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Gregg Levine
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Reporter/Editor/Analyst | Flâneur/gadabout/gimlet eye | bys @NewYorker @TheNation @Guardian @NewRepublic @AJAM | 2020 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow
Again, I suggest you consult a medical professional and then go get all your vaccines and boosters up to date. Two to consider: measles (have your titers checked, especially if you were vaccinated more than 45 years ago) & TDAP (the P stands for pertussis—aka whooping cough). Why? 👇
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I repeat, RFK Jr doesn’t have to say “I’m banning vaccines” to effectively ban vaccines. Exhibit umpteen hundred and sixteen (this happened the same day they appointed the anti-vaxxing snake-oil salesman above as deputy CDC head):
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.

The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.

They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I’m old enough to remember an incoming Mayor David Dinkins leaving in place many Ed Koch hires, assuming they were all loyal Democrats at the end of the day.

At the end of the day, they were not.

I am hoping this is a sign that Mamdani, tho not old enough to remember, has learned the history.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I hate to say I told you so, but I’m probably not the only one who told you so….
And honestly, without a written guarantee signed by Trump & Russ Vought, I am skeptical all of the RIFs/firings will be reversed.

Bragging on handshake deals with people who don’t honor deals—who don’t even respect your institution—can turn out to be a damaging self-own.
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
🎯 “The Moderate Party” smdh
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
When I did strategic consulting work (a very long time ago), we had a common refrain when presenting to clients: Don’t make the strategy the tactic.

When looking at what so many non-clients did (and continue to do), I think: You’re making the tactic the strategy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The first thing we do, Charlie Brown, let's kill all the lawyers.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Children, older adults, the immune-compromised, pretty much everyone, and in short order. As immunity rates wane, more of us are in environments where there is more infectious disease, and more of us will pass it around until it starts evading our defenses, even if we thought we were safe.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I’m tellin’ you…. Mark my words.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It’s been more than a year since I started telling everyone RFK Jr doesn’t have to say “I’m banning vaccines” to effectively ban vaccines. It’s also been more than a year since I started my vax-a-palooza, to get up to date on every jab I might need in the next five years. Now it’s time to boost.
“Taken together, the moves suggest that Mr. Kennedy will reach far into the details of vaccine development, an effort likely informed by his decades as one of the nation’s most vocal critics of immunization oversight.”

“Informed”… maybe you mean “biased?”
Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals that Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters
The agency suggested that clinical trials in humans may be required for updated Covid shots, raising questions about whether they will be available in the fall.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It is time for all Americans to ask, which preventable disease do you want to kill your parents? Your kids? You?

Get your vaccines up to date. All of them. And because so many will ignore this advice, wear a quality mask/respirator inside public spaces.

This ain’t a drill.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
When I was a teen, my grandfather, who sold men’s clothing, gave me underwear that read “Warning: Contents Under Pressure.”

I (probably fortunately) no longer have them to exhibit here.
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“Magazine exclusive”… not to appear online—what, y’all don’t want to train AI with Nude-zies?
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Who walks in the classroom, cool and slow? Who calls the English teacher, Daddy-O, Charlie Brown?
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
For God's sake, Charlie Brown, even Freud speaks of a latency period!
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole, Charlie Brown.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
🙏

I got into a convo yesterday with a guy who asked about my mask—thought I must be an artist working with… well we never got to what with—I explained it was because of the pandemic, and he said “Covid? I didn’t know that was still around!”

Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the XFG bite.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I’d probably get up and stand in the gangway for the rest of trip.

Or start doing something crazy until they did.

Wishing you the sterile best.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM