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Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns. The current Surgeon General of Louisiana has made headlines recently, including for allegedly burying a whooping cough outbreak.

Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
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Dr. Nirav Shah, who served as the C.D.C!s principal deputy director for two years before resigning this year, called Dr. Abraham "unqualified" for the post and said when he learned that he had been appointed, "My jaw hit the ground." "A large part of the principal deputy's portfolio is emergency response," Dr. Shah said. "Delayed notifying of the public of at least two pertussis deaths is not just unacceptable, it's shameful," he added.

nirav shah not mincing words re: the new principle deputy director of CDC. good report from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...

"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere."
-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov

Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.

Gift link (for 7 days) ⤵️

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Putin’s plan for Ukrainian surrender does not serve American national interests Ukrainians and their democratically elected leaders will have to assess how to deal with Putin’s latest 28-point proposal for Ukrainian surrender — sometimes referred to as “Trump’s peace plan.” It’s...

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Here's some very practical thinking about the whole whistle thing -- very well done:

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.

"So, what comes after failure?" Particularly timely reading as this year's COP heads toward a particularly miserable close: theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

This essay is beautiful and sad and expresses so much of the pain of living with cancer while science is under attack. Made worse by the fact that Bobby is her cousin.

Chicago activists share blueprint for resisting Border Patrol: ‘Chicago clearly is front and center’ As President Donald Trump’s ramped up Border Patrol action hits city after city, Chicago’s immigration-focused community organizers are following.

It’s a story repeating itself: Border Patrol agents flood immigrant neighborhoods, showing dramatic force. They’ve let Chicago for Charlotte. They will keep roving across the country. But no matter where they go, Chicagoans will try to stop them. Read: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c...

KFF range plot showing percent of immigrants who say they ever worry that they or a family member could be detained or deported, from 2023 and 2025. Reported by total, and immigration status. The chart shows an increase across all immigrants from 2023 to 2025.

#ICYMI: The KFF-@nytimes.com survey finds 41% of immigrants now fear they or a family member could be detained or deported — up from 26% in 2023.

Unease is not limited to those who are undocumented: Fear has increased the most among lawfully present immigrants and naturalized citizens.

The Prosecutorial Malpractice Coming From Pam Bondi’s DOJ Is Getting Harder to Hide. The President’s Dear Pam posts are really starting to backfire.

With the incomparable @mimirocah1.bsky.social on the inside story of a DOJ in disarray.

YouTube video by Noom Rebel Wilson goes Micro with Noom

How can FDA allow TV ads for GLP-1 drug microdosing without any data?
Not aware of a single published study.
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Public Concern about Threats to Public Health and Science Remains Modest  | Milbank Memorial Fund US adults’ awareness of actions threatening public health and science declined between March and September 2025, according to a new survey.

Concerning esults reported by Nagler et al: 59% of Americans are neutral/display some degree of support for cutting funds for work that "provides the foundational knowledge about how the natural world works, which might lead to future discoveries about human health www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Dr. Offit.mp4 - Dr. Offit - Frame.io

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RFK Jr. gaslights parents about vaccines and autism.

Trump Aides Met With Russian in Miami, Prompting Scrutiny Over Ukraine Peace Plan U.S. officials and lawmakers are increasingly alarmed by a recent meeting involving the Trump administration and Kirill Dmitriev, a sanctioned Russian envoy

Thank you for this excellent reporting. Please use your broad audience to educate on Kushner’s role in crafting this deal, which is just breaking. This seems a huge, unsurprising but underreported factor which points directly to likely Trump family enrichment through it. 1/

In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All The state aims to give children a better start, but faces supply and staffing concerns.

In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

Expectant parents believed influencers and podcasters who said they didn’t need a doctor or midwife for childbirth.
Their babies died.
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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

Much of the non-US media is reporting the COP30 outcome as a "catastrophe" for the climate & the world.

Washington resident dies of complications from bird flu strain never before reported in humans

Washington resident dies of complications from bird flu strain never before reported in humans

CNN
November 21, 2025
By Katherine Dillinger, Jen Christensen

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#AvianFlu #Washington

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."

This is what's happening in epidemiology.

CDC’s Autism Website ‘Update’ Came Directly From Kennedy, He Says Ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis called the update a “national embarrassment.”

RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked

Love the Post’s headlines

Tehran is a city of ten million people in a location that has been settled for six thousand years. Its survival as a city is now threatened by drought.

The potential relocation of the capital of Iran could be destabilizing to the Iranian regime, which would have major geopolitical implications.

The New ACA Repeal and Replace: Health Savings Accounts | KFF Proposals from some Republicans in Congress would effectively repeal some or all of the ACA premium tax credits and replace them with contributions to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or something simil...

Our new policy explainer examines the implications of Republican proposals to repeal and replace some or all of the ACA premium tax credits, which currently help make Marketplace coverage more affordable, with federal contributions to HSAs or the like.

https://on.kff.org/4a9fZGB

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA IN RE: SUBPOENA NO. 25-1431-014 : MISCELLANEOUS ACTION : : NO. 25-39 MEMORANDUM KEARNEY,J. November 21, 2025 Our elected Congresspersons granted the Department of Justice limited authority in 1996 to investigate federal health care offenses involving the labeling and distribution of prescription drugs. The Department of Justice is now investigating the labeling and distribution of prescribed clinically authorized puberty blockers and hormone therapy. It subpoenaed fifteen categories of records from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia including billing and insurance records, communications with manufacturers and sales representatives, and the names and complete medical and psychological records of children receiving gender-affirming care. The Hospital agrees to produce most of the requested materials. But it objects to producing the identities of its child patients and their families along with their confidential medical files. Its objection requires we study two questions: whether Congress authorized a subpoena for the children's confidential medical records, and, if so, whether the children's privacy interests outweigh the Department of Justice's need for these confidential medical records under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. We find the answer to both questions is "no." We strike the three requests for these child- identifying and treatment and disclosure records as beyond the authority granted by Congress. We also find, even if this private information could be relevant, the heightened privacy interests of children and their families substantially outweighs the Department's need to know the children's names, addresses, and treatment along with disclosures for gender-affirming care at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This weekend, artists are speaking out across the country Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

This is FANTASTIC.
So grateful to visual artist @dreadscott.bsky.social and playwright Lynn Nottage.
#FallFreedoms

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Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leavi...

Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leaving the children behind.
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