Paul DeChant, MD, MBA

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing.

“I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "A rightwing blogger, who has credentials at the WH, came to an area where some of the legislators are staying and started reporting online about it. He then put up a map and put a pin on the map and said, 'This is where these Texas legislators are.' So that started this."

“Are you abandoning your jobs?”

🔥 🔥 TEXAS DEM REP. ANN JOHNSON: “Yeah no — abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze…”

A+ answer from Rep. Johnson here. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social

We've faced threats to our leadership out of
financial stability and even bomb threats undermining our safety.

Representative Ann Johnson from Houston, Texas.

The books arrived!

The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social

Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has called off nearly $500 million in grants and contracts aimed at advancing mRNA vaccine development. This technology, first deployed during the Covid19 pandemic, allows vaccines to be produced rapidly and adapted as viruses evolve. His brain worms are getting worse!

Donald Trump is acting as a DICTATOR. Every U.S. citizen who doesn't give a tinkers damn what the GOP or Trump think...should be making this part of their every day posting.

Repetition is powerful. It works. Trump has used it as a tool to destroy democracy.
We should be using it to fight fascism.

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

Folks, I assure you the GOP has more than redistricting up their sleeves to control the 2026 election, if they even allow us to have one.

It’s time for Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker to launch investigations into the 2024 election, and get us forensic data on what really happened.

Dear Dems:

Are you paying attention? Are you seeing the uptick in activity & energy because someone is FINALLY fighting back??

TAKE NOTES! We want to fight with you not in lieu of you.

You want campaign donations? FIGHT!

You want volunteers? FIGHT!

You want young people to show enthusiasm?

More of this, please.

Watch Duty showing the current heat maps and estimated acreage of the Gifford Fire along CA 166 east of Santa Maria.

ADS-B map of the aerial attack on the Gifford Fire. Both Paso Robles and Santa Maria airport fire bases are reloading tankers.

GOES (satellite) image of the RGB imaging of the Gifford Fire along the Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo County line.

GOES (satellite) image of the Shortwave IR band (3.9 micrometer wavelength) of the Gifford Fire along the Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo County line shown as dark black dot.

Here we go again. Gifford Fire, 818 acres at 3:50 p.m., over 5000 acres estimated by air attack about 6:10 p.m.

Hope that Madre Fire scar comes into play soon, this has the potential to move into the San Rafael Wilderness if it skirts that.

CalFire flying out of PRB, LATs and VLATs out of SMX.

Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?

Stelter: I also think the rise of MeidasTouch this year, which has been noticed by many Democratic politicians—figures like Gavin Newsom—it also speaks to the energy in the country.

Let them eat cake.

Let’s be clear.

Samuel L Jackson said this Two
Years ago........

Olympic level cognitive dissonance.

Friends,

May we never forget that while negotiations,speeches,statements, addresses&the rest of the diplomacy track are happening,exhausted Ukrainian men&women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines

United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero -

Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.

Good on her 🔥

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We Are Not the Generation That Lets This Die After 250 years of sacrifice, we won’t let apathy be our legacy.

Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask.

I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.