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Pizza Enthusiast. Public Health Nerd. Wife. Mama. Deputy Director, @healthjournalism.org. Former City Councilwoman. RT≠endorsement, opinions are my own.

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WATCH LIVE: Casey Means testifies at Senate confirmation hearing for surgeon general Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement, will appear before the Senate health co...

Senate confirmation hearing for Surgeon General is live. Pay attention. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

25.02.2026 15:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love love love you.

25.02.2026 15:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

15.01.2026 02:17 👍 44153 🔁 16177 💬 1630 📌 868
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material

The FBI is now searching homes of journalists.

Don't stop paying attention.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

14.01.2026 16:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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JD Vance shamelessly lies: "You have a woman who aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator. Nobody debates that. I can believe her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it's a tragedy of her own making."

08.01.2026 18:47 👍 853 🔁 202 💬 316 📌 121

"Her death was a tragedy of her own making." That's a direct quote from the VP of the United States about the death of Renee Good.

08.01.2026 18:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Guides: Evaluating Information: Propaganda, Misinformation, Disinformation How to evaluate information, from social media to scholarly articles.

Reminder: "Propaganda" is defined as the "the systematic dissemination of information, especially in a biased or misleading way, in order to promote a political cause or point of view."

guides.library.jhu.edu/evaluate/pro...

08.01.2026 18:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Burn it all down.

12.12.2025 15:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...

ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:

"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

05.12.2025 15:36 👍 1852 🔁 816 💬 130 📌 138

Dear journalists: please do not make it sound like he was coherent.

30.09.2025 14:16 👍 1870 🔁 376 💬 50 📌 16
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Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.”

Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement.
rsf.org/sites/defaul...

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Exclusive | White House to Announce ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Website, and Deal With Pfizer President Trump is expected to unveil the measures with Pfizer’s CEO on Tuesday

Uh... White House to Announce ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Website, and Deal With Pfizer

Natalie Andrews & Liz Essley Whyte / WSJ

🎁: www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

30.09.2025 14:30 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2
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a man in a suit is holding three boxes of pizza . ALT: a man in a suit is holding three boxes of pizza .

Cool, cool, cool.

30.09.2025 14:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Go to www.hud.gov right now. Just trust me.

30.09.2025 14:06 👍 147 🔁 69 💬 35 📌 48

I came in too late, what was the "they spit, we hit" in reference to?

30.09.2025 14:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Screenshot of STAT's homepage with several stories about Trump's autism announcement

Screenshot of STAT's homepage with several stories about Trump's autism announcement

If you have a question about Trump's autism announcement ... it's probably answered somewhere here

23.09.2025 14:36 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

17.09.2025 14:43 👍 18164 🔁 5858 💬 302 📌 216

The meeting of RFK Jr.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) starts in less than 24 hours.

The materials still haven’t been posted, which is highly unusual.

They want to ambush the American public with false claims about COVID19 vaccines.

17.09.2025 15:11 👍 495 🔁 181 💬 25 📌 8
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Update from Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Kennedy asserted that “there are no cuts to Medicaid.” In fact, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Medicaid provisions would increase the number of people without health insurance by 7.8 million in 2034. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

04.09.2025 15:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't know how many died

W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that

W: How can you be that ignorant?

04.09.2025 15:18 👍 28969 🔁 7906 💬 1469 📌 766
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Bennet runs out of patience with RFK Jr and yells at him that "I'm asking the questions on behalf of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better than your leadership! That's what this conversation is about."

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Update from Apoorva Mandavilli

Kennedy says he does not know how many people died of Covid and whether the vaccines prevented Covid deaths. “The problem is they didn’t have the data,” he said.

In fact, the data are readily available.

04.09.2025 15:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr

04.09.2025 15:11 👍 15012 🔁 3589 💬 478 📌 317

In case you were curious, a charlatan is someone who falsely claims to have knowledge or skill, particularly in medicine or business, to decieve others for personal gain. #cdc

04.09.2025 15:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

He is intentionally avoiding a huge swath of his constituents because their county is democratic-leaning. Going to a town with 200 people, without also going to a town in the county that has 30k+ constituents, doesn’t deserve applause.

27.08.2025 14:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How are homelessness advocates responding, and could other cities follow? Join AHCJ to learn how reporters can cover this story locally, with insights from a national reporter, an addiction researcher, a veteran activist and a journalist who spent a year investigating homelessness.

15.08.2025 20:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Disgusting.

03.07.2025 18:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We the People of the United States [...] establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

03.07.2025 14:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah yes, taking away health care from 17 million people is super "immaterial."

01.07.2025 19:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We don't have updated and detailed CBO scores and the final language for the just-passed Senate reconciliation bill isn't yet available. But the devastating impact will likely be about $1 trillion/10 years in #Medicaid cuts and about 17 million more uninsured.

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