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"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

Write to Congress: CDC Employees must be Reinstated **Please write now to your Senators and Representative demanding that ALL CDC employees be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government.** Late on Friday, October 10, the Trump Admin...

Write to your Senators and Representative NOW!

Demand **ALL CDC employees to be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government**.

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Jack Cocchiarella takes on JD Vance’s excruciating Sunday-show performance—from dodging questions about the $50,000 bribe to getting booted off the air by George Stephanopoulos.

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low"

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

Wait can’t she also try to vacate the speakership?

Mask mandate returns to parts of California The order in Sonoma County is designed to protect the "most vulnerable populations" in health care facilities during fall and winter.

Part of California reinstates mask mandates in healthcare facilities.
#Medsky
www.newsweek.com/mask-mandate...

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Flying to a climate conference is like chain smoking at a lung health conference and leaders should stop doing that

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

RIFs at CDC.

Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.

Call your Reps about it.

Then call them again.

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

She left the medical mainstream and rose to be RFK Jr.’s surgeon general pick Casey Means, the surgeon general nominee, has criticized the medical establishment. She could be put in position to change it.

Mini essay 🧵: I've posted about this grifter nominee for Surgeon General before, & about *why* this admin. gravitates to such awful people: Means, like Dr. Oz & RFK himself, doesn't just hawk products; she sells both the idea that people are to blame...

1/20

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Brilliant‼️ The heartbreaking truth …creative and informative‼️ Well done‼️

Attended two excellent conference presentations today about health misinformation, while also noticing about 5 other masks and lots of past tensing the pandemic while coughing, because 2025.

They aren’t acting like there’s going to be another election

it’s also just hypocrisy given one of RFKs complaints is the number of “jabs”

The deadline to register to vote is fast approaching. Make sure you’re ready for the November election by visiting vote.pa.gov today.

@bsky.app you really need to fix video playing in the app

Aaron’s videos almost always stop playing about halfway through them

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

ESC Tackles Cardiac Risks of Long COVID An ESC report outlining the effects of COVID and long COVID on the heart emphasizes the need for early detection, vaccination, and cardiac rehab.

"COVID infection and long COVID substantially raise the risk for serious cardiovascular complications — including heart failure, arrhythmias, stroke, and thromboembolism — according to a clinical consensus statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)."
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

A Study of 500,000 Medical Records Linked Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again A study of around 500,000 medical records published in 2023 suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and pneumonia increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and ...

A study of 500,000 medical records linked viruses with Alzheimer's again and again

"Those who were hospitalized with pneumonia after catching the flu seemed to be more susceptible to Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and ALS"

www.sciencealert.com/a-study-of-5...

2026 is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. trib.al/vuUtT6a

Republicans claim its principles, but let Trump choose its meaning on a whim. Let us consider not a Project 2029, but a Project 2049: imagining what a better country could look like and how we get there.