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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings.

www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
Policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings
Our policy position is centred around the need to advocate for equitable access to healthcare, create safe and inclusive workplaces for trans and non-binary people working in healthcare settings, and ...
www.bma.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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This will harm kids.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...
Trump Moves to End Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been an outspoken critic of RFKJ's vaccine disinformation and non evidence-based vaccine recommendations.

Now they are losing millions in federal funding for mental health services, rural healthcare access, and more.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
US Health Department cancels millions of dollars in grants to American Academy of Pediatrics
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has canceled millions of dollars in grants awarded to the American Academy of Pediatrics, it said on Wednesday, including ones the group said were aime...
www.reuters.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse.
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Nothing to this one but venting: The transphobes are the most cowardly of bigots, people so terrified of what's in their pants & what's not in their hearts that they make it a calling to terrorize those who've done the work to know who they are. Mice have more courage, slugs have more grace.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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One year ago
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What a powerful idea - may we all just think of our fellow Americans (citizen or not) as our neighbors. Maybe Jesus was on to something with that whole "love thy neighbor" thing!
“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Please pay attention
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...
Mark Blaxill helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him at CDC.
Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.
www.msnbc.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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79. American citizen.
September 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Top Trump officials used Charlie Kirk’s death to threaten liberal groups, making unsubstantiated claims about a “domestic terror” movement.
White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups
Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk’s podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay out their plans.
nyti.ms
September 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It only takes a few minutes to add your voice! Protect our public lands!
Trump appointees Brooke Rollins (USDA) and Doug Burgum (DOI) are trying to sell off our public lands for scraps. Don't let them.

USDA proposal (comments due Sep. 19): www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

DOI proposal (comments due Nov. 10): www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

#environment
September 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
September 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Long time since average citizens got to talk in a public setting with the NY21 Congresswoman
August 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Don’t look away
August 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM