John Rother

Equity can be a powerful force to affect societal change. But we’ve barely touched the potential of using discrimination in a progressive way. There are so many more ways people could be singled out for having advantages. Here are a few ideas I came up with.

@BourneyJas32358 @AaronSiriSG As a lawyer, when he makes a statement, you can be guaranteed he knows what he’s talking about. He’s made it his business to know this subject inside and out. The pertussis vaccine doesn’t prevent infection. It reduces symptoms of infection.

@AaronSiriSG You are a LAWYER who knows nothing about medicine. You copy/paste out of papers you dont even understand. Tell me this LAWYER, what cytokines are released from a Th2 helper cell response?

Dr. Dan Edney, reported to be in the running for head of CDC, says he gets a “pertussis booster” regularly “to protect other infants and children that might be around me, that I’m not spreading pertussis to them.” This “doctor” doesn’t even know that pertussis vaccine, while reducing symptoms, does not prevent infection and transmission. Hence, getting this product makes him more likely to remain around infants and children and unknowingly spreading pertussis. That’s just the basic science. As the FDA explains: “aP [acellular pertussis] containing vaccines induce helper T cells (TH2) memory and neutralizing antibody responses that effectively prevent symptomatic disease but fail to prevent colonization and carriage.” Or see quotes from the consensus paper by the purported world leading experts in pertussis vaccine below: Edney’s claim: wdam.com/2025/05/14/per… FDA source: fda.gov/media/181937/d… Consensus paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31333640/

@VinGuptaMD @PeteHegseth @POTUS We allocate billions each year to be prepared for stuff like this. This has nothing to do with healthcare. Our president has the best intel available. His resources are telling him the regime in Iran is dangerous. I don’t understand why Dems are opposed to liberating Iran.

The next time a career politician says Universal Healthcare isn’t a right because it would “bankrupt” America, I hope all of us will remember these past few weeks and the $200 billion @PeteHegseth and @POTUS want for their Iran misadventure

@Merciless365 @ChrisMurphyCT A dictator would throw you in prison for saying things like that. A dictator would execute protesters in the streets. If you want to see a dictatorship, Iran is a good example. Why are you people opposed to ending that regime?

@ChrisMurphyCT Republicans are almost all high stepping in line with heir Trumps orders. We're dealing with a dictatorship in America. And to all the warmongering cunts that lOvE Trump so much, get fucked, snowflakes. You worship a pedophile with dementia and narcissism.

In a few minutes I’m heading to the Senate floor to force a vote - tonight - to end the war in Iran. If Republicans won’t hold a debate and vote on this illegal, incompletely run war, then Democrats will. I will be joined on the floor by my Senate allies in this fight.

@AdamSchiff The domicratically-minded Iranians who’ve managed to not get murdered by the regime yet seem to appreciate our efforts.

Paying $5/gallon for gas to drive to an airport where you'll wait 4 hours to get monitored by untrained ICE agents as thousands of American troops prepare to deploy to the Middle East to fight a needless war. Another day in Donald Trump's America.

@Sen_Alsobrooks Wow, the comments here make it seem like most of us don’t believe you. Maybe the Democrat hivemind needs to come up with a better gameplan.

TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard aren't getting paid because Republicans have refused to fund them. Full stop. Democrats have made MULTIPLE attempts to approve funding, and Republicans have rejected them. Every. Single. Time.

@CharlesChuck140 @mattvanswol @Sen_Alsobrooks @TheDemocrats Nobody wants anyone getting harmed. When activists interfere with law enforcement activities, they put themselves and others at risk. They should be there to observe and record any civil rights abuses. When they insert themselves is when people get hurt.

@mattvanswol @Sen_Alsobrooks @TheDemocrats We don’t want any more US Citizens getting shot or deported by ICE stormtroopers with no training in regards to the constitution or deescalation. That’s your nazi shit.That’s the hill that you have chosen. You’re on the wrong side of history yet again.

@amyklobuchar If people aren’t responsible enough to do the legwork, maybe they don’t deserve to vote. For example, despite the fact that there should be no restrictions to a person’s right to bear arms, we are required to jump thru hoops to buys guns. We do it anyway because it’s important.

The SAVE America Act makes it harder for American citizens to vote. It hands private voter data over to DHS and adds costly hurdles just to register. We should be making it easier for Americans to have their voices heard and have their right to vote — not harder.

@mattvanswol The people pulling the strings have trillions of digital dollars. They’ll never be bankrupted and they’ll never stop. They control almost everyone else in power except for Donald Trump.

I’m now convinced that the majority of the GOP in Congress… …are just Democrats at heart, who say things that sound conservative to get elected Maybe the uniparty is real after all. Maybe that’s why they won’t vote on any of the popular Trump agenda items. This sucks…

We’re seeing this surge of AI propaganda because they want you to question the validity of every video you watch.

@JacquiDeevoy1 Anyone injured by the first shot would be highly unlikely to take a second dose, leaving them forever in the unvaccinated group. There’s a good chance that many “covid” deaths were vaccine injuries.

Remember when people weren’t classed as ‘vaccinated’ until they had two jabs? So the people who were injured, became seriously ill or who died after one jab were classed as ‘unvaccinated’. Then the media could publish stories saying the unvaccinated were dying. Remember that? Utter madness.

@AGRobBonta @HHSGov Go ahead, can’t wait to see who you bring in for experts. Most of them refuse to do court appearances since Aaron Siri’s deposition of Stanley Plotkin. Good luck!

I’m taking @HHSGov Secretary RFK Jr. and the CDC to court for unlawfully removing 7 vaccines from the list of universally recommended childhood vaccines despite overwhelming evidence supporting their safety and effectiveness. While RFK Jr. is entitled to his own personal opinions, he isn’t entitled to use his opinions as the basis for breaking the law and endangering our children and communities. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAOAG…

@HighWireTalk They’ve been lying about the number who complied. My wife’s employer, a pharma-related company, offered all kind of incentives trying to get to 50% compliance, but didn’t quite get there.

Del just got back from Europe. And what he found there changed everything. He traveled to Guernsey - one of the highest COVID vaccination rates in the world at 97% - and found a room packed with people trying to understand what happened to them. Good people. Compliant people. Now dealing with serious health consequences. But that's not what grabbed him most. What grabbed him was the number. Across the UK, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, country after country, the same story. Roughly 30% of people, no matter the propaganda, no matter the mandates, no matter the fear and guilt and pressure from every direction, just said no. They didn't know there were that many of them. Neither did you, probably. Del's point is simple and it's powerful. If every workplace had known that 30% of employees would walk out over a vaccine mandate, no company could have enforced it. If every nation had known that 30% was standing together, coordinated, voting together, no government could have pushed it through. 30% can change the world. In fact, Del says, 30% IS going to change the world. But only if that 30% wakes up to its own power. Stops being passive. Starts supporting the people putting everything on the line. And stops installing the very surveillance infrastructure it claims to oppose. This one is worth watching. 👉 Episode 464 at thehighwire.com

@SecKennedy The whole system of farming massive quantities of grain needs to change as soon as possible. “Modern” agricultural practices are producing the wrong food. Most of the great plains need to be returned to grassland for cattle production.

I will always tell the American people the truth. Pesticides and herbicides are toxic by design, engineered to kill living organisms. When we apply them across millions of acres and allow them into our food system, we put Americans at risk. Chemical manufacturers have paid tens of billions of dollars to settle cancer claims linked to their products, and many agricultural communities report elevated cancer rates and chronic disease. Unfortunately, our agricultural system depends heavily on these chemicals. The U.S. represents 4% of the world’s population, yet we use roughly 25% of its pesticides. If these inputs disappeared overnight, crop yields would fall, food prices would surge, and America would experience a massive loss of farms even beyond what we are witnessing today. The consequences would be disastrous. I support President Trump’s Executive Order to bring agricultural chemical production back to the United States and end our near-total reliance on adversarial nations. His EO protects two pillars of national strength: our defense readiness and our food supply. When hostile actors control critical inputs, they directly threaten the security of the American people. The Trump administration will secure these supply chains to eliminate that vulnerability. President Trump did not build our current system — he inherited it. For decades, Washington designed modern agriculture. Policymakers wrote farm policy, directed research dollars, structured subsidies and crop insurance, and shaped commodity markets to reward monocultures and maximum yield. Those deliberate choices locked farmers into chemical dependence and prioritized short-term output over long-term soil vitality and human health. We are now changing course — without destabilizing the food supply. Alongside @USDA @SecRollins, we are accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture by expanding farming systems that rebuild soil, increase biodiversity, improve water retention, and reduce reliance on synthetic chemicals, including pre-harvest desiccation. We are also driving the rapid adoption of next-generation technologies, including laser-guided weed control, electrothermal and electrical systems, robotics, precision mechanical cultivation, and biological controls that replace blanket spraying with precision intervention. These solutions are not theoretical. Farmers are already putting them to work. Markets are scaling them. Now the federal government will act with urgency to expand their reach and accelerate adoption nationwide. I have met with hundreds of farmers and agricultural leaders across the country. They understand the pressures firsthand. Chemical inputs cut into margins. Chemical-resistant pests are spreading. Soil health is declining. Foreign markets are shutting out American produce. Farmers want workable alternatives, and they want policies that support transition without threatening their livelihoods. At HHS, I am leading a coordinated effort grounded in gold standard science. I am working with Secretary Rollins and @EPALeeZeldin to expedite a better future where a thriving agricultural system is less dependent on harmful chemicals. We are sharing data, coordinating strategy, and supporting farmers through a practical transition. The Make America Healthy Again agenda forces us to challenge long-standing assumptions about how we grow food, structure markets, and measure success in this country. Reform at this scale will test entrenched interests, and it will not move in a straight line. President Trump has opened the door to this debate and backed meaningful change — not only in policy, but in the national conversation about health and agriculture. American farmers stand at the center of this movement. They deserve policies rooted in rigorous science and economic reality. Our children deserve a food system that protects and strengthens their health. With President Trump’s leadership, we are securing critical supply chains, confronting the health risks embedded in our current system, and deploying every available tool to build a stronger, safer, more resilient American food supply.

@simonateba You used to be a journalist. Did your account get hacked, or was it your brain?

As that mental instability expands, supporters confuse it with strength. If you were president, would you post a video depicting the Obamas as monkeys or add your name to the Kennedy Center, knowing the man was assassinated? Would you call Supreme Court justices fools and dogs simply because you disliked their ruling — after they delayed your full immunity decision for months, a delay that helped you win the presidency, and then ultimately granted you full immunity? Would you sue the American people for $10 billion because a private contractor, now in prison, leaked your tax returns? Would you fight tooth and nail to conceal the Epstein files of sexually abused children or move one of the perpetrators, Ghislaine Maxwell, from a maximum-security prison to a minimum-security prison? Would you ask the people to donate $10 billion in taxpayer money to your private board of peace, where you are chairman for life? Would you wake up and, without consulting businesses, impose tariffs — 10 percent today, 15 tomorrow, 200 percent the next day — depending on your mood or whether someone offended you, when you never helped those people create or run their businesses in the first place? Would you bomb people at sea without even knowing their names or crimes? Would you bomb countries, kidnap their president simply because you want to take their land? Would you ask federal agents to wear masks, terrorize the population, and when citizens are killed, demand the investigation be stopped? Would you tweet nonstop, calling your predecessors fools, terrorists, animals? Would you accept a plane from Qatar and start a war with Iran even when the people are against it? Would you roll out the red carpet for Putin while attacking and alienating allies who have always gone to war alongside the United States? And when it becomes clear your party is about to lose an election, would you double down — or change course?

@SenJackReed Regular consumer goods don’t really seem to be any more expensive now than before tariffs. TVs are cheap. Computers are cheap. Clothes and shoes, still cheap. Doritos went down lately. Milk is still $3 per gallon. Chicken breast $3 per pound.

Now that SCOTUS struck down Trump’s faux-emergency tariffs, it’s time to return money back to American people. Trump Admin must establish a swift & fair refund system & work w/ Dems to lower prices.

@drterrysimpson A big chunk of the population had natural immunity before the shots were even available. Before covid, doctors knew that natural immunity was superior. Now they pretend it doesn’t exist while championing an experimental medical product which attempts to mimic natural immunity.

During the major COVID waves, hospitals across the country canceled elective surgeries, delayed cancer operations, postponed joint replacements, deferred cardiac procedures — because beds, ventilators, and staff were consumed by COVID admissions. I lived that. Many of us did. ICUs were full. Recovery rooms became ICU overflow. Surgical wards became COVID units. Now ask the obvious question: What emptied those hospitals? Not wishful thinking. Not podcasts. Not revisionist IFR math. Vaccination. After widespread vaccination, severe cases and ICU admissions dropped dramatically relative to prior waves — especially among the elderly and high-risk populations. The link between vaccination rates and reduced hospitalization was visible in real time across states and countries. Did therapeutics improve? Yes — steroids, anticoagulation, better protocols. Did the virus evolve? Yes. But the single largest shift in hospitalization risk curves followed vaccination rollout. If COVID had been trivial, we wouldn’t have shut down operating rooms. If it were harmless to the elderly, long-term care facilities wouldn’t have been devastated. Hospitals weren’t “emptied” by rhetoric. They were emptied by immunity — much of it vaccine-induced. You can debate policy. You can critique mistakes. But you cannot erase what frontline hospitals looked like before vaccines — and what they looked like after.

@ItsWhoYouKnow_ @Math_files Ask yourself; Have I sought out and truly considered the evidence the other side offers as their reason for holding an opposing position? If you cannot honestly say you have, then you yourself are guilty of what you accuse them of.

@Math_files No matter how many studies come in, Republicans will never change their beliefs. You could stack a tsunami of excellent studies from here to the moon, and they think they can dismiss them with a wave of the hand, because they know their tribe will applaud them for it.

Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important thing any rational person can learn. So many of our debates and disagreements that we shout about are because we don’t understand Bayes’ theorem or how human rationality often works. Bayes’ theorem is named after the 18th-century Thomas Bayes, and essentially it’s a formula that asks: when you are presented with all of the evidence for something, how much should you believe it? Bayes’ theorem teaches us that our beliefs are not fixed; they are probabilities. Our beliefs change as we weigh new evidence against our assumptions, or our priors. In other words, we all carry certain ideas about how the world works, and new evidence can challenge them. For example, somebody might believe that smoking is safe, that stress causes mouth ulcers, or that human activity is unrelated to climate change. These are their priors, their starting points. They can be formed by our culture, our biases, or even incomplete information. Now imagine a new study comes along that challenges one of your priors. A single study might not carry enough weight to overturn your existing beliefs. But as studies accumulate, eventually the scales may tip. At some point, your prior will become less and less plausible. Bayes’ theorem argues that being rational is not about black and white. It’s not even about true or false. It’s about what is most reasonable based on the best available evidence. But for this to work, we need to be presented with as much high-quality data as possible. Without evidence—without belief-forming data—we are left only with our priors and biases. And those aren’t all that rational.

@ilovethehop @EricLDaugh Great, then you should support the SAVE act

@EricLDaugh Only Republicans were CAUGHT cheating in the last three elections.

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) REJECTS passing the SAVE America Act to require voter ID and citizenship nationwide She represents a Trump+13 state. TRUMP+13. And she CAN’T EVEN support voter ID. DEMOCRAT IN DISGUISE! “Once again, I do not support these efforts.” “Ensuring public trust in our elections is at the core of our democracy, but federal overreach is not how we achieve this.” Who needs Democrats when you have Republicans like this?! PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, now! 🇺🇸

@MichaelAlbertMD Fewer people are taking vaccines. More people will get the disease. They’re choosing to risk the disease rather than the treatment. They believe the treatment may be worse than the disease. This is every person’s choice to make. Your efforts at coercion are no longer effective.

You can ignore the science, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring the science.

@CongBoyle The government can’t give anything. It can only take from one and give to another.

I've got a novel idea for President Trump: instead of giving Americans Greenland, how about giving them health care?