Heath Waddingham
@waddingham.bsky.social
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Horrific. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and could save millions more.
“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations.
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...
“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations.
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...
August 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Horrific. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and could save millions more.
“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations.
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...
“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations.
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...
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Tulsi Gabbard's Chief of Staff told a top intelligence analyst to rewrite a report to claim that Venezuela' government directed Tren de Aragua to commit crimes in the U.S. -
so the report would support using the Alien Enemies Act to avoid due process.
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
so the report would support using the Alien Enemies Act to avoid due process.
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Tulsi Gabbard's Chief of Staff told a top intelligence analyst to rewrite a report to claim that Venezuela' government directed Tren de Aragua to commit crimes in the U.S. -
so the report would support using the Alien Enemies Act to avoid due process.
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
so the report would support using the Alien Enemies Act to avoid due process.
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
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@jsandoval1982.bsky.social Feliz cumpleanos, senor!
April 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@jsandoval1982.bsky.social Feliz cumpleanos, senor!
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"Massive blow to Trump as Japanese car giant moves manufacturing OUT of US in tariff twist" www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"Massive blow to Trump as Japanese car giant moves manufacturing OUT of US in tariff twist" www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...
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As for his order targeting Miles Taylor, Trump now defines writing a memoir of time in government service that is critical of Trump "could properly be characterized as treasonous and as possibly violating the Espionage Act."
In fact, the 2020 election was not "rigged and stolen," as Trump's own attorney general and other advisers told him at the time. But Trump is now indicating that to say that may be illegal and cause for a Justice Department investigation.
Trump's order to the Justice Department to investigate Chris Krebs identifies as one of his supposed offenses that he "falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen."
April 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
As for his order targeting Miles Taylor, Trump now defines writing a memoir of time in government service that is critical of Trump "could properly be characterized as treasonous and as possibly violating the Espionage Act."
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social Here's coverage in Guatemala of a man with a U visa (non-immigrant victim of certain crimes) in process with an approved deferred action from DHS. Apparently no explanation given for his arrest? Haven't seen US coverage of this yet. www.prensalibre.com/internaciona...
Gerber Mazariegos, el trabajador guatemalteco con Visa U en trámite que fue detenido por ICE
El guatemalteco Gerber Mazariegos tramitaba la visa U, un estatus legal de no inmigrante que le permite a las víctimas de ciertos delitos vivir y trabajar en Estados Unidos.
www.prensalibre.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social Here's coverage in Guatemala of a man with a U visa (non-immigrant victim of certain crimes) in process with an approved deferred action from DHS. Apparently no explanation given for his arrest? Haven't seen US coverage of this yet. www.prensalibre.com/internaciona...
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Besides its hateful tone, this congresswoman has no idea what she's saying. Due process determines if you violated a law. Otherwise how do you know?
Indiana congresswoman says, “You violated the law, you don’t get due process.” These are the same lawmakers who oppose Red Flag Laws because they don’t provide armed domestic abusers with … due process.
March 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Besides its hateful tone, this congresswoman has no idea what she's saying. Due process determines if you violated a law. Otherwise how do you know?
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I edited this @usatoday.com opinion piece by Peter Marks, the FDA vaccine chief who just resigned, in October 2020.
“I'm the FDA point person on COVID-19 vaccines. We'll make sure they're safe and effective.”
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
“I'm the FDA point person on COVID-19 vaccines. We'll make sure they're safe and effective.”
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
I'm the FDA point person on COVID-19 vaccines. We'll make sure they're safe and effective.
We pledge to do our duty to the best of our ability, independently and without conflicts of interest, and we will be transparent about FDA decisions.
www.usatoday.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I edited this @usatoday.com opinion piece by Peter Marks, the FDA vaccine chief who just resigned, in October 2020.
“I'm the FDA point person on COVID-19 vaccines. We'll make sure they're safe and effective.”
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
“I'm the FDA point person on COVID-19 vaccines. We'll make sure they're safe and effective.”
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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This is an attack on the rule of law. If a country seizes people with valid documents for detention and refuses to abide by any judicial process for it, that country is fundamentally lawless.
That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
Had missed this story in the Miami Herald about a man that already been granted refugee status being removed under the Alien Enemies Act declaration to CECOT. The other identified removals I'd heard of were undocumented or asylum seekers, first I'm hearing of approved refugees being targeted
Despite refugee status in the U.S., young Venezuelan was deported to Salvadoran prison
E.M. and his girlfriend fled persecution in their native Venezuela in 2021 and dreamed of making a new life in the United States.
www.miamiherald.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is an attack on the rule of law. If a country seizes people with valid documents for detention and refuses to abide by any judicial process for it, that country is fundamentally lawless.
That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
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What Trump has done for US farmers so far:
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu
Trump on the EU possibly banning food imports from the US: "I don't mind. Let them do it. Let them do it."
February 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What Trump has done for US farmers so far:
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu
-frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot)
-encouraged EU to ban their products
-frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc.
-threatened to deport half their workforce
-suppressed research on bird flu
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Can’t really read this as anything other than that they anticipate missed checks (former SSA commissioner Martin O’Malley predicts 1-3 months) and are workshopping the dumbest possible lines to justify it
I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Can’t really read this as anything other than that they anticipate missed checks (former SSA commissioner Martin O’Malley predicts 1-3 months) and are workshopping the dumbest possible lines to justify it
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SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
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March 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
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it really is striking the degree to which this crew feels comfortable doing things like this entirely in the open this time around (not that their efforts at subtlety the first time around were all that successful)
SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
buff.ly
March 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
it really is striking the degree to which this crew feels comfortable doing things like this entirely in the open this time around (not that their efforts at subtlety the first time around were all that successful)
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DOGE continues to embarrass itself.
March 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
DOGE continues to embarrass itself.
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The American economy has absolutely roared ahead of the rest for the world in its pandemic recovery. We even have an opportunity to put an aging and newly doubtful Chinese economy in the rear view mirror for a century. What a thing to squander.
March 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The American economy has absolutely roared ahead of the rest for the world in its pandemic recovery. We even have an opportunity to put an aging and newly doubtful Chinese economy in the rear view mirror for a century. What a thing to squander.
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There is no silver lining to this government, no saving grace. Where he isn’t inflicting outright cruelty and malice, Trump is taking a wrecking ball to American prosperity.
What an astounding moment of national self-harm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...
What an astounding moment of national self-harm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...
‘How Are We Going to Afford This?’ U.S. Companies Face Tariff Reality. (Gift Article)
Business owners told The Times that President Trump’s tariffs could lead to higher costs and expressed frustration at the sudden uncertainty about policy.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
There is no silver lining to this government, no saving grace. Where he isn’t inflicting outright cruelty and malice, Trump is taking a wrecking ball to American prosperity.
What an astounding moment of national self-harm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...
What an astounding moment of national self-harm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...
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On White House seizing control of press pool:
After AP was banned, a press corps boycott was considered but not supported by TV networks
Some correspondents want annual dinner cancelled
Chairman of NewsMax pushed White House to reconsider www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
After AP was banned, a press corps boycott was considered but not supported by TV networks
Some correspondents want annual dinner cancelled
Chairman of NewsMax pushed White House to reconsider www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Why It Matters Who Asks the Questions
When the White House handpicks reporters to cover the president, the American public suffers.
www.theatlantic.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
On White House seizing control of press pool:
After AP was banned, a press corps boycott was considered but not supported by TV networks
Some correspondents want annual dinner cancelled
Chairman of NewsMax pushed White House to reconsider www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
After AP was banned, a press corps boycott was considered but not supported by TV networks
Some correspondents want annual dinner cancelled
Chairman of NewsMax pushed White House to reconsider www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.
February 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.
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Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
February 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
@jvl.bsky.social Hey, look, Ross is surprised that *all this* is happening.
February 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@jvl.bsky.social Hey, look, Ross is surprised that *all this* is happening.
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We still are trying to sort out how much China abused a backdoor in our wiretap systems (Trump fired the team investigating it) and now we've just opened up a massive new backdoor to the entire payment system of the United States
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
This is a backdoor. Elon's coders are creating a backdoor into the US Treasury. This is incredibly dangerous both because of its intended use (by Elon and Trump) and the risk of other actors exploiting a major security vulnerability to cause a massive disruption to the US government.
February 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We still are trying to sort out how much China abused a backdoor in our wiretap systems (Trump fired the team investigating it) and now we've just opened up a massive new backdoor to the entire payment system of the United States
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?