SCOOP BREAKING: CDC director being ousted weeks into job. Me ⁦Dan Diamond⁩ ⁦Lauren Weber⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08…

This move (and the departure of other CDC senior leaders) leaves us all less safe in an era of increasing infectious disease threats. It’s another example of Sec. Kennedy’s chaotic leadership. And it will not make America healthy again.

On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked & top CDC scientists resigned. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivaxxer fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.

‼️DrDemetre: I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.

This is on you, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.

High-speed rail, American style... (that darned word #infrastructure...) Good piece by Esther Fung with graphics from Taylor Umlauf #Abundance

RFK Jr. is pushing out scientific leaders who refuse to act as a rubber stamp for his dangerous conspiracy theories and manipulate science. Today, I am calling for a bipartisan congressional investigation into the firing of CDC Director Dr. Monarez.

#itonlytakesone

My reply to Elon Musk’s post of world fertility rates is below. #populationcrash #overpopulation

We're excited to be meeting Graham Platner for Senate tonight here in downeast Maine, even though Sen. Susan Collins is now saying she's "extremely alarmed" about Secretary Kennedy's CDC moves. She's actually jumped beyond the "concerned" scale. Time to go, Susan Collins.

Graham Platner for Senate Loved to hear Graham Platner for Senate’s pitch face to face today here in his home county, and ours. More anon.

I joined 75 or so fellow Hancock County, Maine, voters today in Ellsworth to hear from neighbor / oysterman / harbormaster / Senate candidate Graham Platner for Senate.

Running AMOC is now a movement. Some context from Jon Baker Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 Michael Oppenheimer David Wallace-Wells... > revkin.substack.com/p/more-new-sci…

Time to retire Sen. Susan Collins. At a meetup with Maine voters in our Hancock County (Ellsworth), oysterman and four-tour veteran Graham Platner for Senate took a great question from a child. Child: What is the issue that you're most, like, passionate about? Platner: Healthcare.