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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>"For the second time in recent months, the Food and Drug Administration is bringing back some recently fired employees, including staffers who handle travel bookings for safety inspectors...Food scientists who test samples for bacteria and study potentially harmful chemicals also have been told they will get their jobs back, but have yet to receive any official confirmation."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/fda-staff-cuts-inspections-safety-b2b9bcc71b647afe896fe331f89cfd6c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/fda-staff-c</span><span class="invisible">uts-inspections-safety-b2b9bcc71b647afe896fe331f89cfd6c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDA</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FoodSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodSafety</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/inspections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inspections</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>In between preparing American cops for martial law, and creating a fascist surveillance database of autistic Americans, the Trump regime is still finding time to aggressively prosecute its anti-trans pogrom and ultimately trans-eliminationist agenda. In what is undoubtedly a preparatory move for further assaults on trans existence in American life, the HHS department has released its own sham "anti-trans" study into youth gender affirming care that aligns completely with the sham UK "Cass Report" that is being used to strip trans rights in that country. </p><p><a href="https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-trumps-hhs-review-on-trans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">erininthemorning.com/p/fact-ch</span><span class="invisible">eck-trumps-hhs-review-on-trans</span></a></p><p>Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Pseudoscience, Pushes Conversion Therapy</p><p>"On Thursday, May 1, the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, now helmed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released a report masquerading as science but serving as a blunt instrument of ideological warfare against transgender youth. Commissioned under Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order, the report’s conclusions were preordained, its framing designed to validate a political agenda rather than present credible research. It names no authors, has no peer-reviewed process, and bears no hallmarks of legitimate scientific inquiry—just a faceless document no one was willing to claim. Among its recommendations: conversion therapy for trans youth, the reclassification of social transition as medical treatment, and an absurd assertion that transgender care should be judged not by patient well-being or satisfaction but by “employability” and the presence of “romantic partners.”</p><p>At more than 400 pages, the document is poised to draw a wave of fact-checks and scientific rebuttals. The American Academy of Pediatrics has already issued a sharp condemnation, calling it “inaccurate,” “misleading,” and a distortion of “the current medical consensus.”</p><p>There is something entirely unnerving about feeling like you have to explain to cis society at large that a blatant piece of fascist anti-trans propaganda, which is what this HHS report is, is not a credible work of science, medical policy, or academic rigor. Medical associations and trans rights groups are already coming forward to point out this is junk science and propaganda written to achieve an objective, rather than solve a real problem. That objective is clearly the dehumanization and medicalization of trans existence, while ominously promoting literal fucking conversion therapy as acceptable medical practice to "treat" youth gender dysphoria. </p><p>Furthermore, given that the report seems to define trans "youth" as anyone under the age of 26, the regime's open threats against even adult trans medical care, and the decision to cloak this entire anti-trans agenda under the framework of anti-genital mutilation laws, it shouldn't take a degree in gender studies to figure out this report is going to be used to go after trans rights and the public existence of trans people of all ages; particularly given that the Cass Report it was modelled after has been used to accomplish some of those same goals in the UK. In fact I'm so certain that this report is the tip of the spear for an American state attack on trans existence as a whole, that I'm mostly sharing Erin Reed's debunking of its most egregious and appalling arguments for future reference, because I'm sure the regime itself is going to refer back to it early and often. </p><p>While I certainly recommend you read the entire piece, I'd like to highlight her notes on the conversion therapy issue; otherwise known as legalizing and normalizing "torturing the trans out of your kids." </p><p>"The review flounders when attempting to present viable alternatives to gender-affirming care—chief among them, psychotherapy. There is no comprehensive evidence that talk therapy alone can treat gender dysphoria. On the contrary, the documented harms of conversion therapy are extensive: LGBTQ+ youth subjected to it are more than 2.5 times as likely to report multiple suicide attempts in the past year. The report attempts to have it both ways—insisting that psychotherapy for gender dysphoria isn’t conversion therapy, while also suggesting, in the same breath, that conversion therapy (“psychotherapy” or “psychiatric care” in the report) might actually be effective in curing gender dysphoria."</p><p>Folks, I don't know how to say this any more clearly; gender ideology is a conspiracy theory, social contagion is a winger cope to explain away their trans children without acknowledging their kid's agency, and none of this is about protecting children. The Trump regime's Christian Nationalist agenda openly includes ending gender affirming care and driving trans people out of public life. Among the very first things Trump did when he got back in office is issue an executive order decreeing that trans people don't exist. These freaks are serious, and they're coming for trans people at pace.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransPogrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTransPogrom</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a></p>
Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>"Former colleagues told The Hill that Monarez is an effective leader who has championed data-driven work and diversity, which could make her an awkward fit for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr.’s agency, which has sent mixed messages on the safety of vaccines, gutted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, and questioned myriad public health orthodoxies."</p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5275030-susan-monarez-cdc-nominee/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/policy/healthcare/</span><span class="invisible">5275030-susan-monarez-cdc-nominee/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/immunizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunizations</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>“I'm an oncologist. Trump's cuts will devastate cancer research.”</p><p>“The Trump regime is withholding funding for trailblazing breast cancer researcher with UW.”</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralStrike</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSF</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKjr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-budget-cuts-nih-cancer-research-rcna204165" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio</span><span class="invisible">n/trump-budget-cuts-nih-cancer-research-rcna204165</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/trump-administration-withholding-uw-medical-research-funding/281-0bc307be-b366-4802-b063-efda77a938cb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">king5.com/article/news/politic</span><span class="invisible">s/national-politics/trump-administration-withholding-uw-medical-research-funding/281-0bc307be-b366-4802-b063-efda77a938cb</span></a></p>
Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>"The Trump administration could gut research on the effectiveness of child welfare programs, with plans to terminate dozens of university grants studying improvements to Head Start and child care policy, according to a spreadsheet mistakenly made public this week.</p><p>The document listed more than 150 research projects under consideration for termination by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/children-head-start-research-cuts-trump-hhs-ecfa2b140990057eb412e476dc875ffa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/children-he</span><span class="invisible">ad-start-research-cuts-trump-hhs-ecfa2b140990057eb412e476dc875ffa</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/families" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>families</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"Perhaps one could be forgiven for hoping otherwise before, but, at this point, no one can honestly believe MAHA is a <a href="https://toad.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publichealth</span></a> agenda. It's very plainly a🚨eugenicist platform for destroying all public care systems, increasing incarceration +maximizing billionaire profits."<br>-E Reinhart</p><p>Eg <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a>’s new initiative uses inactivated whole-virus vaccines -older approach driven by Dr Memoli *2021: opposed Covid-vaccine mandates & reportedly declined Covid vax himself.<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/health/hhs-universal-flu-coronavirus-vaccine-initiative" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/05/01/health/hhs-</span><span class="invisible">universal-flu-coronavirus-vaccine-initiative</span></a></p>
Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will ask the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop new guidance for treating measles with drugs and vitamins, an HHS spokesperson said."</p><p>There isn't great treatment. Vaccination is the best way to prevent measles. </p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cdc-measles-treatment-guidance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cdc-me</span><span class="invisible">asles-treatment-guidance/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/vaccinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccinations</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/immunizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunizations</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>Perhaps you've counted up all the ways the Trump admin🚨IS TRYING TO KILL YOU.</p><p>The measles outbreak is just a warm-up act. Whooping cough cases are doubling, updated COVID vaccine appears stalled & no, despite what the red-faced man running the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> tells you, fresh fruits & vegies will not cure hangnails. </p><p>The lab “is no longer able to provide lab support” for dairy testing. It can no longer provide support bc the ppl who did the supporting: gone.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/05/02/sick-of-it-all-pat-beall/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sun-sentinel.com/2025/05/02/si</span><span class="invisible">ck-of-it-all-pat-beall/</span></a></p>
StanceOfMind<p>Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Pseudoscience, Pushes Conversion Therapy</p><p><a href="https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-trumps-hhs-review-on-trans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">erininthemorning.com/p/fact-ch</span><span class="invisible">eck-trumps-hhs-review-on-trans</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FactCheck</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TransCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransCare</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/GenderCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderCare</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/GOPLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPLies</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Bigots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bigots</span></a></p>
Blake Patterson<p>This is utter insanity. Hopefully this nutjob will be very soon removed from his post -- he is _literally_ a raving lunatic. </p><p>RFK Jr just claimed that "during the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking, and for sex, and for slavery"—and that there are "300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration."</p><p>( @ 42 seconds in the video )</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Xv1lqQtM1cs?si=kccy1M9XfnO4k5Dv&t=42" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Xv1lqQtM1cs?si=kccy1M</span><span class="invisible">9XfnO4k5Dv&t=42</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/lunatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lunatic</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/trumpadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trumpadmin</span></a></p>
BakersRelay<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TheGremlinZoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGremlinZoo</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> </p><p>From STATNews: Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry</p><p><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/autism-registry-fears-hurt-diagnosis-screening-parents-cancel-autism-evaluations/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">statnews.com/2025/05/01/autism</span><span class="invisible">-registry-fears-hurt-diagnosis-screening-parents-cancel-autism-evaluations/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Cringe your way through <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a>'s bonkers interview with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DrPhil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrPhil</span></a></p><p>The insanity continues w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> Secy RFKJr, who appeared on Dr. Phil’s YouTube channel Tues to crow about the “revolution” in health he & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin are administering to the American people.</p><p>The interview was chock-full of RFKJr’s usual <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a>, ranging from debunked anti-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a> theories to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/chemtrail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemtrail</span></a> nonsense.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GetVaccinated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GetVaccinated</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/30/2319747/-RFK-Jr-and-Dr-Phil-sit-down-for-the-interview-nobody-asked-for" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/30</span><span class="invisible">/2319747/-RFK-Jr-and-Dr-Phil-sit-down-for-the-interview-nobody-asked-for</span></a></p>
Bruce Mirken<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> declares war on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> youth. <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/transgendermedicine/115380" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/tr</span><span class="invisible">ansgendermedicine/115380</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PublicHealthMalpractice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealthMalpractice</span></a></p>
Brittany Trang<p>"Less than four years out of high school, Peter Bowman-Davis is the acting chief AI officer at the Department of Health and Human Services," per Politico.</p><p>Meghan Dierks, the HHS CAIO Bowman-Davis ousts, has been on the faculty at Harvard before Bowman-Davis was born.</p><p><a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/04/hhs-puts-yale-undergrad-in-charge-of-artificial-intelligence-00319477" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">subscriber.politicopro.com/art</span><span class="invisible">icle/2025/04/hhs-puts-yale-undergrad-in-charge-of-artificial-intelligence-00319477</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Healthtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Healthtech</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/healthIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthIT</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hhs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hhs</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
BakersRelay<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TheGremlinZoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGremlinZoo</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> </p><p>From CBSNews.com: HHS redirects $500 million to Trump appointee's vaccine project, bypassing reviews</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-flu-vaccine-funding-trump-administration/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/covid-flu-vac</span><span class="invisible">cine-funding-trump-administration/</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>There's a scary, superficial paradox at the heart of Trump & <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a>'s🚨calls to reopen asylums & ship off ppl with mental illnesses & substance use disorders to cells & work camps: asylum model of care hinges on psychiatric authority, but RFK Jr is adamantly anti-psychiatry, undermining its diagnoses +Txs at every turn.... -paradox dissolves when we realize that what he wants is even worse than asylums -HE WANTS JUST PRISONS & CONC CAMPS w/o any pretense of Tx.<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/191887/kennedy-maha-trump-psychiatric-medicine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/191887</span><span class="invisible">/kennedy-maha-trump-psychiatric-medicine</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"RFK Jr plans to require placebo-controlled trials for all new vaccines, apparently even for well-known diseases like measles. </p><p>This could delay access to lifesaving vaccines, undermine trust, ignore decades of scientific & ethical standards & put lives at risk.</p><p>At a time of rising measles, this is dangerous."<br>-Dr S Madad</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> Sec <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> intends to shift the way <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> are tested -MED experts fear could limit access to vaccines +undermine the public’s trust-.<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/30/rfk-jr-vaccine-testing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/health/2025</span><span class="invisible">/04/30/rfk-jr-vaccine-testing/</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Honestly, I might struggle to come up with a list of ten things I want to do less than track the unhinged shit Robert F. Kennedy Jr says in public. Given his appointment as Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary however, and the role his eugenicist beliefs have in the regime's plans to surveil autistic people, and end gender affirming care, the absolutely batshit things Kennedy says and thinks have taken on an outsized level of importance in American life. Since assuming control of HHS the anti-vax ideas RFK Jr articulates in particular already have a child body count, and as such pushing back on his fact-free conspiracy theories is a public health issue, and quite possibly a matter of life and death in the right circumstances.</p><p>So be it then. In a recent interview Trump's mini-Mengele sought to justify refusal to get the measles vaccine by citing religious objections and insisting that the MMR vaccine contains "aborted fetus debris." It does not.</p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/qH17Z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/qH17Z</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>RFK Jr. Unhingedly Claims Measles Vaccine Made With Aborted Fetuses</p><p>"Speaking with NewsNation, virulent vaccine conspiracist and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. justified a religious Texas community’s decision not to receive the vaccine by claiming that the measles vaccine contains “aborted fetus debris” as well as “DNA particles.”</p><p>“There are populations in our country, like the Mennonites in Texas, who are most afflicted,” Kennedy said. “And they have religious objections to the vaccination.”</p><p>“The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris and DNA particles, so they don’t want to take it,” Kennedy continued. “So we ought to be able to take care of those populations when they get sick.”</p><p>It should go without saying, but the MMR vaccine does not contain pieces of aborted fetuses. The vaccine contains live or weakened measles, mumps, and rubella viruses and ingredients to stabilize the solution."</p><p>There is something entirely too 2005 about having to debunk laughably ridiculous anti-vaccine conspiracy theories on your blog, but one of the major themes of Trump's time in office has been the unstated declaration that his rise to power means every unhinged racist, culture war, or pseudoscientific conspiracy pushed by the right since at least the adoption of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is now open for relitigation in our discourse, politics, and even courts of law; so why would Boomer anti-vax conspiracy theories from the nascent days of Facebook grandpa posting be any different? The reality is that nothing has changed since the last time we all had a bunch of mainstream discussions about anti-vax theories; vaccines work, they don't cause autism, they're not made from abortions, and your religious beliefs shouldn't entitle you to put your entire community, including your own children, in danger.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiVax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiVax</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eugenics</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Measles</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>Scientists est💔DEATH & SUFFERING of Trump’s legacy:</p><p>Excess deaths -under various scenarios in 7 sub-S AFR Cs rg from 64K to 70K over the next 5 yrs. Given that most PEPFAR sites -in limbo...</p><p>LT ests of the effects of the cessation of PEPFAR funding *more grim -suggest: INTL aid reductions may lead to 4.4M to10.8M additional new HIV infections by 2030 & b/w🚨770K to 2.9M HIV-rel deaths by 2030 -for HIV only +impact on💔tuberculosis, malaria...</p><p>+RFK's <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a>.<br> <br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-100-days-public-health-deaths/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenation.com/article/politics</span><span class="invisible">/trump-100-days-public-health-deaths/</span></a></p>
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