Tara Haelle
@tarahaelle.bsky.social
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These search parameters for a MAGA block list seem… not terribly helpful or efficient?
October 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
These search parameters for a MAGA block list seem… not terribly helpful or efficient?
If you value the 1st Amendment, you should be VERY concerned that Pete Hegseth & the DOD just revoked that right. If you care even the slightest bit about the Constitution and the American values it's supposed to stand for, you should be calling your reps NOW.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If you value the 1st Amendment, you should be VERY concerned that Pete Hegseth & the DOD just revoked that right. If you care even the slightest bit about the Constitution and the American values it's supposed to stand for, you should be calling your reps NOW.
apnews.com/article/pent...
apnews.com/article/pent...
Join @healthjournalism.org and the Expert Vaccine Analysis Team THURS, SEPT 11 at 11am ET for a webinar on research re #vaccines & #autism. It's highly likely any HHS report on autism will try to implicate vaccines, so know the real science in advance.
Register: healthjournalism.org/event/prepar...
Register: healthjournalism.org/event/prepar...
September 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Join @healthjournalism.org and the Expert Vaccine Analysis Team THURS, SEPT 11 at 11am ET for a webinar on research re #vaccines & #autism. It's highly likely any HHS report on autism will try to implicate vaccines, so know the real science in advance.
Register: healthjournalism.org/event/prepar...
Register: healthjournalism.org/event/prepar...
I wonder if Republicans will listen.
September 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I wonder if Republicans will listen.
I’m DYING. Someone in PR at Pfizer ought to be getting a raise this year…
September 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’m DYING. Someone in PR at Pfizer ought to be getting a raise this year…
JFC, the media will never learn its lesson. We have no idea if these civilians had drugs or not, yet every headline parrots the admin’s party line, establishing a narrative as fact before we have confirmation. Throwing the word “alleged” in there does not fix the problem or let them off the hook.
September 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
JFC, the media will never learn its lesson. We have no idea if these civilians had drugs or not, yet every headline parrots the admin’s party line, establishing a narrative as fact before we have confirmation. Throwing the word “alleged” in there does not fix the problem or let them off the hook.
The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets Sep 18-19 to discuss & maybe vote on recs for #Covid, #HepB, #MMRV & #RSV #vaccines. This mtg determines if CDC recs Covid vaccines, affecting access & insurance $ for them. LEAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS HERE: www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/aci...
September 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
SAVE THE DATE! On Thurs, Sept 11, @healthjournalism.org & the Expert Vaccine Analysis Team will present a webinar on the scientific evidence of autism & vaccines to help journalists prep to report on a possible future HHS report on autism. Free registration required; will post link when available.
August 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
SAVE THE DATE! On Thurs, Sept 11, @healthjournalism.org & the Expert Vaccine Analysis Team will present a webinar on the scientific evidence of autism & vaccines to help journalists prep to report on a possible future HHS report on autism. Free registration required; will post link when available.
The @voices4vaccines.bsky.social Just the Facts newsletter succinctly addresses those 3 #vaccine claims, explaining if they're true & putting them in context. (Sometimes they're half-true.) Here are 3 examples from this week's newsletter. 5/n
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August 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The @voices4vaccines.bsky.social Just the Facts newsletter succinctly addresses those 3 #vaccine claims, explaining if they're true & putting them in context. (Sometimes they're half-true.) Here are 3 examples from this week's newsletter. 5/n
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A NEWSLETTER YOU PROBABLY WANT + ADVICE ON RESPONDING TO MISINFO YOU SEE. (a thread)
Many folks are frustrated with inaccurate info they see re vaccines or info they see that they don't know is true or not. Maybe you want to respond, but you don't know how, or even know what's true... 1/n
Many folks are frustrated with inaccurate info they see re vaccines or info they see that they don't know is true or not. Maybe you want to respond, but you don't know how, or even know what's true... 1/n
August 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A NEWSLETTER YOU PROBABLY WANT + ADVICE ON RESPONDING TO MISINFO YOU SEE. (a thread)
Many folks are frustrated with inaccurate info they see re vaccines or info they see that they don't know is true or not. Maybe you want to respond, but you don't know how, or even know what's true... 1/n
Many folks are frustrated with inaccurate info they see re vaccines or info they see that they don't know is true or not. Maybe you want to respond, but you don't know how, or even know what's true... 1/n
So this isn’t you? Alexey Merz of UW, a colleague of @carlbergstrom.com, whom I greatly respect, who’s authored the book Calling Bullshit, and who regularly models the most effective way to engage in calling out misinformation? I assumed someone in biochem would be aware of a colleague in bio.
August 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
So this isn’t you? Alexey Merz of UW, a colleague of @carlbergstrom.com, whom I greatly respect, who’s authored the book Calling Bullshit, and who regularly models the most effective way to engage in calling out misinformation? I assumed someone in biochem would be aware of a colleague in bio.
No, the quotes don’t say someone didn’t like it. They say that he was explicitly discouraged from the strategy. I guess the misogynistic name caller who I clearly erroneously initially gave credit to also struggles w reading comprehension. Pardon me for assuming you engaged w intellectual honesty.
August 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
No, the quotes don’t say someone didn’t like it. They say that he was explicitly discouraged from the strategy. I guess the misogynistic name caller who I clearly erroneously initially gave credit to also struggles w reading comprehension. Pardon me for assuming you engaged w intellectual honesty.
Not only are the individual pages of Sections 9 (dealing with habeas corpus) and 10 (dealing with powers of Congress) of Article 1 missing from the Constitution on the .gov site, but they’re missing from the full version too, along with the end of Sect 8. Last complete version was July 17.
August 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Not only are the individual pages of Sections 9 (dealing with habeas corpus) and 10 (dealing with powers of Congress) of Article 1 missing from the Constitution on the .gov site, but they’re missing from the full version too, along with the end of Sect 8. Last complete version was July 17.
JFC. This email landed in my inbox 30 minutes ago. READ. THE. ROOM.
July 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
JFC. This email landed in my inbox 30 minutes ago. READ. THE. ROOM.
As another reader astutely pointed out, if “For Science!” were the real reason for the story, any number of hypothetical faces could have been used. The “fascinating science of it” is a bullshit smokescreen to drum up rage while stroking Trump’s ego as the sycophantic Gray Lady loves to do.
July 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As another reader astutely pointed out, if “For Science!” were the real reason for the story, any number of hypothetical faces could have been used. The “fascinating science of it” is a bullshit smokescreen to drum up rage while stroking Trump’s ego as the sycophantic Gray Lady loves to do.
As another reader astutely pointed out, if “For Science!” were the real reason for the story, any number of hypothetical faces could have been used. The “fascinating science of it” is a bullshit smokescreen to drum up rage while stroking Trump’s ego as the sycophantic Gray Lady loves to do.
July 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
As another reader astutely pointed out, if “For Science!” were the real reason for the story, any number of hypothetical faces could have been used. The “fascinating science of it” is a bullshit smokescreen to drum up rage while stroking Trump’s ego as the sycophantic Gray Lady loves to do.
As a science journalist, I’m insulted by the disingenuousness of John Branch’s ridiculous defense that the @nytimes.com “Trump on Rushmore” story was a “science story, not a political one.” I suspect he’s deluded enough to actually believe his BS. He doesn’t even know he’s become the rage machine.
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
As a science journalist, I’m insulted by the disingenuousness of John Branch’s ridiculous defense that the @nytimes.com “Trump on Rushmore” story was a “science story, not a political one.” I suspect he’s deluded enough to actually believe his BS. He doesn’t even know he’s become the rage machine.
You can be angry. You can be frustrated. You can be worried. But you CANNOT say that you're completely helpless in the face of Kennedy's attempts to endanger children & others with the return of horrific infectious diseases. Trump may be Teflon, but Kennedy is not — just as #Elon wasn't. 7/7
June 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
You can be angry. You can be frustrated. You can be worried. But you CANNOT say that you're completely helpless in the face of Kennedy's attempts to endanger children & others with the return of horrific infectious diseases. Trump may be Teflon, but Kennedy is not — just as #Elon wasn't. 7/7
This was my single biggest w Kennedy at HHS over. Now it’s happened. Kennedy's also violating an explicit “promise” he made to Sen. Bill Cassidy to get Cassidy's confirmation vote. Cassidy's trying to claim Kennedy didn't break his promise, but that’s a lie 3/n www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
June 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This was my single biggest w Kennedy at HHS over. Now it’s happened. Kennedy's also violating an explicit “promise” he made to Sen. Bill Cassidy to get Cassidy's confirmation vote. Cassidy's trying to claim Kennedy didn't break his promise, but that’s a lie 3/n www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Alas, it finally caught me.
May 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Alas, it finally caught me.
Omg, this really IS addictive! It’s too much fun! I just did these.
May 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Omg, this really IS addictive! It’s too much fun! I just did these.
I use a combo of these three apps for that and it works decently. (The third one isn’t essential.)
May 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I use a combo of these three apps for that and it works decently. (The third one isn’t essential.)
