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New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?

I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.

I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.

Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.

What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/

The company that makes Jack Daniels whiskey is moaning about the Canadian boycott resulting in a 62% sales drop. It should be 100%. Keep it up, Canada.

RFK Jr cut half a billion dollars in research funding for mRNA vaccines. He & Marty Makary claim mRNA vaccines are “risky” so they’ll shift to “traditional, older” vaccine tech that’s “safer.” Guess what? We used to immunize people by blowing powdered smallpox scabs up their noses. 1/

One more sleep until @meidascanada.ca goes live. What better day to launch than Labour Day. Join the network here: www.youtube.com/@charlieangu...

Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s powerlessness to stop him.

Let’s all place bets on what RFK Jr. identifies as the “causes” of autism in his upcoming blockbuster reveal. I’ll take the low-hanging fruit and go with vaccines and heavy metals. What he won’t acknowledge is the overwhelming contribution of genetics, because he can’t sue someone over that.

Carney vs Newsom 🤣 #cdnpoli

My grandmother was a nurse who came of age in the nightmare years of whooping cough, measles, polio. She understood the power of vaccines to save children's lives. Now the anti-vaxx right wing conspiracy mob have laid out the welcome mat to these killers. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

States have a lot of power to dictate health policy for their residents. The New Mexico Department of Health has issued a public health order to help ensure all New Mexicans can access the COVID-19 vaccine. I hope other states follow suit. www.nmhealth.org/news/vaccine...

The city of Windsor is cancelling the tunnel bus service that transports people across the border to and from Detroit. More Canadians are staying home.

Andrea C. Love, PhD - #cdnpoli mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before.

When you cut the social safety nets, you can expect people to fall and land on the streets.

We launch @meidascanada.ca on Monday Labour Day. Fighting the gangster regimes and MAGA MAPLE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hpa...

Fascism is all about elevating unqualified mediocrities to positions of power as a reward for loyalty.

This is the interim CDC Director. He is accusing pre-Trump CDC staff of “manipulating health data to support a political narrative”. This man and his boss Kennedy are the ones who are manipulating data for a political narrative. This is an existential threat to the United States of America.

While America Implodes, Canada Is Building a New World Order. Donald Trump, America’s landlord-in-chief, is trying to shake us down for protection money. But while his empire drowns in debt, Mark Carney is busy cutting deals with functional countries. #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/theplane...

Liberal MP Sean Fraser 🇨🇦 - #cdnpoli "This isn’t the Wild West. It’s Canada. Canadians deserve real solutions that make us safer, not slogans that inspire fear and chaos for Pierre’s political survival."

Meanwhile in (most of) Canada, we’re pro-public health, preparing to give Covid-19 boosters. The K.P.2 COVID-19 vaccine has been withdrawn from market prior to the new updated vaccine for autumn 2025 (made in Canada!). In our clinic, we’ve booked flu & Covid-19 jabapalooza early Nov. Sleeves up! 🇨🇦💉

One of the most important things healthcare systems across America can do to protect patients, and the workforce that attends to them this winter is to ensure #Covid vaccines are available to healthcare workers. That includes clinics, hospitals,and nursing homes.

Message from an Alberta teacher: "I've been told that kids aren't allowed to bring books from home. No free choice reading. No silent reading time or listening to reading. No library time until books are catalogued and deemed appropriate. Please contact your MLA." @daniellesmithab.bsky.social

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it. Great article on the need for Democratic governors to step up and protect public health, featuring the incredible @gregggonsalves.bsky.social.

Christie Pits in Toronto is a symbol of the fight against fascism. This is where people stopped the Nazis in 1933. The haters are trying to come to the park again. On Sept 13 let's flood the park with people for a non-violent day of resistance to the race haters. Our streets. Our parks. Our cities.

Back to trolling in empty parking lots! Give it up! #cdnpoli

Time to repost this again from 6 months ago. I can’t tell anyone what to post, nor do I want to, but there is plenty for which to despise RFK Jr. Being in recovery is not one of them.

RFK Jr receiving the coveted Stephen Miller endorsement for scientific credibility is like an arsonist being praised by a pyromaniac for his firefighting skills

I’ve driven by the Kelso bit of the escarpment on Highway 401 my entire life. The landmark entrance to the GTA when coming from the west. Today we finally hiked this part of the Bruce Trail.

I’ve driven by the Kelso bit of the escarpment on Highway 401 my entire life. The landmark entrance to the GTA when coming from the west. Today we finally hiked this part of the Bruce Trail.

I’ve driven by the Kelso bit of the escarpment on Highway 401 my entire life. The landmark entrance to the GTA when coming from the west. Today we finally hiked this part of the Bruce Trail.

I’ve driven by the Kelso bit of the escarpment on Highway 401 my entire life. The landmark entrance to the GTA when coming from the west. Today we finally hiked this part of the Bruce Trail.

👏 Applause to the New Mexico DOH for issuing this order to ensure access to #COVID vaccines and prevent unnecessary barriers to vaccination. I suspect many other states will follow suit. No responsible government is going to risk the lives to appease a small but loud group of antivaxxers.

Here’s your chance to send a little note to human dial tone Bill Cassidy, y’all.

Nova Scotia’s film industry is taking centre stage, with two productions filmed in the province hitting number one on streaming platforms. #NovaScotia film industry celebrating busy season www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Not to belabor the point but RFK Jr is going to implement policies that will kill thousands or even millions of people if he is not removed. Thanks to @thewarningses.bsky.social @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for the frank discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxc...

hmm seems like widely available vaccines might be a good idea

Today's Blue Jays game ended so badly, but I'm looking on the bright side and cherishing the fact that my main man Gausman ate the best team in baseball for breakfast for seven innings straight. #BlueJays #LightsUpLetsGo

Welp! Couldn't my #COVID shot at #CVS appointment today. I was informed I will only be able to get it by prescription in the state of Georgia. Let's see if my healthcare system will provide shots for medical staff. I will update you on this as well.🤷🏽‍♀️

Most Canadians are boycotting American goods and services. I would like to see more doing so. Fuck Trump and his MAGA followers.

FRIEND: Sometimes it feels like you're not really that sick. ME: [sarcasm] You caught me. I just collect doctors and MRIs for fun.

This 👇 #cdnpoli

This is a depressingly clueless take.Trump and RFK Jr. In fascist regimes science is subverted to serve ideology, and the ideology being served is quite recognizably fascist.

Norway will buy a fleet of British-made frigates for its navy halifax.citynews.ca/2025/08/31/n...

A large majority of Canadians don’t find Pierre Poilievre likeable. “Poilievre’s favourability is lowest among women and young Canadians.”

Covid is a disabling disease, and we are seeing it at high levels across the country. Just because the majority of people decided it doesn’t matter doesn’t change how it affects us—people still die of it every day. No matter your politics, vaccines make us less likely to be hospitalized and die.

🇨🇦 #Canadasky please share 📌 Parliament is going to return soon and one of the first bills it is going to pass is Bill C2, which will give the police unprecedented powers over the lives of Canadians, including massive surveillance, and the ability to share our data with 🇺🇸.

Vinay Prasad of the FDA demanded that @joho.bsky.social’s YouTube channel be removed, and it was. Dr. Howard regularly pointed out the numerous flaws in Prasad’s statements about COVID19 vaccines and other topics. You can read about it here.

An absolutely insane, eugenics-promoting monster

Kennedy is going to break the backs of the CDC and the NIH once and for all and all elected Republicans are doing, if anything, is making mild tweets of concern about it.

The stand off. Happy #Caturday

Hey, sorry I didn't finish that sentence. My brain decided it was done for the day.

If you are living in North America and have never read a book on fascism the time was years ago, but go to your library tomorrow.

Every time I read something like this I am reminded of how easy it would be for me to become a right-wing grifter and make a lot of money saying things like "Mayonnaise is the last bastion of white freedom, hold the line, boys ✊🏻" but I don't, because my brain hasn't been eaten by moths

Post-COVID? This article must be from the future. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#Canada has pledged to plant 2 billion trees. Here’s how close we are Canada’s 2 Billion Trees program has reached the milestone of 228M trees planted, with agreements already in place to plant a total of nearly one billion within the coming years. /1 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Alberta begins wiping out all references to a dystopian, right-wing, catastrophic, new future world. #cdnpoli

#CDC was alerted to 3 more #flu deaths in kids, bringing the total for the 2024-25 season (so far) to 278 — only 10 fewer than during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. About 90% of those kids weren't vaccinated against flu. So tragic. Kids should be vaccinated against flu. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

One thing still missing from the Make America Healthy Again agenda: Affordable access to health coverage and care.

The politics of AI art are diametrically opposite to the politics of Caturday. In both cases, it is trivial to search the internet and find a million instances of the subject matter. But the experience through which you reach the image determines the meaning of the image. Consider the cat.

Mixtopagurus are nearly symmetrical hermit crabs. But they don't use worm tubes or wood like others in their family. No, it's these weird Xenophora shells that stick stuff to themselves that have a whole exhibit: www.zymoglyphic.org/exhibits/xen... 🦀🧪🦑 double? triple? #InverteFest

In the final episode of the Dangerous memories podcast I include my top 40 list of key songs from the 1980s. Not the best selling. Not the most memorable. But songs that defined the era. Best thing about lists is they start counter lists. Show me yours. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-top-40...

THERAPIST: What do we say when our health disappoints us? ME: I want to f*ckin die THERAPIST: No!

I'm honestly flattered that my newest impersonator thinks that my followers will read this message and think, "You know, Clare DOES seem like the type of person to know a lot about banking systems"

“The CDC you knew is over,” @drdemetre.bsky.social said. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Donald Trump believes public health cost him in 2020. He wanted to move past the pandemic quickly. But the experts kept pushing back. Kennedy is a man whose career depends on attacking and undermining public health. Their alliance is political.

Go Canada! 👍 #cdnpoli Company behind Jack Daniel's says Canadian boycott is 'significant' as sales drop 62% Parent company officials say trade dispute is causing 'significant headwinds' and 'significant impact' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Found in the wild and signed a new copies at Booksmith in San Francisco! 🥰

This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.

Terrific and terrifying piece by William J. Broad for the @nytimes.com: “'Trump once said he wanted the generals that Hitler had,' Dr. Josephson wrote. 'He’s certainly working on getting the science that Hitler and Stalin had.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

Residents turned a golf course into a public garden. 50 years on, VanDusen Botanical Garden is an urban oasis #Vancouver The Vancouver gardens were a golf course in the early 20th century www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There's been a concerted effort to force public servants back to the office despite the ongoing pandemic so this is absolutely not surprising

Today is the 2-yr anniversary of my sole Covid infection that led to a bunch of scary symptoms. I'm incredibly thankful (and lucky) not to have been reinfected. But with 2 kids, it's taken re-engineering my whole living space - and yes, often masking in my own home.

@diaryofasickgrl.bsky.social

Look at Alberta! #cdnpoli 👇

I think we’re know why there are so many questions on this test about the reproductive anatomy of children.

My sister to my 5-year old: "What do you want your new teacher to know about you?" (She's expecting him to comment on his ability to read and do math well above his age level.) 5-year old: "I want her to know I can ride a bike and draw stars." Sobering clarity on what's important.

I’ll never understand how or why an oil and mining lobbyist’s personal website somehow became an influential hub for finding journalism jobs in Canada Is literally no one else capable of building a job search website?

Smith is vile. unpublished.ca/news-feed-it...

I tire of the many real and potential disasters

One of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s henchmen at Social Security “copied the Social Security numbers, names, and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” #cdnpoli No one voted to hand over personal data to DOGE!

For those seeking to discover joy, consider reading these insights: (When We Learn to Dance in Life's Storms Rather than Merely Waiting for Sunshine, We Forge a Happiness that Doesn't Simply Visit—It Moves in Permanently) gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/joy-now

While you may think Orithyia sinica looks like your average swimming crab, you'd be wrong. It uses those paddle like legs for digging, and is in its own family. It's a food species in China, but rarely talked about. So it does fit (and complete, today) my never-posted theme 🦀🦑🧪 #InverteFest

CALIFORNIA FRIENDS - IGNORE THE DISINFORMATION. VOTE YES ON 50 Stop Trump from Rigging the 2026 Election

the only thing he can’t cheat is death

Here’s the text of the order issued by New Mexico’s health secretary. It won’t fix the Covid vaccination pharmacy access problem by itself, but it’s an important step in NM. Something similar may help in some other states, too. cv.nmhealth.org/wp-content/u...

#Canada has an honest-to-goodness treasure hunt on its hands. Organized by the newspaper The Northern Miner, the Great Canadian Treasure Hunt is a cross-country contest pitting Canadians’ deductive skills against the holy grail of geographical guessing games /1 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

I could use this right now. Run me over.

Veggie gardens are unbelievable.

It is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS that RFKJ, without any medical training or knowledge, has set up barriers that are now preventing (hopefully just delaying) Americans from accessing COVID-19 vaccines… even including infectious disease experts like Dr. Titanji. I will keep calling my representatives.

I HAVE BEEN SILENCED and CENSORED BY OUR GOVERNMENT!!!! My latest… sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadl...