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"Trump called for the CSB’s closure during his first term but settled for leaving many investigator and agency leadership positions unfilled."

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

Vaccines for HIV, Lyme disease and some cancers are right on the horizon. Were.

The headlines are just getting worse and worse and worse.

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

When people asked early in the administration how we could lose access to vaccines -pediatricians were most worried about the dissolution of the ACIP.

This is very, very bad news.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Deploying Marines to LA isn’t normal. It’s a gross abuse of power similar to what we see from dictators around the world, setting the stage for martial law or full-on authoritarianism.

This is absolutely outrageous and has already been confirmed by a federal judge to violate a previous order that he issued.

Sitting back and saying "phew, we stopped that" isn't nearly enough. We need an immediate and aggressive investigation into the what the hell is going on and on whose orders.

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📊 Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics
The team predicting measles spread? Gone. Disease forecasting—essential post-COVID—is now a luxury. Can't say we didn’t learn. We did. And then forgot.

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

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In just 100 days, over a dozen CDC health-tracking programs were cut. This isn't just "streamlining."

Either RFK Jr. doesn't grasp public health—or he does and prefers we stay uninformed.

Without tracking disease, inequality, or danger, we can pretend they don't exist.

🧵 Let's delve into it:

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📉 Pregnancy & Maternal Health
PRAMS—our best tool for tracking maternal health—is gone. No data on pre/post-birth care, risk factors, or disparities.

Want to solve maternal mortality? First you need to measure it.

Welcome to darkest Fantasyland,

China, for instance, had a trade surplus of $295 billion with the US last year on total exports of $438 billion — a ratio of 68%. Divided by two according to Trump’s formula, that yielded a tariff rate of 34%. The same calculations roughly produced the rates for other economies like Japan, South Korea and the European Union.

Because I am a bear of little brain, I didn't really understand the Trump/Lutnick tariff formula -- though it did seem stupid.

Then I read this example from Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove.

OK, so now I understand it, and it's even stupider than I'd thought

Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

James is correct. I ran the numbers on 185 countries/regions on Trump's tariff list today, and it's correct for 182 of them. Here you can see all the numbers. (unit: millions in USD)

Data is from the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.

Images of stocks all in the red

Red Wave

Good job @schumer.senate.gov, you helped build internment camps!

When you feel like you need to move from protesting outside of USAID to protesting outside of Chuck Schumer’s office it’s time for a change. Let’s stop playing games. Let’s be honest with each other and as a party. This is not working and it is not acceptable. And this cannot continue.

Meiselas: That’s our message to you from the MeidasTouch Network: Grow a spine. Vote against cloture. Vote against the CR. The American people are with you. Stop this hostile government takeover. Fight for the people.

AOC calls it a “slap in the face”, says Senate Dems who vote for the CR are “codifying the chaos” and “empowering” Musk and the GOP and the “robbing of our federal government to finance tax cuts for billionaires”

With Democratic Leaders Like Schumer, Who Needs Republicans? Senator Schumer reflects the weakness & complicity of Democratic leaders by agreeing to vote for the Republican spending bill. It's time for new blood that is willing to stand up and fight.

My latest. Let me know if you agree.

Senator Schumer reflects the weakness & complicity of Democratic leaders by agreeing to vote for the Republican spending bill. It's time for new blood that is willing to stand up and fight.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/with-democ...

This just floated across my feed.

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This looks like the battle is joined. Republicans are on course to shut down the govt because of their extremist wing. They're asking Dems for help. Dems are saying bill has to have agreement that Prez can't unconstitutionally "impound" appropriated money - i.e., allow Elon's crime spree.

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.

So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

The fortunate thing is that these elections aren’t just single member first past the post. Makes one see some advantages of European parliamentary systems.

Killing Section 230 is Clarence Thomas' dream. It's a Project 2025 goal. And Democrats are on board because ... fuck if I know, really. Take your pick of bad reasons.

James Rosen-Birch TIL Elon has never used SQL @provisiona... •2d ••• Elon Musk o X @elonmusk - 32m Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!! Your tax dollars are being stolen. Elon Musk @ X @elonmusk • 11h To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @US Treasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following: - Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment cat... Show more ç 1.2K t, 2.5K 9.5K ill 982K 閃 企 @ 521. 17 1.4K •23K hi 1.4M Elon Musk & @elonmusk Subscribe This retard thinks the government uses SQL  Readers added context The Social Security Administration and several other government entities utilize MySQL and thus are "using SQL" mysql.com/industry/gover...

ok this one is pretty good

CFPB - closed
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack

But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?

SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

A post from Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson, saying, “very proud to announce the Washington state. Department of Health will now process all request to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait. A team of more than a dozen people work through the weekend to clear the departments backlog of more than 500 requests. We’re speeding up government and centering the people.“

If you needed something positive today, here it is.

NPR's Adrian Ma remembers girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, who died in DCA plane collision NPR's Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, who died in the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River in January after a mid-air collision.

unimaginable.

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