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Kiera Butler
@kieraevebutler.bsky.social
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National Correspondent for Mother Jones. Extremism etc. https://www.motherjones.com/author/kiera-butler/ Tips: [email protected]
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 8d
Today Trump and Netanyahu announced a plan for ending the war in Gaza. Here's my piece about the one group that may have more power than any other over US Israel policy: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism
Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 8d
“I am Charlie Kirk.”

Last week, I spoke to a group of anti-vaccine activists rallying near the Atlanta headquarters of the CDC in support of RFK Jr. Here's what some of them had to say.

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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 12d
New from me: I talked to these people outside the CDC headquarters about Tylenol, vaccines, Charlie Kirk, and going "down the truth rabbit hole"
Anti-vax activists stage a rally exactly where an anti-vax gunman killed an officer last month
One sign read, "Anti-Science, Pro-Informed Consent.”
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 13d
Israeli settlers have an influential lobbyist working in Washington to push the Trump administration to okay annexation of the West Bank. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The settlers' man in Washington
How Yossi Dagan is pushing US lawmakers to support Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 13d
A giant thank you to the many people who made this story better, including the meticulous fact checking by @schuylermitchell.bsky.social and my amazing editor Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 13d
New from me: I wrote about how increasingly Israel's most important American allies are not Jews but evangelical Christians. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism
Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 14d
Folks, we've got an epistemological crisis and it's not going well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Anti-vax groups struggle to explain how Tylenol fits in with their whole thing
The White House's very weird autism announcement triggers a moment of opportunity and crisis.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 14d
Trouble in paradise! @annamerlan.bsky.social and I wrote about how some corners of the anti-vax universe are displeased by Trump's Tylenol announcement. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Anti-vax groups struggle to explain how Tylenol fits in with their whole thing
The White House's very weird autism announcement triggers a moment of opportunity and crisis.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 15d
Today @annamerlan.bsky.social and I have a piece about Trump's autism announcement, along with its weird connections to wellness people who are obsessed with folate deficiencies (and selling supplements for this supposed problem, naturally): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The bonkers wellness myths that fueled Trump’s autism announcement
Tylenol, folate deficiency, and other still-undetermined “environmental factors” were all to blame.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 16d
Likewise!!!!
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 20d
Just a reminder that this is the guy who now has final say over any new CDC vaccine guidelines: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Like making Elon Musk the head of the FAA"—meet acting CDC director Jim O’Neill
He's not a scientist but has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 21d
New from me: I talked to @matthewboedy.bsky.social about his new book, which reveals Turning Point’s deep connections to a shadowy Christian nationalist movement.
His book on Charlie Kirk was about to come out. Then his subject was murdered.
Turning Point is "built to last" and "now has a martyr to honor."
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 27d
J6ers and militia leaders are newly energized in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. “I’m going to be rebuilding Oath Keepers,” vowed Stewart Rhodes, leader of the militia group. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... by @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and me
Pardoned insurrectionists are using Charlie Kirk’s death to call for civil war
“Charlie Kirk's assassination pulled me out of retirement. More work must be done.”
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Sep 5
But they don't mention this bit from the discussion, which seems like v important context:
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Sep 5
This seems to be the study they're referring to: ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology - Environmental Health
Background Acetaminophen is the most commonly used over-the-counter pain and fever medication taken during pregnancy, with > 50% of pregnant women using acetaminophen worldwide. Numerous well-designed...
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Sep 5
Oh look it's RFK Jr.'s antivax group Children's Health Defense posting about tylenol supposedly causing autism a few days ago
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Sep 4
New from me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Sep 4
Pastor Doug Wilson at the National Conservatism conference that's happening now. He also believes that women, who shouldn't be allowed to vote, are "the kind of people who people come out of."
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Sep 3
And there it is. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Florida's surgeon general just said he will eliminate "all vaccine mandates"
Including those for shots that prevent catastrophic diseases like polio and measles.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Sep 3
Curiously, the main organizers of the highly influential MAGA conference where JD Vance debuted his "America is a people" speech last year don't live in the US—they live in West Bank settlements. This year's conference is happening now. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Make America Israel Again?
If you want to see where MAGA is headed, look no further than this week's National Conservatism summit.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Sep 2
Something to know about the folks behind America’s most influential nationalism movement is that the nation they’re most connected to is not America. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Make America Israel Again?
If you want to see where MAGA is headed, look no further than this week's National Conservatism summit.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Aug 29
While he throws the CDC into chaos that may not be fixable, read @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and I on what else RFK Jr. is planning to do to vaccines, and remember the artificial September deadline he's set to "discover" the causes of autism: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The plot against vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have hit on a way to undermine immunization.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Aug 29
New from me: Meet the network state tech bro leading the CDC www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Like making Elon Musk the head of the FAA"—meet acting CDC director Jim O’Neill
He's not a scientist but has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement.
www.motherjones.com
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famous bog body @bogbird.bsky.social · Aug 18
getting my microplastics removed
medieval tapestry painting featuring bloodletting. 2 people. 1 removing blood from the other
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · Aug 18
While reading this bit from the leaked MAHA report draft it may be helpful to remember RFK Jr.'s plans to send people on SSRIs to "wellness farms" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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