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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 2087 comments

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

submitted 1 day ago • 521 comments

Here’s the thing, if they are picking up folks working in the country illegally, I’m going to need to see some white guys also being arrested for employing people working illegally in the country. Otherwise, it’s just racism.

submitted 1 day ago • 951 comments

This is just a straight-up lie. The post-truth insular information ecosystem on the right is just letting them lie to our faces

submitted 22 hours ago • 89 comments

This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

There's a stunning provision tucked into the budget bill that would limit courts' ability to enforce contempt orders, and therefore to uphold the rule of law. This deserves real alarm. If the Senate values the separation of powers, it must remove the provision.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Interesting interview here with @erictopol.bsky.social and @joho.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEq...

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Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

submitted 1 day ago • 277 comments

Covid vaccines help reduce severity but they don’t meaningfully prevent infection or long covid. Covid is EXTREMELY harmful even when ur vaxxed, so if ur mad abt this u should also be infuriated at Biden for dismantling masking etc. RFK sucks but Dems ushered in the dismantling of Covid protections

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“Only sick kids die from covid/measles” “Only the vulnerable need to worry” “Just stay home” “Your health is not my responsibility” “How many comorbids did they have?” These statements feed directly into fascism & eugenics. Don’t make it easier for them to eliminate us. We aren’t expendable.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

There are 1.2 million people in the US that we have forgotten as a society - 1.2m died of COVID. It still kills 100s of people per week in the US. There are families of 1.2m people who I am sure would love to have the chance to have their loved one back. They didn’t disappear - COVID killed them.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

3 guys, none with infectious disease or pedatric expertise, just ran roughshod over normal procedures to block COVID shots for kids, pregnant people. This is so awful & insane & we should treat it as such. Reporters, you're on notice. Both sides this at your peril & watch your credibitlity evaporate

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

If you drive drunk and your negligence kills someone, you will likely be sentenced to years in prison. If you are a Boeing executive and your negligence kills 346 people, you likely will not receive any punishment at all. In America, we don't treat white collar crimes as crimes.

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

On Fox News, RFK said some kids w/ "very profound morbidities may have a slight risk" from Covid, but “most kids don’t.” But CDC data from July 2023 - March 2024 found half of children hospitalized due to Covid "had no underlying medical conditions." 🧵1/4 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

‚One major takeaway? Long COVID doesn’t just affect the body—it’s shaking up entire societies. From job losses to long-term disability to collapsing into a heap halfway through the school run, the social and economic impact is massive. And mostly ignored.‘ #LongCovid

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 3 days ago • 395 comments

No, you shouldn't be auctioning off access to the president to whoever buys the most of a speculative asset that he profits from. Thanks for asking. And yes, we're still thinking about Trump's memecoin dinner.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

The pain of an unethical situation is not all in your head. Moral distress and moral injury show up in our bodies and behaviors. 💔

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

In the US, 300 people a week are dying of Covid. 1200 a month. 15,600 a year. They’ve restricted COVID testing & reporting… so it’s safe to say those numbers are an undercount (and they don’t include the thousands being disabled) Do they urge mask use? Clean air? No. They restrict vaccines:

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

It's typical that the New York Times would write this ... "The death of outrage in the Trump era, or at least the dearth of outrage, exemplifies how far the president has moved the lines of accepted behavior in Washington." ... when NYT spent years normalizing Trump's misconduct.

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

Absolute clown show. The original tariff deadline lasted 2 days. Governing on vibes and the whims of the last person Trump speaks to is not sustainable.

submitted 4 days ago • 249 comments

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

submitted 6 days ago • 103 comments

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

submitted 4 days ago • 264 comments

The pandemic has been a tragedy on so many levels- the morbidity and mortality, the contribution to the rise of eugenics and fascism, and the squandered opportunities to make the world a much better place.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It doesn’t matter how much time you spend at the gym. Or how old you are. SARSCoV2 really doesn’t care.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

It’s strange to watch Americans memorialize soldiers who died for democracy whilst they giddily embrace fascism.

submitted 4 days ago • 533 comments

He’s lying. The vaccines weren’t “rubber stamped”. They were tested. Totally dishonest

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The ruling class wants to blame individuals for their disabilities They want society to believe we failed. That we didn’t try hard enough They want folks to think they’re the exception. Disability won’t happen to them This way they won’t demand things like universal healthcare & social supports

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Funny, but when I was a federal prosecutor, people, including folks I know to be conservative Republicans, were absolutely adamant about prosecuting pay-to-play schemes that were much less bold and audacious than this one. Those folks all seem to have gone into hiding now.

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

“COVID vaccines reduce the risk of becoming sick, developing long COVID and becoming hospitalized, for everyone. COVID continues to spread and cause harm. Limiting access to vaccines is an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.” - me in @huffpost.com

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Protesters risked being shunned by society to warn that Haiti is running out of HIV medication months after the administration of President Donald Trump slashed more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall aid across the globe.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

I'll be honest this result makes me feel pretty sick to my stomach. The success of disinformation is so senseless and destructive it's hard for me to wrap my head around.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Which is the point

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

"We can 'follow the science' even when it scares us, instead of insisting that 'we have to live our lives' until those lives go up in flames." Brilliant essay by Violet Affleck on the intersections between the climate crisis & Covid crisis 👌🏼 yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

It's disgusting that cable news channels let Trump lie and lie and lie with no correction. It's deeply irresponsible. They're helping Trump poison our democracy.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments