Michelle Vance Scott

Wife & Mother; loyal fan of the Outlander series/books & shows; DeColores!

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@greta How stupid and wasteful.

[Linda Yaccarino @lindayaX]

The SpaceX IPO is a reminder that in America, dreams and an unflinching mission still matter. Yesterday’s milestone was made from years of conviction, sacrifice, innovation, and thousands of hardworking people refusing to accept limits.

The constellation of companies Elon has built have come together in extraordinary service to humanity likes of which will never to be replicated.

Im proud to have played a small role in one of them, helping protect free speech at X during one of the most consequential periods in history. The resistance was fierce and we won!

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the @SpaceX team.

America and the world thanks you. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

Some of the genius that is America is that while people have a right to clutch their pearls in horror at the thought of celebrating America’s 250th birthday, the rest of us will celebrate anyway because we enjoy an equal right to do so. 🥳❤️🤍💙🎉

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

“The quality of your sleep determines the quality of your waking life.” Ditch DST for natural sleep health!

[Mark Meuser @MarkMeuser]

Please keep your stupid politics and opinions out of World Cup.

There is enough Red team/Blue team conflict in our daily life. For the next couple weeks let’s all be on team Red, White, and Blue.

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@FloppingAces Disgusting

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@GretchenPSmith Restaurants pay accordingly

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@DanClarkSports @SethDillon So stupid

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

So Jimmy Kimmel can find his moral outrage when Scott Pelley loses a TV job, but Spencer Pratt losing his home is a joke. For people like Kimmel, suffering isn’t measured by the loss. It’s measured by the politics of the person suffering.

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@GOP_is_Gutless She wasn’t re-elected, right?!

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@TheCinesthetic He is excellent in EVERY ROLE…
every role.

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@Architectolder N. O. No!

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@EndWokeness America is turning 250 years old. It a milestone for most Americans alive today. Get over yourself and have an effing piece of cake. Honestly.

[Huron @usehuron]

POV you found confidence in a bottle.

Give her what she wants - the best smelling man in the biz. Try Huron's award-winning cologne today.

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@WesternLensman @X Please give us a LAUGH button!!!!

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@WallStreetApes @tepperson0101 This reporter so wants to entrap or ensnare Pratt… There have been ZERO snippets of reporters asking questions of the other two candidates 🙄

[Michelle Vance Scott @mvscott65]

@WallStreetApes What an inane line of questioning… 🙄

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A Dollar General employee with diabetes started feeling the symptoms of a hypoglycemic episode while working at the cash register.

She grabbed a $1.69 orange juice from the store and drank it to stabilize her blood sugar, then paid for it after the medical emergency passed.
She did pay for it.

But the company fired her anyway, calling it “grazing” because she consumed the item before purchase.

Later, a jury sided with her and awarded her $277,565 total, including $27,565 in back pay and $250,000 in compensatory damages.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

While the UN shamelessly serves Hamas by demonizing Israel and the Jewish people, remember this brutal moment.

During an emergency session of the Human Rights Council, a circus packed with the world’s worst tyrants and abusers, absolute panic broke out among Palestinian UN staffers.

British Colonel Richard Kemp destroyed their lies in real time.
He refused to accept the disgusting false narrative that paints Israel as the “Islamophobic aggressor” and Hamas baby-killers, rapists, and murderers as the poor “victims.”

This was a rare and glorious takedown: one honest British colonel stood alone and silenced the entire hall of hypocrites, the same people who cheer Hamas’s slaughter of Jews, then scream “genocide” the moment Israel dares to defend its citizens.
The absurdity is breathtaking.

The UN doesn’t care about human rights. It exists to protect terrorists and blood-libel the Jewish state.