@janetbain.bsky.social
Reposted
Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move?
Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."
Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."
September 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move?
Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."
Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."
Reposted
this doesn't look like a normal distribution
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
this doesn't look like a normal distribution
Reposted
Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”
September 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”
Reposted
Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
September 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
Reposted
KAINE: Were you instructed by the secretary of HHS to not speak to senators?
MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators
KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators
MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators
KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators
September 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
KAINE: Were you instructed by the secretary of HHS to not speak to senators?
MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators
KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators
MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators
KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators
Reposted
He needs a haircut
September 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
He needs a haircut
Reposted
How did Dr. Monarez go from being “a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials” who had the “full confidence” of Secretary Kennedy into being a “liar” and “untrustworthy” in less than a month?
She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
September 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
How did Dr. Monarez go from being “a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials” who had the “full confidence” of Secretary Kennedy into being a “liar” and “untrustworthy” in less than a month?
She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
Reposted
This is Presley. At 12 years old, she was found as a stray with a huge mass on her stomach. On Friday, our email community raised the money to completely cover her surgery to remove it and post-op care. We're told the pup cup afterwards ALMOST makes up for her shaved butt ❤️🩹
September 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is Presley. At 12 years old, she was found as a stray with a huge mass on her stomach. On Friday, our email community raised the money to completely cover her surgery to remove it and post-op care. We're told the pup cup afterwards ALMOST makes up for her shaved butt ❤️🩹
Reposted
former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
September 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
Reposted
Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
Reposted
We need a term for when you are more than burned out like "perma-goo brain"or "charred husk of a person".
September 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We need a term for when you are more than burned out like "perma-goo brain"or "charred husk of a person".
Reposted
this joke broke containment and now i have a bunch of right-wingers gleefully informing me they've already called my boss and celebrating my firing
weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!
weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!
September 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
this joke broke containment and now i have a bunch of right-wingers gleefully informing me they've already called my boss and celebrating my firing
weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!
weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!
Reposted
I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.
Reposted
this story has haunted me for months
I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
this story has haunted me for months
Reposted
Reposted
Reposted
REPORTER: Do you think Maduro is not telling the truth when he said it's a fisherman's boat?
TRUMP: Oh, give me a break. You could see it. You saw the bags of white everything, right through the bags. It's nonsense.
TRUMP: Oh, give me a break. You could see it. You saw the bags of white everything, right through the bags. It's nonsense.
September 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
REPORTER: Do you think Maduro is not telling the truth when he said it's a fisherman's boat?
TRUMP: Oh, give me a break. You could see it. You saw the bags of white everything, right through the bags. It's nonsense.
TRUMP: Oh, give me a break. You could see it. You saw the bags of white everything, right through the bags. It's nonsense.
Reposted
NEW: I've never seen as many retractions as I have this week, and that speaks volumes about the degradation of corporate media. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-abject...
The Abject Failure of Corporate Media in the Wake of Charlie Kirk
I've been steeped in the news media for nearly 8 years and I've never seen more retractions than I have this week.
www.muellershewrote.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
NEW: I've never seen as many retractions as I have this week, and that speaks volumes about the degradation of corporate media. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-abject...
Reposted
Y’all are cutting HBCU funding, dismantling civil rights offices, slashing Medicaid and SNAP, over-policing Black communities—yet want us to believe you’re helping poor Black people?
September 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Y’all are cutting HBCU funding, dismantling civil rights offices, slashing Medicaid and SNAP, over-policing Black communities—yet want us to believe you’re helping poor Black people?
Reposted
BREAKING: The Washington Post has FIRED its last full-time Black opinion columnist for criticizing Charlie Kirk…by posting HIS OWN STATEMENTS. After Kirk's assassination, Karen Attiah, an eleven-year veteran of the Post, wrote a thread on Bluesky condemning political violence
September 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
BREAKING: The Washington Post has FIRED its last full-time Black opinion columnist for criticizing Charlie Kirk…by posting HIS OWN STATEMENTS. After Kirk's assassination, Karen Attiah, an eleven-year veteran of the Post, wrote a thread on Bluesky condemning political violence
Reposted
I hate when I’m forced to agree with him. bsky.app/profile/patr...
September 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I hate when I’m forced to agree with him. bsky.app/profile/patr...
Reposted
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
September 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
Reposted
Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
September 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate