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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 1h

Sometimes I think maybe I'm neurotypical and then I try on a shirt that I haven't cut the neckline/tags off of

Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 29/09/2026

I pay pretty close attention but some of these studies were new to me. Interestingly, Kennedy never once mentioned privacy and data security.

He repeatedly returned to vaccines. At the CDC, officials are using the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) to compare outcomes in healthcare for vaccinated and unvaccinated people, as well as examining the role of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines; the timing of the hepatitis B vaccine in infancy; comparing live and attenuated vaccines; and studying influenza, Covid and HPV vaccines in children, Kennedy said.

Using Medicaid and “linked real-world data”, officials are also studying vaccination during pregnancy and subsequent childhood outcomes. FDA researchers are using the Biologics Effectiveness and Safety (Best) System and Medicare data to “replicate and expand previous studies” on vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, aluminum and asthma, and maternal influenza vaccines and autism spectrum disorder, he said.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/09/2026

Date night (don't fuck this up news cycle)

A woman with long hair in a black tank top and a pink tulle skirt with a wide black belt smiles at the camera because it's DATE NIGHT

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/09/2026

Summers are for doctors' visits, and falls are for medical bills

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 17/09/2026

Kennedy starts by talking about vaccine injuries. I'm not sure if it's the lighting, but he does not look well.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Children's Health Defense conference

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 15/09/2026

Pennsylvania just announced the fourth death from measles this year. All patients were unvaccinated. This is so sad.

Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths

Pennsylvania Department of Health has recorded four measles-associated deaths in 2026.

Getting vaccinated remains the best protection against measles, providing 97% lifetime protection after two doses.

Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) today confirmed two additional measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania. Both individuals were unvaccinated. One individual lived in Jefferson County and the other lived in Mifflin County.

To protect the privacy of both individuals and their families, DOH will not be releasing any additional details that could personally identify them. While local officials in the respective counties where the deaths occurred may release more details about the deceased, DOH is bound by different laws that strictly limit what it can share publicly. The two additional deaths will be added to DOH’s measles dashboard Wednesday, as part of the regular update.

The best protection against measles remains getting fully vaccinated. The MMR vaccine, administered over two doses, boosts a person’s immune system and provides 97% lifetime protection.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 13/09/2026

This is the SFW part of the email. Love to hear from my fans!

Americans shouldnt be forced to continue allowing our most dangerous enemy, you people, to live here among us in our own nation.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 05/09/2026

"...he has also been able to use taxpayer funds to create a sprawling network..." "The mayor's office says that it does not pay the influencers." I am kind of shocked that this hasn't been corrected yet. Is he or isn't he using taxpayer funds for this?

But as mayor, he has also been able to use taxpayer funds to create a sprawling network of hundreds of friendly influencers to boost his priorities, provide positive depictions of his administration and enhance his popularity.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes, and viewers watch longer.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 01/09/2026

Hahahahahaha thank you to the Lyft driver for this compliment I guess

A notification from Lyft that a driver reported I may be underage

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 30/08/2026

I don't know what I expected from the person who earlier argued that Kennedy has some really good ideas but

Mr. Parsons, Mr. Kennedy and a host of Kennedy supporters seized on these details to suggest that the state’s initial statements were misleading. And, indeed, they might have been — at a minimum, they were premature, and the apparent lack of coordination between the coroner’s office and state officials left room for doubt. The governor’s claim that the deaths were “completely preventable” was perhaps too definitive. And referring to the infant as an “unvaccinated individual,” without the context that a baby would not have been eligible for vaccination, could be seen as disingenuous and in service of an agenda to scare and shame people who are hesitant about vaccines.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 24/08/2026

Just taking a Ziploc bag of diapers to my neighbor

A jumbo Ziploc taking up a child's wagon

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/08/2026

Kind of obsessed with these www.bonfire.com/org/migrant-...

A T-shirt reading "Más vacunas, menos drama" from the Migrant Clinicians Network

A hoodie reading "Radically Vaccinated" from the Migrant Clinicians Network

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 14/08/2026

The FDA is finally initiating an inspection of Taylor Farms facilities in Mexico. It's possible the contamination there is ongoing -- but it's also possible, this late in the game, that they will find no traces of cyclospora, which is difficult to detect in produce anyway.

August 13, 2026

The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with state and local partners, are investigating a multistate outbreak of Cyclospora infections linked to iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico and recalled by Taylor Farms de Mexico.

Since the last update on August 5, 2026, state and local health officials have continued to interview additional cases of cyclosporiasis and CDC has added them to this multistate outbreak. The outbreak includes people who reported exposure to processed iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico served or purchased at various locations, including people who previously reported eating at Taco Bell. Most of these illnesses began before the Taylor Farms de Mexico iceberg lettuce recall on July 17, 2026. The total case count associated with this multistate outbreak is now 9,481 illnesses reported from 17 states. Since the last update, 2 additional states have been added: Maine and Massachusetts.

FDA has initiated an onsite inspection and sampling at Taylor Farms de Mexico in coordination with Mexican officials. FDA remains confident that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific Cyclospora outbreak is off the market. FDA will continue to work with federal and state partners to investigate this multistate outbreak.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 03/08/2026

This is where the individualization of health leads. But "individual choice" obscures the network underpinning our abilities to make those choices. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

With cyclospora, washing doesn’t really help that much, unlike E coli or salmonella. “So we are relying on the regulatory and public health system to protect us,” Sharfstein said.

“You could call it the explosive diarrhea rule,” he added. “When you’re not having explosive diarrhea, you don’t realize that the regulatory and public health systems are protecting you. When you do have explosive diarrhea, you’re like, ‘What’s going wrong? And we need to invest in systems to keep us from getting exposed to diarrhea.’”

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 31/07/2026

We talk a lot about declining trust in the health system. This has the potential to do so much damage. Like food (ahem: lettuce?), Americans believe that if it's available, it's safe. That's a beautiful trust that is easy to break and very very hard to repair.

Consumers, in the meantime, will be sold a story of peptide success in which the truth will be hard to suss out. They will see slickly produced ads on television, or conversations on podcasts, that push miracle cures. Many probably won’t realize that what is commonly assumed to be one of the last remaining maxims of the US healthcare industry – that a drug prescribed by a doctor has been deemed safe and effective – won’t necessarily be true. And without mandatory preliminary inspections of compounding pharmacies, the dangerous and even sometimes deadly errors that have put these pharmacies in the historic spotlight may make headlines again.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 31/07/2026

This is really good www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The committee – whose members include many people with financial ties to the burgeoning peptide industry – recommended, by thin margins, that six of the seven peptides in question be made legally available, and not just for “lab use”.

But this committee didn’t recommend that access be increased by putting the peptides through testing, proving their safety and effectiveness, and subsequently making them available to patients. Instead, they recommended using an in-the-weeds “reclassification” method that would allow the peptides to be legally sold, even before the FDA has proven their safety or benefit.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 30/07/2026

I'm laughing so hard at this thumbnail of my face It was an absolute delight to join @cartersherman.bsky.social for the Guardian Stateside podcast to talk about the messiness of the cyclospora outbreak response youtu.be/Cj_PWzqRuB0?...

Carter Sherman and I making cyclospora faces with the tagline "justice for Taco Bell"

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 29/07/2026

Me, look at the camera? No, fuck you

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 26/07/2026

This book is brilliant from the start

The cover of I Hope You Find What You're Looking For: A Novel by Bsrat Mezghebe

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/07/2026

This is literally what public health already does

There are fights that are strongly supported by both sides, including air quality in neighborhoods sharing zip codes with industrial facilities, lead and toxins in the water kids are drinking, and the poor quality of the food Americans eat and its clear negative impact on our health. These are issues where public health can stand next to communities, name what is harming them, and fight like it means something.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/07/2026

Was it public health who did that? Or was it politicians and opportunists?

When the field was forced out front, as it was during the coronavirus pandemic, many Americans experienced public health not as a shield, but as a scold—speaking in acronyms and waving data-filled reports. In COVID-19’s shadow, trust in essential health agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration has dropped to all-time lows. Fewer than half of Americans now have confidence in the CDC to carry out its core responsibilities, a nearly 40 percent drop from the start of the pandemic.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/07/2026

Name ONE hit. In what ways has MAHA positively informed public health policy? I very much want to know!

When I sat down with Nancy Fuller, a lifelong Democrat and, more recently, a MAHA supporter, at a Christian coffeehouse in rural Ohio, she told me that what she likes about the movement is its willingness to try. Ever since her son was diagnosed with autism, decades ago, she has wondered whether environmental exposures or maybe vaccines were to blame, and she has spent years watching health institutions dismiss parents like her as ignorant or uninformed. In her view, public health steps up to the plate only when it already knows the outcome. Whether the issue is autism, AI, or something else, MAHA swings at anything and everything. That means more misses—and occasional hits—on issues everyone else had decided were too complicated, too compromised, or too politically inconvenient to touch.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/07/2026

You know what's really useful in these conversations? Data. www.kff.org/public-opini...

Parents who do not support the MAHA movement are nearly twice as likely as MAHA parents to say it is “very” or “somewhat” important for children in their community to be vaccinated for COVID-19 (52% vs. 28%) and 20 percentage points more likely to say it is important for children to be vaccinated for the flu (64% vs. 44%).

While most MAHA and non-MAHA parents report confidence in the safety of MMR and polio vaccines, MAHA parents are less likely to be “very” confident.

About four in ten MAHA-supporting parents (42%) say the CDC recommends “too many” childhood vaccines, more than twice the share of non-MAHA parents who say the same (17%).

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 21/07/2026

An EXCELLENT point by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The irony, of course, is that this administration’s health leadership rode in on a wave of Covid criticism and a promise to restore trust in public health. They seem to be finding out just how hard it is to communicate nuance in an emergency — especially when many agency experts have left the building.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/07/2026

A storm blowing in to wash away the smoke, Corinne Bailey Rae on the record player, life is good

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/07/2026

Okay here's what I mean -- Michigan officials did not isolate this to Taco Bell www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

In this outbreak, the CDC pointed to a shredded iceberg supplier in Mexico, naming Taco Bell as an affected restaurant without naming the producer, on Friday.

The outbreak probably goes beyond one restaurant chain, Bagdasarian said.

“As we look at where people could have come into contact with this contaminated material, there is no one single place that has jumped out at us,” she said. “It’s more about ‘where did contamination occur upstream?’ – and many of these producers will supply not only restaurants and fast-food chains but also grocery stores.”

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 17/07/2026

I love how I can't send my kids outside and I'm forced to DIY constantly! Anyway here's an air quality sensor I got to track indoor air quality wherever I go