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CDC advisers delay vote on restricting infant hepatitis B vaccinations in tense meeting From 1990 to 2019, reported cases of acute hepatitis B among kids declined by 99% due to infant immunization

“This disease has gone down in the United States thanks to the effectiveness of our current immunization program,” adviser Cody Meissner said.

“In your opinion,” vice-chair Robert Malone said, interrupting him.

“Uhh, these are facts, Robert,” Meissner responded. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

CDC advisers delay vote on restricting infant hepatitis B vaccinations in tense meeting From 1990 to 2019, reported cases of acute hepatitis B among kids declined by 99% due to infant immunization

Delaying the shot from birth to two months, one of the possible votes, would lead to at least 1,400 infections, 300 cases of liver cancer, and 480 deaths every year. It would also result in more than $222m in additional healthcare costs every year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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And yet this does not get "Hunter Biden" level coverage, huh, wonder why that is.

Trump admin may deny H1-B visas to people who worked in content moderation, report says The admin says officials should consider rejecting content moderators.

Trump admin may deny H1-B visas to people who worked in content moderation, report says

We now go live to the war crimes enthusiast

Here I am signing the discharge petition TODAY to FORCE a vote on banning stock trading for Members of Congress. Everyone agrees this is wrong. Yet we still can’t get a vote. That’s Washington. And yes, it’s frustrating. (Video is AI simulation)

"(Video is AI simulation)"

Excuse me. What?

Rand Paul could have prevented Pete Hegseth from being confirmed as Defense Secretary. Instead, he voted for him — a manifestly unqualified candidate — to run the Defense Department. Now, we're here.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

An inconvenient truth for Dan Bongino

The Trump people are what they are but I’d like to know more about the middle and lower ranking officers in the chain of command who followed these orders.

Apologies for yelling, but—

ERIC TRUMP'S NET WORTH HAS INCREASED BY ABOUT $360 MILLION IN THE PAST YEAR.

She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she's been put on leave Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.

Insiders speaking out are being fired. www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

From JD Vance on Houthi PC small group, the day after Signalgate broke:

This, of course, as a complete lie, but that's the new Pentagon and Pentagon Press Corp for you, completely untrustworthy.

World map labeled “Global hepatitis B birth dose vaccination policies,” with many countries in green indicating universal HepB birth-dose, others in yellow (partially universal), orange (selective), and red (no birth dose).

A claim that the U.S. is an “outlier” for having a universal hepatitis B birth dose is false.

ACIP’s own September map shows many countries with universal birth-dose policies. We’d become an outlier only by rolling ours back.

www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

Some of this makes more sense than the real excerpts I've seen

Relatedly, DOJ OLC just denied my request for expedited processing for communications around these strikes.

If someone in Congress doesn't find the courage and conviction to act, it will be years until the public sees any of this stuff.

Former CDC official returns to local health care after resigning Former CDC official Demetre Daskalakis is taking his skills back to New York, where they were honed in HIV clinics and the city health department

Meanwhile former top CDC officials have warned that the agency has been hollowed out. www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...

Almost all of the living previous FDA commissioners have come out to the alarm. bsky.app/profile/dori...

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The US is close to an institutional collapse across multiple public health agencies. Trump/RFK have purged anyone with expertise, many have fled and they’ve been replaced w functionaries who are either incompetent or malicious. I don’t think many understand how close to the edge we are right now.

Cotton confirms that the US killed two shipwrecked sailors in a second strike. No fog of war. No ambiguity.

Q: What did you see in the second strike?

Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:

"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."

U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online

media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...

When you attack our nation's Capitol you say? How interesting.

Exclusive | Read the cryptic note that helped Ryan Lizza realize Olivia Nuzzi had an affair with Mark Sanford: ‘I wish I hadn’t touched you’ Veteran journalist Ryan Lizza ignited a frenzy with his tell-all series on former flame Oliva Nuzzi with the steamy plot twist that she allegedly had an affair with former 2020 GOP presidential hop…

lol, we have reached the stage of Nuzzigate where Ryan Lizza is leaking Olivia's handwritten notes to the New York Post.

nypost.com/2025/12/04/u...

it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.

Why did Trump pardon the former Honduran president? Follow the Tech Bros. With Roger Stone taking a victory lap for having come up with the idea in the first place.

Why Did Trump Pardon the Former Honduran President? Follow the Tech Bros.

“Próspera is an example of the tech-right concept of the network state, a phrase coined by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan.”

by @kieraevebutler.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW YORK-According to news reports, the Trump administration this week announced that applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers would be subject to increased vetting, with an eye toward rejecting those involved in what it considers "censorship." A recent State Department cable reportedly requires U.S. consular officers to review applicants' resumes or LinkedIn profiles to determine if they have worked in areas related to misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, or trust and safety online. The following can be attributed to Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney and legislative advisor at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: "People who study misinformation and work on content-moderation teams aren't engaged in 'censorship' — they're engaged in activities that the First Amendment was designed to protect. This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."

Knight First Amendment Institute's Carrie DeCell: "This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."