Bruce Mirken
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.
#RacialJustice
#LGBTQ
#TransLivesMatter
#EnvironmentalJustice
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RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/116655865774520759
The entirely predictable result of demented #Trump economics and his idiotic #IranWar
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#ElonMusk is a bad person, part 43,022: https://www.commondreams.org/news/spacex-ipo-elon-musk
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Jeremy Faust, M.D., one of the smartest medical writers out there, calls the #TrumpAdministration handling of #Ebola "morally bankrupt." https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-very-trumpy-week-in-us-public-health
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Compared to other wealthy nations, the U.S. #HealthCare system is a disaster. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2026/may/us-health-care-global-perspective-2026
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#LongCovid is more common than officials think. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2849452
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Federal judges find that new #Alabama #gerrymandering maps are racist. Go figure. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/alabama-redistricting-congress-black-votes-midterm-elections.html
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Trump’s #FEMA cutbacks mean trouble for #Florida https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24052026/fema-review-council-florida/
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#Trump shouldn't have pissed off #thomasmassie:
"Rep. Thomas Massie has claimed that Melania Trump 'knows' Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running his child sex abuse ring alone.
"Massie, 55, appeared on Meet the Press Sunday, and confirmed that he planned to personally reveal more names from the #EpsteinFiles after a lack of clear action from the acting attorney general.
'Todd Blanche is violating the law. There’s still millions of files they haven’t released, he said."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rogue-republican-massie-drops-melania-epstein-files-bomb/
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Why is #RFKJr so opposed to #vaccines? Most likely because he's a grifter who sees a profit opportunity. https://www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-jr-vaccines-hhs-cdc
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In a leading medical journal, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social member Gavin Yamey digs into the Trump/RFK Jr. policy of "holding vulnerable people in low income and middle income countries to ransom as an inhumane tool to weaken multilateral institutions and extract what the U.S. wants." https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026-387444
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Oh look, a bit of #TrumpAdministration #corruption I'd missed. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tobacco-bribe
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If you haven't done it yet, tell your senators to vote NO on #NicoleSaphier for #SurgeonGeneral https://www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/tell-your-senators-vote-no-saphier-us-surgeon-general
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The #Trump and #RFKJr war on #LGBTQ Americans continues. https://www.advocate.com/health/sexual-health/cdc-mpox-information-erased
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Another welcome #TrumpAdministration departure, but the replacement for #TulsiGabbard will no doubt be at least as bad. https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-tulsi-gabbard-resigns-trump?publication_id=2325511&post_id=198874356&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true
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#ElonMusk and #DonaldTrump are mass murderers. https://prospect.org/2026/05/22/who-died-when-elon-musk-killed-usaid-enrich-review/
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RE: https://newsie.social/@STAT/116619128191856380
Well, they've already broken the #NIH and have crippled the #CDC, so this is the logical next step. It's almost like #MAHA is a lie.
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You can't make this stuff up: "Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general sells an herbal supplement that contains an ingredient prohibited by the US military and which #health experts have warned can cause liver damage." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/nicole-saphier-supplement-trump-surgeon-general
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The #Republican attack on #HealthCare is already hurting millions. https://newrepublic.com/article/210814/obamacare-aca-enrollment-numbers-2026-bronze-deductibles?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily
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Cuts to us #health aid, most delivered via #USAID, have crippled efforts to contain #Ebola: “The actors who once ensured epidemic preparedness … are now absent or paralyzed,” the person said. “Politicians control budgets; budgets control lives. That is the painful reality.” https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/us-aid-cuts-hamper-drc-ebola-response/
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The #Trump #EPA is now actively working against #CleanAir. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18052026/epa-loosens-automaker-air-pollution-rules/
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"A landmark study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that President Donald Trump’s mass #deportation operations are actually costing Americans jobs, contrary to the White House’s frequent claims that its anti- #immigration agenda is helping US workers." https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deportations-us-employment
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No comment needed:
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Is #Trump planning something truly insane in #Iran? https://zeteo.com/p/trump-iran-uranium-mega-bloodbath
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The "Golden Dome" may be the most insanely wasteful thing in the entire #Defense budget proposed by #Trump. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-golden-dome-cbo
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Pretty much everyone who's heard the upcoming #PaulMcCartney album is saying it's pretty extraordinary. https://www.salon.com/2026/05/12/paul-mccartneys-the-boys-of-dungeon-lane-turns-memory-into-melody/
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/116581237170228199
Funny thing, but the U.S. government denying #ClimateChange doesn't make it go away.
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The death toll from the #Trump & #ElonMusk dismantling of #USAID IS about to skyrocket. https://www.commondreams.org/news/somalia-famine-usaid
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The #inflation caused by Trump’s #IranWar is hitting #rural areas hardest. https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-high-prices
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"The results are coming in: The #military is falling to bits.
"The most immediate problem is #Trump’s consistent, impulsive use of military force, above all his madcap crusade against #Iran. This war will certainly get its own chapter in future histories of military catastrophes; maybe even its own class at West Point someday entitled 'Things to Avoid.'”
https://prospect.org/2026/05/15/aftermath-trump-wrecking-us-military-iran-war/
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Interesting commentary on U.S. #hantavirus response and the lingering trauma from #COVID --
"Leadership at the federal level is nowhere to be found. Communication has been abysmal, much like it was at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. After a week of silence, an alert was finally sent to physicians and a press conference was held.
"But checking these boxes isn’t enough and has led to far too much deflection." https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/something-deeper-than-hantavirus?r=zgs9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
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The purge of scientific expertise from #NIH continues. #RFKJr won't stop till all U.S. #health agencies are filled with cranks and grifters. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01558-w
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Has Gym Jordan ever told the truth about anything?
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The #WashingtonPost under #JeffBezos: "Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He’s funding the people who lose the subscribers." https://newrepublic.com/article/210446/washington-post-podcast-bezos-weiss?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily
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"#FEMA is not all right. As the United States faces another summer of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change, the Federal Emergency Management Agency—which coordinates federal disaster response, relief, and preparedness—continues to shuffle through leadership a roster of mostly unqualified #Trump loyalists." https://newrepublic.com/article/210435/trump-fema-unnatural-disaster
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More #RFKJr malfeasance: "A staffing shortage is making it difficult for the US National Institutes of Health (#NIH) to spend its US$47-billion budget by awarding research grants.
"It is missing dozens of staff members, called grants management specialists (GMSs), who are crucial to handling the business and administrative aspects of issuing grants." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01537-1
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“You can take all the corruption from every single US administration in history, add it all together, and it will not equal the amount of corruption committed by the Trump Regime in less than two years,” tweeted Ron Filipkowski. https://zeteo.com/p/trump-wants-to-give-17-billion-of?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2325511&post_id=197787842&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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About the forced resignation of the #FDA chief: "But according to multiple #HHS sources who spoke with Inside Medicine, the thousands of FDA employees that Makary led since his confirmation in 2025 have yet to receive official word on his departure. No email from Makary. No formal statements from a deputy or any member of the Trump administration. No town hall. No all-hands meeting. Nothing." https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-heres-how-fda-employees?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1183526&post_id=197797088&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nunx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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"The #corruption has become so commonplace it isn't news." --Chris Hayes
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"A federal judge has blocked the #TrumpAdministration's sweeping demands for confidential #transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital that provides gender-affirming care to minors." https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/121270
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A bit of #SCOTUS sanity on #mifepristone, but Alito and Thomas remain horrible. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5879032-mifepristone-abortion-pills-ruling/
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#Trump has handed #China the unquestioned lead on #CleanEnergy https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14052026/china-increases-clean-energy-investments/
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"An American presidency is openly declaring war on Americans who oppose fascism. If there’s ever a moment that should finally rouse the last of us out of the thick haze of laziness, wishful thinking, and American exceptionalism, it should be this one."
H/t @janetlogan
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-just-declared
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With his Iran war turning into a fiasco, #Trump seems to have decided a war on #California may be easier. https://www.commondreams.org/news/california-home-health
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"The #oil supply shock of 1973 caused a U.S. #recession that lasted over a year and prolonged stagflation. The current energy market disruption from #Iran blocking Hormuz is larger than 1973’s, and the war is causing shortages in other important commodities, too. A recession could be coming." https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-wall-street-iran-war-stalemate
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#HHS Secretary Kennedy lies about flu #vaccines and endangers military readiness. The latest #RFKJr Whopper of the Week from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-places-flu-freedom-above-military-readiness