Aaron Striegel

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 5: VAERS and a useful idiot at the FDA In the sadly continuing story of how Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. is working to eliminate vaccines, we look at a useful idiot, Dr. Vinay Prasad, and how he is weaponizing dead children

In the continuing story of HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s efforts to eliminate vaccines, we look at one of his useful idiots, CBER Director Dr. Vinay Prasad, and his email laying out how FDA will weaponize dead children to justify making vaccines harder to approve. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...

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Jennifer Jacobs on X: "Highlights from NEWSY gaggle on AF1 on our flight to Florida on Friday night: Trump told us on EPSTEIN: -"I know nothing about that," he said when asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump knew about the girls. "Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years." https://t.co/zRpNTrgkLy" / X Highlights from NEWSY gaggle on AF1 on our flight to Florida on Friday night: Trump told us on EPSTEIN: -"I know nothing about that," he said when asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump knew about the girls. "Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years." https://t.co/zRpNTrgkLy

"'Quiet, quiet, piggy,' Trump told a Bloomberg reporter who asked why, if there's nothing incriminating in the files, he's acting like there is." x.com/JenniferJJac...

Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web

An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.

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Reaction to the FDA Announcement on MHT Removing the Black Box Warning was Served with a Side of Serious Misinformation

My thoughts on the FDA announcement today about MHT vajenda.substack.com/p/reaction-t...

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Re: America, Dark Helmet said it best:

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?

Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Hmm, yeah, depositions tend to up the stress a bit

Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late...

Josh is very correct on this. To borrow from a pandemic era show, Zap It, Zap It, Make It Happen.

Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out Time for some “life lessons.”…

The mashup of all of the apologies is pretty stark.

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

This is the way.

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime.

It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances.

We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.

You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?

THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

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I’m not usually at a loss for words, but being reposted by @hcrichardson.bsky.social has left me speechless… 💙

Front of the White House with workers installing enormous gold letters spelling “TRUMP” on top of the White House. The final “P” is shown being lifted into place by a large construction crane. In front of the White House, flanking the fountain, are two exaggerated, shiny golden statues.

At this point, nothing is stopping him from doing this.

craig’s newsletter is a daily must-read for me but I found this last bit on ai slop particularly resonant.

Our team presented five papers at the CSCW (computer supported cooperative work and social computing) conference this week in Bergen, Norway. (CSCW is an ACM conference and a “home conference” for my team.) I’m going to share a few highlights in a thread here.

> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

good essay. sad times

Kavanaugh stop

Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful.
From @gelliottmorris.com

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Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

I’m not saying they’re Nazis. I’m saying being a Nazi isn’t a deal-breaker for them. I’m saying at a minimum they’re Good Germans.

Number of wars ended by Donald Trump:

In 2025, we are losing our measles-free status, just 25 years after we eliminated measles from the US because of vaccines.

It’s not because our sanitation systems have been eliminated.

It’s because people aren’t getting vaccinated.

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