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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 2h

I did 2 kurzweill by audiobook. It was a long drive. But this-- no dice

Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 13h

He doesn’t believe in scientific evidence. Peter Hotez’s book about his daughter w autism (and how it was not the fault of vaccines) came from conversations w rfk jr., who was not moved. Who knows if he is insane, but he is very effective at destroying public science and vaccine access.

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 14h

Cuts like these reinforce my belief that trying to appeal to security arguments — bio research is important because of national security, we need to be very concerned about misuse etc — aren’t going to work.

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 14h

I know this is obvious, but if one does not believe in germ theory, as the secretary has stated, one does not need to worry about germs. The biological threats he is worried about come from medical interventions. If you’re healthy, in his mind, you don’t need those. (Soft eugenics)

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 15h

I was horrified to realize that the argument that death was expected because of “underlying conditions” (used w COViD and measles) was being used to justify starving children. Every child has the right to food and to not die of a vaccine preventable illness— why be against protecting the innocent.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d

The @nytimes.com , @washingtonpost.com & the rest treat #RussellVought like he's a run-of-the-mill small government conservative. The man is a religious zealot that wants to bring down the state & replace it with an American theocracy out of Margaret Atwood. It's the biggest story no one is telling.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote a thing about how this split the MMR up into monovalents is bullshit that Andrew Wakefield cooked up. It will be used to strip access to the MMR.

The MAHA movement continues to destroy public health.

open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The Monovalent Mirage

A pretend alternative to the MMR exists, just ask Andrew Wakefield

open.substack.com

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 11d

This ostentatious Christian with the big cross around her neck is really saying that people who cannot prove their citizenship in an emergency room should be left on the sidewalk to die. And that's what she believes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 11d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 21d

I think discrimination based on “karyotype” is just baseline for them. And prob extends to all other karyotype variations.

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 22d

Emergency Caturday — so much medical disinformation, dumbness and meanness.

Sloopy the cat wonders why anyone thinks that RFK Jr or Trump know anything worth knowing about autism vaccines or Tylenol

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 26d

Another great analysis of what is likely coming out of ACIP. Must read (also, RFK Jr. must resign.)

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 26d

Another ACIP meeting, another opportunity to stamp out vaccination and sicken and kill American kids
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Cross the MMRV and HBV Vaccines Off the Schedule

Anti-vax ACIP kicks off another two day assault on disease and death prevention

open.substack.com

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 26d

I’m nostalgic for the days when Americans lectured other countries about violations of civil liberties.

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 26d

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.”

That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Nicht vor MAGA-Kult einknicken

Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband ruft die Verantwortlichen der großen US-Medien dazu auf, ihren Journalistinnen und Journalisten den Rücken zu stärken, statt…

www.djv.de

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Sep 10

I am not aware of any gun violence that happened when I was a kid.

by RFK Jr.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Sep 9

RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · Sep 9

First of all, renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy. Second of all, let me introduce you to the humble battery

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 9

Burgum to CNBC: "The intermittent sources, the unreliable and expensive sources like solar and wind -- you don't know when the wind's gonna blow, we do know when the sun is gonna shine and it's not 24 hours a day."

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 9

I mean

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 9

Missing the days of potatoe.

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 8

Considering the decimation of cdc, nih grants halted, embrace of pseudoscience, and antivax actions that will leave the US unprepared for an H5N1 pandemic and may lead to the robust return of preventable childhood diseases, have you considered that grade inflation is a problem here?

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 3

Get it as soon as you can!

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 3

As a Baltimore resident I just hope he doesn’t ever want to visit again

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 2

He's an antivaxxer. People don't say things or do things like this if they aren't antivaxxers. He is not a skeptic, he just wants children to get polio.

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · Sep 2

KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that?

RFK JR: “I never said that.”

KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.”

RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024)

ht: @cwebbonline.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 29

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

www.advocate.com

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Aug 30

I mean, it is still the worst that they all worked together to end US leadership in S&T but 1. They will forever be tarred by it and 2. They are unhappy — so that’s something. 🫠

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s hilarious that they have all have certainly heard that “if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog” and somehow didn’t think that would apply to them. And all the public whining? It’s not done and will continue to bite them in the future. So funny. Terrible people.

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