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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12h

Kennedy is an anti-science freak and a disinformation profiteer.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW: October 17 marks a global event called “Origin,” focused on Earth regeneration. Rather than a movement to directly influence climate policy or polluting companies, Origin promises change through synchronized prayer and body movement. Behind it? A fossil fuel heiress and an anti-vaccine doctor

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Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality

The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18h

This thread and story will blow your mind It involves wellness influencers, anti-vaccine activists, RFK Jr, the kooky MAHA movement conspiracy theories, Deepak Chopra, grifters, germ theory denialists, and a fossil fuel heiress Strap yourself in as it is an unbelievably wild ride….

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 06/10/2026

Praying away the climate-collapse

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When wellness invades the environmental movement.

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If it’s a story about a fossil fuel heiress and an anti-vax crank, you know I’m quoted in it 😂 Great reporting by Walker.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Origin’s partner organizations include the Heartmath Institute and its Global Consciousness Project 2.0, which measures the supposed impact from collective human emotion on physical systems. This event wraps parapsychology pseudoscience, wellness, and individualism in the language of climate action

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In addition to asking for money for the Bush-linked groups, Origin encourages participants to take individual actions like installing low-flow taps or planting herbs.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Origin is an effort to fundraise for 2 groups launched by Dr. Zach Bush, an ally of RFK Jr. and denier of germ theory. Instead, he believes in “terrain” theory, that environmental contamination makes us sick. Bush also sells ‘detox’ supplements. He denies that vaccines have ever been successful.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@nicktsergas.ca and I have been working on this piece for months now. Thanks to @derekberes.bsky.social for speaking with me and offering his insights.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality

The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info

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Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A confirmed lab leak that we’re all hearing about. As opposed to the secret COVID conspiracy that there’s no evidence for but every major media outlet nonetheless gave credence to under pressure from the right and hallucinating op-ed columnists.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

NEW: The Trump administration is trying to elect its ally in Brazil. Flávio Bolsonaro is the son of Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his role in an attempted coup. Brazilians head to the polls tomorrow. www.importantcontext.news/the-u-s-camp...

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The U.S. “Campaign of Interference and Destabilization” in Brazil's Election

The Trump administration is working to elect its ally in Brazil.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The open contempt the Trump administration has for Brazilian democracy echoes the darkest parts of our history in Latin America.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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The U.S. “Campaign of Interference and Destabilization” in Brazil's Election

The Trump administration is working to elect its ally in Brazil.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve been kinda disappointed with the stuff my favorite bands have been putting out lately. Not that it’s bad. It’s just that in the age of Trump, I kinda hoped folks would have more to say. That’s why I’m really liking the two released songs from the new Spanish Love Songs album.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Working for Robert Kennedy Jr. and this Trump administration as a political appointee should be an automatic blackball from academia and mainstream medical orgs.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“It’s not left vs right, it’s misinfo vs truth” says a misinformation peddling right-wing operative.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a critical point: Makary’s been peddling bullshit for YEARS. Before COVID even. There’s no accountability.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Makary and all of his fringe allies who willingly and excitedly went to work for an anti-vax conspiracy theorist while he dismantled America’s public health ought to be drummed out of academia and professional life forever. You should not get to come back from that.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Until the medical and public health establishment comes to grips with the fact that the political right wants to destroy and discredit everything they stand for, we’ll never have accountability. Makary was pushing COVID bullshit for years before literally, happily going to work for RFK Jr.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The article notes that Makary drew “strong applause” for saying “The real battle is not between left versus right. It’s between people who are lying to you and people who are trying to tell you the truth.” But that’s NOT true: The destruction of public health is a right-wing project.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Makary used his position atop FDA to stack the agency with cranks and spearheaded a misinformation-fueled campaign against mRNA vaccines. But he’s apparently been welcomed back into academia and professional life. Vinay Prasad too is back at his academic institution. And I know tenure. But still.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The collapse of our institutions in the face of fascism is really something to behold. Here, the American College of Surgeons, the largest professional organization for surgeons in the country, platformed Trump’s ousted FDA chief Marty Makary, letting him riff about the challenges facing healthcare

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Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary Examines Four Challenges Facing Healthcare

Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, examines four challenges facing healthcare and opportunities to address them.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I ❤️ billionaires,” Rufo told me when I reached out for this story.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nazi shit. We’re dealing with fascists. You don’t need to platform them. You don’t need to treat them like good faith actors. In fact, you shouldn’t.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s important to note, however, that while WE may have a responsibility to call it out and say “not in our name,” there are FAR MORE Christian zionists than Jews in the world.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Human rights organizations, genocide scholars, and an independent UN inquiry have been crystal clear: What Israel has done in Gaza is genocide. We say “never again” but it has to mean “never again for anyone.”

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My earlier post was imprecise. Jackson specifically walked back his remark about Jews needing to call out the genocide because the term carries a particular weight…bla bla bla. It’s bullshit. What Israel is doing in Gaza is a genocide. More Jews should call it out bc Israel uses us as a shield.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This guy is getting terrible advice. Whoever is advising his campaign needs to resign. This squishy nonsense isn’t impressing anyone and it’s going to cost him votes. Unsolicited advice: Just speak truth. Be real and unapologetic about it.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ll be blunt: This administration does not care about LGBTQIA+ suicides. If anything, they’re fine with them. Fewer “undesirable” people. Media needs to be clear about this. There is no other explanation that fits with the rhetoric and actions.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Trump administration, and the fascist right more broadly, wants to eliminate transgender Americans from society—they want to make them invisible, unable to receive the medical care they need, forced to live a lie. That’s why some genocide scholars are calling it genocide.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Transphobia is designed by the right to drive a wedge bw Democratic constituencies to undermine women’s health care rights, racial equity, voting rights and climate science. It’s “magic” one of the main architects of the strategy brashly says. But if there ever was a spell, it’s wearing off

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible to see Third Way!!!! warning that throwing trans folks under the bus is bad politics for Democrats. About damn time.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seriously. The set up was spot on, but the follow through…never far enough to meet the moment.

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also this bright spot in VT: “VT will ask voters to amend its constitution to state explicitly that the state shall not deny equal treatment under the law on account of a person’s race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or national origin”

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