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Why reporters should cover this week's CDC meeting on hepatitis B vaccine and more The CDC will discuss its current policy of hepatitis B vaccination at birth and other recommendations from Dec. 4-5. Here's what to know.

Helpful article re the importance of Hep B vaccine by
@tarahaelle.bsky.social but what stood out: (All CDC links in this article are either CDC-archived ones or from Internet Archive, dated prior to Jan. 20, 2025, to reduce the risk of non-evidence-based updates under the new administration.)

FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.

My comments with @ddiamond.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com more antivaccine MAHA pseudoscience headed our way www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Unanimous Appellate Court Upholds Disqualifying Alina Habba as U.S. Attorney A major loss for the Trump Administration

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US CDC: a public health agency in critical condition For almost 80 years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been the nation's immune system, detecting threats early, coordinating rapid responses, and safeguarding population hea...

"For almost 80 years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been the nation's immune system... During 2025 that immune system has been compromised." Op-ed in the Lancet by @drdebhoury.bsky.social, Dan Jernigan, and @drdemetre.bsky.social:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

"As heavily armed and camouflage-clad Border Patrol agents crowded into the plaza outside the Japanese American museum...

Ms. Fujimoto heard the commotion and tore out of the store, shouting that immigration agents were there. 'I felt like Paul Revere,' she said..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.

"a country she said she had never been to...."

www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.

Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.

Shameful.

We are watching our law-and-order be tossed aside by this criminal administration, and Andrew Weissmann is here to try and break it down. Watch the LP Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbeuRVaGsBw

Whether it’s stating the basic truth on the President’s health, correcting RFK’s immoral nonsense on childhood vaccines, and holding their cast of “experts” to account, the time is now to stand up for the medical profession.

I will continue to do across platforms without fear.

Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message — and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded.”

Trump's Tariff War Is Leaving Ohio Farmers in the Red and China in Driver's Seat This isn’t the art of the deal but the wages of a foolish pursuit of protectionism. U.S. agriculture has been paying the price for years.

Trump’s Tariff War Is Leaving Ohio Farmers in the Red and China in Driver’s Seat

Thanks for everything, DOGE. 🤡

@birdyword.bsky.social

The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in April to three years for defrauding the government of $38 million. Seven months later, Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying t...

Pardons for sale, get your fresh hot pardons for sale...

Yes, you have to pay the convicted fraudsters to get your presidential pardon, but that's how the United States of America sells 'em now:

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

1/Because Judge Currie says the govt can’t keep appointing acting US Attys after an initial 120 day appt, it’s now up to the local district judges to name an acting us atty. They’re likely to name someone who will stand for the rule of law & not reindict bad cases. But…

Trump Amplified Foreign-Based Accounts This Weekend One account boosted by Trump promoted banning Ilhan Omar from office. The account is based in Africa.

Oops! One account boosted by Trump this weekend promoted banning Ilhan Omar from office. The account is based in Africa.

meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...

Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis

“You can’t have a political party that hates everyone except white people who like Hitler..."

“I don’t think we’re at that point,” she added, but “there is a battle.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash

Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

If only Donald Trump could read:

“OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”

ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.

"Court video showed ICE agents, who allegedly had a 12-pack of Modelo in their car...

"“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied.

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

Veterans condemn deportations of immigrant service members under Trump Just a week after a Purple Heart recipient was deported from an immigration detention center in Florence, veterans and advocates gathered at the Arizona Capitol to condemn the removal of immigrant ser...

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/vete...

“Trump taking out his adversaries is nothing new. Relatives of Trump Casino executives who died in a rental helicopter crash in New Jersey, will tell you that, as some of them once did to me personally.” Chilling.

The White House’s celebration of the weak job market makes no sense Job growth in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term is on pace to be the worst since the Great Recession. So why is his team bragging?

"The unemployment rate has reached a four-year high, job openings are at a four-year low, and leading members of Trump’s own economic team have gone so far as to concede in recent weeks that parts of the U.S. economy are already in recession..."

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The Trump admin submitted a sworn declaration under oath that Costa Rica had changed its mind and would no longer take Mr. Abrego.

Costa Rica has now said publicly that that this is false, that they have not changed their position at all, and that they will still take him.

In North Carolina, the Border Patrol’s Presence Divides a Swing State

"Many residents have yelled profanities at them, and honked their horns at agents when their unmarked vehicles are spotted..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

For the journalism schools:

Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.

That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides

@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’ What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?

“The average eighth grader’s math skills are now a full school year behind where they were in 2013. The premise that foundational ideas don’t need to be learned anymore is a recipe for idiocracy.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.