Alex Blackwood

Look who's running for Congress! Dr. Richard Pan was an effective and enthusiastic advocate for public health in California. He'll be a terrific US Representative.

Best news I've heard today. Go, go, go!

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago. The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

WHY DID HPD TURN AN AUTISTIC CHILD OVER TO IMMIGRATION? We need you at Houston City Hall on Tuesday for the general meeting to ask Mayor Whitmire and council why this happened. SIGN UP TO SPEAK BY calling (832.393.1100) or by email speakers@houstontx.gov FIEL Est, 2007 @FIELHOUSTON

If you're in Houston, please go to the City Council meeting 10/14, 1:30 pm. Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia must be returned to his mother and protected. Why didn't HPD return him to his mother?

Houston teen separated from mother gets emergency surgery amid immigration battle Gonzalez Garcia, who has autism, disappeared on Oct. 4 while his mother was selling fruit on the northwest side of Houston. He went to use the restroom and did not return.

On October 4, Emmanuel, an autistic 15-yo, wandered away from his fruit seller mom in Houston. She reported him missing. When he was found the next day, police turned him over to immigration instead of his family. His mom's been trying to reunite with him since. Tonight he had emergency surgery.

The bathroom police is also a nightmare to families like mine. My autistic son cannot go to the men's room by himself; he has to go to the ladies' with Mom or Sis. This manufactured outrage does nothing to protect women, and it endangers disability families.

The Lancet’s two days to bury bad news In the third part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer reveals what happened when he reported misconduct in Andrew Wakefield’s MMR research to the medical journal that published it Preparing to give e...

Part 3 exposes the cover-up.

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How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money In the second part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer reveals a secret scheme to raise huge sums from a campaign, launched at a London medical school, that claimed links between MMR, autism, and bowe...

Part 2 outlines the scam:

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How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed In the first part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer exposes the bogus data behind claims that launched a worldwide scare over the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, and reveals how the appearance ...

His 3-parter at BMJ in 2011 was a banger. Given British libel law, if he had gotten one word wrong, Brian Deer and editor Fiona Godlee would have been at extraordinary risk.

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uselesscops on Instagram: "I'd always wondered how supposedly good German people could just walk past the Gestapo arresting Jews in the street. I guess I have…" I'd always wondered how supposedly good German people could just walk past the Gestapo arresting Jews in the street. I guess I have my answer... They just didn't care about anyone but themselves.View all 19,617 comments

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If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

If those guys are ever arrested, I expect a lot of hits on the CODIS database.

Thanks! They look great.

Tell me about the boots?

Tell him it's a globe with a man bun — the moon.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

But they're standing on the bloodbath at the Department of Education, where they axed pretty much everyone administering federal funding to educate disabled kids.

“Some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks. A former CDC official was told that HHS communications officials were not happy with the media coverage of the RIFs, and may have felt that the move reflected badly on the administration, as outrage and accusations that the administration was using the government shutdown as a pretense to accomplish other political goals seemed to be sticking.”

Some of last night’s CDC bloodbath being reversed? What an absolute cluster. But great breaking reporting by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

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IDEA is the law that entitles students with disabilities to a free and appropriate public school education.

USA TODAY EDUCATION Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said. Zachary Schermele USA TODAY Oct. 11, 2025, 3:24 p.m. ET

Another Friday night massacre, at the Department of Education. Nearly everyone who administers funding for students with disabilities cut.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts
(Gift article)

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Someone share this video with Brett Kavanaugh.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

The Alf quote perfectly sums him up.

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

Two minutes of moral clarity: