Ceci Smith

Surgeon general nominee Means questioned about vaccines, birth control and financial conflicts During a confirmation hearing, senators asked Dr. Casey Means about her current positions and her past statements on a range of public health issues.

www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

Americans trust vaccines, school mandates, rejecting Trump agenda, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Public health experts have said weakening school vaccine mandates would result in more children being sickened by preventable diseases.

A bipartisan majority of Americans believe that vaccines are safe and that children should receive them to be allowed to attend school.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

Please do this - this woman should not be surgeon general.

We all see what the state of public health is in this country after one year of this administration and she will only add to the antiscience and misinformation we continue to see spread harming the health of am Americans.

Millions of Americans Don’t Have Documents Proving Their Citizenship Readily Available Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process.

The SAVE Act requires documents like a passport or a birth certificate to vote. Our research shows that 21 million American citizens don't have these documents readily available. #SOTU www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Probably fine

What a wonderful time to have a senile sociopath as president and a talk show drunk as defense secretary.

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Why?

There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

Why do you guys keep acting like the previous presidential term of endless instability including botching the response to a pandemic never happened?

All the "Trump's SOTU offers a chance for a reset" pieces are trying to lay the groundwork for a "THE COMEBACK KID?!" narrative later on if his approval rating ticks back up to 41%

Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’

“People don’t really see the daily side of living with a vaccine-preventable disease. With polio, you’re never going to fix us, and that’s the problem. The only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is quite possibly the dumbest — and most dangerous — idea ever. Grok is unreliable and frequently manipulated by Elon based on whatever bender he’s on.

Will this version of Grok be air-gapped from the public version? Will they share knowledge repositories?

What a shitshow.

Stop trying to make like there's some kind of grand strategy or secret plan at work. It's not that. Truly. It's the simplest thing you can possibly imagine.

Don't think "four-dimensional chess"

Think "toddler + cheerios"

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b...

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

Boycott the State of the Union Trump doesn’t deserve our attention

I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-fate-of-the-dis-union

Speaker Don Scott: "As required by Virginia law, today I have called for a Special Election to fill the vacancy in Virginia’s 98th House District following the passing of Delegate Barry Knight. The election will be held on March 17, 2026."

Screenshot of: "§ 24.2-216. Filling vacancies in the General Assembly." https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title24.2/chapter2/section24.2-216/

Seems fast, but according to Virginia Code (see screenshot, below), it looks like the special election has to be held "no more than 30 days from the date of such vacancy" if the vacancy occurs "between December 10 and March 1" bluevirginia.us/2026/02/satu... h/t @90For90 @SpeakerDonScott

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025.

Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

10% yesterday.

15% today.

As Gorsuch wrote, could be “1 percent or 1,000,000 percent .. and he may change his mind at any time for nearly any reason.” 🤡

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Ok when is this happening?

A historic showdown: 300 million Indian workers paralyzed the nation in the largest strike ever, defying Modi's assault on labor rights. Yet Western media's quiet coverage reeks of complicity with billionaire fears. Claudia Webbe nails it: this is the future the elite dreads most. #BharatBandh

Oh good can’t wait for somebody to try and explain this movie to me for forty five minutes

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Republicans telling women to have more babies feels like coyotes urging hens to have more chickens.

Yes, it won't happen, but the only conclusion from Trump's immediate shift to violating other laws to impose tariffs highlights the category error of new laws or court rulings to stop the rampant authoritarianism.

There is only one solution. We should stop pretending:

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Democrats can now credibly call for the repeal of the Trump tax cuts and the clawing back of the additional ICE funding as a way of offsetting the revenue loss from the ending of the illegal tariffs.

Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee."

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.

Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

I want this attitude for all women. Bring all the joy — that’s what I’m fucking talking about.