Writer and media relations consultant for several organizations, but all ravings here are strictly mine. Known troublemaker, transplanted from California to Hilo, Hawaii. I often post pics of the cute #reptiles who hang out around my house. Escapee from #Xitter. Do NOT patronize Elon Musk's businesses.
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Last Notes npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken You can't make this stuff up: "A #Republican-controlled House committee passed legislation earlier this week that would prevent the US Labor Department from enacting federal standards to protect workers from extreme #heat, a move that came amid sweltering heat across the country."https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-worker-heat-protections npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken If only we had a Cabinet brave enough to invoke the #25thAmendment or a #Congress willing to #ImpeachTrump and actually convict him. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-venezuela-51st-state?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=e9949a73cc-Top+News+%7C+Thu.+5%2F7%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-998917937b-600541243 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken As #MothersDay approaches, Forbes writer Judy Stone argues that the greatest danger to moms may be #HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2026/05/09/what-have-rfk-jr-and-the-trump-administration-done-for-mothers/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…he69 Time for an "I am Spartacus" moment: npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Oh great, another nominee to continue the #TrumpAdministration war on #trans kids. May these people all eternally rot in hell. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-nominates-anti-trans-fox-news?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=994764&post_id=196045258&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=3yxsm&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken 55% of Americans say their personal finances are getting worse. By the way, this comes from a nonprofit news site that's now in the middle of a fundraising drive. I support them every year, and you should, too. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken 👏 "On Earth Day in 2022, President Biden spoke in Seattle, announcing an executive order that created the first-ever national assessment of nature. Two and a half years later, President Trump rescinded the effort on his first day in office. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken I'm getting tired of reading about great #ElectricVehicles we can't buy in the U.S. because our government is run by idiots. https://electrek.co/2026/04/24/kias-ev-sales-surge-54-in-q1-with-a-full-lineup-of-sedans-to-vans/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "A report showing the efficacy of the #COVID19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, according to three people familiar with the decision..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/22/covid-vaccine-report-blocked-cdc-mmwr/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "Women are very often elevated into leadership at exactly the moment an organization is broken. Handed the keys to a burning building and told to fix it." How the highly qualified woman nominated to lead the #CDC is being set up to fail. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/120858 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Hmmm... there seems to be some sort of pattern here. I wonder what it is. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken This: "Indeed, #Trump’s behavior has been so erratic that any deal might be metaphysically impossible. One cannot make a bargain with an entity that is categorically incapable of behaving in a consistent manner." https://prospect.org/2026/04/20/trump-sabotages-his-own-much-exaggerated-iran-deal/ #IranWar npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken It's about time #JaredKushner's shameless corruption got proper scrutiny. https://www.commondreams.org/news/kushner-pawn-of-saudi-monarchy npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #Republicans have nlood on their hands. https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-gop-blocks-iran-war-powers?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=900049261d-Top+News+%7C+Tue.+4%2F14%2F26_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-998917937b-600541243 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #Trump could take a stealth route to privatize #Medicare. https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicare-advantage-default-enrollment npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken A #LongCovid diagnosis is associated with a higher risk of #HeartDisease. Folks, get your #COVID #vaccine!!! https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-tied-higher-risk-heart-disease-even-after-mild-infection npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken U.S. #vaccine policy remains in a state of uncertainty after a federal judge froze #HHS Secretary Kennedy's recent changes while Kennedy tones down his rhetoric and tries to engineer an end-run around the judge's ruling. This is no way to run #health policy. https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-knows-where-us-vaccine-policy-goes-next/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #Republicans have now taken #food assistance from 2.5 million poor Americans. https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-snap-cuts-analysis?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=d0b415f1c7-Top+News+%7C+Thu.+1%2F8%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600541243 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "The Strait of #Hormuz appeared to remain largely blocked on Wednesday, as shipowners try to understand if they can safely transit the vital waterway following a #ceasefire between the US and #Iran that was announced overnight." npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken This is seriously the looniest idea any U.S. president has ever had, and #Trump has had lots of loony ideas. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-seeks-152m-reopen-alcatraz-185648906.html npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken About fucking time something like this happened. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #SCOTUS chose #TransDayOfVisiblity to effectively legalize #LGBTQ "conversion therapy" as free speech, opening the door to all sorts of deadly quackery. Fuck all 8 justices, including the so-called "liberals" supporting it, who should have known better. May they be haunted by the consequences of this for eternity. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Can we just go ahead and make #ZohranMamdani president? https://prospect.org/2026/03/30/mamdani-announces-free-child-care-program-for-city-workers/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken A tiny bit of #NoKings in Hilo #Hawaii. I haven't seen a crowd estimate, but we stretched at least half a mile down the street -- not bad for a town of 45,000 people. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken The #RFKJr campaign to Make #Measles Great Again is a roaring success: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-measles-outbreak-approaches-1500-cases npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken After a federal judge called a halt to the #RFKJr - corrupted CDC #vaccine advisory committee, one member has now said the group is being disbanded, but I've seen no official confirmation. Meanwhile, a much more reliable information source just published an epic takedown of a report the committee was preparing to rubber-stamp: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cidrap-op-ed-report-proves-point-acip-covid-vaccines-and-predetermined-conclusions npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Don't lose track of the growing #censorship at #colleges and #universities. https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/the-right-expands-its-campaign-to-censor-college-professors-bader-20260303/?mc_cid=cb26832298&mc_eid=42caf3e016 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken “'Not only does this violate international law in numerous respects, it clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution,' said retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham, who previously served as chief of international law at U.S. Central Command." npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Prosecute the #ICE murderers. If the Feds won't do it, which they won't under this regime, state and local prosecutors must find a way. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #CaseyMeans is a #MAHA "influencer" whom #Trump would like to make US Surgeon General. She's completely unqualified, on top of being a crackpot. Tell your senators to vote NO on her confirmation. See this and other current Defend Public Health campaigns at https://www.defendpublichealth.org/get-involved npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Oh look, another #ICE murder they covered up. How many more don't we know about? npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Don't look away from #Trump and #RFKJr quietly destroying the world’s leading medical #research institution. https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/119955 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken This should scare the daylights out of you: npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #Measles is marching ahead. U.S. #PublicHealth, not so much. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-measles-total-grows-145-south-carolina-outbreak-hits-920-cases npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken There's a wise saying that one should not ascribe to malice what can be explained by simple incompetence. But the #TrumpAdministration regularly achieves both. https://www.commondreams.org/news/doj-epstein npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Is #ChuckSchumer going to wimp out again? “With Trump’s #ICE murdering our neighbors, kidnapping children, and terrorizing our streets, do Senate Democrats want to be remembered as fighters or as complicit?” Jacovich asked. “Body cameras and new training are not nearly enough to reverse the damage and terror that #CBP and ICE have inflicted on our communities.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-democrats-ice-funding npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken This is #RFKJr's real game: Make it so that pharmaceutical companies don't want to invest in #vaccine research. And it's working. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/moderna-chief-company-won-t-invest-new-late-stage-vaccine-trials npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…6w7d Please do not declare victory prematurely. The fascists have judged that they need to make a tactical retreat. It's not over. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken I increasingly have the sinking feeling that #Minnesota = Fort Sumter. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…l2dj Because, as Americans are now learning the hard way, our system was not built to handle literal fascists. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, 'shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.'" FYI, Pretti was a nurse. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Bravo to the people of #Minnesota for peacefully standing up to fascism today. In addition to businesses closing in solidarity, thousands turned out to protest in -9F temperatures. #ICEOut #AbolishICE npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Even for the #TrumpAdministration, this is batshit crazy. They really want to Make Polio Great Again. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Soon Ted Nugent and Kid Rock will be the only acts left still willing to play the #KennedyCenter npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #Measles is back. What does that mean? npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "Not only are ICE's operations hiking up everyone’s grocery bills, they are also, contrary to administration claims, making the housing crisis worse by terrorizing the construction industry and making life unlivable in immigrant neighborhoods." npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #Trump is killing the U.S. #auto industry. https://prospect.org/2026/01/20/how-trump-doomed-american-auto-industry npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…x9tq Dear #Europe, please, please do not appease #Trump. If he imposes tariffs over #Greenland, go nuclear, economically speaking. You can help decent USians end this. Thank you. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Time for the #25thAmendment https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-appalling-threat-leaves-no-doubt-its-time-for-the-25th-amendment/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "Responding to the news that the Department of Defense had put 1,500 active duty troops on standby for a potential deployment to Minnesota, #Minneapolis Mayor #JacobFrey had a clear message for the Trump administration: 'We will not be intimidated by the actions of this federal government.'” npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Happy #SilentSunday from #Hawaii npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "After taking countless lives around the world,# RFKJr and his ghoulish compatriots want American children to suffer too." if @nprofile…ygyt writes it, you need to read it. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Hello! #gecko #Hawaii npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…xwug Now can we send Trump back to reality TV? Maybe #Trump and #PeteHegseth could host a new show called "The War Crimes Apprentice." npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "Today, the Congressional Progressive Caucus adopted a policy of opposing new funding for #immigration enforcement within $DHS 'unless there are meaningful and significant reforms to immigration enforcement practices.'" Hey #Democrats, DO THIS. https://prospect.org/2026/01/13/how-to-stop-ice/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…tz5h @nprofile…s80c The U.S. in 2025 had the most measles cases in three decades. RFK Jr. is going for a new record in 2026. USA! USA! npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken THIS. #RFKJr #ImpeachRFKJr npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #California logs its first #measles case of the year, and my @nprofile…466e colleague James Alwine warns that #RFKJr is unleashing viruses and bacteria to do their worst. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/california-confirms-first-measles-case-for-2026-in-san-mateo-county npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…6r80 @nprofile…s80c #RFKJr likely wouldn't have his job had Sen. Cassidy opposed him. Both have blood on their hands. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…600e And what even is the point, since the U.S. is a net exporter of oil? npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…s80c It's almost like this would be a good time to encourage vaccination rather than cast doubt upon it. Could someone tell the 🤡 running U.S. health policy? npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken From #TimothySnyder: "...it is also worth revisiting the American-backed extraction of #MaríaMachado herself in December 2025, just four weeks ago. At the time this appeared to be a move designed to help her appear in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. At the moment, it looks much more like an American attempt to remove a rival for power and clear the way for an American imperialism directed not so much against #Maduro as against #Venezuelans as a people." https://snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-the-precedents?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=310897&post_id=183438302&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…9dzp Been doing my part all year. Join us! https://www.defendpublichealth.org/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "There is not much, if anything, Secretary Kennedy has done well in 2025. While he hides behind a smokescreen of small victories, the reality is that the intricate, complex agency he is leading has not simply stopped advancing. It is shattered, and it is the secretary and his cronies who have done the breaking. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken New data on high rates of suicidal thoughts among #transgender and gender diverse youth. "Beyond screening, clinicians must create affirming environments and connect youth to gender-affirming and mental health supports," she added. "Evidence shows that supportive healthcare interactions can mitigate risk, while hostile or uninformed care can exacerbate it." Someone PLEASE tell #RFKJr, not that I think he cares. https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/transgendermedicine/119138 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken My little nonverbal friend would like to wish you all a happy #SilentSunday npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…vkc4 @nprofile…afhh Please talk about it. I know it's hard, but as ACT UP used to say, silence = death. We can stop the madness, but not if we acquiesce. https://www.defendpublichealth.org/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…afhh One thing non-doctors can do is let our health care providers know we support them and understand the tough situation they face in the current environment. Of course, my doc is used to me proactively asking if there are vaccinations I should update. 😁 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…jljv No one is safe from #RFKJr and his minions. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken NEWSFLASH: #Vaccination is good. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken A doctor and researcher who studies #HIV had to quit the #CDC due to #censorship of his papers, "because it’s bad #science to suppress data for ideologic reasons and because erasing people from the story harms actual people." https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/hiv-expert-john-weiser-refused-to-censor-data-quit-cdc-transgender-interview/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…jljv Hmmm... could it be because getting #HealthCare isn't like shopping for a new refrigerator? 🤣 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Your occasional reminder that acting to curb #ClimateChange SAVES money. https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-climate-action-report npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…hpz8 m.s.? Anyway, I don't even remember what it was. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…hpz8 ugh. That "post pending" doesn't show up till after you post something. Not sure I can find it now but will look npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Totally normal, right? 😱 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken The #CDC is one government agency that literally saves lives every day. #RFKJr is well on the way to destroying it. https://progressive.org/latest/rfk-jr-deepening-threat-to-public-health-jacobs-alwine-20251208/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Never forget that the current anti- #trans hysteria is an attack on young people. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "Young and middle-age adults who had at least one dose of a #COVID19 mRNA #vaccine were less likely to die of any cause in the following 4 years compared with those who weren't vaccinated, a nationwide French cohort study found." https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/118840 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken Holy s**t, #DickVanDyke is about to turn 100. https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/features/dick-van-dyke-birthday-mary-poppins-b2866904.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "#Tesla has received a brutal reality check from Germany this week. The country’s closely watched TÜV Report 2026 has not only ranked the Tesla Model Y as the absolute worst car for reliability in its age group but noted that it has the highest defect rate of any vehicle tested in the last ten years." https://electrek.co/2025/12/03/tesla-model-y-named-worst-car-for-reliability-germany-major-tuv-report/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…jljv More unregistered vehicles on the road, more shady, underground vehicle sales. What could possibly go wrong? npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…8u43 Indict #Hegseth and everyone who follows his orders for murder. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken And #SCOTUS said this is fine. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…3ujw npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken The gay makeup artist that #Trump wrongly sent to an El Salvador torture prison describes his ordeal: When they arrived to CECOT, “everyone over there suffered from many different kinds of torture,” Hernández Romero continued, “physical abuse, mental abuse. They beat us.” He did NOTHING wrong and that's what the US government did to him. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #Measles, a disease that had been eliminated from the U.S. before #antivax nonsense went big time, continues to spread. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/utah-south-carolina-confirm-more-measles-cdc-call-suggests-us-elimination-status-jeopardy npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "Late last week, #NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his Principal Deputy Director, Dr. Matthew Memoli, published an essay in City Journal1 that argues, basically, for a head-in-the-sand approach to #pandemic preparedness." Never forget that US #PublicHealth policy is currently being set by liars, quacks and fools. https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal-to-nih-leaderships-screed?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1183526&post_id=179026346&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…va7c Are you sure this is not Trump's latest White House remodel? npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #WhoopingCough, aka #pertussis, is exploding in #Texas. #RFKJr must be proud. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5602511-texas-pertussis-cases-rise/ npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "What is wrong with the #Democrats? Seriously? npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken #ZohranMamdani just gave a shout-out to the #Trans community and I burst into tears. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…jljv Lunacy. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "A recent study found that if the funding cuts to scientific #research proposed by the #TrumpAdministration had been in place in past decades, critical medications for lung #cancer, leukemia, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases might never have been developed. These findings make clear what's at stake when we undermine scientific research: not just abstract progress, but real human lives." https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118063 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken More sketchy, violent behavior by the #Trump Homeland Security #gestapo in #LosAngeles https://lataco.com/ice-shots-santee-richard-parias npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "#Congress has effectively been dissolved by Speaker #MikeJohnson." --Jamelle Bouie on MSNBC. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken @nprofile…xt9k I wonder how much Zhao paid for the pardon. npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken ⚠️⚠️⚠️ "More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding #PublicHealth protections -- #vaccines, #milk safety, and #fluoride -- have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law." https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/118065 npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken "Well after the United States government declared the #pandemic emergency over, #COVID19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences year-round as occurred during peak influenza months, a team that includes Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) researchers has found." npub1e8a5504n5zwnhyeuyewk2japn0n72ntlnp3s6w48na5dceqf58css05ear Bruce Mirken When future historians look at the #Trump era, this may be the line that explains it best:
