Lila Herndon Vizzard
@lilavizzard.bsky.social
Dog lover (esp. Airedales), Unitarian Universalist, feminist, and public health strategist. Just trying to stay sane.
Wow, I bow to the master. Well done indeed.
October 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Wow, I bow to the master. Well done indeed.
That's an easy yes for me. I just need to remember to take Advil first for my aging hips.
On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
www.911forhealthandscience.org
October 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
That's an easy yes for me. I just need to remember to take Advil first for my aging hips.
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Guy passing out constitutions who didn’t want me to show his face is where we are as a nation
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Guy passing out constitutions who didn’t want me to show his face is where we are as a nation
There it is. Thank you. Now, WTF!?
If someone goes from a media outlet to a government agency and then implements a policy attempting to prevent the media from reporting on the agency, what does that tell you about their media outlet?
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
There it is. Thank you. Now, WTF!?
Would appreciate confirmation. But itt tracks.
September 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Would appreciate confirmation. But itt tracks.
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Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.
The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
August 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.
The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
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How much he knew? Everything.
Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew
August 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
How much he knew? Everything.
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Please pay attention.👇
We cannot afford to leave our democracy in the hands of a process that requires this DOJ to act in good faith. We must act now to harden our election systems. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
We cannot afford to leave our democracy in the hands of a process that requires this DOJ to act in good faith. We must act now to harden our election systems. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
What the DOJ Is Doing Behind the Scenes
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Please pay attention.👇
We cannot afford to leave our democracy in the hands of a process that requires this DOJ to act in good faith. We must act now to harden our election systems. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
We cannot afford to leave our democracy in the hands of a process that requires this DOJ to act in good faith. We must act now to harden our election systems. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
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RFK Jr. is going to kill thousands of people. That’s not hyperbole.
June 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
RFK Jr. is going to kill thousands of people. That’s not hyperbole.
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We’re fighting back. ✊✍️
Shoutout to our brave NIH colleagues behind the “Bethesda Declaration”
No, you *cannot* attack medical research. It benefits us all.
Shoutout to our brave NIH colleagues behind the “Bethesda Declaration”
No, you *cannot* attack medical research. It benefits us all.
“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We’re fighting back. ✊✍️
Shoutout to our brave NIH colleagues behind the “Bethesda Declaration”
No, you *cannot* attack medical research. It benefits us all.
Shoutout to our brave NIH colleagues behind the “Bethesda Declaration”
No, you *cannot* attack medical research. It benefits us all.
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Looks pretty intentional to me.
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
June 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Looks pretty intentional to me.
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Who needs accurate health information? Not the US government.
Pandemic truthers take over HHS Covid site
Covid.gov now redirects to a page attacking masks, New York, and Anthony Fauci.
www.motherjones.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Who needs accurate health information? Not the US government.
He led the work on the COVID vaccine during the first Trump administration. Who still believes RFK's confirmation hearing assertions that he's actually pro vax?
Peter Marks exposed the truth: RFK Jr. demands “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” The GOP Senate confirmed him anyway—installing a conspiracy theorist as health secretary.
FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out
In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
www.nbcnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
He led the work on the COVID vaccine during the first Trump administration. Who still believes RFK's confirmation hearing assertions that he's actually pro vax?
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As the #measles outbreak continues to spread across the United States, doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: children getting sick from taking too much vitamin A due to dangerous misinformation from Secretary Kennedy.
www.upi.com/Health_News/...
www.upi.com/Health_News/...
Multistate measles outbreak leads to dangerous vitamin A toxicity - UPI.com
As a measles outbreak spreads across the United States, doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: children getting sick from taking too much vitamin A.
www.upi.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
As the #measles outbreak continues to spread across the United States, doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: children getting sick from taking too much vitamin A due to dangerous misinformation from Secretary Kennedy.
www.upi.com/Health_News/...
www.upi.com/Health_News/...
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Going forward, employers and graduate schools will have to discount service academy diplomas from '26 to about '29 or '30. I'm curious if this will affect accreditation.
Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Going forward, employers and graduate schools will have to discount service academy diplomas from '26 to about '29 or '30. I'm curious if this will affect accreditation.
Having just watched two episodes just to calm my brain at the end of the day. Great substack post.
March 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Having just watched two episodes just to calm my brain at the end of the day. Great substack post.
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❤️❤️❤️
Present Tense
Staying in the moment in Episode 103
open.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
❤️❤️❤️
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Less than two months after taking office, US President Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18.2 million of taxpayers' money on his golfing hobby, despite his and Elon Musk's DOGE campaign to slash federal spending.
Trump spends staggering $18 million of taxpayer money golfing amid DOGE cuts
www.irishstar.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Less than two months after taking office, US President Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18.2 million of taxpayers' money on his golfing hobby, despite his and Elon Musk's DOGE campaign to slash federal spending.
Utterly disgusting.
A federal judge ordered the CDC to restore some pages that the Trump admin deleted. The pages were restored today, but they removed terms like transgender and nonbinary, and pinned this discriminatory note to the top of the pages.
February 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Utterly disgusting.
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
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At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed.
Although HHS…
Although HHS…
February 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed.
Although HHS…
Although HHS…