John Meszaros

Bernie Rally of 2,300 Boosts Wheeling, West Virginia Youth-Led Movement Following the pandemic, many college-educated young people have been returning to Wheeling, which has invested in revitalizing its downtown and waterfront to make it attractive. It's helped rebuild th...

Bernie brings out the masses in West Virginia paydayreport.com/bernie-rally...

Yes, and my book explains precisely how to do it. The time for serious discussions about vital reform is right now. It's time to take the dire threat confronting our democracy as if our and our children's futures depend on it. Because they do.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/o...

The cover of Bayesian Data Analysis book

The cover of Regression and Other Stories book

The cover of Active Statistics book

All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use:

- #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/

- #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/

- Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...

698 days!! The days keep adding up and still no interest. MELIA doesn't understand why. Many shares,many of her friends are getting adopted. When will it be her turn??? Adoption@hempsteadny.gov E: Rescue@hempsteadny.gov E: Foster@hempsteadny.gov T: 516.785.5220

Hello? Anyone there? It's day 698 for MELIA at the shelter. Still no interest. 😭 Adoption fees are waived for august. Only 3 yrs old, playful, looking for a calm, peaceful home, can be with cats. Come on 🙏
➡️Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
➡️ 516.785.5220 #cat #dog #bluesky #trending #news #newyork #adopt

YouTube video by ACC NYC Sunflower 232965

She’s counting on a human to save her
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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency. Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.

By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

Per ProPublica, RFK Jr and Russell Vought have gone out of their way to demonize the CDC and federal workforce.

Vought, on video: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.” Also, he expressed his desire that they be “increasingly viewed as the villains.”

Again, stochastic terrorism.

I developed mRNA vaccines. RFK Jr is endangering US public health Katalin Karikó says the health secretary’s decision to pull research funding for the technology is akin to ‘dropping a bomb on the US’

Not just endangering US public health but global health

www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Mitigating the productivity damage from Covid-19: the case for improved ventilation standards I wrote this for the Cleaner Air Collective, who used it as an input to their submission to the Productivity Roundtable

this is a very obvious thing that we should be doing in all workplaces and schools
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Mitigating the productivity damage from Covid-19: the case for improved ventilation standards
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Amtrak Virginia ridership increased exponentially this year. But is future growth in jeopardy? • Virginia Mercury he rail system keeps gaining riders and seeks to expand their reach to other areas in the commonwealth amid federal mass layoffs and budget cuts.

Amtrak Virginia ridership increased exponentially this year. But is future growth in jeopardy? virginiamercury.com/2025/08/08/a...

There have been five different heads of the IRS this year alone:

Doug O'Donnell (Jan. 20th thru Feb. 28th)
Melanie Krause (Feb. 28th thru April 16th)
Gary Shapley (April 16th thru April 18th)
Michael Faulkender (April 18th thru June 16th)
Billy Long (June 16th thru today)

About to be a sixth.

Rosie just got her death sentence. Her sin? She jumps around too much so they judge her worthless. Volunteer disagrees “we adore this playful energetic & loving queen. She will make you laugh every day & take you birdwatching.”

Top-rated for behavior.

Please repost to find a foster🙏
#dogsofbluesky

FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.

With deep job cuts at the FDA, inspectors say the ongoing strain could compromise policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries.

“Things will be missed, we are going to have a lot less safe drugs,” a former inspector said.

Finally an accurate statement from a chatbot

Vacancy rate for #BLS top leaders=33%.

--35 top positions
--11 positions are vacant www.bls.gov/bls/senior_s...

Including the Commissioner adds 1 to both counts.
Vacancy rate=12/36

BLS soldiers on, despite early retirements, deferred resignations, and the hiring freeze.

#econsky #economy

The Defense Secretary is proud of people who committed treason against the United States so as to maintain a race based slave system.

If anyone in the US wants to object to RFK vaccine funding cuts the details are below. Given the rising incidence of long covid in children this is extremely foolish and also the potential for other advances in health from mRNA. Thank you to @airshipwriter.bsky.social

Most of the totally silly & laughable comments about the world today come from the old people who had the peak of their mental and ideological happiness at the end of the 20th century. Like the elderly people who (risibly) show you

Post from Cassidy on Twitter that says It is unfortunate that the Secretary just canceled a half a billion worth of work, wasting the money which is already invested. He has also conceded to China an important technology needed to combat cancer and infectious disease. President Trump wants to Make America Healthy Again and Make America Great Again. This works against both of President Trump's goals. forbes.com/sites/siladity...

Bill Cassidy (R, Invertebrate) has a case of the sads about a well-known anti-vaxxer, science denier, and fraud whom Bill Cassidy voted to confirm as HHS Secretary.

It’s not “unfortunate”, Bill Cassidy, it’s catastrophic, and it’s on you.

Cassidy can’t even bring himself to say Kennedy’s name.

They’re going to kill Ziggy! He’s just 2, afraid in the shelter but once outside his cage his social cuddly side comes through. He’s a great explorer on walks, reluctant to return.

This young guy needs a foster, someone to love, a home not a cage.

Please repost to find a foster🙏
#dogsofbluesky

pnhp.org/financing-a-... Financing a single-payer national health program - PNHP

The WSJ Editorial Board has just published an absolutely *brutal* takedown of RFK Jr.’s desire to end the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

“…about to dismantle a rare oasis of legal sanity.”

“Therein lies the real goal of Mr. Kennedy’s “fixes”: Enriching the personal-injury bar.”

@alastairmca30.bsky.social
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr.
www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Project 2025 architect Russell Vought?

Reach out to @andykroll.bsky.social on Signal at (202) 215-6203.

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At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:

Removed COVID vaccine recommendations

Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee

Replaced scientists with antivaxxers

Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research

Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

10 facts to know about Robert Roberson on Texas Death Row Mr. Roberson is at risk of execution, despite new evidence that he is an innocent man wrongly convicted under the now-debunked shaken baby syndrome hypothesis.

🚨This is urgent: Robert Roberson is scheduled to be executed on Oct. 16 in Texas for a crime that never even happened. But there's still time to stop this irreversible injustice. Read about his story and learn how to help: innocenceproject.org/news/what-to...

What Kindergarten Vaccine Data and Wastewater Tell Us; Contagious Illnesses Update || S6E23 YouTube video by Roots Community Health

In this week's People's Health Briefing, Dr. Aboelata gives an update on contagious illnesses, new data on kindergarten vaccines and exemptions, and what COVID in water tells about sick days: www.youtube.com/live/dUaHJ2i...

In firing government statisticians and ordering Texas Republicans to redraw maps so he wins 5 new red seats, Donald Trump shows that loyalty to him is now the only thing that matters. The full MAGA-fication of the GOP is complete. Democracy is dying www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-make...

Featured in the latest Digest: Energy Access and Industrial Specialization

https://www.nber.org/digest/202508/energy-access-and-industrial-specialization

Increasing numbers of Americans are stuck in unemployment for more than half a year, due to slowed hiring
#KnownFromBLS
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...