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“That decision enrages Zweig, who argues that influenza kills more children than Covid, but when you look at the actual figures you wonder what he’s smoking.” Bless her. Zweig’s book is patently dangerous. How many vaguely informed people will read it and claim “a scientist said it was pointless”?

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

Everybody disliked school closures. That’s why the narrative that they were somehow worse than the alternative has caught on. It sucked! What if things didn’t have to have sucked? Sounds great, right? Please share @wendyorent.bsky.social’s piece with anyone who’s fallen for that revisionist history.

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

My interview on NPR All Things Considered this afternoon www.npr.org/2025/05/28/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

submitted 15 hours ago • 98 comments

This really is a stellar piece of writing

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

My thoughts on the defunding of disease cure research, origin of COVID, the executive order on so-called gain of function research, China’s advances in biotech, the spread of avian flu, and why the US needs to shed this fictional worldview ASAP. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Democrats: I cover money-in-politics and the right-wing machine. Takes like this are advocating political malpractice. Your positions will never be weak enough for the GOP. They’ll always try to brand you extremists. Stop ceding ground to right-wing bullshit. Fight. Especially for human rights.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 17 hours ago • 406 comments

And other countries are still closing schools @wendyorent.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

Exactly

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

Nate Silver is a pissant. How to tell the world the worst thing that happened to you during the pandemic was having to spend a little more time at home.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

“The NIH monopoly on directing scientific research should be broken”. Project 2025, page 462. RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya are falling right in line with this document produced by the right-wing extremist Heritage Foundation. Academic freedom my butt.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

On average, 300 Americans are still dying each week from COVID19. A major part of the reason is that they are not vaccinated. Another is they’ve been led to believe that COVID19 isn’t serious and don’t seek care or test for it.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

This is the best thing I’ve seen today and I need a source. Bluesky, please help. Credit to whoever this rad group is.

submitted 2 days ago • 524 comments

COVID infection in pregnancy is associated with DOUBLE the rate of stillbirths because the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages the placenta

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

submitted 4 days ago • 125 comments

Hey @cnn.com and @megtirrell.bsky.social, do you think maybe Important Context ought to get a “first reported by” on this story about the NIH town hall walkout? We had it—with video—like a week before you guys. We’re a smaller, indie outlet but our story traveled. www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The key issue with putting contrarians in power is that their platform is entirely based on arguing against the mainstream. Mainstream public health makes mistakes, but on the aggregate it's pretty solid and evidence-based. If you throw out everything mainstream, you're left with a lot of nonsense.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Gavin Newsom believes in nothing.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

HEINOUS—Trump HHS’s RFK Jr just ended US recommendation that healthy pregnant women & kids receive COVID vaccines. 📌Extraordinary move that bypasses scientific system of vaccine guidelines from CDC!! Kids & women are not immune to Long COVID! Gift🎁🔗 wapo.st/4kk4DlE

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Sen. Ron Johnson just turned a Senate hearing into an anti-vax circus. As the FDA limits COVID booster access, the GOP is going full throttle on misinfo. ✍️: @walkerbragman.bsky.social www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-administration/senate-gop-ramps-up-attacks-on-covid-vaccines-amid-fda-push

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The orange felon pardoned corrupt Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins who was convicted of bribery and fraud, now he pardoned Todd and Julie Chrisley who defrauded banks. Because nothing says law and order like a felon gifting pardons to other felons for their loyalty. Pure fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 183 comments

Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

And last week the guy on the left co-wrote a piece in the NEJM that said pregnancy was a high-risk condition for which COVID vaccination was warranted. The non-physician in the middle told him to shove it 🤷🏻‍♂️

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