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RFK Jr.’s advisers had a plan to target covid shots. Then it fell apart. Some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel have publicly questioned the safety and manufacturing of the shots, including raising a debunked theory that DNA contaminants in the vaccines are harmf...

“A key federal vaccine advisory panel has abandoned an attack on the covid-19 mRNA vaccines — a shift that comes as some Republicans warn that any more changes to vaccine policy could damage the party in the midterms”.

Progress. This is why it’s critical to keep defending public health.

ICE’s investigative arm is now probing Arizona’s elections Arizona's AG said the probe was "based on nothing but conspiracy theories and lies."

🚨BREAKING: As the Trump administration moves to relitigate past elections, the investigative branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is probing Arizona’s 2020 election results, Arizona’s attorney general Kris Mayes told Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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It’s worth pointing out that none of the scientists who have studied this important question have been invited to give a talk at the NIH on the topic.

I’m sure any of those scientists would welcome the opportunity to present their scholarly work, conducted over the last six years, at the NIH.

Ridley edited his book to hide contradictory evidence. Bhattacharya is celebrating research misconduct.

Pictured edits after:
1. Both SARS2 lineages were at market
2. WIV no longer uniquely associated with closest relative
3. Ridley's co-author considering making the 2nd edition "less scientific"

Our understanding of the origin of COVID-19, while still incomplete, is one of the most well-supported scientific theories of any pandemic.

When it comes to “Scientific Freedom”, it must be based in science and evidence - this is the opposite, platforming pseudoscience instead.

Marty Delaney wrote a detailed letter to @nationalacademies.org in the 90s explaining why Duesberg should be ejected. Nathan Geffen wrote to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social after Duesberg's exploits in SA. Both institutions chose to tolerate AIDS denialist misinformation and intellectual dishonesty.

The @nationalacademies.org Peter Duesberg bio at the end of 2021, before Marcia McNutt responded to a complaint by removing the last para.

"Epidemiology proves American and European AIDS to be incompatible with infectious disease"
web.archive.org/web/20211216...

Peter H. Duesberg – NAS

Bio still on the @nationalacademies.org website. Additional paragraphs describing his false claims about HIV as if they had some basis in reality were only removed a few years ago. www.nasonline.org/directory-en...

Of note, the lying AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg still had tenure at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and was a member in good standing of @nationalacademies.org when he died. This study estimates the loss of life he contributed to in South Africa in the early 00s journals.lww.com/jaids/abstra...

Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already The scientific community must take up cudgels in the battle against bunk.

Health misinformation does great harm.

Decades of tolerating – explicitly or implicitly – pseudoscience (eg, alt med BS) played a big role in the rise of bunk.

Medical schools, professional orgs, etc, must speak up!

Wrote this in April 2020. Alas, MORE relevant now www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Review @sigtrans-sttt.bsky.social
Cytotoxic CD4+ T cells: origin, biological functions, diseases and therapeutic targets
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High-dose influenza vaccine augments serological and cellular immunity of older people with HIV @insight.jci.org
insight.jci.org/articles/vie... @univmiami.bsky.social

Home - Not in our name Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

More than 91,900 women have already signed to say that trans exclusion is not in our name.

We’re now aiming for 100,000 signatures, and it would be incredible to reach that mark by tonight with the help of everyone at the Trans Mission Live concert and everyone following along from home.

Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy

EXCLUSIVE: @standupforscience.bsky.social sent an investigator to Guinea-Bissau and shared their unpublished findings with members of Congress. I obtained a copy of that report, which details how deeply the researchers are enmeshed - and what that means for US:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Dynamic Antigen Expression and Intrinsic CTL Resistance in HIV Reservoir Clones https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.22.707300v1

Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? — Assigned An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.

The New York Times coverage of trans issues has repeatedly resulted in experts and others complaining that their words were twisted and misrepresented... but only those quoted from on trans supportive side have that complaint.

Coincidence or eliminationism? @billiejsweeney.bsky.social dives in.

WHO verifies 18 attacks on healthcare services in Iran & 25 in Lebanon - a violation of intnl law. WHO warns of deteriorating public health conditions, unsafe water, poor sanitation.

In Iran, fires & smoke from bombings are putting dangerous toxins into the air. www.emro.who.int/media/news/c...

Placing a crown jewel in the hands of ideologues and grifters.

RFK Jr.'s MAHA Allies Call to Eliminate All Childhood Vaccine Recommendations Inside the MAHA movement’s Washington meetup.

This is RFK, Jr.'s MAHA Institute's recent meeting in D.C.

Slide presentation titles:
“The Polio Fraud” and “The flu shot has given 1,900,000 Americans Alzheimer’s,” and “VACCINES ARE GREATEST SCAM IN MEDICAL HISTORY.” (capitals, theirs)

www.notus.org/health-scien...

Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...

Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office describe working in a “dismissal factory.”

Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show.

(Published Dec. 2025)

Show up and show out. Keep asking Republicans about lawless ICE agents and Trump's plans for concentration-camp warehouses. Make them own the policies that they were so eager to impose and which have done (and continue to do) so much harm.

As of today, 30 states, including DC, have announced that they are no longer going to follow CDC's recommendations for some or all childhood vaccines.
www.kff.org/other-health...

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Trump just rolled out a cruel anti-trans prison policy doctors are calling ‘dangerous’ A new Bureau of Prisons move requiring that transgender inmates be tapered off their hormones could bring serious health consequences, physicians and advocates warn.

NEWS: The Trump administration is forcing transgender inmates to detransition by implementing a new policy that would withhold their medical treatment in a way that puts clinicians in conflict with ethics and patients in danger.

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Progression risk in cancer patients with #HIV compared to cancer patients without HIV academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... (open access) @cidjournal.bsky.social

Specific Deficiency of Naïve CD4+ T Lymphocytes Characterizes Heart Failure and Heightens Mortality Risk in the HRS | Journal of the American Heart Association

Specific Deficiency of Naïve CD4+ T Lymphocytes Characterizes Heart Failure and Heightens Mortality Risk in the HRS www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... @americanheart.bsky.social

If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.

Request For Proposal: Sub-grants to generate and leverage CLM data to strengthen advocacy for near-term HIV prevention policy and financing allocations under the Community Monitoring & Engagement for ... ITPC seeks to engage three civil society organizations (CSOs) or HIV-focused NGOs as sub-grantees to provide high-level technical, analytical, and facilitation support for implementation across Malawi...

ITPC seeks to engage 3 civil society organizations (CSOs) or HIV-focused NGOs as sub-grantees to provide high-level technical, analytical & facilitation support for implementation across Malawi, South Africa & Zimbabwe.

itpcglobal.org/workwithus/r...