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Associate Prof. of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies at Stockton University. I hunt quacks and quackery across time and space. He/him. Huzzah: science, pseudoscience, conspiracy theory studies. Harrumph: fakes, frauds, fascists. #U2, #MST3K, #WWII
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🚨The most detailed takedown of the new ACIP members and the most fact-based slap to those still minimizing their anti-vaxx, anti-science records. If you're still saying 'The new ACIP isn’t that bad' — you seriously need to read this.

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

I think it should be a bigger story that the Senate is preparing to confirm five Trump judicial nominees whose answers to questions about the 2020 election are exactly what you would say if you were a “Trump only lost because of voter fraud” conspiracy theorist

It's way down on the list of horrors, but National Parks having to post signs asking visitors to report anything there that provides "information that [is] negative about either past or living Americans" is utterly pathetic. The past isn't all positive, kids. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings.

If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone But there’d be signs

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

RFK Jr. removed all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. Some of their vaccine votes, like RSV and meningococcus, might now be up for a re-vote. There’s no CDC director, no public explanation, no clarity. 🧵

Everyone… It doesn’t just stop at ACIP. The strategy is not just approvals but will eventually filter down to how your provider will be able to operate Every single one of RFK and companies goals is to completely incapacitate the current medical institution and keep everyone in the dark

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I've seen impeachment talk as pointless, but if Dems take the house back in 26, what's happened this week demands articles instantly be filed against Trump and almost everyone in his cabinet. Nobody will be removed, but that's not the point.

Honestly, folks. As a historian, every day I wonder what new assault on the democratic process awaits us from the executive branch. The revolutionary generation knew that they were living in world-changing times. So are we. We need to live up to this challenge.

Remember when you protest: you're not trying to persuade the Trump regime to stop their actions, they're not open to persuasion. You're trying to persuade the public that the Trump regime is acting unconstitutionally. The public isn't persuaded by violence. Peaceful, joyful protest tactics will win.

SEND THE MARINES

More and more we’re seeing the collision between “Follow the rules” and “there is in fact no way to follow the rules.”

Real apocalyptic here in LA. 76 degrees with a breeze. Sunset at 8. Tacos on every corner.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Today RFK Jr took the single biggest step towards destroying childhood vaccines When @nytimes asked me in December whether RFK could kill the vaccine program - I said he’d have to remove CDCs ACIP And… that’s exactly what he just did today Not good-just like that we cannot trust CDC on vaccines

Yes yes yes

I'm working at an election tomorrow, helping my fellow citizens exercise their rights. I'm a registered Democrat. I will be working alongside registered Republicans. Poll workers all share a genuine enthusiasm for promoting elections. We will applaud first-time voters. We'll ensure votes are secure.

RFK has taken the "extraordinary step" of firing the panel that advises CDC on vaccines, @helenbranswell.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

I was just thinking about this! People have no idea how big LA is. It's similar to the wildfires. People thought that the entire area was on fire (it was a big fire, for sure, but most people in LA were just living their daily lives)

Alex Jones spent the last 30 years being like "MARTIAL LAW IS COMIN BECAUSE THE DEEP STATE JADE HELM ILLUMINATIIII" and now it's here and his place could not be more in favor of it.

Much of my writing has been about pandemic revisionism. Unwanted facts are denied and erased from memory. Since Vinay Prasad is now “very reasonable” on RCTs, some folks want you to forget 4 years of this👇. Constantly. RCT or STFU.

The people of Los Angeles will rally on Monday, 6/9 to demand the release of everyone unjustly detained by ICE, like SEIU leader David Huerta, and an end to militaristic escalation on our communities. Join us and @aclusocal.bsky.social at 11 AM in LA to call for an end to these human rights abuses.

Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

AI writing assistants can jump up my butt. God, they are irritating.

Trump is saving Los Angeles from big scary **checks notes** dancing flash mobs

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I keep seeing Stephen Miller tweets and every single one of them makes him sound like the most overdramatic little wizard in an anime for dumb babies

This is a vitally important point to remember. Big force displays often reveal deep weaknesses—and a profound self-awareness of them.

If I say "vote" and "donate" and "phone bank" and "register people" and stuff like that, it'll just make you mad

“Anyone” here means anyone besides the rightwing extremists and rioters who attacked cops while overrunning the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

Now the writer’s room is just showboating.

The party that subjected Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Michael Byrd, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, Ashley Thomas and countless other public servants to death threats demand that you to stop posting the names of the ICE agents who are snatching innocent people off the street and disappearing them.

🇺🇸📡👀 Musk's Starlink poses a threat to national security, White House officials say. ❗️The White House's Starlink satellite communications system bypassed controls designed to prevent information leaks and hacking attacks, - The Washington Post.

By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...