Dr. DJ McMaughan

‘A Coup’: RFK Jr. Ousts Entire CDC Vaccine Committee U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed every member of the CDC Vaccine Advisory committee and will install his own picks.

Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, called Kennedy's mass ouster of CDC vaccine advisors "a coup.”

“It’s not how democracies work. It’s not good for the health of the nation,” Benjamin told The Associated Press.

great reminder to all of those Democrats and liberals saying that we need to abandon red states because they are gerrymandered into right wing autocracies where the vote isn’t in their favor instead of accepting that we are gonna have to fight for every American no matter where they are.

A glass of Kentucky Common beer by Stonecloud Brewing in a pint glass that says ‘be hoppy’ with a picture of hops.

One of my manuscripts got a brutal review. It was like pulling teeth to write it to begin with, I’m bored with the topic, and fretting over what to do.

One of my fabulous co-authors said ‘have a drink and say goodbye to the paper…it’s all good”

RIP Hospitalizations Scoping Review. You sucked lol.

This is an incredible loss. PRAMS (Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) has been essential for understanding care access and outcomes in the perinatal and postpartum periods.

For example, intimate partner violence before or after childbirth www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38733...

Doing my job: teaching, research, service, increasingly feels like an act of protest, civil disobedience, defiance. Thinking of it this way makes it a tad easier to keep my mind on work amidst the doomscrolling about the kelpto-oligo-kakistocracy

Fed friends: we are aware that some HHS employees are being targeted for their public service in DEI and health equity. Now is a good time to ensure you are comfortable with the privacy status of your public profiles, including LinkedIn.

Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons make a mockery of American democracy and the rule of law | Editorial Faced with choosing between the president and the Constitution, many elected officials, judges, business leaders, conservative media moguls, and MAGA supporters are cheering Trump on.

Six days into Trump's monarchical reign of terror, the Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board refuses to cower or bend its knee

Today, a powerful condemnation of Trump's pardon of violent Jan. 6 domestic terrorists as a gross abuse of presidential power www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

You would be my fave super hero

Unsurprisingly, Richard Hanania, an aggressively racist and sexist far-right pseudo-intellectual, joins Rufo in raging against the “disability lobby.”

This reveals so much about the Right’s defining political project: A crusade against any attempt at creating a fairer, more inclusive society.

A white coffee mug in the foreground with a rainbow on which is written ‘workers of the world’. Below the rainbow are colorful care bears sitting on clouds. Below the clouds is the word ‘unite’ in rainbow font with a heart dotting the eye. All together the mug is a colorful scene of care bears, hearts, and rainbows with the class solidarity message of ‘workers of the world unite’

First coffee of 2025 💜
Happy New Year!

I am so sorry. What a beautiful kitty 🌈 🐾

Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Fascism or Democracy: The Work Behind, the Work Ahead If America’s greatness is its love of freedom, who held the firehoses in Birmingham? Who wielded clubs on Edmund Pettus Bridge?

I'm saving this post by @wihorne.bsky.social as my new "send this short article to anyone who still does not understand systemic #racism in America, or why it's important" link. Concise, impactful, and extremely well written.

open.substack.com/pub/drwillia...

From the ashes of the corporate media’s demise, we will build people-powered media where oligarchs are not welcome.

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

Propublica reports this morning on how United Healthcare is strangling the gold standard therapy for children with autism—deliberately shrinking its provider network and authorizing fewer hours than the treatment demands. www.propublica.org/article/unit...

Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • The Revelator The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.

What can government scientists do now to minimize the damage that’s coming over the next four years, and what can we do to help them? I spoke to several experts to write this story for The Revelator

Please share widely. 🧪🌎

therevelator.org/scientists-m...

My morning is made *chef’s kiss*

I’m really enjoying it! Makes me nostalgic for central Texas

No but I think I should.

Purple book titled October Rain by Emory Piper. Cover art depicts two of the main characters. One is a light skinned woman with long pink hair. The other is a light skinned man with grey hair and beard.

Egg nog 🫶
Also, your name is familiar…

Oooh noted…that sound lovely.

For profit healthcare is a crime against humanity.

“The way some establishment Democrats and leading Liberals have acted suggests they feel a kinship with their Republican opponents that is rooted in class politics”

A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.

the U.S. press does not require that Republicans take real ownership of unpopular and harmful policy

I know a lot of folks at major outlets are conditioned to BELIEVE they do, but they really don't, and never have

Texas hospitals are now required to ask for patients’ citizenship. Here’s what you should know. Gov. Greg Abbott wants to know how much hospitals spend caring for undocumented immigrants. Hospitals should not deny care based on how patients respond.

Texas hospitals are now required to ask about patients' citizenship status. Here's what you need to know about the requirements, as outlined by an executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott:

Yeah, and also you can notice kindness, compassion & competence when you see it and fan the embers.

All resistance all the time doesn’t build anything to take its place.

“According to The 19th, at least four of his picks ‘have been accused of sexual harassment and assault, and one has faced allegations of child sex trafficking.’”

In 2015, Rick Green filmed a program inside Independence Hall, where he explicitly decried the use of recess appointments as an "abuse [of] the process" by those who believe that "the ends justify the means." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Oh no. Definitely don’t do that.