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Don't blame me. I voted for the fire hydrant.

[grouchobarks @mrcmail]

Lawrence - Whatcha Want (acoustic-ish) https://t.co/GeTsMdyY5M via @YouTube

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Some of my books on medicine, science, and the Holocaust. Many don’t understand how the Holocaust grounded in a system of Nazi pseudoscience - one of my motivations for pushing back so hard on anti-science in America. And our book #ScienceUnderSiege @MichaelEMann @PeterHotez Einstein’s relativity theories were denigrated as the “Jewish fraud” as was Freud and other intellectuals. The lucky ones fled to the U.S. New School @NSSRNews @the_IAS, U.K. and Turkey (yes Turkey) but many academics perished. There’s too much overlap with what’s happening today, and acquiescence by our universities even the NY Times, how awful. Currently there is no U.S. academic medical center who will really take this on and create an academic center for medicine and the Holocaust to prevent future atrocities, tried a couple of times, maybe one day

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump promised to balance the budget.

Musk projected $2 trillion in savings.

This year, the deficit grew by 18% — with $200 billion of that due to refunds of his illegal tariffs.

My @nytopinion Chart

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

Last year at this time, Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy terminated 22 mRNA research contracts worth $500 million. Same cost as Trump’s gifted Qatari plane.

Today, Merck and Moderna announced that an experimental breakthrough vaccine treatment — developed through mRNA research previously funded by NIH — has shown signs of preventing cancer from returning or spreading in a study of high-risk melanoma patients.

Thank god the NIH funded this before Kennedy and the Trump administration showed up to degrade America’s health and leadership.

Which Republican senator has the courage to tell Secretary Kennedy that his decisions are making Americans sicker and letting China take the lead on research, science, and technology?

I’ll save you the time and give you the answer: none of them.

https://t.co/jTgRr89d4J

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

We are staring an extraordinary vaccine led cancer treatment right in the face…while the USA is led by anti vaccine lunacy.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The mRNA vaccine success vs melanoma in a Phase definitive 3 randomized trial today is on top of signs of success for personalized mRNA neoantigen vaccines vs pancreatic cancer, triple negative breast cancer, and non-small cell lung cancer https://t.co/cv4iXW11mw

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I've never seen anything like this.

The Trump admin just granted preliminary approval of a federal bank charter to the family's crypto firm World Liberty Financial.

Remember: Trump raked in almost $800 million from WLF last year.

No president has used their power to profit the way Trump has.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Eight children with measles died in the past 24 hours, bringing combined count of confirmed measles-related deaths in the U.S. to 902.

This is a 35-year hight, driven by declining childhood vaccination rates.

[nature @Nature]

The order to split up the MMR vaccine is “not in any sense grounded in science”

https://t.co/aFhEgEliDK

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

Søren Kierkegaard on the Importance of Walking

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to.

This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated the largest biotech IPO ever at $1.4B, where he then cashed out before the stock price tanked.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Data for vaccine benefit in children
"Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year."
https://t.co/hsv0N1Ays5
The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)
The childhood vaccine distortions today by executive order will further add to the marked increase in US measles cases, currently the highest in 35 years.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections. https://t.co/uosyDUTWN4

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Meaning CBS, ABC, all of them could’ve gotten rid of his ridiculous lawsuits they settled for millions. But they didn’t even try. Now why is that? 🤔

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 in a fraudulent paper.

It's was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross medical malpractice

And here we are 28 years later RFK Jr is dredging it up and using it to inform vaccine policy

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

I’ve seen it, it’s not good news, lots of the same BS gaslighting MAHA pseudoscience rhetoric HHS has been using these last 18 months + unrealistic and nonsensical demands that will further reduce vaccine access and uptake. And of course none of it based in science. Measles has already returned, and we should expect congenital rubella syndrome to follow, pertussis also at risk, and even polio wouldn’t surprise me

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes.

Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.

Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get more shots to get the same protection, not fewer shots. It will increase hesitancy and make children less safe.

Parents should listen to their child’s pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order. This is so wrong.

https://t.co/OBrUdakEor

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

This is how the Nazis talked about the Jews in the late 1920s.

[Les Bowen @LesBowen]

It shouldn’t but it still amazes me that the president of the United States doesn’t understand how trade works. He thinks that if he banned imports from Switzerland, our country would somehow gain $40 billion.
This is idiocy. But the people who elected him are idiots, so …

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

Lyme disease DID NOT come from gain of function research. Borrelia has been known to be in nature at least 60,000 years of recorded history. RFK Jr knows that and is spreading lies.

[Peter Kramer, Ph. D. @KalmiaLatifolia]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ötzi the Iceman, the naturally preserved 5,300-year-old mummy discovered in the Ötztal Alps in 1991. DNA sequencing revealed B. burgdorferi sequences in his tissues, making him the earliest documented human case of Lyme disease.