@revtrue.bsky.social
Reposted
So much greatness.
September 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So much greatness.
Reposted
California, Oregon and Washington announced yesterday they’ve created their own health alliance, saying the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.”
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
California, Oregon and Washington announced yesterday they’ve created their own health alliance, saying the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.”
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.
Reposted
Excellent thorough explication of the faulty experimental designs, faulty statistical analyses, faulty logic, and serious biases used to argue vaccinations cause autism. Great material for anyone teaching research methods or statistics.
🧪
#vaccine, #autism, #research, #p-hacking, #Geier
🧪
#vaccine, #autism, #research, #p-hacking, #Geier
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Excellent thorough explication of the faulty experimental designs, faulty statistical analyses, faulty logic, and serious biases used to argue vaccinations cause autism. Great material for anyone teaching research methods or statistics.
🧪
#vaccine, #autism, #research, #p-hacking, #Geier
🧪
#vaccine, #autism, #research, #p-hacking, #Geier
Reposted
An American doctor who has volunteered in Gaza told @reveal and Mother Jones that after speaking out about what she witnessed over the past two years—including children shot by Israeli forces—the government of Israel has stopped her from re-entering Gaza.
Israel just denied this doctor from entering Gaza with food and baby formula
Earlier this year, we talked with Dr. Mimi Syed about treating kids shot in Gaza. Now, she is being denied entry back into the strip.
www.motherjones.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
An American doctor who has volunteered in Gaza told @reveal and Mother Jones that after speaking out about what she witnessed over the past two years—including children shot by Israeli forces—the government of Israel has stopped her from re-entering Gaza.
Reposted
A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.
Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys
It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.
newrepublic.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.
Reposted
People being held at the immigrant detention center in Florida known as "Alligator Alcatraz" face human rights abuses including denial of due process and legal counsel, according to a new federal lawsuit brought by the ACLU.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/20/aclu_alligator_alcatraz
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/20/aclu_alligator_alcatraz
August 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
People being held at the immigrant detention center in Florida known as "Alligator Alcatraz" face human rights abuses including denial of due process and legal counsel, according to a new federal lawsuit brought by the ACLU.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/20/aclu_alligator_alcatraz
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/20/aclu_alligator_alcatraz
Reposted
“Often, the people who have been on the land the longest are the first to get displaced.”
After Maui’s fires, native Hawaiian families face a new threat: foreclosure.
After Maui’s fires, native Hawaiian families face a new threat: foreclosure.
After Maui's fires, native Hawaiian families face a new threat: foreclosure
“Often, the people who have been on the land the longest are the first to get displaced.”
www.motherjones.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“Often, the people who have been on the land the longest are the first to get displaced.”
After Maui’s fires, native Hawaiian families face a new threat: foreclosure.
After Maui’s fires, native Hawaiian families face a new threat: foreclosure.
Reposted
Jeff Vierstra was likely doomed by his DNA. A radical experiment gave him a chance to rewrite his fate — before ALS symptoms ever began.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/a...
Did a drug prevent this man’s ALS?
For over an hour, Jeff Vierstra lay still in Columbia University’s ALS clinic, as a doctor poked him ankle-to-throat with an electric needle. Sometimes,
www.statnews.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Jeff Vierstra was likely doomed by his DNA. A radical experiment gave him a chance to rewrite his fate — before ALS symptoms ever began.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/a...
Reposted
He is really a brilliant comic.
July 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
He is really a brilliant comic.
Reposted
Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt. A reminder, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt. A reminder, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.
Reposted
. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com with some shade for CNN during his monologue tonight
June 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com with some shade for CNN during his monologue tonight
Reposted
your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary
June 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary
Reposted
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Reposted
👀⚖️👇🏾
NEW: Russell Vought, acting head of CFPB and director of OMB, just killed a rule to protect US residents' personal information from predatory data brokers. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...
CFBP Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
www.wired.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
👀⚖️👇🏾
Reposted
Reposted
I am liking her more and more every day. That combined with apparent Bernie endorsement makes me think she may be the one.
May 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I am liking her more and more every day. That combined with apparent Bernie endorsement makes me think she may be the one.
Reposted
"They don't want to have to explain this stuff.'
- Right on, Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
- Right on, Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Buttigieg: I’m not even an elected official or running for anything— I’m here. I can’t help but notice a lot of people who are elected officials aren’t. There’s a reason for that. They don’t want to have to explain this stuff
May 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"They don't want to have to explain this stuff.'
- Right on, Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
- Right on, Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Reposted
Dereliction of duty.
May 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Dereliction of duty.
Reposted
The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit
So much for cutting costs.
www.motherjones.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Reposted
Your School House Rock moment......
May 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Your School House Rock moment......
Reposted
Fact check: Trump claimed the US doesn’t do “much business with Canada.” In reality, Canada is the world’s top buyer of US exports.
Fact check: Trump claimed the US doesn’t do ‘much business with Canada.’ Canada is the world’s top buyer of US exports | CNN Politics
During his Tuesday meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, President Donald Trump falsely minimized the importance of the US trade relationship with Canada.
www.cnn.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Fact check: Trump claimed the US doesn’t do “much business with Canada.” In reality, Canada is the world’s top buyer of US exports.
Reposted
"In March, the Trump administration cut $1 billion from Department of Agriculture programs that provide food to schools and food banks and said there would be future cuts to other programs..."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
One nun’s angst: More hunger, less food, looming Trump cuts
Trump administration budget cuts have triggered alarm in the sprawling network of aid groups, many religious, that provide free or very low-cost food to millions of struggling Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"In March, the Trump administration cut $1 billion from Department of Agriculture programs that provide food to schools and food banks and said there would be future cuts to other programs..."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Reposted
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife has been forced into hiding after the Trump administration posted her address online.
Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife says she fears for her safety since the Trump administration deported him to a prison in El Salvador.
newrepublic.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife has been forced into hiding after the Trump administration posted her address online.
Reposted
Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.
Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
www.cbsnews.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.
Reposted
Journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social says the United States has a lot to learn from the Philippines' experience with authoritarian rule.
April 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social says the United States has a lot to learn from the Philippines' experience with authoritarian rule.