Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move?

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."

this doesn't look like a normal distribution

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.

I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

KAINE: Were you instructed by the secretary of HHS to not speak to senators?

MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators

KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators

Max standing with hair in his eyes

He needs a haircut

How did Dr. Monarez go from being “a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials” who had the “full confidence” of Secretary Kennedy into being a “liar” and “untrustworthy” in less than a month?

She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.

a photo of a small white pup named Presley, sitting on a counter with a blue and black leash wrapped around her neck. she is looking off into the distance.

a photo of a human holding up Presley revealing a large mass on her abdomen.

a photo of Presley standing in a car with the same clear cone around her neck. There is a faux grass surface placed beneath her.

a zoomed in photo of Presley with her tongue stretched out to her snout. a small cup filled with whipped cream is positioned gently in front of her.

This is Presley. At 12 years old, she was found as a stray with a huge mass on her stomach. On Friday, our email community raised the money to completely cover her surgery to remove it and post-op care. We're told the pup cup afterwards ALMOST makes up for her shaved butt ❤️‍🩹

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists 

But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

We need a term for when you are more than burned out like "perma-goo brain"or "charred husk of a person".

the party of free speech is threatening to call my boss over this tweet gosh i hope i don’t get fired Quote Molly White @molly0xFFF · Sep 13 > the shooter is trans > ok the bullets were trans > ok the roommate is trans

this joke broke containment and now i have a bunch of right-wingers gleefully informing me they've already called my boss and celebrating my firing

weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.

this story has haunted me for months

REPORTER: Do you think Maduro is not telling the truth when he said it's a fisherman's boat?

TRUMP: Oh, give me a break. You could see it. You saw the bags of white everything, right through the bags. It's nonsense.

The Abject Failure of Corporate Media in the Wake of Charlie Kirk I've been steeped in the news media for nearly 8 years and I've never seen more retractions than I have this week.

NEW: I've never seen as many retractions as I have this week, and that speaks volumes about the degradation of corporate media. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-abject...

Y’all are cutting HBCU funding, dismantling civil rights offices, slashing Medicaid and SNAP, over-policing Black communities—yet want us to believe you’re helping poor Black people?

BREAKING: The Washington Post has FIRED its last full-time Black opinion columnist for criticizing Charlie Kirk…by posting HIS OWN STATEMENTS. After Kirk's assassination, Karen Attiah, an eleven-year veteran of the Post, wrote a thread on Bluesky condemning political violence

I hate when I’m forced to agree with him. bsky.app/profile/patr...

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

Nancy Mace plays the victim card on CNN: "It's very one-sided right now. I have never called one of my colleagues the kind of names that we've been called. I've never dehumanized my colleagues."


(Would've been nice for Kate Bolduan to push back on Mace's blatant lies.)

before we even know the identity of Charlie Kirk's shooter, Joni Ernst blames "the left" for "silencing voices through violence"

Morning light,gentle hearts,endless horizons

Morning light,gentle hearts,endless horizons

Today, we mourn the memory of those we lost on September 11, 2001.

We also come together to honor the brave heroes, like our first responders, who risked their lives that tragic day to save countless others. Their sacrifice can never be repaid.

We will never forget.