dio (diachrony)
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dio (diachrony)
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Cat lover, Balloon Juice lurker
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I know people jump to the money thing too easily sometimes, but I can promise you she got paid for this.

Turning Point pays very well and she definitely got her standard travel package covered (private jet etc) and I would bet at least $500k if not $1 million + fee.
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here
Nicki Minaj: “For young men, don’t be Newscum (Gavin Newsom) .. Dear young men, you have amazing role models like our handsome, dashing president...”
December 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"The Trump administration in May canceled a $700 million contract with Moderna to develop a human bird flu vaccine. Secretary Kennedy has cut other funding for vaccine research and scrapped long-held federal vaccine guidance."
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US senators push USDA for urgent action on bird flu vaccine
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators this week urged the administration of President Donald Trump to finalize a science-based plan for developing a bird flu vaccine for livestock, according to a letter...
www.reuters.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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New from me: Whooping cough cases are skyrocketing, but CDC is silent—plus the agency's new second-in-command is the former Louisiana surgeon general, a vaccine critic who waited till two babies died of whooping cough to sent out an alert to his state. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The new CDC leader’s whooping cough scandal
“It continues to be appalling, the type of people RFK Jr. is putting into high-level positions in CDC.”
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I feel very confident that in a year or so, when most of public health is just rubble, papers will start to come out showing that case counts for measles, pertussis and several other conditions will have been tremendously and deliberately underreported in outbreak regions.
US measles outbreak tops 1,800 cases as respiratory illness surveillance returns
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Just your daily reminder that the occurrence of frequent uncontained measles outbreaks in a country is not a flex, it is a marker of under development and a failed public health system.
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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RFK Jr has been working for two decades to create a world like this, and now that he is charge of the nation’s health he is able to achieve his dream
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing
The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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As measles rages in S Carolina notice that those responding to this outbreak on the frontlines are pediatricians, family med practitioners, nurses and local public health officials.
Not the wellness influencers and podscasters who discourage vaccination.
Arsonists NEVER put out fires they start
December 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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If dietary supplement labels include health claims, they are required to add the following:

“This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.”

RFK Jr.’s regime wants the statement removed.
Letter to the Dietary Supplement Industry on the DSHEA Disclaimer
Letter to the Dietary Supplement Industry on the DSHEA Disclaimer
www.fda.gov
December 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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These people are causing destruction that extends far beyond changing regulatory policy. The consequences of Makary’s leadership failure will be measured in sick, disabled, and dead people. Makary must be removed and his deeds must not be forgotten.

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Marty Makary’s tenure must be remembered as a turning point. The moment when science took a backseat to spin. Accountability is not optional. The public deserves leadership rooted in truth, not fear. The FDA’s credibility depends on it.
December 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This is so important. The conspiracy theories Makary promotes all implicate vaccines, vaccine research, and vaccine scientists in causing HIV, creating Lyme disease, and starting the Covid pandemic. They are anti-vax lies but they serve MAHA goals.

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When a nation’s top health official promotes conspiracy theories, the consequences are not abstract. Misinformation kills. It erodes vaccination rates, weakens disease prevention, and fuels the same distrust that endangers public safety.
December 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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The FDA has hemorrhaged expertise. People quit, were fired, or were demoted. Proven robust, evidence-driven regulatory processes have been replaced with autocratic politically motivated regulation by decree. FDA is thoroughly corrupted.

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The FDA was once a symbol of rigor and reliability. Its mission is to ensure that every drug, vaccine, and food product meets standards grounded in fact. Under Makary, those standards bend toward politics, and public confidence bends with them.
December 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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But Makary is doing the same thing that all the MAHA minions are: emulating RFK Jr, who pioneered these tactics as he lied, created chaos, exploited public confusion, & manufactured doubt & distrust as he acquired the power to destroy American health & science.

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Makary’s strategy is familiar. Cast doubt on consensus. Frame experts as elites. Then present himself as the truth-teller who can “fix” the system. It is a classic manipulation of public trust, weaponizing cynicism against science itself.
December 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I was very pissed & also profoundly concerned about top FDA vaccine regulators interfering with authors who had submitted their work for peer review in a respected scientific journal because their own findings contradicted their anti-vaccine ideology.

www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
www.statnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I learned that Makary & his top vaccine regulator Vinay Prasad forced FDA scientists to withdraw a paper from Vaccine. I am co-Editor-in-Chief of Vaccine. The data had been presented publicly. It showed the benefits outweigh the risks of COVID vaccines for all ages.

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Whistleblowers say Makary silenced internal researchers who supported COVID-19 vaccine access. Their studies were buried or delayed. The agency meant to protect public health is now struggling to protect its own scientists from retaliation.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Makary wasted no time establishing that the FDA would now ensure that food is safe to eat and medicine actually works based on ideology, not evidence.

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Inside the FDA, Makary has reportedly overridden advisory committees, halted vaccine approvals, and pressured scientists to retract data that contradicted his agenda. Under his leadership, evidence-based medicine has been replaced by optics and obedience.
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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He has been profiting off his contrarianism since before the pandemic. It was a wise investment, as it secured him his current position as FDA Commissioner

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Before taking office, Makary gained fame on right-wing talk shows, spreading false claims about vaccines, HIV, and Lyme disease. These were not minor errors or misquotes. They were deliberate distortions that blurred the line between medical expertise and political theater.
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Take a moment to meet FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. He is the guy who is leading the agency that is working overtime to enrich his MAHA patrons by taking away your kids’ access to vaccines & essential medicines. He’s replacing evidence-based regulation with corruption.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary built his platform not on science but on spectacle. Makary turned a medical career into a megaphone for misinformation. Once a surgeon and professor, he built his brand on public skepticism, rising to power by attacking the very scientific standards he now oversees.
December 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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A HUGE French study, which examined data on 28.6 million adults, showed high effectiveness & safety:

Vaccinated people had a 74% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 in hospital & lower all-cause mortality over 4 yrs

The MAGA/MAHA crew are just playing politics to serve their masters: Trump & RFK Jr
For its next attack on Covid vaccines, FDA is weighing the use of a label reserved for the most dangerous drugs.
Covid shots may get FDA's strongest warning
The agency's black-box label is meant to flag serious threats to life and health.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Our nation’s federal health system is *literally* being run by conspiracy theorists, with dreadful consequences
RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill

www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease
RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Tracy Beth Høeg assumes the role of acting director of the #FDA's drugs division Monday. #CDER staff are worried about what Høeg will do. Among her targets: #RSV monoclonals that have been game changers, but which Høeg questions. @lizzylawrence.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/t...
FDA staff fear Tracy Beth Høeg will bring bias and instability to embattled drug center
Høeg is set to become the fifth head of the FDA's drug center in a year.
www.statnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM