Felice Freyer

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How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law?
Not by truth, but rather by coordination.
Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control

Full clip of "Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control"

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Misinformation with a Motive: Whitehouse Reveals Trump's Plot to Wreck Social Security

youtu.be/AREEE-jX3cs #sheldonwhitehouse

May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥

@froomkin.bsky.social

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

Watch this, and note how many of these errors were brought to light by the hard work of mainstream reporters, and how “outcry” from you led to reversals. The First Amendment is still at work. Don’t give up! Truth telling and protest remain our best hope.

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“Coal in the US is now being economically outmatched by renewables to such an extent that it’s more expensive for 99% of the country’s coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an entirely new solar or wind energy operation nearby, a new analysis has found.”

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

Thank you.

As near as I can tell, RFK Jr’s plan to Make America Healthy Again is to simply stop collecting any information on health.

If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

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Prize-Winning Lessons on Explaining Government What the new book from Michael Lewis can remind us

Great essay by @dicktofel.bsky.social “Too often, we have left readers, listeners and viewers with the impression that government is riddled with corruption when corruption is actually the exception.” open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone.

infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...

Hmmm, was that second news alert a comment on the first?

This deserved a meme.

One of the reasons the GOP wins all the time is that they have a few very simple messages and they stick to them. They repeat them over and over. They don't say ANYTHING that might confuse their target audience. And they present a united front.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fellowships Improve your skills and connect with fellow health care journalists with AHCJ fellowships.

#journalists HJ25 is not only the best conference in journalism, it also offers financial support to help you get there. Today is the deadline to apply!

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Some people say that in response to every question. I always take it as an effort to disarm me with flattery. Works every time. 😊

Opinion | The Tell-All Book That Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Read The “free speech” champion Mark Zuckerberg tries to shut up a critic.

Hey everyone, the book that Facebook is trying to suppress is available from many booksellers. I just bought the audio version. Grab it while you can! Here’s a column about it: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...