Dr. Ricky

The CDC is lying to you about vaccines and autism The CDC webpage about vaccines and autism now misrepresents the science and lies to the public about vaccines and autism. It's just part of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s continuing war on vacc

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The Pig Is in the White House This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.

Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

You realize that most of the flavors you associate with pumpkin are the spices used to cover up the actual taste of pumpkin.

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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Pfizer's mRNA flu shot outperforms standard flu vaccine in late-stage trial The Phase 3 trial found Pfizer’s mRNA shot cut flu-like illness by 34.5% compared to a standard flu shot.

My comments with @nbcnews.com

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Think about the cooking skill it takes to overcook a chicken thigh to the point of chalkiness- and the chutzpah to still serve it

Pizza al pastor. It’s not terrible. But it didn’t need to exist in its current state. Ducky’s Jr Tavern.

ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.

Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
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Why does it always take an announcement from the secretary of HHS for these really trivial policies? It’s all performative stuff.

The House of Public Health Is On Fire We Must Stop Junior from Burning it Down

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Shortly after last year's presidential election results - I went around asking people younger that 30 - where were you? The stats indicated a low participation rate. The Mamdani results hopefully suggest (finally) engagement.

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

After weeks of delays and rider complaints, Metro restored signal priority to the popular Red Line light rail route in downtown Houston. bit.ly/4qLjCIC

We have arrived!
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Exclusive: The Trump administration dismantled the CDC’s peer review system. Staffers scrambled to salvage it. The CDC sends hundreds of millions of dollars to outside researchers each year. Would the Trump administration let that happen in 2025?

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"You've been selected to apply" is not quite as prestigious as you think it sounds.

Christmas decorations starting to fill shelves of local store.

It's heeeereee.....

Headline saying "US Public Health system is flying blind after major cuts". The Trump administration has laid off government workers integral to major public health surveys.

This week in "No shit, Sherlock".

I'm clearly an amateur when it comes to garage sales. People show up in trucks and an aggressive manner.

Oddly, I think most people’s nostalgic memory of the flavor of pumpkin are spices used to cover up the taste of actual pumpkin.

In rural America, scarce doctors battle misinformation as they practice medicine Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometim...

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Scene of rice-planting with Mount Fuji in the background. Woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, around 1800. CREDIT: The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

Genomic data from 456 local varieties of japonica rice show that many of its functional mutations originated in the Pleistocene, suggesting domestication and diversification may have been driven by preexisting variation. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/VaZE50Xh0zy

Poster that says LaFluFlu

I just found the virus version of Labubu

PRAYER FOR RELIEF Because there is no dispute as to Ms. Grijalva's election or qualifications, the Court should: A. Issue a declaratory judgment stating that Ms. Grijalva shall be deemed a Member of the House of Representatives once she has taken the oath prescribed by law, see 5 U.S.C. § 3331; B. Issue a declaratory judgment stating that if Speaker Johnson has not administered the oath, the oath may be administered to Ms. Grijalva by any person authorized by law to administer oaths under the law of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the State of Arizona; and C. Award other relief as the Court deems just and proper. Dated: October 21, 2025 Respectfully submitted, KRISTIN K. MAYES Attorney General for the State of Arizona By: /s/ Joshua D. Bendor Joshua D. Bendor D.D.C. Bar ID 031908 Solicitor General Joshua A. Katz Assistant Attorney General

NEW: The State of Arizona sues the House of Representatives, demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson seat Adelita Grijalva or that someone else be allowed to swear her in. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

More Than 100 Cases of Measles Reported in Utah and Arizona

More Than 100 Cases of Measles Reported in Utah and Arizona... red America is making their own people sick. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...

Hey, banks: "You've been pre-selected to apply" is not as prestigious as you think it sounds. It's actually kind of stupid.

At the #nokings protest in Houston. Perhaps the most interesting thing I witnessed was a serious disagreement between attendees on using lethal force on civilians. While tense, it was peaceful.

Vaccines cause adults not autism

Sign of the day…

Conversation at the #nokings protest in downtown Houston: "This year, I went to get my flu and covid-19 shots as an act of protest instead of routine. How did we get here?"