Kelly Hills, MPH

Breaking: DARPA-funded employees shocked projects now being used by federal agency for “defense”

There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero

If you’re ever in need of random entertainment, especially whilst on bedrest (yes, again, long story), I highly recommend turning the subtitles on for Bondi Rescue (or really, any Aussie TV show).

The news from Brazil and Serbia are great and show that you don't defeat the far right by copying it or trying to appeal to their supporters You do it by being uncompromising, showing the danger they pose and offering something different to the many crises people suffer from

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Meanwhile in the UK, if Burnham succeeds in holding off the far right, it will be because he understands retail politics the way only a mayor can: keep people happy in high-visibility ways while offering a broader vision of the destination. So, everyday fixes plus EU free movement.

It's remarkable to me that, even as France, Germany and Spain flirt with the temptation of far-right rule, voters with long-term experience of it in Poland, Hungary and now Serbia have gone to such great efforts to rid themselves of it.

Imagine voluntarily admitting this. To the whole world!

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Watch this with Trump at his side, remember the dissents in the birthright citizenship case — www.lawdork.com/p/six-opinio... — and understand there are no limits, no places they wouldn’t go.

Also, never forget: RFK Jr put together a panel of his buddies as peptide advisers, who voted to make peptides more easily available—but SEVEN of the advisers have financial conflicts of interest! MAHA is all about grifting, corruption, and ties to industry www.cspi.org/press-releas...

This is worded weirdly generically with the lede buried. “all students who wish to compete on girls’ teams would have to undergo genital exams.” Surprise, surprise. Not boys teams then? It’s the usual Handmaid’s Tale anti-women BS portrayed as anti-trans protections.

This is intended to end women's sports entirely. Because who would let their daughters play if a random man (you know it will be a man) gets to examine her naked genitals? Nobody, and that kills Title 9.

conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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I refuse to think that little of Americans.

This faux populist shit from Washington/media insiders is so obnoxious. "I'm offended on behalf of these rubes"

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

I Bought a Pair of Scissors, Then I Stabbed Myself in the Foot. It Nearly Cost Me My Foot.

This is why I only give to individual candidates now, never to @electdemocrats.bsky.social. No one gets thrown under the fucking bus.

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

Well this is beyond a bad take. Being gifted doesn’t mean you suddenly know how to teach, it just means you’re working at a different (often grade) level than same age peers. Also? I know this is a bad take because my high school eliminated both sides of special education & ALL students suffered.

In the back of the drawer I found the watch that I lost at the start of the pandemic, and so I kept digging and so I kept digging to see if I could find the other things that I lost at the start of the pandemic, but (alas) my faith in other people wasn’t in there.

Wait, WHAT? If the Republican loses, Trump’s justice department will block certification?

The quiet part out loud.....

When I was a junior doc, I worked in Europe's first AIDS hospice (The Mildmay) It's no longer needed: highly active HIV medicines allow people with HIV to live as long as their HIV-negative peers And now we have a twice-yearly injection (lenacapavir) that's 100% effective at preventing HIV

One of the guys who left the SDU ethics committee in protest says that he would rather be ostracized by colleagues than have to face a patient from the placebo group with liver cancer ... www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/det-ku...

"world-leading scientists are being fired from the NIH so that the Trump administration can continue to promote disinformation & impose its anti-scientific ideas such as the totally discredited notion that vaccines cause autism" www.caprisa.org/News/Read/20... Science IS under attack from MAGA/MAHA

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen: Bhattacharya will chat with RFK Jr’s kooky science adviser, Martin Kulldorff, the dude who got $ from suing HPV vaccine makers, about how “science is under attack”🤣 Jay, RFK & Martin killed, banned or censored science that they hate—they are the attackers!

You know ow how often my pasty white butt was asked to disown Trump or Vance? It’s a round number. Well, oval-ish anyway.

I’m very happy to say Ramaswamy is a piece of garbage. But it’s because all of MAGA is a pro-rape movement run by people who are garbage. Those people own their choices, and their leaders. Where South Asian voices, and votes, organize & resonate, you get Zohran and Nithya and Kamala.

Our communities absolutely have our deep issues and divides to root out, but when we have had the chance to nominate and vote for candidates, we vote overwhelmingly progressive, and have zero loyalty to MAGA’s tokens. White nationalists have always had their pets. It’s not because of us.

I keep seeing South Asian folks making grand gestures of disclaiming Ramaswamy, as with Haley or Jindal. The thing to understand is, NONE of these candidates have ever, in any race, won a majority of the South Asian vote in any jurisdiction where they were running. They are products of white voters.

Never ever forget: RFK Jr, MAHA’s leader, lies when he says “all Black kids” are on psychiatric medications The racist “solution” he proposes is utterly grotesque—he says he wants to remove Black kids from their families and “reparent” them in rural camps He’s such a vile, dangerous man

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

The Columbus Dispatch this morning

Doctors and nurses are voicing their objections. I-638 would require EVERY girl who wants to participate in sports to go through biological sex verification. That means expensive, invasive, and utterly gross examinations. Protect our kids and let them play. Vote NO on I-638