Professor, University of California, Riverside School of Public Policy. Public health scientist & sociologist keen on population health & community issues. Sometimes in the news, often for troubling and frustrating topics. Opinions my own. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
After years of seeing his interviews, this is more of the same. When challenged on his record and statements, he quickly gets rattled and loses it--really easily too. Look at the arm waving.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸The Secretary of Health and Human Services is pathologically lying, gaslighting psychopath.
Flying q asked with zero judgement: if you're in a window seat and close the window, do you give any thought to others who might want to see out of it when you do? I'm an aisle person but just wondering if that's a consideration for the window seat set? Again, 0 judgement. Just curious abt any norm.
Wow... If you think you're having a bad day...
Kat TenbargeSo I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.
Having been a college DJ, I get the pressures on radio stations and factors that led to such a move. But chasing after the streaming service model seems a dead end too. Probably not helping is how bad and cliche classic rock radio programming is. Few/no deep cuts, old concerts, etc. I grew up with.
KCAL-FM lays off all on-air staff in switch to all-music radio stationOn-air talent laid off by the station include Daryl Norsell, Patrick Tish, Nikki Preston, John DeSantis and more.www.pressenterprise.comHey CA taxpayers: see this re: Prop 38 on the Nov. ballot. Bad look for UCLA. "...the ballot language criteria were tailored in a way that very likely excludes all but one institute in the entire state: the CA Inst. for Immunology & Immunotherapy." Donor & co-founder is chief backer of the prop.
Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.calmatters.orgUpdate on the job termination lawsuit by Rebekah Jones, the controversial Florida Dept. of Health analyst, activist of sorts/social media person, and unsuccessful Congressional candidate. 🛟😷
Rebekah Jones, Claimed 2020 Florida Health Department COVID-19 Whistle-Blower, Loses Lawsuit Over FiringFrom Jones v. Florida Dep't of Health, decided by Florida Court of Appeal Judges Joseph Lewis, Ross Bilbrey, and Thomas…reason.comThis takes "funerals are for the living" to a whole other level.
Aaron RuparHannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
Nice, short explainer here about 3 HHS rollbacks crippling Cyclospora outbreak response: 1. Cyclospora removed from FoodNet surveillance 2. USAID disbanding caused accidental defunding of CDC Parasite Division 3. CDC Cyclospora laboratory team severely defunded 🛟😷🧭🧪 Sociology health policy idsky
How America's Public Health Cuts Fueled the Cyclospora Outbreak - ImpakterThe current Cyclospora outbreak exposes the consequences of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) agenda for foodimpakter.comMaybe it's me, but the demonstration video in this story showing these drones against a non-moving, propped-up dummy is rather unconvincing regarding their real life effectiveness. Policy 🛟 sociology
Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shootersThe plastic, nonlethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers, will be at the ready in a handful of schools in Florida, Georgia and Colorado.wapo.stTerrific overview by @hiltzikm.bsky.social "The White House assault on scientific grants is an integral part of its general blitzkrieg on US sci. In a one-yr retrospective on the current Trump term published in Jan., Nature counted 5844 grants canceled or suspended by (NIH), & 1996 by (NSF)." 🛟😷🧪🧭
Commentary: Here are all the ways that Trump has tried to kill U.S. science researchPartisan political filters and the search for "DEI" have resulted in billions of dollars in canceled scientific research grantswww.latimes.com"...you can’t separate MAHA from the antivaccine movement, nor... the motley assortment of 'health influencers,' quacks, antivaxxers, & grifters who see the movement as a vehicle that will let them profit selling supplements, unproven treatments... & 'health freedom' to the masses..." 🛟😷🧪 Sociology
Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM!Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America healthy again" movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it "needs" to integratesciencebasedmedicine.orgInformative explainer... Policy lawsky Polisky sociology
The Federal Government is Emailing You Campaign Literature – Can Anyone Stop It?Is it legal for Social Security to send you partisan propaganda? In theory, no…donmoynihan.substack.com"I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not." I can't quit you, Em Dash!
McSweeney's"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
What a mess. Helpful read covering what are rather confusing actual details of the Taylor Farms recall... 🛟😷🧪🧭
‘Not standard’ for Taylor Farms to ask White House to delay cyclospora recall, ex-FDA head saysScott Gottlieb responds to report that company contacted the White House seeking to delay a recall announcementwww.theguardian.comIf my Google search is any indicator, this is already great PR--for the GOP Can't imagine Dem candidates in purple districts and not in major cities are enjoying this. Note: DSA has only ~120k members. Dems have ~44M total.
Christopher WebbEVERY DEMOCRAT NEEDS TO SEE THIS. DSA co-chair Megan Romer laid out the organization’s platform. Now I’ve got to ask: will they be held accountable when they can’t get these policies enacted, just like Democrats in general? 🧵
"Even modest annual reductions in (MMR) vaccine coverage among young children generate a nonlinear increase in cases & hospitalizations, with costs totaling $7.77 billion over a 5-y period." 🛟😷📈🧪 health policy sociology polisky
The health and economic repercussions of declining MMR coverage in the United States | PNASThe resurgence of measles in the United States, driven by declining childhood vaccination
coverage, poses a substantial public health and economic ...www.pnas.orgCDC leadership continues to try to manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none exists. 🛟🧪🧭😷 Policy
CDC leadership continues to try to manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none existsCDC leadership continues to try manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none exists, writes Ben Lopman.www.statnews.com"A lot of teen campers believe Jason Voorhees is nothing more than a serial killer who can't be reasoned w/ but he offers an opportunity that campers concerned w/ forest preservation cannot afford to squander." Seriously though, NO. 1/n 🛟
The AtlanticA lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues: