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Todd Zwillich

@toddzwillich.bsky.social
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Journalism in Washington, often heard hosting 1A on NPR. Former host of The Takeaway from WNYC and "Breaking the Vote" @ Vice News.

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE @ms.now: Trump administration officials have discussed attaching the president’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It was shocking to hear of Glen Hansard’s death today. Less than two months ago Glen sat with me for an hour long interview on 1A / NPR. He talked about his outsider’s view traveling America, and more importantly, played two songs live. the1a.org/segments/glen-…
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Coming up live for the hour on WAMU / NPR: wamu.org/provider/wamu/
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WAMU Archives
The local DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia journalism you rely on every day.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 20/07/2026
I love radio because you can have a real, sustained, in-depth conversation and cover topics and nuances other mediums don't quite allow. Here's the interview @juliaangwin.com and I did today with @toddzwillich.bsky.social on NPR's 1A. A joy and a pleasure. www.npr.org/2026/07/20/n...
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'If You Can Keep It': The Power Of Dissent In 2026 : 1A
One of the most critical parts of a democracy is the right to dissent. But if democratic norms weaken, that right can become harder to exercise. And when authoritarianism creeps into a government, dis...
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Arthur Delaney @delaneyrules.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Talking sports on 1A w: @toddzwillich.bsky.social this morning at 10
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Scoop: Her DACA status doesn't expire till 2027. ICE deported her anyway, separating Jessica Treviño from her 3 U.S. citizen kids “I'm not mad at the country, I'm more mad at the president,” said Sarah, Jessica’s 14yo daughter. “Why is he just separating families?” www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
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The Trump administration is deporting ‘Dreamers.’ Their kids are paying for it.
Jessica Treviño Villegas’ DACA status was still valid when she was deported to Mexico. Her children, who are U.S. citizens, are now navigating life without her.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Trump's nominee for Surgeon General deleted posts before her nomination saying the administration was delaying announcing that measles was spreading again in the U.S. until after the midterms, attacking Trump personally, and lambasting Trump's Tylenol/Autism comments. www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/p...
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Exclusive: Deleted tweets reveal new surgeon general pick criticized Trump and RFK Jr. health policies | CNN Politics
Just two months before she was selected as President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier suggested the administration was hiding that measles was spreading widely enough in ...
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
.@brianbeutler with a reminder to journalists attending Saturday’s dinner with Pres Trump: History is being written today. We’re all players, and history is watching. “Some of your faces will be filmed and photographed; some of those images will circulate for centuries.”
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
NEW: ICE detained DACA recipient Juan Chavez Velasco 12 days after his youngest child was born prematurely. The father of 3 U.S. citizen kids was driving to deliver milk to her in NICU "I never got to hold her" Juan told me, sharing his story for first time w/ @ms.now www.ms.now/news/ice-det...
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‘Americans at heart’: ICE detains DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU
Juan Chavez Velasco’s case reflects a growing pattern: The Trump administration is targeting Dreamers who once believed DACA shielded them — and letting their renewals expire unanswered.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A White House official talking about infighting in the Texas GOP Senate primary. It’s the qualifier that really contains worlds.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Trump's racist post is very similar to Musk's "Seig Heil" @ the inauguration. If don't want to be seen as virulently racist / Nazi, you clearly say it wasn't your intention, I made a bad call, etc. OR, you mock people & let their worst fears linger. The aftermath is its own, clear choice.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We are now 42 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
SCOOP: Trump admin plans to deport at least 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran, sources tell me, @davidrohde.bsky.social Flight is as early as Sunday. Two men set to be on it are gay & “terrified” of returning to Iran where being gay is punishable by death www.ms.now/news/trump-d...
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Literally no different than South Park would do it
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Trump has repeatedly said he reserves the right to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the US military in American cites. Here. his Deputy Atty General refers to ICE-involved violence in Minneapolis as “an insurrection”. On the right, Trump’s NYT interview
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is *definitely* how you behave when you're trying to bring every resource to bear, rather than trying to cover up the unlawful behavior of your own personnel.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'" - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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Trump’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2)
Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message: Trump has us living in a distortion field. He's openly coddling a *child sex trafficker*, apparently so she won’t tell what she knows. We've blown past it instead of sounding the alarm. www.offmessage.net/p/the-5-alar...
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The Trump-Epstein Emergency Isn't in the Files
Trump has distorted the political landscape so badly that it's warping the moral intuitions of people and institutions of account.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Turns out Hegseth forced Adm Holsey out of his command because, at least in part, of friction over the so-called “drug boat” strike campaign.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access. Here's what to know 👇
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Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill
The speaker is working behind closed-doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message "Maybe it was blind luck that led this group of national security-oriented lawmakers to bait Trump into a debate over war crimes just as the Post was working up a story about potential war crimes" www.offmessage.net/p/mark-kelly...
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Mark Kelly's Double Tap
National security Democrats launched a preemptive strike on Trump's misuse of the military. Weeks later it's paying off in ways even they didn't predict. Or maybe they did.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
WH Press Sec on Trump's dehumanizing tirade against Somali immigrants, where he called them garbage: "Epic moment" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting
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Congressman Eugene Vindman @repvindman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
For me it was the fact that when the President was asked about releasing a record of the debasement and humiliation of girls and women, he somehow reflexively resorted to language intended to debase and humiliate a woman.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Trump administration is going to make it harder for the public to learn about wrongdoing by withdrawing protections for whistleblowers. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I’ve been thinking about this exchange all weekend. Even with everything else, the fact it hasn’t brought politics and the news in general to a screeching halt is surreal. There’s a new book “Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows” about how collective knowledge drives collective action, or inaction. /1
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In case after case—Comey, James, Maxwell,Homan, J6, etc—Pam Bondi has shown that she runs DOJ on behalf of Trump, personally. Now that Trump is resigned to releasing the files he fought to bury, the question HAS to be: Has Bondi altered or destroyed records in her possession to protect Trump?
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Like Trump, some of the most prominent players on the American right have talked openly about Orbán providing a blueprint for a Christian nationalist takeover of the federal government." www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
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What Trump learned from Hungary
The president has long praised Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a model strongman.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Rhodes amassed weapons to use on Jan 6 and was convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump freed him from prison. Now, using Trump’s “invasion” rhetoric, Rhodes urges Trump to use his militia as a private army. www.rawstory.com/amp/stewart-...
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Convicted Oath Keepers' founder announces militia's relaunch to enforce Trump orders
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Had a lot of fun on @the1a.org with @jwhitepubradio.bsky.social and @toddzwillich.bsky.social. A productive conversation. the1a.org/segments/if-...
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If You Can Keep It: The fight over funding the government
It happens every year — sometimes even more frequently than that.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/09/2025
The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer services and doctors for treating sick children.
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Trump's Medicaid cuts will hurt children's hospitals
The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer services and doctors for treating sick children.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Kudos to @brianbeutler.bsky.social, somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Trump was absent from public view for a week. We still don't know why. Everyone's missing the story, and it's nuts. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
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President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com - 1 meal a day = a single burrito - some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete - Some held as long as 7 days www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...
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Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days
"The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
“‘Terrorizing the workforce’ is a phrase I heard a lot this week. And that may indeed be the point.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The letter, for Epstein's birthday, includes a message depicting a fake exchange between Trump and Epstein: "Enigmas never age" "wonderful secret."www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
No mention of Trump’s “Shylock” slur in this NY Times article about his “victory lap” speech in Iowa. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...
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In Iowa, Trump Begins Task of Selling His Bill to the American Public
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Minutes after we published this article, Sean Hannity removed a video from his Instagram account that falsely claimed to show an explosion at the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran. The post had been up since Saturday night and viewed over 5 million times www.wired.com/story/donald...
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Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing
Trumpworld has been trying to spin the US military’s bombing of Iran as a complete and total victory, even as independent experts and MAGA loyalists object.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Trump chooses the timing of salient announcements like this. This one obv has the added effect of pushing down tonight’s cable coverage of embarrassing developments like Elon Musk’s “kill the bill” and escalation in Russia.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
NEW: In the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, Judge Xinis grants the plaintiff’s request to file a motion for sanctions. Motion due June 11.
PAPERLESS ORDER: Plaintiffs' request at
ECF No. 177 for leave to file a motion for sanctions pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37 is GRANTED. Plaintiffs shall file their motion no later than June 11,
2025. Defendants shall file their response within seven days of the motion's filing.
Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 6/4/2025. (heps, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 06/04/2025)
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New from me, still filling in at @brianbeutler.bsky.social's Off message: A user's guide to Trump's budget bill in the Senate: Medicaid, the parliamentarian, WH disinfo and what's at stake for the future of the GOP. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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The abomination squad
How Elon Musk learned to start worrying and hate the GOP budget bill
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Between this and the Venezuelan TPS ruling, #SCOTUS has now cleared the way for removing more than one million non-citizens who, until now, were *legally protected* against removal. This also ratchets up the stakes in the "third-country" removal case, since many of these folks *can't* be sent home.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
You've heard about the scale and variety of the ways Trump is inviting corruption and openly exploiting the presidency for personal gain. It's in the news all the time, but confronting it all in one place is staggering. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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Pay Me
Trump is exploiting the Presidency with relentless consistency. Just look.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
From me, in Off Message: The GAO concluded Trump's killing of the federal EV charger program was a no-brainer illegal impoundment. Now the US has months, not years, to undo the damage to workers and industry. Even if courts reverse it, it's probably too late open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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Charging Into Oblivion
This time, the electric car can't be killed. But American workers' chance to benefit from it can be, and a lot of them are Trump voters.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Memory holed: 2 mos ago RFK forced out Dr Peter Marks, FDA’s head of vaccine review & regulation. Marks said: “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
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FDA’s top vaccine official forced out | CNN
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration department responsible for assuring the safety and effectiveness of vaccines has resigned, according to a resignation letter obtained by CNN.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Spent hours working on this post and RFK just...tweeted it out. abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk...
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RFK Jr. cuts COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for healthy kids, pregnant women
The move could alter guidance for doctors as well as some insurance coverage.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New from me, guesting on @brianbeutler.bsky.social's Off Message: RFK Jr. and Trump officials are embracing strategic ambiguity to balance anti-vaccine propaganda with responsible-sounding public health policy. That balance doesn't exist. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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Strategic Ambiguity, Preventable Misery
RFK Jr. has Trump Administration officials cosplaying "pro-science" while staying true to his anti-vax roots. The result will be more disease.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“They didn’t let me talk to my attorneys...they didn’t let me talk to my wife.” “They just nabbed me and disappeared me. My body was chained, shackled, treating my like an animal.”
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