"Off-label vaccination is not a widespread public health strategy.... However, vaccinating children off-label is an ethically & legally supportable tool at a time when other tools are being removed from the toolkit."

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

New newsletter: The majority does not like this, and as I wrote Sunday we can make that matter when we act. And we are acting--it's far from enough yet, but it's also far from nothing (and likely more than they bargained for)... The rest at: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/notes-on-not...

Like many others, I too am glad I got to thank Cecile Richards for having an impact on my ability to have planned parenthood.

With my fabulous friend @sefyfe.bsky.social in Nashville back in 2017 (when we were doing this all for the first time - may Cecile’s energy remain with us for the second).

Politico is reporting Trump will name Dr. Ladapo of Florida to a senior spot, likely Surgeon General or Assistant HHS.

This would be a horrifying pick for trans people. He's responsible for Florida's adult trans ban, and works with SEGM/Anti-trans global movement.

He's also an ardent anti-vaxxer.

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)