Carole Tarrant

The Vaccine Integrity Project’s new Executive Summary on COVID, RSV, & flu vax pulls together findings from 509 published studies to show where we stand for the 2025–26 season.

Highlights & interactive data tool: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

Full manuscript: bit.ly/42MMMNu

Many thanks to all of the dedicated public health professionals who pulled this together!

YouTube video by CIDRAP Vaccine Integrity Project - Response to HHS claims about vaccines (Oct 2025)

A recent HHS video is filled with selective data and misleading claims about vaccines.

Dr. Michael Osterholm of @CIDRAP breaks down how – and why - it misleads.

🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/Lh5hP6zcVrs

Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too

help, how do I unlearn the term “pawtism”

(if you don’t plan to vaccinate or properly care for your pets, you shouldn’t have any)

A Writer Who Did What Hillbilly Elegy Wouldn’t In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her Donald Trump–voting hometown to find out how America got so divided.

In her new book, Beth Macy tries to understand America’s growing fissures by returning to her Donald Trump–voting Ohio hometown and talking with residents—those who agree with her and, more important, those who don’t, writes Alex Kotlowitz:

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘People don’t know what’s happening in their own backyard’: Author Beth Macy on rural radicalization

Author Beth Macy on rural radicalization

Author Beth Macy joins @chrislhayes.bsky.social to discuss how Urbana has changed from the time she grew up there.

Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview:

1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n

And in related news. . .Americans have no idea what is going on anymore.

"Platner, in other words, comes off as a flawed, complicated, and sometimes contradictory human being whose political views don’t always fit neatly into a box."

I'm not sure why the @newyorker.com reviewer called @bethmacy.bsky.social "a surprisingly empathetic narrator." No surprise there. Empathy has been the key to Beth being Beth!
But, I agree, "Paper Girl" is a "cogent and thrilling story."

Consider yourselves warned. No SNAP, colder weather. Not any kind of holiday season ahead.

The Democratic Party needs to get over itself these candidate purity tests. They hold people to pre-Trump standards and then wonder why they can’t win with weak (but “clean”) candidates.

“How the federal government seized an independent nonprofit’s privately owned building is very much in the public interest.”
Heck, yes!

“Sonny boy, you are midgrade.”

Next they will be rounding up the guys in Times Square dressed as the Statue of Liberty and Mickey Mouse.

I was robbed! Only got $1.97 because Soros factored in cost of living in SWVA.

Thank you.

Virginia’s GDP growth drops from 6.2% to 1.7%. Three new economic reports issue warnings about why and what comes next. The reports also suggest the state may be losing high-wage jobs but gaining lower-wage jobs.

Whoever wins the Virginia gubernatorial race will have a turdburger of an economy to deal with. cardinalnews.org/2025/10/21/v...

Correction, a walking penis was arrested in Fairhope, AL.

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog

ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

Anyone smear their feces on the Capitol walls today?

Beat up any cops with flag poles? Use mace or bear spray on them?

At least tell me someone constructed makeshift gallows and threatened to hang the vice president?

No?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

Y’all suck at political discourse.

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

My new one today

Tracks.

Sign saying I was going to be a Trump voter for Halloween but my head wouldn’t fit up my ass!

Protest sign that says jd vance puts his cast iron skillet in the microwave

a man in a black coat is smiling and holding a key and the word newman is on the bottom of the picture ALT: a man in a black coat is smiling and holding a key and the word newman is on the bottom of the picture

Soros! 😜😅😅😅