Kathy Petz

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Wow. NINE former heads of the CDC sound the alarm www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Yeah, I floss every day in the morning. My hygienist was lecturing me saying it’s best to floss at night. I said maybe it’s best to plan to floss at a time I will actually do it. She laughed, said I had a point and everything looked fine.

Who could have predicted this? (Besides everyone who doesn’t operate in bad faith)

The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported.

In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.

Good, more of this please

This was three months ago.

I can’t remember who said this about Rubio but it was spot on. “He has become the man his parents fled Cuba to escape from.”

The angry face is aimed at NPR not covering any of this

I literally saw people holding signs saying Hands Off NPR, PBS and Libraries 😡

Mike Mikus on Twitter: “This picture from Pittsburgh’s #HandsOff protest is incredible”

Millions of Americans are flooding the streets today. #handsoff

A mother and son at the Hands off rally in Philadelphia

A group of women and one young man holding signs at the Hands off rally in Philadelphia

A French Revolution enactment at the Hands Off Rally in Philadelphia

Protestors at the Hands Off Rally in Philadelphia

It was a friends and family group for us

Philadelphia was rocking!

Is this a blunt instrument? Yes. Do I think it is better than nothing? Also yes. I would love nothing more than for leaders to get their acts together so I can spend my weekends needlepointing, but the leaders aren’t doing that so I have to do what I can instead of giving up

I agree that Dem leadership should be focused on effective messaging. As a non leader normie, I don’t get a say into what decisions the leadership does so I go to and persuade others to show up to demonstrations to make it clear to Dem leadership that what they are doing is not sustainable

Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43 Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said. She was 43 years old. The cause and circumstance...

It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison.

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Every time I walk past a bank, I face an ethical question. Should I just rob it? It's a stumper.

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

Perhaps the most concise way to think about this is that Musk has pranced around bragging about cracking down on fraud and abuse, finding the bad guys. Meanwhile what he's actually done is enable perhaps the biggest splurge of fraud and tax cheating in history. For him and his pals.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Q Anon’s silence is deafening

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How a false story about an anti-Trump band went viral News outlets reported the Dropkick Murphys were banned from X by Elon Musk. As Jacqueline Sweet easily found, it wasn’t true.

New — A viral story about the Dropkick Murphys getting banned from X was reported by multiple reputable news outlets. But as @jsweetli.bsky.social learned through simple reporting, the story was totally false.

For The Handbasket she explains her work, and exposes major holes in current journalism:

I read this many years ago and it has stuck with me since. Heartbreaking and rage inducing to think that someone would choose to put their kid through this

I think the unfeeling ones are the parents who are saying that the disease that killed their kid “isn’t as bad as they are making it out to be.”

I have been forced to go out of my house more frequently. I actually kind of like it. Because of that, I have been reaching out to friends and going out with them. It’s been good for me.

The absolute worst thing I could imagine would be having one of my kids die. I cannot possibly imagine saying that the thing that killed them is “not as bad a they’re making it out to be.”

How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old's measles death Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.

Parents of the child who died of measles have joined RFK-founded Children's Health Defense. Anti-vaccine groups excel at swooping in for tragedy, offering parents a cause.

“Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
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Measles literally killed their kid and they are saying “it’s not as bad as they are making it out to be”??? How much do hate do you have to have towards your kid to say something like that?

Remember 1983’s “The Day After”? There was a woman who wouldn’t stop making her bed as the sirens were going off. It drove me crazy at the time; now I understand.