I'm shocked the RFK Jr campaign wouldn't reply to questions about accepting fundraising dollars from QAnon and MAGA extremists.

Shocked.

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I wrote about how Stew Peters' ratcheting up of antisemitic rhetoric paved the way for Candace Owens' recent remarks: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

'Consistently McCarthyite made-up gibberish' is my fave description of Mother Jones since the guy on X who accused us of being 'bought by the CIA' 🕵️

How is donating several million dollars toward a cause not bankrolling?

At a recent Heritage Foundation event, a moderator called the movie American Fiction 'anti-DEI.' I asked Percival Everett, author of the novel American Fiction is based on, what he thought of that framing: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Paging Bad Medical Takes

GREAT piece by Nathan Kohrman 🌈 on ADM Rachel Levine, Biden's highest-ranking trans official who, as Kohrman writes, must 'balance the responsibilities of being a bureaucrat with the burdens of being a symbol.' motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

What happened in Alabama was no accident. The anti-abortion movement has been laying the groundwork for its attack on fertility treatments for decades. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Sharing this one from 2022 in light of the Alabama IVF post-Dobbs news:

IVF Worked, and 2 Embryos Remain. Soon She May Not Be Allowed To Decide What Happens to Them.
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Ooh ooh I know they gave the cell phone networks the Covid vaccine so they Died Suddenly

Once more time!

-90% without immunity will get measles if exposed
-Herd immunity requires 95% vax rate
-The county has a measles vax rate of 91.7%

...and FL says it's ok for unvaxxed kids to stay in class.

NEW Mother Jones 🧵: The workers who support pregnant survivors of domestic & sexual violence want them to know all their options—& abortion is an important one.

But post-Dobbs, they're left wondering: 'What can I even say without having to go to jail?'
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About the measles outbreak at a Broward County, FL school:

-90% without immunity will get measles if exposed
-Herd immunity requires 95% vax rate
-The county has a measles vax rate of 91.7%

...and FL says it's ok for unvaxxed kids to stay in class. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Another measles outbreak. FL elementary school. 6 cases so far. Index case didn’t travel. 200 kids unvaccinated. All not great news.

But, the worst part?

THIS JUST IN: The super PAC supporting RFK Jr. has placed a bunch of conspiracy theory promoters on its payroll, and some are making big bucks. Please read my latest, RT, and pass it on.

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I also note that Kiera Butler covered this story for Mother Jones, noting that Joe Mercola's longtime partner Erin Elizabeth, who has lived with him many years, is worried about him and wouldn't say whether she is still with him. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…