Cadhla Firth

Breaking: HHS, Commerce, Probably Other Agencies Send Entire Staff Email Blaming Democrats for Shutdown Please forgive the multiple editions in one day — occasionally I'll send breaking news out such as this. On Tuesday afternoon, employees at the Department for Health and Human Services and the Depart...

My guess is this was coordinated across the entire executive branch, like a Hands Across the Hatch Act Violation event or something

All time classic!

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

Just a reminder that Charlie Kirk said the civil rights act was a mistake

In no way am I in a position to criticize the job Dr. Susan Monarez is doing at this hearing but WHY is it that neither her nor Dr Houry came prepared with numbers/data to support the Hep B or COVID vaccine schedules?? Countering Rand Paul's fake stats with 'it can' is not at all sufficient

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

Education is the enemy of fascism.

Have no fear, Republicans will bail you out at some point with a huge chunk of taxpayer money to pay you for not being able to sell your products because of their policies. Then you can post on social media that you’re voting for them because you are against socialism.

Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for
A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women
B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence.

It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The firing of Karen Attiah infuriates me. She has been a voice of reason on a Washington Post opinion staff that has steadily become an embarrassment to a free press, thanks to Trump-enabling oligarch owner Jeff Bezos.
This is what "media capture" looks like in a society descending into fascism.

It's pretty rare to read any positive news about science or LGBTQ+ issues these days, but this story made me smile anyway 😊

Great cause too, if you want to donate:
donate.misselasmo.org/event/drag-n...

“The story is this: masculinity is the default in American politics, and to this day, even when women have been at the top of two presidential tickets, masculinity to a large degree defines what kind of behavior, what kind of signifiers, are acceptable in top political candidates.”

What is the Fourth Amendment, Brett?

Crimes against women are no longer crimes (see also the Sean Combs verdict)

away from his job to a warehouse for further questioning. More fundamentally, it is the Government's burden to prove that it has reasonable suspicion to stop someone. The concurrence improperly shifts the burden onto an entire class of citizens to carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely. The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status.

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

NOEM v. VASQUEZ PERDOMO SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court’s order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

can't come up with words to describe how irresponsible and absurd this is.

Screenshot of graphic showing that the HPV vaccine has reduced cervical cancer incidence by 90%.

RFK Jr. went on Fox News today to claim that HHS has had “no successes” in the past 40 years.

I beg to differ.

Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.

Follow + HE bob_harris_uk 2d So, as a bloke, could a lady please explain the difference between a Left and Right Tampon? picture: two tampax tampons, one labeled with an 'L' and one with an 'R'

The L tampon supports your right to choose and comes with free healthcare while the R packet is actually empty because only whores use tampons to stem the bloody tears of a disappointed uterus, Bob. traciesearing: It's not left and right, champ. It's light and regular. But thanks for confirming why men shouldn't be in charge of reproductive health policy. thediaryofrihanna: Why are ppl roasting him? It's an honest question. You wear the L if your favorite Taylor Swift album is Lover and the R if its Reputation. ladypartsdoc: As an Ob/Gyn, I feel compelled to answer. It's basically a choose your own adventure situation, and choosing L or R depends on the type of period you want to have. L is for 'Lovely', you wake up feeling awesome, get lots of compliments, and everything goes your way. R is for 'Raging', you feel awful, and

I know it's different over there in the UK with your parliamentary system, but here in the USA, L is for Democrats and R is for psychopaths. scrappy: Totally tracks that a man could go his whole life and not realize we have two separate vaginas to attend to. brittle_14: pictured - a women's health summit from Trump's first term with the words "not a single woman was invited to the white house meeting on women's health

L = light flow which means you have 20 minutes or a hard sneeze before you completely underestimated what is actually going to happen and an underwear change is coming. R = Regular flow which means you have an hour, or a hard sneeze, before it's a bloodbath. There is also S for Super which simply means stay home cause you're just asking for trouble otherwise. voxoutthebox: One tampon always tells the truth. One tampon always lies. yvonnelorkinsta: Lefty loosey righty tighty alliewarshaw: As a vagina owner I appreciate you asking instead of trying to tell me why they're left and right.

social media gold

“We’re gonna unleash our American warriors to the EXTREME-“

<pulls out can of Mountain Dew Baja Blast>

“-ULTRAMAX-“

<dumps soda out, pours in a handle of bourbon, immediately chugs it>

“-GNARLIEST BROS TO EVER BRO-DOWN A GAUNTLET-“

<pukes, sends training regimens to unsecured Signal chat>

So I'm just your basic Canadian, but when hockey players get hit in the ear with a hockey puck, there is very obvious damage that persists for a long period of time. And yet, Trump gets hit with a military-grade bullet but apparently it leaves hardly a mark that vanishes almost immediately 🤷‍♀️

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

I really feel this too 💔

Yes! Your point about how it is always on the woman to have the backbone/dedication/resilience/etc. to persist in science despite immense personal cost really resonates and part of why I always struggle when younger women ask me for advice on if they should pursue an academic career.

Emerging disease research has this exact problem, both in terms of who is allowed to participate and who the media platforms as worthy of attention. Many of the men I was a student or postdoc with are now in good faculty jobs, and yet the women I spent that time are somehow absent. How strange...

As a woman in a field historically dominated by “straight shooter” male divas who were also…very sexist, I’ll admit I *really* enjoy being just as unapologetically demanding & no-bullshit about my right to contribute to my field without having to waste time and effort dealing with sexist bullshit!

Dan Jernigan worked at CDC from 1994 until yesterday – at the farewell gathering today, he said, “I’ve worked here for 30 years, and recognize some of you who’ve been here with me that whole time.” An outbreak response pro.

David Geier & his dad? Chemically castrated autistic children with Luprone.