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@adam__xyz @WhiteHouse Mel Gibson. An Australian anti semite playing a Scottish revolutionary.

lol interesting movie choices Braveheart: The entire movie is about resisting imperial occupation by a more powerful nation. Using it to celebrate American military power is exactly backwards -- we are the empire. Saul Goodman: A corrupt, morally bankrupt lawyer who helps a meth dealer and ends up in witness protection. His entire arc is about the rot inside the American dream. Keanu Reeves: Canadian. Born in Beirut. Raised partly in Australia. Using him as an avatar of American might is weird. Christopher Reeve: Died paralyzed after a horse riding accident. His legacy is disability advocacy and stem cell research... causes the right largely opposed. Walter White: Poisons children, murders people, destroys his family, and dies alone in a meth lab. Cranston himself is openly liberal.

JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸🔥

@RealBBFan Thanks. These are good points. I’m not disagreeing. Just pointing out how stupid & duplicitous the whole “whose tribe is he” thing is. Esp if this one kid’s alignment is being used as the pretext for “war”.(Which it prob will be regardless of his tribe in the end). So scary.

@writeonleah The info is necessary to: 1) Avoid civil war- MAGA has been trying to blame the left & trans community for killing Kirk so they can declare “civil war” & execute leftists. 2) Bring awareness to/stop hate -by exposing alt-right hate groups & their agenda (including against Kirk)

Tyler Robinson was a GROYPER, first radicalized by his MAGA LEO parents. He followed Laura Loomer & Nick Fuentes, who called Charlie Kirk a fascist traitor after he pushed to release the Epstein files. MAGA protecting a PEDOPHILE from release of Epstein files->Charlie’s death.

@PublicationsPro @AucklandIsland @ShaykhSulaiman So Orwellian

@ShaykhSulaiman What happened to free speech?

BREAKING: BILL INTRODUCED TO REVOKE PASSPORTS OF US CITIZENS IF THEY CRITICISE ISRAEL

@AmyMcGrathKY @jofromgreylynn Isn’t this the ultimate insult to a murdered guy whose main message was supposed to be about free speech.

Unprecedented witch hunt. This is wrong. I’m hearing people are being UCMJd here for disagreeing with a podcaster.

REPORTER: You just announced a new nominee for US Surgeon General who never finished her residency, and is not a practicing physician. So can you explain why you picked her? TRUMP: Bobby thought she was fantastic ... I don't know her. @atrupar

@mark_delacroix @_MegaPolitics No because there is not a warrant out for her arrest.

Breaking: Italian PM meloni says she will arrest Netanyahu if he enters the country.

@_MegaPolitics @AucklandIsland Because there is a Warrant for his arrest and that is the legal thing to do

@WSJ Thus was wrong though?

Breaking: Ammunition engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology was found inside the rifle authorities believe was used in Kirk’s shooting, sources say on.wsj.com/42jMYDq

@AngelaBelcamino @imgufftastic Vance literally called Trump Hitler.

@imgufftastic I don’t agree… I think you can call people things like moron, idiot, etc. but when people throw around the term Nazi- it can lead to insane people actually believing it and thinking they need to takeout a Nazi. Like when people thought Teslas were actually Nazis.

It’s pretty straight forward… if you’ve called conservatives Nazis and fascists, you’ve contributed to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

If Donald Trump knew of the strike in Doha in advance, he has in effect endorsed an attack on a state under American protection. If he did not, it shows that America cannot constrain Israel economist.com/leaders/2025/0…

TO MY GREAT FELLOW AMERICANS…

@BenUffindell Yuck. Just yuck.

People are making fun of old Nashy but feels like the prototypical start of a New Zealand First career to me.

@we_dollar @Mountain_Tui No, actually he's a misogynist and some people don't want to have anything to do with him

@Mountain_Tui Oh dear... Nash was first stabbed in the back by Hipkins, then by Plunket and now his employer.

Stuart Nash has resigned from his employer after remarks about women, where he called them a person "with a p*ssy and two t*ts" This is the same Nash who Luxon proffered National could easily work with after Nash presented at the NZF conference. #nzpol thepost.co.nz/politics/36081…

@shawniebrina Just looked through his twitter to find out and it was dark and ugly and hateful. Still, it was wrong to kill him, no one deserves to die like this and it’s scary to think of what comes next.

guys who the hell is charlie kirk it’s the first time i'm seeing this name in my life

@CitizenBomber Don’t know but aren’t clicking on account of the misogyny and ageism

Who are all these racist old Hobson Pledge Karens? The Daily Blog buff.ly/W40urpx #nzpol

@rubytubee The pattern is young white straight “christian” men. Males account for more than 90 percent of mass killings and White males over 80 Percent. statista.com/statistics/476…

The pattern....

@rubytubee I don’t understand how someone could come on here and judge a man who has just lost his child, for the way he is grieving. Be kind.

I don't understand these Fathers that come out and give speeches like this a day after losing your baby....Sorry I just don't....

@dr_demetre @being_jackson go well sir. Its scary times

@being_jackson Sure did

My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.   I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested. This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough. While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people.  This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles. I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.  The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.   The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership.  This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors.  Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people. It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC.  The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense.  Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function.  Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC. The recent term of reference for the COVID vaccine work group created by this ACIP puts people of dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor in charge of recommending vaccine policy to a director hamstrung and sidelined by an authoritarian leader.   Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults.  Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc. I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again.  I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season.  Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.”  We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary.  I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.  Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources.  At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him.  To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information. The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer.  I believe in nutrition and exercise.  I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability.  Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun. The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning.  My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so.  I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud.   I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur.  I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed. For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics.  I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision. Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically. Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution.  If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States. Sincerely, Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH (he/his/him)

@tmurphyNZ Oh dear

Thinking big: Peeni Henare on the Hui debate tonight reckons this Govt is not only “the worst this country has seen” but “the worst the world has seen”.