On holiday

As Megan Trainor says…
”If your lips are moving, if your lips are moving
If your lips are moving, then you're lyin', lyin', lyin', baby”

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump is trying to fire nearly every federal worker who supports special needs education.

Donald Trump is trying to fire nearly every federal worker who supports special needs education.

It’s kids with disabilities who will suffer.

The cruelty is the point.

Four photos in a large square with people near the beach in Nice, France protesting and holding up No Kings signs.

No Kings in Nice, France.

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What causes autism? Here's what the White House gets wrong. More than a hundred autism genes have been identified, explains author Peter Hotez. And Tylenol isn't the biggest environmental factor.

Dr. Peter Hotez talks about the genetics behind autism spectrum disorder and what people need to know about these conditions. #ASD

This tells you everything you need to know — Donald Trump is preparing to use his shutdown to fire more Virginians.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

The Interior Department has told its staff to bring their government laptops and phones home so they can monitor updates about potential mass firings.

In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly today, President Trump said climate change is a “con job” and climate scientists are “stupid people” — and he called green energy and immigration a “double-tailed monster” that is destroying Europe.

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Donald Trump should listen to Donald Trump.

He owns this shutdown.

We’re Taking the 10 Steps Everywhere Why We Need a Framework to Confront Authoritarianism and Reclaim Our Democracy

We're Taking the 10 Steps Everywhere: bit.ly/3VRwheW

Attempting to declare war on an American city is a grave threat and something that cannot be ignored. This is not something to joke about casually.

AXIOS: “.. Massachusetts is the first state to mandate insurance coverage of vaccines even if the federal government stops requiring it.”

@axios.com
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YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren RFK Jr. should resign.

A month ago, RFK Jr. called his CDC director “unimpeachable.”

Then she refused to sign off on his plan to put little kids’ health at risk, and he fired her.

RFK Jr. should resign.

Vaccines have saved millions of lives. They are indisputably one of the greatest achievements of humankind – full stop.

RFK Jr.’s endless lies can’t make that fundamental truth go away.

Number of vaccines

Being asked about crazy inflated numbers by antivaccine groups regarding how vaccines kids get. ANS: we went from vaccinating vs 8 diseases when I was a resident in the 1980s, to 16 diseases today. But of those 16, 11 diseases are combined into just two shots. Breakdowns below:

Colorado issues order allowing pharmacies to provide COVID vaccines without prescription Dr. Ned Calonge issued a “standing order” allowing anyone six months or older to receive the updated COVID-19 vaccines at a pharmacy starting Friday.

Colorado issues order allowing pharmacies to provide COVID vaccines without prescription trib.al/iHKHE14

Robert Reich What is Due Process?

As Trump unleashes his authoritarianism across the country, it’s vital to know your rights. https://youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ?feature=shared

Florida's Surgeon General is dead wrong. Requiring children to get vaccinated to prevent measles, mumps & polio is not akin to "slavery."

Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved millions of lives & reduced the infant mortality rate by 40%.

Vaccines save lives — period.

Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means, which has jurisdiction over health care, issued the following statement today after Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attacks on vaccine science and public health prompted the attempted firing of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Susan Monarez and the departures of other key CDC leaders: “President Trump must fire Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he further endangers millions of American children, mothers, and families. If Trump does not remove Kennedy before this kook fully unleashes his crackpot conspiracy theories on America’s vaccination efforts, Trump will bear the responsibility for the unnecessary and preventable illnesses and deaths that result. “Kennedy has already shown that he is incapable of running this agency by his appalling callousness towards the workforce he leads following the recent attack on the CDC. As Dr. Houry, the CDC’s chief medical officer suggested, that attack was inspired by the very anti-vaccine quackery Kennedy and others have peddled.” “Vaccines are safe, and they are essential to saving lives and ensuring that children are healthy and protected. RFK Jr.’s threat to vaccines represents a clear and present danger to the health and wellbeing of ordinary Americans, and any mentally capable president would recognize that and remove him at once.” In addition to Director Monarez, other departures of top public health leaders from the CDC in the past 24 hours reportedly include Dr. Debra Houry, CDC chief medical officer; Dr. Jen Layden, Director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who published a scathing resignation letter accusing Kennedy of using the “CDC as a tool to generate policie…

RFK Jr. is a danger to millions of American children, mothers, and families. If he does not remove this kook before he fully unleashes his crackpot conspiracy theories on America’s vaccination efforts, Trump will be responsible for the preventable deaths that result.
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Hotez article in Vaccine

My latest just out in VACCINE @sciencedirect.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

All About the AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule Here's what to know about the recommended immunization schedule for children and teens. The schedule is approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics and based on ongoing review of the most recent sc...

Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against).

* pin it & share it *

Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
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FDIC Survey Finds 96 Percent of U.S. Households Were Banked in 2023 | FDIC.gov

My local NBC morning news crew just read an announcement that the US government is going to stop issuing paper checks. What if you are one of the 5.6 million household in the US without bank accounts? fdic.gov/news/press-r...

Risk of Yellow fever in Southern U.S.

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Mr. Kennedy is wrong

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

A Complete List of Everything in the Republican Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save (Gift Article) In hundreds of provisions across taxes, spending and more, the G.O.P. megabill would preserve lower tax rates for most Americans, increase federal debt by nearly $3 trillion and make large cuts to Med...

Aren't these the same people who complained about the national debt?
What lying hypocrite.
A Complete List of Everything in the Republican Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I am really astounded at how calm everyone is about the GOP putting a 500 billion dollar cut for Medicare in the new tax bill.

This monstrous bill strips health care from 14 million Americans, cuts $300 billion in food and nutrition from working Americans, while giving a temporary head fake to those working on overtime and those working for tips. It actually raises taxes on the poorest 20% of Americans.