Michael
@mbh5691.bsky.social
Covid conscious by necessity. A fan of democracy. ♏ ♐ ♓
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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If you are under 65 it is going to get much harder to get a COVID vaccine now. Kennedy is fucking insane.
"Depending on the panel’s advice, Americans under age 65 could be expected to provide documentation of a serious medical problem before they can get a shot."
apnews.com/article/vacc...
"Depending on the panel’s advice, Americans under age 65 could be expected to provide documentation of a serious medical problem before they can get a shot."
apnews.com/article/vacc...
FDA approves updated COVID-19 shots with limits for some kids and adults
The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for the upcoming fall and winter season.
apnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you are under 65 it is going to get much harder to get a COVID vaccine now. Kennedy is fucking insane.
"Depending on the panel’s advice, Americans under age 65 could be expected to provide documentation of a serious medical problem before they can get a shot."
apnews.com/article/vacc...
"Depending on the panel’s advice, Americans under age 65 could be expected to provide documentation of a serious medical problem before they can get a shot."
apnews.com/article/vacc...
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Hang onto this image of CDC's full list of underlying conditions tied to severe risk of COVID.
If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.
If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.
August 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Hang onto this image of CDC's full list of underlying conditions tied to severe risk of COVID.
If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.
If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.
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#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Every American has to decide what they are going to do now, because your government is out to kill you. Perhaps in January, this might have seemed like hyperbole, but in late August, it sounds like just another Thursday morning in the United States. 9/
August 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Every American has to decide what they are going to do now, because your government is out to kill you. Perhaps in January, this might have seemed like hyperbole, but in late August, it sounds like just another Thursday morning in the United States. 9/
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For Pride, stand up for trans people in Ohio and contact the governor against signing this bill. See thread for details.
governor.ohio.gov/contact
governor.ohio.gov/contact
June 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
For Pride, stand up for trans people in Ohio and contact the governor against signing this bill. See thread for details.
governor.ohio.gov/contact
governor.ohio.gov/contact
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June 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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Bring mandatory vaccinations back with only medical exceptions
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Bring mandatory vaccinations back with only medical exceptions
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Wow. New NBC poll finds only 38% of Americans support Trump's bombing of Iran. Crucially, much of the poll was taken while Trump announced a ceasefire and in the days after.
No wonder Hegseth is such an unhinged mess. Trump likely screaming at his top people to turn this fiasco around.
No wonder Hegseth is such an unhinged mess. Trump likely screaming at his top people to turn this fiasco around.
June 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Wow. New NBC poll finds only 38% of Americans support Trump's bombing of Iran. Crucially, much of the poll was taken while Trump announced a ceasefire and in the days after.
No wonder Hegseth is such an unhinged mess. Trump likely screaming at his top people to turn this fiasco around.
No wonder Hegseth is such an unhinged mess. Trump likely screaming at his top people to turn this fiasco around.
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The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
publications.aap.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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A very telling graph.
When it comes to death rate, the U.S. FAR behind other countries in: COVID, substance misuse, cardiovascular disease, car accidents, homicide...
Should health policy be informed by conspiracy theories or THIS reality?👇
When it comes to death rate, the U.S. FAR behind other countries in: COVID, substance misuse, cardiovascular disease, car accidents, homicide...
Should health policy be informed by conspiracy theories or THIS reality?👇
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A very telling graph.
When it comes to death rate, the U.S. FAR behind other countries in: COVID, substance misuse, cardiovascular disease, car accidents, homicide...
Should health policy be informed by conspiracy theories or THIS reality?👇
When it comes to death rate, the U.S. FAR behind other countries in: COVID, substance misuse, cardiovascular disease, car accidents, homicide...
Should health policy be informed by conspiracy theories or THIS reality?👇
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Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
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They can't just stop with the academic misconduct.
Slides posted for thimerosal presentation at ACIP included citation of study that appears not to exist
“I don’t have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title,” the apparent lead author told us
Slide has since been removed
First spied by @drboulware.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...
“I don’t have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title,” the apparent lead author told us
Slide has since been removed
First spied by @drboulware.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...
June 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
They can't just stop with the academic misconduct.
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Cassidy calls to delay meeting of CDC’s vaccine panel in challenge to RFK Jr. www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/b... via @statnews.com
Cassidy calls to delay meeting of CDC's vaccine panel in challenge to RFK Jr.
A key GOP senator is calling for the CDC's vaccine meeting to be postponed after RFK Jr. shook up the panel.
www.statnews.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Cassidy calls to delay meeting of CDC’s vaccine panel in challenge to RFK Jr. www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/b... via @statnews.com
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A “mercury mom” from the children’s health defence (the anti vaccine group that RFK Jr led until he was appointed head of HHS) will be the first presenter at a CDC meeting on vaccines.
They’re not even trying to hide what they’re doing anymore.
Get your boosters now, while you still can:
They’re not even trying to hide what they’re doing anymore.
Get your boosters now, while you still can:
Former leader of anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. to present at first meeting of new CDC vaccine advisers | CNN
A former leader of the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense will present this week on thimerosal in flu vaccines at a meeting of the newly appointed vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Dise...
www.cnn.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A “mercury mom” from the children’s health defence (the anti vaccine group that RFK Jr led until he was appointed head of HHS) will be the first presenter at a CDC meeting on vaccines.
They’re not even trying to hide what they’re doing anymore.
Get your boosters now, while you still can:
They’re not even trying to hide what they’re doing anymore.
Get your boosters now, while you still can:
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This is how MAGA Republicans will justify falling in line with Trump's illegal bombing of Iran after spending years pretending Trump is "antiwar"
June 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is how MAGA Republicans will justify falling in line with Trump's illegal bombing of Iran after spending years pretending Trump is "antiwar"
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Profile and interview of Fiona Havers by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social now out in the NYT. A must-read on the loss of experts and expertise. 🎁 link
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
June 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Profile and interview of Fiona Havers by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social now out in the NYT. A must-read on the loss of experts and expertise. 🎁 link
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
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The Israelis are calling this a "preemptive" strike. Whether you agree or disagree with this attack, these are not - from what we know tonight - "preemptive" strikes. The Israelis are using that word for a reason. Read on. /1
Netanyahu in video: "We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran's main enrichment facility in Natanz." 1/2
June 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The Israelis are calling this a "preemptive" strike. Whether you agree or disagree with this attack, these are not - from what we know tonight - "preemptive" strikes. The Israelis are using that word for a reason. Read on. /1
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Raw milk, raw water. No benefits, all risk, and we're still doing this going in to 2025. I wrote about it years ago and it's still as dangerous now.
December 31, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Raw milk, raw water. No benefits, all risk, and we're still doing this going in to 2025. I wrote about it years ago and it's still as dangerous now.
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Many of us tried to warn you. It wasn’t about choice or freedom.
December 26, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Many of us tried to warn you. It wasn’t about choice or freedom.
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Look at that Midwest line. Made it almost 5 years from the ProMed announcement but having a kiddo in school finally caught up with us. 2 of 3 in the household down now (very mild, vaxd in Sept). #3 vaxd a month later and negative for now.
December 16, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Look at that Midwest line. Made it almost 5 years from the ProMed announcement but having a kiddo in school finally caught up with us. 2 of 3 in the household down now (very mild, vaxd in Sept). #3 vaxd a month later and negative for now.
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Alarming and ironic: the U.S. approach to #H5N1 risks fueling the next pandemic while defunding the #WHO - the organization tasked with coordinating global responses to outbreaks.
Imagine how we would act if another country did this.
Imagine how we would act if another country did this.
This is an awful idea and will be catastrophic.
As infectious disease outbreaks continue to threaten global security, we must work together to contain them.
The WHO does lifesaving work worldwide—defunding it will only hurt us all.
www.ft.com/content/e606...
As infectious disease outbreaks continue to threaten global security, we must work together to contain them.
The WHO does lifesaving work worldwide—defunding it will only hurt us all.
www.ft.com/content/e606...
Donald Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO ‘on day one’
Swift exit would remove global health body’s main source of funds and damage its ability to tackle emergencies
www.ft.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:15 PM