Bruce Mirken

Writer and media relations consultant for several organizations, but all ravings here are strictly mine. Known troublemaker, transplanted from California to Hilo, Hawaii. I often post pics of the cute #reptiles who hang out around my house. Escapee from #Xitter. Do NOT patronize Elon Musk's businesses.
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#EnvironmentalJustice
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#DrugPolicyReform
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#ElectricVehicles
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2026-04-26 21:38:42 UTC

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I hate that everything Google does now tries to force its garbage AI down your throat. I keep hoping for a button that reads, "Disable this crap for eternity."

2026-04-26 01:42:48 UTC

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Has anyone blamed SPLC yet? Or trans people? Maybe Jerome Powell? 🤣

2026-04-26 01:20:39 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/116468365829527813
WTF? This should have been the most secure building in the country.
#note1eyn…ky76

2026-04-22 21:25:33 UTC

I'm not sure why this story calls #GrahamPlatner an "underdog" candidate for the #Senate when it says he's ahead in the polls. And his positions sure seem about right. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/senate-graham-platner-investigate-trump-impeach-supreme-court-justices-rcna341043?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

2026-04-20 22:55:55 UTC

"Women are very often elevated into leadership at exactly the moment an organization is broken. Handed the keys to a burning building and told to fix it." How the highly qualified woman nominated to lead the #CDC is being set up to fail. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/120858

2026-04-20 16:17:26 UTC

This: "Indeed, #Trump’s behavior has been so erratic that any deal might be metaphysically impossible. One cannot make a bargain with an entity that is categorically incapable of behaving in a consistent manner." https://prospect.org/2026/04/20/trump-sabotages-his-own-much-exaggerated-iran-deal/ #IranWar

2026-04-14 17:26:27 UTC

"A group of four psychiatrists warned congressional leaders on Monday that US President Donald #Trump has recently exhibited 'every behavioral sign of a personality in acute crisis,' presenting a 'constitutional emergency' that demands immediate action from lawmakers and members of the administration."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/psychiatrists-donald-trump
#25thAmendment #ImpeachTrump

2026-04-07 20:57:07 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Vittoria/116365262527227788
I sure hope sanity prevails and my government doesn't start genociding later today.
#note1m72…n68p

2026-04-03 20:37:39 UTC

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"Driving a Toyota Camry (32 MPG) on gas at $4.09/gallon:
Monthly fuel cost: $144/month
Driving a Hyundai Ioniq 6 (27 kWh/100mi) on electricity at 17¢/kWh:
Monthly charging cost: $52/month
That’s a $92/month fuel savings — or $1,104 per year — just on fuel."

2026-04-03 20:35:25 UTC

"The national average #gas price hit $4.09 per gallon this week — up 33% from a year ago — as yet another #oil crisis hammers American drivers. But this time, the math on switching to electric is so overwhelmingly clear that millions of drivers are doing the calculation and reaching the same conclusion: they can’t afford not to drive electric."
https://electrek.co/2026/04/03/oil-crisis-ev-savings-cant-afford-not-to-drive-electric/
#ElectricVehicles

2026-03-30 19:23:48 UTC

Can we just go ahead and make #ZohranMamdani president? https://prospect.org/2026/03/30/mamdani-announces-free-child-care-program-for-city-workers/

2026-03-30 01:16:36 UTC

I generally don't inflict my musical tastes on followers here, but 83 year old #PaulMcCartney has released a new song that strikes me as both brave and beautiful. It's unmistakably the work of a man who knows he may not be around many more years, and I can't get through it without crying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1IhyF6R0U

2026-03-29 00:11:30 UTC

A tiny bit of #NoKings in Hilo #Hawaii. I haven't seen a crowd estimate, but we stretched at least half a mile down the street -- not bad for a town of 45,000 people.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/309/549/918/957/734/original/01c7e8d20d516c5d.jpg

2026-03-20 04:46:40 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/business-and-finance-pbj3bpclz/-/a-KgM0TJSFTneadtDwOt9Sig%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0
This is so painfully obvious it shouldn't need to be said, but I'm glad a major news service is saying it, and clearly. #IranWar #RenewableEnergy
#note1fz9…n5vz

2026-03-15 02:56:40 UTC

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The #NYTimes now makes you give them your email address to read a "free" article. For those who prefer not too, use this: https://archive.is/KRdku

2026-03-13 20:51:40 UTC

Oh dear god. #Trump #DementiaDon https://zeteo.com/p/trump-iran-war-excursion-incursion?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2325511&post_id=190864986&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

2026-03-13 02:40:24 UTC

Your occasional reminder that anti- #trans laws hurt everyone.
https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/texas-trans-youth-health-ban

2026-03-13 00:48:35 UTC

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116219097946137303
Boycott #Florida
#note16v9…7nt3

2026-03-07 03:53:06 UTC

I will never get used to having a U.S. Secretary of Defense who talks about war like he's a 12-year-old who just beat his big brother at a video game.
#PeteHegseth #IranWar

2026-03-06 03:35:33 UTC

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Trump has no clue how to even pretend to be a normal human being.

2026-03-04 23:16:30 UTC

Don't lose track of the growing #censorship at #colleges and #universities. https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/the-right-expands-its-campaign-to-censor-college-professors-bader-20260303/?mc_cid=cb26832298&mc_eid=42caf3e016

2026-02-28 21:59:28 UTC

The indispensable Mike Ervin of @npub1sxc…qf96 on the state and federal attacks on #trans Americans. https://progressive.org/latest/the-right-to-discriminate-ervin-20260226/?mc_cid=28dc05dfff&mc_eid=42caf3e016

2026-02-24 17:18:51 UTC

#CaseyMeans is a #MAHA "influencer" whom #Trump would like to make US Surgeon General. She's completely unqualified, on top of being a crackpot. Tell your senators to vote NO on her confirmation. See this and other current Defend Public Health campaigns at https://www.defendpublichealth.org/get-involved
#PublicHealth

2026-02-17 19:22:57 UTC

#JesseJackson was an ally to #LGBTQ people before it was fashionable; when most politicians were scared to say the word "gay" or publicly be associated with us, Jesse Jackson did just that. And in 1987, when people with AIDS were too often shunned, discriminated against and treated with fear and contempt, Jackson publicly hugged people with AIDS at the LGBTQ March on Washington. Hail and farewell. #RIP https://wehoonline.com/jesse-jackson-lgbtq-legacy-west-hollywood-obituaries-missing/

2026-02-15 16:43:43 UTC

The ugly truth about the #Trump and #RFKJr war on #children. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-war-on-children

2026-02-14 16:41:35 UTC

Happy #ValentinesDay to all the #trans people in the U.S. now having to deal with so much U.S. government cruelty and stupidity. Know that you have millions of friends you've never met, and we will stand with you always.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/069/958/793/080/196/original/4014c4506067d10d.png

2026-02-13 18:21:00 UTC

I don't know if this has a chance of succeeding, but I would pay big bucks to watch #Trump s reaction if #Minneapolis got the Nobel Peace Prize for standing up to his goons. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-the-nomination-of-the-city-of-minneapolis-and-its-people-for-the-2026-nobel-peace-prize/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2026-02-12 05:27:50 UTC

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It’s good to see people responding to this post and airing their fury at #RFKJr. Now if they can all please join the opposition: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/

2026-02-11 23:19:02 UTC

“Put simply, this is a gift-wrapped package for the fossil fuel industry,” said Manish Bapma, CEO of NRDC. “It is unscientific, it is bad economics, and it is illegal. So we’re gonna fight it.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/as-the-trump-epa-prepares-to-revoke-key-legal-finding-on-climate-change-what-happens-next/
#ClimateChange #EPA

2026-02-11 22:34:27 UTC

“We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fort-bliss-inhumane-ice-conditions?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=9c19234c29-Top+News+%7C+Thu.+1%2F8%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600541243
#ICE #ConcentrationCamps

2026-02-09 03:39:39 UTC

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Ugh. #RFKJr is about as delusional as humans get. Putting him in charge of #health may be the single most dangerous action a U.S. President has ever taken.

2026-02-06 05:06:05 UTC

Update from the Dept. of Fuck #JeffBezos https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/05/amazon-ai-robotics-bezos-washington-post?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

2026-02-05 23:44:47 UTC

It's really not an exaggeration to compare #ICE to the Gestapo. https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-ice-violations-database?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=d824cc66d3-Top+News+%7C+Thu.+1%2F8%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600541243

2026-02-04 23:40:49 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/business-5o2kkapsz/-/a-JlqW2g0kRKO7Gkmh2nTnBA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
#JeffBezos thought it was more important to spend $75+ million on the #Melania movie than to maintain the #WashingtonPost as a world-class newspaper. Do. Not. Shop. On. #Amazon
#note15dl…cn5j

2026-02-02 23:32:36 UTC

There's a wise saying that one should not ascribe to malice what can be explained by simple incompetence. But the #TrumpAdministration regularly achieves both. https://www.commondreams.org/news/doj-epstein

2026-01-27 16:04:44 UTC

This is #RFKJr's real game: Make it so that pharmaceutical companies don't want to invest in #vaccine research. And it's working. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/moderna-chief-company-won-t-invest-new-late-stage-vaccine-trials
#ImpeachRFKJr

2026-01-24 23:04:53 UTC

"The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, 'shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.'" FYI, Pretti was a nurse.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-shooting-video?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=7b167afd13-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_22_03_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-941c0cefb1-600541243
#Minneapolis #AlexPretti #ICEOut

2026-01-22 18:48:02 UTC

Even for the #TrumpAdministration, this is batshit crazy. They really want to Make Polio Great Again.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/vaccine-policy-adviser-kirk-milhoan-individual-rights-trump-public-health/
#vaccines #polio

2026-01-20 04:10:31 UTC

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Dear #Europe, please, please do not appease #Trump. If he imposes tariffs over #Greenland, go nuclear, economically speaking. You can help decent USians end this. Thank you.
Sincerely,
An American

2026-01-19 19:40:50 UTC

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My country's president is literally insane. 😱

2026-01-15 18:04:25 UTC

"Self-proclaimed 'free speech absolutist' #ElonMusk believes schoolteachers should be 'imprisoned' for educating students on topics that portray America negatively—including the nation’s history of #racism and the displacement of #NativeAmericans." https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-imprison-teachers

2026-01-15 02:05:52 UTC

Hello! #gecko #Hawaii
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/896/659/229/555/070/original/8e63c57e3d9b5bee.jpg

2026-01-14 19:18:17 UTC

What the #TrumpAdministration will never admit: Race and #discrimination have a LOT to do with #health, and when they kill funding to study these effects, they make America less healthy. https://48hills.org/2026/01/the-us-fails-again-to-fix-the-real-causes-underlying-poor-health/

2026-01-12 23:53:00 UTC

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The U.S. in 2025 had the most measles cases in three decades. RFK Jr. is going for a new record in 2026. USA! USA!

2026-01-12 01:31:36 UTC

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The crowd is now about 50% bigger than this shows. #ICEOUT

2026-01-12 01:14:39 UTC

#ICEOUT in Hilo, #Hawaii #AbolishICE
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/879/473/051/083/142/original/51aae5623f74c281.mp4

2026-01-10 03:21:33 UTC

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Murderers should not sleep peacefully. #ICEOut

2026-01-08 03:27:54 UTC

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#RFKJr likely wouldn't have his job had Sen. Cassidy opposed him. Both have blood on their hands.

2026-01-06 22:58:37 UTC

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It's almost like this would be a good time to encourage vaccination rather than cast doubt upon it. Could someone tell the 🤡 running U.S. health policy?

2026-01-03 16:52:49 UTC

The more #Trump talks, the more obvious his #dementia becomes.

2026-01-02 23:11:18 UTC

#DHS goes full Nazi: "On Wednesday, the official social media account for the Department of Homeland Security posted a piece of artwork depicting a pink late-1960s Cadillac Eldorado parked on a bright, idyllic beach. Over the clear blue sky are the words 'America after 100 million #deportations.'”
"The post was captioned by the agency: 'The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.'”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dhs-100-million-deportations

2025-12-31 17:40:20 UTC

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Been doing my part all year. Join us! https://www.defendpublichealth.org/

2025-12-30 22:22:58 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.online/@electrek/115810808769244250
This catalog of #ElonMusk bullshit is even funnier when you remember how many investors still believe the guy and pay insanely inflated prices for #Tesla stock.
#note1a5g…8wll

2025-12-24 17:27:48 UTC

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Having lived though that era (Nixon resigned the August after I graduated high school) I think Nixon did have some limits. He was evil in many ways, but not a full-on narcissistic sociopath like Trump. Making Nixon look good is tough, but Trump did it.

2025-12-24 17:06:36 UTC

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I was incorrect. Nixon actually signed an executive order creating it, later ratified and embellished by Congress. But both were responding to a strong environmental movement at the time. Nixon was no tree-hugger, but on that front he mostly did what needed to be done, definitely a contrast with Trump.

2025-12-24 15:51:42 UTC

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Well, technically Congress established it, but Nixon went along and picked a reasonably competent guy, William Ruckelshaus, to run it. Definitely better than Trump.

2025-12-22 18:22:41 UTC

"In a single weekend, #CBSNews’ new editorial director #BariWeiss has managed to damage the most successful and profitable #news broadcast in American history... what is now clear is that the last-minute act of #censorship carried out in the name of so-called context suggests Weiss is CBS’s answer to former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, practicing a 'catch and kill' philosophy to protect a petulant tyrant." https://www.salon.com/2025/12/22/bari-weiss-spiked-a-major-migrant-story-and-told-on-herself/

2025-12-21 17:39:54 UTC

My little nonverbal friend would like to wish you all a happy #SilentSunday
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/758/774/053/686/906/original/bc72e188afc6ae5d.jpg

2025-12-18 17:43:47 UTC

In light of #RFKJr's announcement today of his plans to cut off life-saving #HealthCare for #trans youth, it seems appropriate to re-share this piece I wrote a couple of months ago. Real humans are going to be hurt by this, whether Kennedy and Trump understand them or not. https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/we-must-stand-our-trans-neighbors

2025-12-16 17:41:04 UTC

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I'm old enough to have been in high school during the Nixon administration and thought he was as bad as a president could get. Making Nixon look good, as Trump has indeed done, is quite the achievement.

2025-12-16 02:26:25 UTC

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No one is safe from #RFKJr and his minions.

2025-12-14 01:48:11 UTC

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115714727662725770
NEWSFLASH: #Vaccination is good.
#note1jwk…y43g

2025-12-10 02:27:45 UTC

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Hmmm... could it be because getting #HealthCare isn't like shopping for a new refrigerator? 🤣

2025-12-09 00:07:34 UTC

#Pediatricians to #RFKJr: We're going to ignore the idiotic recommendations from your #antivax #vaccine advisors. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/pediatricians-reject-cdc-advisers-guidance-plan-continue-vaccinating-all

2025-12-05 23:27:38 UTC

The #TrumpAdministration attacks on #trans Americans just hit a new low. Christ. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5633282/transgender-rachel-levine-portrait-hhs

2025-12-05 19:32:18 UTC

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115668619185719496
Never forget that the current anti- #trans hysteria is an attack on young people.
#note1e2s…wr5t

2025-12-03 16:19:43 UTC

"#Tesla has received a brutal reality check from Germany this week. The country’s closely watched TÜV Report 2026 has not only ranked the Tesla Model Y as the absolute worst car for reliability in its age group but noted that it has the highest defect rate of any vehicle tested in the last ten years." https://electrek.co/2025/12/03/tesla-model-y-named-worst-car-for-reliability-germany-major-tuv-report/

2025-12-02 23:26:01 UTC

Fuck #RubenGallego.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senator-gallegos-leaked-texts

2025-11-30 16:12:08 UTC

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More unregistered vehicles on the road, more shady, underground vehicle sales. What could possibly go wrong?

2025-11-24 16:27:07 UTC

'New survey results show that Americans strongly oppose US military action against #Venezuela as the #Trump administration privately weighs options for land strikes against the South American country—as well as possible covert action targeting the government of President Nicolás Maduro." https://www.commondreams.org/news/americans-oppose-war-venezuela

2025-11-22 01:32:18 UTC

This seems bad: "#Climate advocates voiced alarm and outrage Friday after every mention of #FossilFuels was dropped from the latest draft text to emerge from the #COP30 summit, high-stakes talks that have been swarmed by a record number of oil and gas lobbyists seeking to derail any progress toward a #cleanEnergy transition." https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop30-fossil-fuel-phaseout

2025-11-19 23:34:24 UTC

#RFKJr claims his new #CDC advisory committee on #vaccines is “unbiased.” He's lying. In reality, the panel is filled with figures who have long expressed anti-vaccine views. https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-kennedys-unbiased-vaccine-panel-actually-packed-anti-vaxxers

2025-11-16 22:28:26 UTC

"Late last week, #NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his Principal Deputy Director, Dr. Matthew Memoli, published an essay in City Journal1 that argues, basically, for a head-in-the-sand approach to #pandemic preparedness." Never forget that US #PublicHealth policy is currently being set by liars, quacks and fools. https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal-to-nih-leaderships-screed?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1183526&post_id=179026346&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

2025-11-13 00:24:11 UTC

#WhoopingCough, aka #pertussis, is exploding in #Texas. #RFKJr must be proud. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5602511-texas-pertussis-cases-rise/

2025-11-12 16:07:26 UTC

Fascinating report from inside an #antivaxxer conference: "#Science can — and must — continue to produce the evidence proving medicines work and #vaccines are safe. But waving a table of numbers in someone’s face won’t change their mind... The leaders applauded at CHD, including Kennedy, are seen as truth-tellers who stand up despite the costs. #PublicHealth needs to reclaim that same moral authority: to be seen as standing for truth with equal courage and clarity." https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/childrens-health-defense-conference-pro-vaccine-doctor/

2025-11-10 07:13:18 UTC

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if it's a strategy it's a damn cynical one

2025-11-08 01:47:16 UTC

"In a recent #science briefing, some of the world’s leading #climate researchers said that accelerated warming over the past 10 years is a warning that Earth’s natural carbon-absorbing systems, including forests and oceans, are breaking down in the face of relentlessly rising greenhouse gas levels from #FossilFuel emissions." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07112025/climate-chaos-ahead-of-cop30/

2025-11-05 04:34:51 UTC

#ZohranMamdani just gave a shout-out to the #Trans community and I burst into tears.

2025-11-04 03:33:30 UTC

In #Hawaii, #ICE raids have left Kona #coffee farmers without enough workers to pick their crops. https://bigislandnow.com/2025/11/03/business-monday-immigration-enforcement-impacting-production-at-some-small-kona-coffee-farms/

2025-11-01 01:39:40 UTC

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Lunacy.

2025-10-25 00:18:35 UTC

"#Congress has effectively been dissolved by Speaker #MikeJohnson." --Jamelle Bouie on MSNBC.

2025-10-23 00:43:13 UTC

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Only the followup single, "But I Did Pave Over the Rose Garden."

2025-10-23 00:14:53 UTC

#ElonMusk says he's building a "robot army." What could possibly go wrong? https://electrek.co/2025/10/22/elon-says-quiet-part-out-loud-he-needs-1-trillion-so-he-can-control-a-robot-army/

2025-10-21 23:03:55 UTC

⚠️⚠️⚠️ "More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding #PublicHealth protections -- #vaccines, #milk safety, and #fluoride -- have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law." https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/118065
#science

2025-10-14 21:58:00 UTC

When future historians look at the #Trump era, this may be the line that explains it best:
"I had to gently tell her how much I appreciate their concern and love but that if I didn't understand the stakes I wouldn't even consider spending my retirement years dressing up as a chicken or cow."
https://sfba.social/@NorcalGma2/115369896802460660

2025-10-11 02:23:46 UTC

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I visited the Grand Tetons as a child, circa 1967, and I remember them having much more visible snow (our visit was early August, I think). Is that relatively barren look typical now?

2025-10-09 04:33:46 UTC

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#ProLifeMyAss

2025-10-01 01:22:08 UTC

"A US modeling study published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against #COVID19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025." This is the exact population #RFKJr is trying to keep from getting a #vaccination. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-vaccines-may-have-averted-thousands-hospital-stays-infants-pregnant-women-over-18

2025-10-01 01:17:40 UTC

"President Donald #Trump told hundreds of senior military commanders Tuesday that the country is 'under invasion from within' and that they should use American cities as 'training grounds' to target domestic 'enemies'—remarks that drew warnings of encroaching #fascism as the president expands his invasion and occupation of US communities." https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-us-cities-training-grounds?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=447b35dcf3-Top+News%3A+Tues.+9%2F30%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600541243

2025-09-28 02:42:05 UTC

THIS, from the irreplaceable @npub1fdr…lvhs : "#AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence

2025-09-26 20:06:55 UTC

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Also worth noting that being acquitted after months of fear, massive legal expense and potentially hundreds of hours wasted on something totally bogus is NOT justice. Being put through the legal wringer like that is a horrible experience that an acquittal doesn't undo.

2025-09-25 16:29:53 UTC

"Though the #GOP likes to consider itself pro-family, the maternal and #InfantMortality data across the United States tells a different tale. The policies enacted by Republican state legislatures strongly contribute to the poor maternal and infant #health outcomes in these jurisdictions.
"This has been true for a very long time. But #Trump’s war on public health is making things a whole lot worse, a whole lot more quickly." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-tylenol-rfk-childrens-health/#

2025-09-24 17:07:24 UTC

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Next you're going to tell me to stop injecting bleach! 😜🤡

2025-09-24 04:40:44 UTC

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Technically, the stations aren't self-censoring. They're censoring Kimmel over his politics, not censoring themselves.

2025-09-23 22:45:42 UTC

Here's a list of #Sinclair and #Nexstar TV stations that will NOT be carrying #JimmyKimmel. If you live in an area served by one of them, RAISE HELL! https://www.vulture.com/article/how-to-watch-jimmy-kimmel-live-markets-airing-sinclair-nexstar.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

2025-09-18 23:28:30 UTC

"Smoke from #wildfires exacerbated by #ClimateChange may cause as many as 71,000 additional deaths per year in the United States by 2050, a study published Thursday in the journal Nature found." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18092025/wildfire-smoke-premature-deaths/

2025-09-14 17:22:48 UTC

Every once in a while the #NYTimes manages an accurate headline: "#Trump is shutting down the war on #cancer." https://archive.is/pcTn6

2025-09-11 22:51:04 UTC

A child in Los Angeles just died from a #measles complication that can strike years later. He'd had measles as an infant, too young to be vaccinated.
“#Vaccination is not just about protecting yourself — it’s about protecting your family, your neighbors, and especially children who are too young to be vaccinated."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/los-angeles-child-dies-rare-measles-complication-years-after-recovery-rcna230675

2025-09-10 16:49:11 UTC

No comment needed:
#science #democracy
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/181/009/882/343/278/original/b0ef4c42bf17ec58.jpg

2025-09-09 01:39:15 UTC

If #RFKJr ever runs for president again, he already has a campaign song! https://youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U