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You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

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I feel like nobody told me about a lot of the things that would be different about my body during and post-pregnancy, and I don’t really understand why. The information would not have changed my decision to have a kid, but it would have helped me prepare more.

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BREAKING: RFK Jr. names Martin Kulldorff and Robert Malone and six others to ACIP. x.com/SecKennedy/s...

submitted 14 hours ago • 68 comments

"Long overdue." "An awesome thing." "Great news!" Anti-vaxxers are rejoicing after RFK Jr. fired all the CDC's vaccine experts.

submitted 22 hours ago • 693 comments

When I asked Bill Cassidy about RFK Jr’s ousting the entire ACIP, and he said “I’m not actually discussing secretary kennedy, kind of in the hallway.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says people "don’t want us to look at environmental exposures" for autism. But his Department of Health and Human Services killed a grant to research the "environmental etiology of autism spectrum disorder" taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

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Floridas’s child-welfare agency — in a reversal of a 30-year policy — is now willing to turn minors over to ICE. This 17-year-old was taken from his foster home in handcuffs and shackles. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

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SCOOP For years an FDA warning about the dangers of chlorine dioxide helped prevent it going mainstream. Bleachers spent years calling for it to be removed In May, it disappeared Now, the bleachers think RFK will make all their dreams come true www.wired.com/story/chlori...

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here’s how we know vaccines do NOT cause autism - feb. 2025 story newly relevant… www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v...

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shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

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There are some baby books that are for adults and not babies and I hate them. People get them as gifts for our baby, meaning well, but they just take up space on our bookshelves and never get used.

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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Ok, so the administration is forcing layoffs at the VA — and then charging the VA for layoff consulting. Really. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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BREAKING: Terry Moran is out at ABC News. "We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – which was a clear violation of ABC News policies – we have made the decision to not renew," an ABC spokesperson says.

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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

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NEW: Leland Lehrman is the new executive director of the MAHA Institute, a policy organization with ties to RFK. In the mid-2000s, Lehrman promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories and argued repeatedly that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is legitimate: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I am once again asking people to be Normal about Greta Thunberg. I wrote this 6 years ago and it is still mostly relevant, except she is now an adult and not a child.

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the problem with this isn't the blithe disregard for ethical concerns, because none of it will happen, the problem is that it's blatant bullshit and these people are not only in charge of their massive industry but being taken seriously by governments. fortune.com/2025/06/06/g...

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BREAKING: RFK Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on vaccine use, pledging to replace them with his own picks.

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In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes www.science.org/content/arti...

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This is the second day in a row that federal agents shot us both

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“Earlier identification, equitable access to assessment, accurate diagnosis, appropriate understanding of the autistic person, and tailored support result in more positive outcomes throughout life and facilitate needed health care, adaptive identity development, and illness prevention.”

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"Actually, it's pronounced 'Roku's Basilica'."

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This is so good and also I want to second Julia’s call for a newsroom to scoop up @katrinajanco.bsky.social.

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NPR speaks with a British orthopedic surgeon who just returned from his fourth medical mission to Gaza. He says many people he operated on were civilians and were shot while trying to reach food aid.

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A senior Hamas official told Agence France-Presse on Saturday that the organization is prepared to release all remaining hostages at one time in exchange for a five-year cease-fire in Gaza. Israel has not yet responded to the report

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🎧EXCLUSIVE AUDIO — ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt at the Republican Attorneys General national meeting in NY this morning: “Mahmoud Khalil… was not some child. He was one of the ringleaders of this group, and I am sure we’re going to find out about his ties to groups overseas.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with personal data on millions of Americans for now.

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The most shocking thing I learned growing up was that books don’t have to have fact checkers and the standards for them are much less stringent than most news articles.

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This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

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Today FDA resumed hiring food investigators, after being stalled for months by White House freeze We're told nearly 1 in 5 positions are now vacant in agency's food inspectorate Last month, agency told HHS OIG that nearly 90 investigative positions empty www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

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The Trump administration wants to shutter the CDC’s National Asthma Control Program, which provides millions in funding to state-administered initiatives aimed at fighting the disease. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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