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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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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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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"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
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"The firing or resignation of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is more intra- #MAHA chaos at a beleaguered and battered Department of Health and Human Services.
"When you don’t have a #CDC Director, an #FDA Commissioner, or a Surgeon General, the obvious question is: Why do you have this #HHS Secretary? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is the cause of much of the chaos that has resulted in these job vacancies. HHS is rotting from the head."
https://www.cspi.org/statement/chaos-reigns-hhs-fda-gets-acting-commissioner
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Experts wonder, where is the #CDC during this #hantavirus outbreak? https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/121209
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Misinformation for moms from #HHS: "This website purports to provide resources for new parents, but instead provides misinformation and disinformation about basic #HealthCare and links to websites that undermine parents' access to complete reproductive health options, including sites that are staunchly anti- #abortion and anti- #contraception." https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/121219
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If only we had a Cabinet brave enough to invoke the #25thAmendment or a #Congress willing to #ImpeachTrump and actually convict him. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-venezuela-51st-state?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=e9949a73cc-Top+News+%7C+Thu.+5%2F7%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-998917937b-600541243
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#TrumpAdministration acts to kill people with #HIV all over the world:
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-cuts-cdc-s-key-role-global-program-stop-hiv
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Got questions about the #hantavirus outbreak? The irreplaceable Dr. Jeremy Faust has helpful answers. And yes, the wording of the latest #HHS announcement about a passenger testing "mildly positive" is *really* sketchy. https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/the-first-us-case-of-andes-hantavirus?r=zgs9&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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Why is #WallStreet helping Trump destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center? https://theintercept.com/2026/05/08/splc-donations-banks-censorship/
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"We have leading us in the #health space a grand idiot who should not be secretary." -- Michael Steele on #MSNOW re: #RFKJr #ImpeachRFKJr
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@politico/politics-u9ikh4qkz/-/a-cnX8m68GRau1XNFm6ZSovQ%3Aa%3A3195449-%2F0
#JohnRoberts, enabler of #racists and #fascists, can go f**k himself.
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The #Trump trail of destruction extends well beyond the White House East Wing. Remember his #BorderWall?
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/arizona-archeological-site-bulldozed-border-wall/ -
#RFKJr - inspired #CDC move to stop recommending routine #HepatitisB #vaccinations could mean hundreds of needless infections. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5851709-cdc-hepatitis-b-vaccine-delay/
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In a state run by far-right nutjobs, #Boise is trying very hard to be an island of sanity.
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Be suspicious of the #Trump "Shield of the Americas" -- the supposed #narcoterrorism campaign that's #KristiNoem's new day job. https://progressive.org/op-eds/trumps-phoney-war-on-narcoterrorism-liz-20260330/
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Okay @jeridansky , here's #TuneTuesday song I don't THINK you've posted yet for #OverUnderThrough https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gH6i9JAdJrQ&list=RDgH6i9JAdJrQ&start_radio=1&pp=ygUfYmVhdGxlcyBpJ20gbG9va2luZyB0aHJvdWdoIHlvdaAHAQ%3D%3D
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @bettycjung.bsky.social Unfortunately this is the real-time experiment on the U.S. population that #ACIP chair Kirk Milhoan said he wants to have by repealing #vaccination requirements. We're all guinea pigs and the cost will be counted in corpses.
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@gottalaff.bsky.social #BillCassidy should never get a peaceful night's sleep as long as he lives. He could have saved us from #RFKJr and chose not to.
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The #ManBaby just threw a tantrum because someone in #Canada hurt his feelings. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-gives-bonkers-reason-to-end-trade-talks-with-canada/
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"Last week, conservatives—led by #ElonMusk and #LibsofTikTok—launched an outrage campaign to cancel #Netflix en masse. The uproar began over a years-old kids’ show featuring a #transgender boy coming out to the protagonist—a scene that reflects the reality many children already live in, surrounded by queer and trans people in their communities... Netflix, however, didn’t flinch—and a week later, its stock is up, the boycott a fizzle rather than a firestorm."
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/netflix-stock-up-as-elon-musks-anti
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YES. Let's get #JustinPearson into #Congress! https://www.commondreams.org/news/justin-pearson
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ICYMI, #DonaldTrumpJr, aka #TraitorTot, continues to be one of the planet's worst humans.
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I hate agreeing with #BretStephens, but he's right about the stupidity of the #Trump #tariffs https://www.twincities.com/2025/03/12/bret-stephens-democracy-dies-in-dumbness/
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AZ Sen. Mark Kelly was just asked by Chris Hayes about his vote for the #LakenRileyAct. His answer was pretty pathetic.
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#AOC nails it on the #LakenRileyAct. Thank you, AOC -- and may the #Republicans and the #Democratic Cringe Caucus live in shame forever. https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/113874091177991220
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12 Senate #Democrats began the #Trump 2.0 era with an act of cringing capitulation on the odious #LakenRileyAct. If Dems can't find their collective backbone quickly, we're screwed.
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#TammyBaldwin won #Wisconsin; #Harris lost
" the key to Baldwin’s victory was an understanding, rooted in Wisconsin history but not well understood by national #Democrats, that voters are ready to respond to explicit appeals for working-class solidarity in the face of plutocratic overreach... Baldwin spent her time on factory floors with union workers and in the countryside with small farmers. Her ads featured Teamsters explaining how she had helped save their pensions" https://progressive.org/magazine/what-wisconsin-taught-us-nichols-20241206/
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Just making sure: Is #LouDobbs still dead? I need some champagne!🍾
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In light of #LouDobbs' death, I propose that all social prohibitions on speaking ill of the dead be suspended for 48 hours. May he rot forever in the hottest, smokiest corner of hell. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/media/lou-dobbs-dead/index.html
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@crooksandliars Glad to see #AriFleischer has found a post-Iraq War venue where he can continue spouting insane lies.
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@[email protected] @pixelpusher220 @hannu_ikonen
This is from the #CDC? In a sane world, they'd be shouting this from the rooftops. #WearAMask #MaskMeansRespirator
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ICYMI, #RonDeSantis' campaign to censor the AP #AfricanAmericanStudies curriculum succeeded: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article282715468.html
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I REALLY hate agreeing with #AriFleischer, but when he says "The #Republican Party today just can’t govern," he has a point.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/foxs-ari-fleischer-straight-up-says-the-republican-party-today-just-cant-govern-after-mccarthy-ouster/ -
Too many #Democrats joined the 2018 rollback of #DoddFrank financial safeguards. Now #ElizabethWarren and #KatiePorter are trying to fix the damage. https://www.commondreams.org/news/warren-porter-trump-bank-deregulation