Maj Gen (ret) Paul Friedrichs, MD, former National Security Council director for global health and biodefense
Dr. Daniel Jernigan, former director of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jesse Goodman, former FDA Chief Scientist
Megan L. Ranney, MD MPH, Dean, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, infectious diseases physician in Texas, former WHO medical officer
Dr. Mandy Cohen, former CDC Director
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/health/cdc-website-autism-vaccines
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Dr. Peter Hotez, pediatric infectious disease specialist and vaccine scientist, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Debra Houry, former CDC Chief Science and Medical Officer
Dr. Fiona Havers, infectious diseases physician and vaccine expert; former CDC official and vaccine expert
Charles Holmes, MD, Distinguished Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and Prof of Medicine, Georgetown Univ
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former NIAID Director
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Céline Gounder, Infectious Disease expert, KFF, posted a list of vaccine experts who have strongly condemned the dangerous move by RFK Jr. linking autism to vaccines on the CDC website.
The list includes -
Céline Gounder, Infectious Disease expert, KFF
Dr. Atul Gawande, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Mark Rosenberg, former Center Director at CDC and former assistant surgeon general
Syra Madad, Epidemiologist, Harvard Belfer Center
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-website-change-vaccines-autism/
#UsPol #Health
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Maj Gen (ret) Paul Friedrichs, MD, former National Security Council director for global health and biodefense
Dr. Daniel Jernigan, former director of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jesse Goodman, former FDA Chief Scientist
Megan L. Ranney, MD MPH, Dean, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, infectious diseases physician in Texas, former WHO medical officer
Dr. Mandy Cohen, former CDC Director
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/health/cdc-website-autism-vaccines
#UsPol #Health
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Céline Gounder, Infectious Disease expert, KFF, posted a list of vaccine experts who have strongly condemned the dangerous move by RFK Jr. linking autism to vaccines on the CDC website.
The list includes -
Céline Gounder, Infectious Disease expert, KFF
Dr. Atul Gawande, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Mark Rosenberg, former Center Director at CDC and former assistant surgeon general
Syra Madad, Epidemiologist, Harvard Belfer Center
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-website-change-vaccines-autism/
#UsPol #Health
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Krugman on crypto:
"Crypto has become a Trump trade. An industry that’s still having very little success in finding legal use cases for its products basically bought itself a president. For a while that looked like a great investment. But with Trump’s power evaporating, it’s starting to look like money down the drain. And I believe that the crypto crash in part reflects a realization that the political patronage the industry was relying on may not continue."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade
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Liz Dye:
"Tuesday was a busy day for Donald Trump at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. At the very moment he was arguing to revive a RICO trollsuit against Hillary Clinton, his effort to revive a defamation trollsuit against CNN got unceremoniously kicked to the curb.
It’s just another day in the life of the world’s most vexatious litigant. It’s also a potent reminder that, when media outlets stand up to the president’s shakedown lawsuits, they always win."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cnn-lawsuit-dismissed
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Paul Krugman:
"Trump seems to be collapsing on multiple fronts, with the collapse on each front reinforcing the collapse on others. The Epstein affair is coming to a head even as the public loses all faith in his economic policy, and the whole structure of fear on which his regime rests appears to be evaporating.
I don’t know how this ends ... but the U.S. political universe looks very different than it did a few weeks ago."
Let's keep the momentum going.
🌊
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade
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Krugman on crypto:
"Crypto has become a Trump trade. An industry that’s still having very little success in finding legal use cases for its products basically bought itself a president. For a while that looked like a great investment. But with Trump’s power evaporating, it’s starting to look like money down the drain. And I believe that the crypto crash in part reflects a realization that the political patronage the industry was relying on may not continue."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade
#UsPol
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Jamelle Bouie:
"By any and every measure, trump is the most corrupt person to ever sit in the Oval Office. And if the A plot of the 2nd presidency is his authoritarian aspirations, then its B plot is his shameless and pervasive corruption.
And if corruption and authoritarianism are tied together — then the struggle against Trump’s authoritarian designs must also be a struggle against his personal corruption as well as the corruption of the political system."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/rolex-gold-trump-corruption.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U8.V_9I.b8BNNKh7dXAt&smid=url-share
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Paul Krugman:
"Trump seems to be collapsing on multiple fronts, with the collapse on each front reinforcing the collapse on others. The Epstein affair is coming to a head even as the public loses all faith in his economic policy, and the whole structure of fear on which his regime rests appears to be evaporating.
I don’t know how this ends ... but the U.S. political universe looks very different than it did a few weeks ago."
Let's keep the momentum going.
🌊
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade
#UsPol 2/n
Jamelle Bouie:
"By any and every measure, trump is the most corrupt person to ever sit in the Oval Office. And if the A plot of the 2nd presidency is his authoritarian aspirations, then its B plot is his shameless and pervasive corruption.
And if corruption and authoritarianism are tied together — then the struggle against Trump’s authoritarian designs must also be a struggle against his personal corruption as well as the corruption of the political system."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/rolex-gold-trump-corruption.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U8.V_9I.b8BNNKh7dXAt&smid=url-share
#UsPol
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Chuck Schumer was on fire today.
🔥
🤔
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These are seriously disturbed people.
When asked about which Democrats Trump claims to be talking to on health policy, White House spokesperson Kush Desai said -
“The President is committed [to] reducing health costs for everyday Americans, and he and the Administration are aggressively working to deliver. We are not going to detail the President’s private conversations, especially to a rag like Politico."
Not one Dem Senator or Rep. mentioned such contact.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/19/trump-democrats-talks-health-aca-00656345
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Senator Warren and Rep. Garcia Introduce the "Stop Ballroom Bribery Act" to root out apparent bribery and corruption involving trump’s ballroom.
Warren: “Americans shouldn’t have to wonder whether President Trump is building a ballroom to facilitate a pay-to-play scheme for political favors. My new bill will put an end to what looks like bribery in plain sight."
Democrats are finding their voice!
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-garcia-introduce-new-bill-to-stop-apparent-bribery-involving-trump-ballroom-donations
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/stop_ballroom_bribery_act.pdf
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The Stop Ballroom Bribery Act would:
Impose pre-donation restrictions. E.g., require approval by Senate-confirmed directors of the National Park Service and Office of Govt Ethics.
Impose post-donation restrictions. E.g., a 2-year restriction on lobbying by donors.
Require transparency. E.g.,
Donors must disclose meetings with the federal govt within 1 year of the donation.
Enable enforcement. E.g., judicial reviews and penalties by state AGs and the DOJ.
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/stop_ballroom_bribery_act.pdf
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Senator Warren and Rep. Garcia Introduce the "Stop Ballroom Bribery Act" to root out apparent bribery and corruption involving trump’s ballroom.
Warren: “Americans shouldn’t have to wonder whether President Trump is building a ballroom to facilitate a pay-to-play scheme for political favors. My new bill will put an end to what looks like bribery in plain sight."
Democrats are finding their voice!
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-garcia-introduce-new-bill-to-stop-apparent-bribery-involving-trump-ballroom-donations
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/stop_ballroom_bribery_act.pdf
#UsPol
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