Christine Melgar, M.D.

physician, Ob/Gyn

[Christine Melgar, M.D. @czul22]

@HunterBiden The lying is exhausting..............

[Christine Melgar, M.D. @czul22]

@Mike_Pence What difference does it make where it came from now. You and Trump removed all the boots on the ground in that area to monitor this stuff and then dealt with it poorly at the onset by trying to ignore covid as a thing. Dr Fauci was the only voice of reason and how to handle it.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Dr. Craig Spencer is a public health professor and emergency medicine physician at Brown University who survived Ebola in 2014. He says it's not a coincidence that the world is seeing a new outbreak of the disease, as well as hantavirus and rising rates of measles in the United States.

"If you recall, it was just over a year ago that Elon Musk gleefully declared that they were throwing USAID into the wood chipper. And you may recall that Elon Musk also sheepishly said at his first Cabinet meeting that he mistakenly canceled Ebola prevention but turned it back on. For many folks, the story ended there, but what actually happened was there was an Ebola outbreak, and DOGE and Elon Musk cut all the support that we normally would have been giving to respond to that Ebola outbreak. The result was that exactly USAID, who in the past would have been supporting things like airport screening in Uganda, was not providing that logistical or financial support. USAID and other partners would have been providing support to make sure testing was adequate, to make sure a vaccine rollout could have taken place, but we didn’t have USAID on the ground.

"Similarly, CDC has long had relationships in this part of the continent, in Congo and in Uganda, and a lot of those relationships have broken down and withered over the past year, because we just haven’t been paying. Similarly, the U.S. has pulled out of the World Health Organization over the last year, which means that in normal circumstances our CDC folks are not able to even talk to World Health Organization people, something that is absolutely unbelievable and an incredible mistake for something that we should be able to do and be prepared for at all points.

"And the result is what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks with hantavirus, we’ve seen with the dramatic increase in number of measles cases in the U.S., and now Ebola in DR Congo and across the border in Kampala. This is not all just a coincidence. This is a consequence of us cutting back our support, not only here at home, but also abroad.

https://t.co/Km03jENTdG

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Congress has let drug companies rip off Americans for decades.

Lobbyists, campaign cash, and a system that protects industry profits.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

Another study shows no link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. Awaiting the press conference where RFK Jr and the president announce these reassuring results.

[Christine Melgar, M.D. @czul22]

@WalshFreedom I’m very angry too. Such unnecessary angst, danger and devastation to many due to this administration. Will take decades to fix.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Robert Mueller died last night.

He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.

He had integrity.

And tonight the President of the United States said good!

I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.

I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.

Good.

This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.

That is what is happening. That is what has happened.

The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.

America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.

And the church said nothing.

Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.

Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.

Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.

JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.

These men are something more painful than monsters.

They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.

Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.

Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.

That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.

And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.

When Trump is gone, they will still be here.

Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.

That morning is coming.

Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.

He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.

He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.

The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.

That is all it needed to be.

A man died. His family is broken open with grief.

That is all it needed to be.

Instead the President said good.

And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Christine Melgar, M.D. @czul22]

@Acyn Trump has no regard for human life except his own. Zero compassion, Zero concerns for anyone else. He is the most unempathetic, morally corrupt individual, only 2nd to Miller.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WOW! Biden's former Secretary of State Todd Blinken on how the Israelis tried to get Biden to initiate a war, but he refused:

"The Israelis were insisting that in the North, Hezbollah, and from Lebanon, was about to attack, and they wanted to strike preemptively against Hezbollah. President Biden said, ‘we will always be with you in defending Israel, but we’re not there if you are going to start something.’ And we came within about 30 minutes of having a war in the North based on bad information that the Israelis had about an imminent attack from Hezbollah. But Biden was very insistent."

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @AGPamBondi and @DAGToddBlanche:

Does @TheJusticeDept have Epstein file documents, photos or videos that you have NOT released, or have retracted, that include Donald Trump?

If so, why have you not released them?

[Christine Melgar, M.D. @czul22]

@elonmusk How about going to a medical doctor. You know a live person with many years of experience and education who can see you and evaluate you in person.

[Evan @daviddunn177]

“Donald Trump raping children”

I have been waiting for a Democrat to simply stand in front of a camera and say what’s in the Epstein files.

Thank you, Ted Lieu.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The FDA announced recently that it will not review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, despite late-stage trials showing it was safe and effective.

The rejection of the experimental flu application, at least for now, has many in and outside the industry concerned about the Trump administration’s approach to vaccine development and recommendations.

@IAmAmnaNawaz speaks to @mtosterholm for more.

[Majority Democrats @MajorityDems]

WATCH: This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see: Stephen Colbert and James Talarico.

After intimidation from the FCC, CBS refused to allow Colbert to air this. We need to make sure everyone sees it.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

Let's show the FCC and Brendan Carr the biggest FUCK YOU possible by watching and sharing this interview with @jamestalarico and @StephenAtHome.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL NOT BE CENSORED.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

@jamestalarico Full video: https://t.co/u2pMWw1GVv

[Malena-PRO-CHOICE🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @tweetMalena]

This video is ten minutes, but it'll be the best 10 minutes of your day.

Every single American needs to see this clip.

You can find it on instagram posted by CSPAN and then you can download it yourself and repost this video here and across every platform.

I HOPE, WHEN WE START HOLDING THESE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CRIMES THAT PAM BONDI
GETS THE JUSTICE THAT
SHE DESERVES

[Christine Melgar, M.D. @czul22]

@johnpavlovitz Thank you John. It's like a cancer that's growing and growing. Those like us are trying to make sense of it all, to stop it, cure this disease that is over our nation right now. Cancer stopps when it kills the patient or it is wiped out by treatment. Praying for the latter

[Christine Melgar, M.D. @czul22]

@tedlieu @AGPamBondi Impeach that woman, she's corrupt and an enabler of a dangerous administration.