Mitchell Tyler
@mrtyler7.bsky.social
Biomedical Scientist - vaccine, biosurveillance, comics, and fantasy enthusiast. And more politics than is probably healthy.
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The CDC has paused more than 100 grants to states and organizations to update infrastructure for public health projects. www.statnews.com/2026/01/24/p...
CDC pauses, then unpauses billions in public health infrastructure grants to states
The CDC briefly paused more than 100 grants to states and organizations to update infrastructure for public health projects.
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January 25, 2026 at 8:02 PM
The CDC has paused more than 100 grants to states and organizations to update infrastructure for public health projects. www.statnews.com/2026/01/24/p...
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The White House said on Tuesday it will submit plans for President Donald Trump's $250 million White House ballroom project to a body that oversees federal building construction, even though demolition work began earlier this week reut.rs/4ndTcfL
October 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The White House said on Tuesday it will submit plans for President Donald Trump's $250 million White House ballroom project to a body that oversees federal building construction, even though demolition work began earlier this week reut.rs/4ndTcfL
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New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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9/ Read the full story here. www.propublica.org/article/amba...
The Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement
A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforc...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
9/ Read the full story here. www.propublica.org/article/amba...
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"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."
September 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."
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At the center of the controversy is a Danish study that followed more than 1.2 million children born between 1997 and 2020. Researchers headed by Anders Hviid found no evidence linking aluminum adjuvants to chronic childhood disease.
RFK Jr Demanded Vaccine Study Retraction—The Medical Journal Refused - Profolus
A Danish vaccine safety study faced retraction demands from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The editors stood firm.
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August 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
At the center of the controversy is a Danish study that followed more than 1.2 million children born between 1997 and 2020. Researchers headed by Anders Hviid found no evidence linking aluminum adjuvants to chronic childhood disease.
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This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
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August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
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Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
August 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
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'Tariffs threaten to hit antibiotics particularly hard. The drugs have very thin profit margins, they are vulnerable to shortages and U.S. production is very limited. Other widely used and vulnerable antibiotics include ciprofloxacin and doxycycline.'
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Where Your Medicines Are Made
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August 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
'Tariffs threaten to hit antibiotics particularly hard. The drugs have very thin profit margins, they are vulnerable to shortages and U.S. production is very limited. Other widely used and vulnerable antibiotics include ciprofloxacin and doxycycline.'
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BREAKING: #SCOTUS, 5-4, allows admin to proceed with termination of NIH grants under Trump DEI/gender policies. But also 5-4 vote to leave in place ruling voiding the NIH memos enforcing the Trump policies. Roberts w/libs. Barrett swings. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
25A103 Order
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August 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
BREAKING: #SCOTUS, 5-4, allows admin to proceed with termination of NIH grants under Trump DEI/gender policies. But also 5-4 vote to leave in place ruling voiding the NIH memos enforcing the Trump policies. Roberts w/libs. Barrett swings. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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RFK Jr has claimed he’s increasing the number of scientists and front-line workers, BUT... ProPublica found that more than 1,050 scientists, physicians and public health specialists have left or been pushed out of the CDC since January.
Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
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August 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
RFK Jr has claimed he’s increasing the number of scientists and front-line workers, BUT... ProPublica found that more than 1,050 scientists, physicians and public health specialists have left or been pushed out of the CDC since January.
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Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.
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“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
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Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
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August 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
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The view inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: HIV workers describe chaos and low morale over canceled or stalled projects, as funding disappears or is delayed.
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Inside the CDC, Shooting Adds to Trauma as Workers Describe Projects, Careers in Limbo - KFF Health News
Fired-then-reinstated workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worry about the future of public health amid proposed agency downsizing.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The view inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: HIV workers describe chaos and low morale over canceled or stalled projects, as funding disappears or is delayed.
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Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m... via @statnews.com
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m... via @statnews.com
Gift article.. Quite arresting when the similarities are examined.
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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.
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August 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Gift article.. Quite arresting when the similarities are examined.
#science
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#science
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South Park Mr. Garrison Tells Immigrants To Go Back Home
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July 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
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What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
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‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
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July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
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These are part of the emergency rations used to save displaced people facing starvation. This is a horrific and cruel waste.
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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July 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
These are part of the emergency rations used to save displaced people facing starvation. This is a horrific and cruel waste.
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A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/a...
Study finds no evidence aluminum salts in vaccines are tied to higher risk of asthma, other childhood diseases
A new large study from Denmark finds no evidence that aluminum salts used in vaccines are tied to a higher risk of childhood diseases.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/a...
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AFD blog `Where Have All The Planners Gone?' #H5N1 #Pandemic #Preparedness afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/07/wher...
Where Have All The Planners Gone?
Credit WHO #18,792 While we are thankfully now in an interpandemic period there are plenty of obvious ( and not so obvious) zoonotic t...
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July 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
AFD blog `Where Have All The Planners Gone?' #H5N1 #Pandemic #Preparedness afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/07/wher...