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Going to be an awful day for anyone who appreciates vaccines, as Kennedy's ACIP meets today. The agenda is up and even the person representing CDC in the first session is a hard-core antivaxxer (Mark Blaxill). Starting today at 8am Eastern.
www.cdc.gov
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Going to be an awful day for anyone who appreciates vaccines, as Kennedy's ACIP meets today. The agenda is up and even the person representing CDC in the first session is a hard-core antivaxxer (Mark Blaxill). Starting today at 8am Eastern.
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... this is like getting owned in a Chotiner interview and then doing an unflattering edit and posting it yourself and not realizing at any time what it was you were doing or revealing
A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
... this is like getting owned in a Chotiner interview and then doing an unflattering edit and posting it yourself and not realizing at any time what it was you were doing or revealing
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“More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are highly effective and extremely safe”
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof
More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are high...
www.gavi.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are highly effective and extremely safe”
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
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Appreciate @ifbookspod.bsky.social getting into this one. Given it's popularity in general and with Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Obama, and the TED talk set I had assumed it was idiotic but jesus christ it is so much worse than I had assumed. Just the most bargain basement dilettante shit
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Appreciate @ifbookspod.bsky.social getting into this one. Given it's popularity in general and with Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Obama, and the TED talk set I had assumed it was idiotic but jesus christ it is so much worse than I had assumed. Just the most bargain basement dilettante shit
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Hard same. I have spent so much time thinking about and agreeing with many core critical perspectives on law and medicine and other professional contexts. One thing the reactionaries do well is preventing us from improving by forcing constant retrenchment just to survive
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hard same. I have spent so much time thinking about and agreeing with many core critical perspectives on law and medicine and other professional contexts. One thing the reactionaries do well is preventing us from improving by forcing constant retrenchment just to survive
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The level of dishonesty just in this post is enough to warrant its own coverage, alongside what are probably a number of similar journalists and media types desperately mischaracterizing reality to defend the indefensible
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The level of dishonesty just in this post is enough to warrant its own coverage, alongside what are probably a number of similar journalists and media types desperately mischaracterizing reality to defend the indefensible
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Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
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SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
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Man if this isn't the perfect quote re Weiss: “She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her"
have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma
Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Man if this isn't the perfect quote re Weiss: “She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her"
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The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.
The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak
Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.
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New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.
Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.
Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.
Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.
Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.
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Burr imo has always been a good example of what 'left Rogan' could be (and demonstrates why that framing will always fail to yield anything good). It's funny, too, that he's a Trump critic because his reasoning on this issue is pure Trump and classic reactionary shit
who among us has not hacked up a journalist with a bone saw or hung a college activist from their ankles until death
Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”
The actor-comedian details his experience at the event: "Definitely one of the top three experiences I've ever had ... I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Burr imo has always been a good example of what 'left Rogan' could be (and demonstrates why that framing will always fail to yield anything good). It's funny, too, that he's a Trump critic because his reasoning on this issue is pure Trump and classic reactionary shit
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It really is worth hammering this as done in this article. On the issue of political strategy and clearly at least some policy areas, he is *fucking dilettante*
My professional assessment is that Ezra Klein is a moron @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
Only an Idiot Would Think We Need Anti-Abortion Democrats
It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein.
www.jezebel.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It really is worth hammering this as done in this article. On the issue of political strategy and clearly at least some policy areas, he is *fucking dilettante*
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This cannot possibly be reposted enough
“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This cannot possibly be reposted enough
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they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy
August 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Similarly to the right wing, our benighted "centrist" class has entered a fully decadent phase. That has been clear since BLM and MeToo but is very clearly revealed in moments like the Kirk fantasy land they are insisting on. It will get weirder and stupider and I'm not sure where it will lead
I have a feeling the reactions to this lady is going to trigger another round of bluesky scolding from the center, but she is spouting "the sky is orange" level unreality, and the majority of the posts are trying to explain the color blue to her and not particularly over the top or mean.
September 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Similarly to the right wing, our benighted "centrist" class has entered a fully decadent phase. That has been clear since BLM and MeToo but is very clearly revealed in moments like the Kirk fantasy land they are insisting on. It will get weirder and stupider and I'm not sure where it will lead
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no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that
He actually wrote that Jamelle insulting him is bad for America
September 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that
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People were asking the other day why I've run out of patience with EK and this is about as good an example of what I mean as I could imagine
September 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
People were asking the other day why I've run out of patience with EK and this is about as good an example of what I mean as I could imagine
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look, you don’t get the abundance without the liberalism.
we’ve established that pretty firmly over the course of the last century.
so maybe if you want abundance your time would be better spent talking people who currently want abundance but not liberalism into liberalism.
we’ve established that pretty firmly over the course of the last century.
so maybe if you want abundance your time would be better spent talking people who currently want abundance but not liberalism into liberalism.
September 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
look, you don’t get the abundance without the liberalism.
we’ve established that pretty firmly over the course of the last century.
so maybe if you want abundance your time would be better spent talking people who currently want abundance but not liberalism into liberalism.
we’ve established that pretty firmly over the course of the last century.
so maybe if you want abundance your time would be better spent talking people who currently want abundance but not liberalism into liberalism.
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This sort of thing is also why I'm not currently worried that these tariffs will remain in place under dems to almost any extent. There's essentially no constituency, let alone enough of one to override the benefit of being handed a 'make prices lower' button as President
Not sure if it's obvious how bananas this is. The usual tariff argument is that it helps producers and hurts consumers (by more).
But Trump's tariffs don't even help (most) producers.
It's genuinely difficult to design a tariff regime that helps less than 4% of manufacturers!
But Trump's tariffs don't even help (most) producers.
It's genuinely difficult to design a tariff regime that helps less than 4% of manufacturers!
The argument is: We're all meant to sacrifice a bit, so that tariffs can help rebuild American manufacturing. Let's ask American manufacturers whether they're helping.
September 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This sort of thing is also why I'm not currently worried that these tariffs will remain in place under dems to almost any extent. There's essentially no constituency, let alone enough of one to override the benefit of being handed a 'make prices lower' button as President