Charles Ornstein
@charlesornstein.bsky.social
Managing editor/local at ProPublica, past prez of AHCJ, Detroit Lions fan. Email: [email protected]. Posts are my own.
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Here is Aaron Siri's presentation. Meissner says: "What you have said is a terrible, terrible distortion of all the facts. I would like to go through then one by one, but obviously Robert will be on my case... I'm very sorry Paul Offit isn't here. I can't speak as effectively."
#acip
#acip
because he represents people who believe they have been harmed by vaccines and has no medical or vaccine science credentials.
His presentation literally recycles anti-vax memes. It is overt propaganda.
He does disclose his COI about his legal work and his book.
His presentation literally recycles anti-vax memes. It is overt propaganda.
He does disclose his COI about his legal work and his book.
www.cdc.gov
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Here is Aaron Siri's presentation. Meissner says: "What you have said is a terrible, terrible distortion of all the facts. I would like to go through then one by one, but obviously Robert will be on my case... I'm very sorry Paul Offit isn't here. I can't speak as effectively."
#acip
#acip
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I shared some reporter's notebook-thoughts on my latest story on child sexual abuse and a little-known church in northern Minnesota: www.propublica.org/article/minn...
What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse
A roughly 40-minute conversation shows how leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church kept an open secret quiet for so long.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I shared some reporter's notebook-thoughts on my latest story on child sexual abuse and a little-known church in northern Minnesota: www.propublica.org/article/minn...
What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse, by @jlussenhop.bsky.social
What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse
A roughly 40-minute conversation shows how leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church kept an open secret quiet for so long.
www.propublica.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse, by @jlussenhop.bsky.social
SHIFTING POSITIONS: Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.
Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.
As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation fundi...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
SHIFTING POSITIONS: Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.
This story is both 💝 and 🤯: A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him. @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org
A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This story is both 💝 and 🤯: A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him. @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org
ProPublica is ramping up our presence on YouTube, and we're hiring! 🎉🎉
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December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ProPublica is ramping up our presence on YouTube, and we're hiring! 🎉🎉
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JAW DROPPER: Chicago Police promoted Sgt. Christopher Lockhart this year despite the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s findings last year that his conduct “seriously undermines public faith, credibility, and trust in the Department.” @invisible.institute
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
JAW DROPPER: Chicago Police promoted Sgt. Christopher Lockhart this year despite the Civilian Office of Police Accountability’s findings last year that his conduct “seriously undermines public faith, credibility, and trust in the Department.” @invisible.institute
That Chicago police officers can rise in the ranks in spite of significant problems in their records reflects a decadeslong failing that the Chicago Police Department has been repeatedly called on to fix, @invisible.institute and @propublica.org found.
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
That Chicago police officers can rise in the ranks in spite of significant problems in their records reflects a decadeslong failing that the Chicago Police Department has been repeatedly called on to fix, @invisible.institute and @propublica.org found.
Horrifying story: Chicago promoted two police officers even after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct. That’s because the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored.
w/ @invisible.institute
w/ @invisible.institute
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Horrifying story: Chicago promoted two police officers even after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct. That’s because the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored.
w/ @invisible.institute
w/ @invisible.institute
A vaccine skeptic became the head of HHS. What has happened is predictable but still shocking:
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System @nytimes.com
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System @nytimes.com
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System
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December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A vaccine skeptic became the head of HHS. What has happened is predictable but still shocking:
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System @nytimes.com
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System @nytimes.com
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the victim’s mother has come to support his release. @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org
A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the victim’s mother has come to support his release. @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org
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Don't miss @richardawebster.bsky.social's original story that we published earlier this year on Duncan's case and the bite mark analysis used to convict him that experts now consider to be junk science.
He Was Convicted Based on Allegedly Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis. Louisiana Wants to Execute Him Anyway.
Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man still awaits execution based on their testimony.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Don't miss @richardawebster.bsky.social's original story that we published earlier this year on Duncan's case and the bite mark analysis used to convict him that experts now consider to be junk science.
Texas set up a $1.4 billion fund to help guard against destructive flooding. But in the five years since the fund’s launch, at least 90 local governments turned down tens of millions of dollars in state grants and loans. We explain why w/ @texastribune.org
Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.
Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to help pay for projects to guard against destructive flooding. But after learning that so many local communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved th...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Texas set up a $1.4 billion fund to help guard against destructive flooding. But in the five years since the fund’s launch, at least 90 local governments turned down tens of millions of dollars in state grants and loans. We explain why w/ @texastribune.org
NEW: A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him. by @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org
A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
NEW: A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him. by @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org
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Meet the head of a federal panel expected to upend the childhood vaccine schedule later this week. Dr. Kirk Milhoan believes that Covid was made in North Carolina and deployed to China as a bioweapon ... among other conspiracy theories. www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Meet the head of a federal panel expected to upend the childhood vaccine schedule later this week. Dr. Kirk Milhoan believes that Covid was made in North Carolina and deployed to China as a bioweapon ... among other conspiracy theories. www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr.’s pick to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule embraces Covid conspiracy theories
Dr. Kirk Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist and church pastor who has falsely stated that Covid vaccines cause cancer, miscarriage and widespread heart disease. By @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Dr. Kirk Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist and church pastor who has falsely stated that Covid vaccines cause cancer, miscarriage and widespread heart disease. By @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
RFK Jr.’s pick to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule embraces Covid conspiracy theories
Dr. Kirk Milhoan compared vaccination efforts during the pandemic to the Holocaust and called mRNA technology “the biggest threat to humanity.”
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December 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
RFK Jr.’s pick to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule embraces Covid conspiracy theories
Dr. Kirk Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist and church pastor who has falsely stated that Covid vaccines cause cancer, miscarriage and widespread heart disease. By @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Dr. Kirk Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist and church pastor who has falsely stated that Covid vaccines cause cancer, miscarriage and widespread heart disease. By @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
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December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Former CDC leaders weigh in: CDC’s vaccine advisory panel faces a crisis of its own making, via @statnews.com
CDC’s vaccine advisory panel faces a crisis of its own making
“ACIP has drifted toward inflating speculative risks while downplaying well-established vaccine benefits,” write former CDC officials Demetre Daskalakis, Daniel Jernigan, and Debra Houry.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Former CDC leaders weigh in: CDC’s vaccine advisory panel faces a crisis of its own making, via @statnews.com
Political Clout Helps Ranchers Dodge Oversight of Public Lands Grazing, w/ @highcountrynews.org
Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight
Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules. As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Political Clout Helps Ranchers Dodge Oversight of Public Lands Grazing, w/ @highcountrynews.org
NEW: Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to help pay for projects to guard against flooding. But after learning that so many local communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed. w/ @texastribune.org
Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.
Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to help pay for projects to guard against destructive flooding. But after learning that so many local communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved th...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to help pay for projects to guard against flooding. But after learning that so many local communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed. w/ @texastribune.org
Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight, by @jamesctobias.bsky.social and Mark Olalde w/ @highcountrynews.org
Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight
Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules. As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight, by @jamesctobias.bsky.social and Mark Olalde w/ @highcountrynews.org
“Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry.”
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
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December 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
“Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry.”
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
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With so many nonprofits making a year-end push for donations, it helps to do some research before deciding where to give.
@propublica.org's Nonprofit Explorer tool has details on millions of orgs (including ProPublica) with helpful info like executive compensation, revenue, and expenses.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
With so many nonprofits making a year-end push for donations, it helps to do some research before deciding where to give.
@propublica.org's Nonprofit Explorer tool has details on millions of orgs (including ProPublica) with helpful info like executive compensation, revenue, and expenses.
@propublica.org's Nonprofit Explorer tool has details on millions of orgs (including ProPublica) with helpful info like executive compensation, revenue, and expenses.
Private Profit, Public Loss: The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers. w/ @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Private Profit, Public Loss: The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers. w/ @highcountrynews.org
Justices seem poised to side with crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey subpoena fight
Justices seem poised to side with crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey subpoena fight
The court’s ruling could have broad implications for pregnancy centers across the country.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Justices seem poised to side with crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey subpoena fight