Max Osborn

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:

Removed COVID vaccine recommendations

Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee

Replaced scientists with antivaxxers

Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research

Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

it's brainwashing to turn an entire election on its head because 15 trans girls want to play fucking volleyball or whatever.

God who gives a fuck.
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i'm not voting for any candidate that won't full throatedly support trans kids playing whatever fucking sport they want to.

I'm so irritated with these focus group tested answers about a subject that liberals and Democrats are literally being brainwashed into thinking is a critical issue.

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.

I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

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Gov. David Paterson @NYGovPaterson55 For Immediate Release: STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR DAVID PATERSON ON NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL RACE NEW YORK- Following a morning press conference outside of WABC Radio's studios calling for unity within the Democratic Party in advance of November's election, New York State's 55th governor, David Paterson, released the following statement. Paterson also previously served as Democratic State Party Chair. "I have been very clear in my position that I simply do not believe Zohran Mamdani is the best person to lead New York City in these extremely turbulent times. We just saw a federal budget passed and signed that will create havoc on New Yorkers in the coming years in our education system, the health care community and for hard-working families already struggling to make ends meet. We cannot afford ideas without a plan for implementation or funding. Mr. Mamdani ran a successful Primary campaign, with tremendous ads and a well-done social media strategy that engaged young voters in a way we have not seen to date. However, the General Election is a very different electorate that encompasses the entirety of the city. I truly believe my fellow Democrats will be doing a disservice to the people they wish to serve if they do not come together and decide to support whichever candidate has the most support among them in advance of November 4th. We are living in a critically important time in our country's history and the most populous city in America will need true leadership to navigate this moment. That leadership will need to show itself in the coming months, before ballots are printed and voters start returning ballots by mail. As public polls and surveys are revealed over these coming weeks, it is my hope and belief that the other candidates still in the race will come to the logical conclusion that New York City needs the most effective leader to navigate what comes next and that cannibalizing each other's support will be doing a disservice to the millions of people who call New York 'home'." ## 11:26 AM • 7/7/25 • 314K Views

"calling for unity within the Democratic Party"

"come together and decide to support whichever candidate has the most support among them"

these are things being said to stop who Democratic voters of NYC elected to be the Democratic candidate for mayor in a Democratic Primary

This is the hardest i've seen democrats fight against something in years.

I really struck a nerve here. I stand by what I said.

Oh fuck this goes so hard

a reminder of what Mamdani overcame:

this is so much better than the last time we were all new yorkers

NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

Am I feeling something like…hope??? About an election?? What IS this

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

State pols rail against Cuomo’s proposed Medicaid cuts amid COVID-19 crisis ALBANY — Democratic legislators blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday for proposing historic budget cuts to state health care and hospitals that would make New York ineligible for up to $6 billion in fe...

I talked to my mom about the mayoral race and she said that it wasn't true that Cuomo tried to cut millions from Medicaid because home health care workers got improved pay under his tenure. So I texted her and said she was right i was wrong he tried to cut billions

What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

Happy pride!!

All trans folks who have created abolitionist/liberatory/trans pride images they'd like to see as stickers email a high quality image with the subject line TRANS PRIDE to movementstickers at proton dot me and I'll make you a free sheet (between 4 and 8 stickers, depending on size)!

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement.

Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime.
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Not open-access unfortunately (I do not have open-access money lmao) but I'll be sharing the accepted manuscript at some point on ResearchGate, and DM me if you just want a PDF!

Been working on this one for a while, finally finished it up out of spite right after the inauguration.

In which I analyze the current wave of anti-queer and -trans sentiment and attempt to argue that a) yes, this is a moral panic in the sociological sense, not just the colloquial sense, and b) it's definitely a criminological issue, and it's weird that relatively few people are treating it that way!

New piece out in Punishment & Society: "Groomers, gays, and gender ideology: Why the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative backlash is a moral panic and why criminologists should care."
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Don’t Panic–the Battle Over the Trans Medicaid Ban Is Far From Over. Here’s How To Fight Back. While confusion and misinformation spreads on social media, advocates offer concrete strategies to stop the GOP’s genocidal attack on trans people’s lives through community solidarity and defiance.

STOP: Don’t panic–organize!

@thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people.

We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽

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Seeing a lot of confusion about the budget's provisions on trans care--it would strip Medicaid funds for trans care (which is awful enough) but it would NOT prohibit private insurers from providing coverage for trans care. It actually does something far more narrow and wonkier