to bail out the damage, and somehow sells it back to voters as a win. Truly exhausting.
Trump is giving another $12 billion of taxpayer money to bail out farmers again from his disastrous policies. Just like he had to bail them out in his first term from his disastrous policies. But they will continue to vote Republican, as long as they keep getting their welfare checks.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And so the cycle continues: Trump wrecks the market with his own policies, then uses taxpayer money to bail out the damage, and somehow sells it back to voters as a win. Truly exhausting.
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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Senate Republican health "plan" doesn't extend expiring enhanced Marketplace premium credits at all. Just $ for Health Savings Accounts while cutting federal #Medicaid $ for states using their own funds to cover undocumented immigrants & prohibiting Medicaid coverage of gender affirming care (1/2)
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Senate Republican health "plan" doesn't extend expiring enhanced Marketplace premium credits at all. Just $ for Health Savings Accounts while cutting federal #Medicaid $ for states using their own funds to cover undocumented immigrants & prohibiting Medicaid coverage of gender affirming care (1/2)
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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This. They're a bunch of freaking gangsters.
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This. They're a bunch of freaking gangsters.
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This is how democracies fail. A sitting President is boosting calls for the arrest and execution of political opponents for urging the military to uphold the Constitution. Every alarm in the country should be going off.
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is how democracies fail. A sitting President is boosting calls for the arrest and execution of political opponents for urging the military to uphold the Constitution. Every alarm in the country should be going off.
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The CDC amended its website to suggest that vaccines may cause autism. It now declares that experts “ignored” a potential link between infant vaccination and autism, and asserts that its earlier rejection of such a link was not “evidence-based.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The CDC amended its website to suggest that vaccines may cause autism. It now declares that experts “ignored” a potential link between infant vaccination and autism, and asserts that its earlier rejection of such a link was not “evidence-based.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
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There’s an interesting parallel with the “mecha-Hitler” episode here: AI seems to have a lot of trouble with the sort of winking needle-threading “respectable” right wingers have spent decades mastering, although that’s breaking down of late as well.
This tracks: Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There’s an interesting parallel with the “mecha-Hitler” episode here: AI seems to have a lot of trouble with the sort of winking needle-threading “respectable” right wingers have spent decades mastering, although that’s breaking down of late as well.
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If Obama walked past and ignored a Whitehouse flag which had fallen to the ground FOX News would've spent years going on about it. Now it's the least offensive thing a President did today.
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
If Obama walked past and ignored a Whitehouse flag which had fallen to the ground FOX News would've spent years going on about it. Now it's the least offensive thing a President did today.
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It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion
Trump: "Right behind me by the way, in about 2 years from now, is a much bigger room. This will be the entrance. That's a knockout panel. It looks pretty nice right now but it'll look a lot better in a little while... The future entrance to something that's really become very popular, the ballroom."
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion