Nicholas Tampio

My oped in the @hartfordcourant about homeschooling in Connecticut.

How do citizens hold themselves accountable in democratic regimes? I wrote about elite rhetoric, plurality, intersubjective identity and the distinctly democratic form of accountability they make possible, now out in Political Theory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Trump's pick to head the CDC, Erica Schwartz, would likely be a disaster. Schwartz led nationwide Covid-19 vaccine deployment and her long track record of directly issuing rights-crushing civilian and military vaccine mandates, including mandating injection of smallpox, anthrax, and flu vaccines into U.S. Forces, and discipling those that refused, reflects she lacks the basic ethics and morals to lead the CDC. This agency does not need another cheerleader for industry; it needs a regulator over industry. Her prior promotion, let alone mandates, of nearly a dozen different vaccines leave little hope she will objectively oversee CDC’s vaccine program which has, between 1986 and the 2026, gone from 3 injections to 29 injections, including in utero, by an infant’s first birthday, while chronic childhood disease has gone from under 10% to over 40% of children, most related to immune system dysregulation. SOURCES: For examples of Schwartz mandating vaccines, see: media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/25/20… media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/19/20… dcms.uscg.mil/Portals/10/CG-… For increase in vaccine schedule, see: cdc.gov/vaccines/sched…; cdc.gov/vaccines-pregn… (perma.cc/DAX5-MKSW); cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/i… (perma.cc/TM2U-2HBQ). The 29 injections in 2026 only include routine vaccines and the Covid-19 vaccine. Also see table on page 37 of Vacines, Amen. For rise in chronic health, see: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3944229/ (perma.cc/NGA9-93KW)(“According to data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) [1979-1981] over two million children under 17 years (3.8%) are afflicted by chronic conditions that cause some limitation of activ-ity.”); pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC16… (perma.cc/KN4A-94TV) (“Data from the National Health Interview Survey indicate that the prevalence of activity-lim-iting chronic conditions among children under age 17 years doubled between 1960 and 1981, from 1.8 to 3.8 per cent.”); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9551003/ (perma.cc/JTZ5-JBNK) (Among “children younger than 18 years who were included in the 1992-1994 National Health Interview Survey … [a] significant proportion of children, estimated at 6.5% of all US children, experienced some degree of disability.”); cdc.gov/chronic-dis-ea… (perma.cc/N4GT-38L2) (“Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.”); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21570014/ (perma.cc/62JZ-SRY4) (The 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health found that: “An estimated 43% of US children (32 million) currently have at least 1 of 20 chronic health conditions assessed, increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity, or being at risk for developmental delays are included.”); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40058728/ (perma.cc/3VHC-L7H2) (Only considering a “condition that is typically pediatric-onset and expected to be persistent or severe” or a “functional/ activity limitation related to a condition that is typically pediatric-onset and expected to be persistent or severe” from the National Health Interview Survey data it found that children falling into this category “has risen from 22.57% in 1999/2000 to 30.21% in 2017/2018”); https://www.cdc. gov/school-health-conditions/chronic-conditions/index.html (perma.cc/298V-C59B) (“In the United States, more than 40% of school-aged children and adolescents have at least one chronic health condition”); See Part IV of Vaccines, Amen for additional sources. For relationship of chronic health issues to immune system dysregulation, see among other sources: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30741719/(http…; pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28849096/ (perma.cc/HZ8E-ETE5); pub-med.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39426507/ (perma.cc/BTM6-HFF8); pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC53… (perma.cc/KZS3-5ERS); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39481220/ (perma.cc/H9QN-U2E7); pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10… (perma.cc/LV9U-GQKE); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39681901/ (perma.cc/LN7W-ZAX8). See Part IV of Vaccines, Amen for additional sources. cnn.com/2026/04/16/hea…

@FurkanGozukara Don’t humiliate someone doing the right thing.

CNN confirms Donald Trump was forced to order Israel to halt its bombing of Hezbollah just to get Iran to the negotiating table. The Trump administration is relying entirely on Pakistani generals to save their disastrous diplomatic collapse. Total humiliation for Washington.

Appointing a Covidian to lead the CDC is such a slap in the face to the medical freedom base that gave Trump the presidency in 2016 and 2024. The White House isn't even trying to win the midterms at this point.

"The Truth About Israel's Violent Expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 Is Nothing New. Newly uncovered Israeli files confirm what Palestinians have said for decades about expulsion and massacre" By the great Amira Hass haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

"It's not working": Diplomats fear Trump's Iran envoys are making things worse time.com/article/2026/0…

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

The rationale, explained to me by a Dem who wants to stop funding Iron Dome: The defense system makes Israel more aggressive, confident that it can launch operations without much damage to its own cities. (Most Dems are still at "no offensive weapons, missile shield okay.")

New York’s senators don’t represent our great state. Disgusting & immoral that they voted to continue to bankroll the atrocities and limitless aggression of the Israeli state. @SenSchumer @SenGillibrand your political careers ended today in effect-ended in disgrace.

The 7 Senate Democrats who voted against blocking a proposed weapons sale to Israel: Richard Blumenthal (CT) Chris Coons (DE) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Jacky Rosen (NV) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Chuck Schumer (NY) John Fetterman (PA)

Legit excited to read this. @mollycrabapple

PHOTO: Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer votes NO on Bernie Sanders’ measures to block arms sales to Israel

A reminder that supporting the Iron Dome does Israel’s people no favors.

NEVER give up rights and privileges!!! 🇺🇸

goodbye Hampshire, Goddard, Marlboro, my high school, all the weird, small, utopian educational experiments we don't understand the value of anymore

Arts and sciences at University of Louisville is set to endure massive cuts under the now familiar aegis of budget shortfalls. Meanwhile the athletics department runs a yearly $16.9 million deficit louisvillecardinal.com/2026/04/colleg…

I join UN experts in warning that France’s draft antisemitism law could seriously undermine free expression and other human rights and risks trivialising genuinely antisemitic hatred and fuelling perceptions of political instrumentalisation

One nice legacy of Hampshire was that it was always framed as an "experiment" - and I think a lot of institutions learned from the experiment and built various aspects of "Hampshire-esque" education into their own systems. 1/N

Die Auslegung des Antisemitismus-Begriffs in Deutschland schränkt die freie Meinungsäußerung laut Europarat zu stark ein. Legitime Kritik an Israel werde so unterbunden. trib.al/5Z7uVel