Sophia Spadafore

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article) Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.

A must-read, must-share piece - clearly deconstructing the shoddy science of the Geiers (who are inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS).

Consider this an early warning for what lies ahead. 🛟🩺🧪

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This is an outright lie from a high government official, and the consequence of it is that many people will die and suffer a terrible diseases that might’ve been prevented.

I hate that anti-abortionists have stolen the term "pro-life". Screw that, I'M pro-life! I'm pro affordable healthcare, medical research and vaccines. I'm pro food stamps, school lunches, and child tax credits. I'm pro foreign aid so millions of children don't die of malaria and TB. That's pro-life!

Medicaid Cuts Will Be a Disaster for ERs Many Americans get much of their health care from ERs. Defunding this service will bring financial and human ruin.

"As an ER doctor in New York City, I am terrified about the coming cuts."

As @sspadafore.bsky.social explains, the coming Medicaid cuts will be disastrous for ERs. Anyone who might ever need emergency care (i.e., all of us) should be worried, too. [gift link]
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING WSJ:

The DOJ told Trump in May that his name is IN the Epstein Files.

When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered Trump’s name appeared multiple times.

Instead of just releasing the Epstein investigative files:

Trump’s DOJ reached out to Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, for help.

Republicans shut down the House of Representatives early, with recess until Sept.

Trump and his ODNI accused Obama of treason as an attempted distraction.

So just to be clear - the “protect the kids” party is now shutting the government down to protect sexual predators? Do we have this right?

Let that sink in for a sec.

Thank to The Atlantic for letting me write this piece. We need a better healthcare system, one that doesn’t leave anyone behind.

History will not look at any of us kindly for going about our lives while people are treated like this in our country.

When people lie this badly it is so easy to just be like “wow, tell me how one of the people you know died from a vaccine,” bc it’s obviously a lie & he won’t be able to answer bc it’s a lie. I’m not sure why nobody does that to these people? The tiniest amount of pushback would make them fall apart

Works for me! 👍

Even I am starting to wonder what is in these Epstein files…

Opinion | It's 'Code Red' for Medicaid It's too late to stop the 'Big Beautiful Bill' but it's not too late to continue the fight

Our op-ed is out on @medpagetoday.bsky.social "We Called Code Red On Medicaid Cuts" we explain how these cuts will hurt patients and what physicians and healthcare workers can do next. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... @gfriedman.bsky.social @haribuddy.bsky.social #SaveMedicaid #ThisBillKills

The majority of Japanese-Americans interned during WWII were American citizens.

Our government ignored their civil rights.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

They were so censored and silenced they wound up in charge. They were the true victims of the pandemic. They didn’t get enough attention.

Are scientists more free to speak with them in charge?

Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know

Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

We will not stay silent on vaccines, say leaders of five major U.S. medical associations “We cannot and will not gamble with our patients’ health or the health of our communities,” write the presidents of the AAFP, AAP, ACP, ACOG, and IDSA.

“Immunizations work, they are very effective and safe, and they save lives. Vaccines are among the most rigorously studied and effective tools in public health.”

Kudos to AAFP, AAP, ACOG, ACP, IDSA for this.

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How long will you wait for Social Security help? Why it's anybody's guess. The Social Security Administration is providing less information about caller wait times. Critics complain it's misleading the public.

Donald Trump's Social Security Admin is LYING to the American people.

They said call wait times are down to minutes. Well, I investigated and found people are waiting HOURS for help — and that's if they get help at all.

They need to stop the cover up and fix this giant failure.

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

I hate it here.

UPDATE: “The man who impersonated ICE to intimidate the employees of a Philly auto repair center — and steal about $1,000 — will face numerous felony and misdemeanor charges…”: www.phillyvoice.com/philly-robbe...

Fake ICE agents were inevitable. How can cities be proactive about this?

We can’t get people insulin. We can’t get people vaccines. We can’t get people a primary care doctor visit. We can’t get people basic, necessary care but we can get everyone expensive gadgets that have never been shown to improve health? This man has lost the plot so deeply.

Are we seriously doing this “weapons of mass destruction” thing again?? The US struck a sovereign nation first, this is entirely unacceptable. This is wrong. People must be held accountable.

“Just leave the country” is not an option for most disabled people.

Many countries won’t accept high cost health users.

Many have income and savings requirements before they will even consider you.

Leaving is in many ways, a privilege.

Fight for those who have to stay behind.

A vaccine vial sits behind a crosshair. A headline from The Verge reads "RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines"

Last November, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that, as secretary of health and human services, he would not “take away anybody’s vaccines.” If you believed him, you were duped.

Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/68850...

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

He doesn’t even know these people’s credentials. He just knows they’re antivaxxers like him.