So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”

7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.

The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.

Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.

my parents visited today and their latest item of ‘what people you knew in school are up to lately’ gossip was about the absolutely BONKERS thing they’re trying to talk their friend out of doing to her daughter. I’m still in shock tbh

Their friend is helping her daughter’s boyfriend’s mom to throw a 200-guest surprise engagement party for her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend. The daughter and the bf are not engaged. Neither of them have even discussed planning to get engaged with their respective mothers. The moms are going to surprise the bf with his late grandmother’s ring at the party and tell him it’s time to propose to his gf. In front of 200 friends and family members. Just an absolute nightmare scenario.

Oh the kicker is that the pretense they’re inviting people under is that it’s a surprise “congrats on passing the bar” party for the bf. A thing he is currently stressing about having to take for the second time and may not pass. So it may turn into a 200-person surprise “sorry you failed to pass the bar for the second time, here’s your grandma’s ring, go propose anyway” party, which is a near-incomprehensible level of public humiliation.

Bf’s mom, whose brainchild this whole thing was, has already rented out an entire waterfront restaurant for the party. In Newport. This is what “more money than sense” looks like in practice.

Since this blew up overnight and people are asking, I managed to track the daughter down on linkedin today (the only social media I could find that we both have, lol) and message her. So she has been warned, and hopefully doesn't take the message poorly.

I was traveling and forgot to update this last week when my mother called me, but here is the update you’ve all been waiting for:

Daughter did eventually get my message, everyone is now mad at everyone else. Daughter at me (because she wanted a surprise proposal and the surprise was ruined) and also at her mother and bf’s mom (obvious reasons), her mom at my mom (because I told her daughter), and my mother at me (for getting involved and making her friend mad at her). No idea what the bf’s feelings are on all this, or if the party is going ahead as planned, and I am unlikely to find out at this point. Sorry for the anticlimactic update, but real life unfortunately does not follow a satisfying narrative structure. :(

ETA 10/10/25: an older version of this is going around again and people are asking for updates so I’m pinning this for a bit. My only new info is that my mom forgave me for meddling, but my mom’s friend is still not talking to her, so I remain unlikely to learn anything further.

i think if i had a lot of money i would be a high fashion guy. too bad im poor and gay so i have to wield the mighty t shirt and true religion jeans combo until my soul disperses back into the lifestream of mother gaia

if you workwear hard enough, it loops back around to high fashion.

Do not forget the other victims of ICE

as much as we must mourn and stand in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good, please do not forget the other victims of ice raids, who are not white. Silverio Villegas González, a cook from mexico who was dropping his son off at daycare and was murdered Jaime Alanis, a farmer from mexico who fell off a green house at the farm where he worked to send money to his wife and daughter Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who was hit by a car Josué Castro Rivera, a garden from Honduras who was struck by a car And so many others who were killed or are dying in detention centres, prisons ect racial bias is always something we must be aware of, Renee will be focused on because she was a white woman and a US citizen, but do not forget all the other victims of ICE, may they all rest in power

Luigi Mangione related tags/searches have been BANNED

These are the only banned tags/searches I can find so far out of 50+ but it's still five too many. Everything else is currently not being censored.

If you use any of these tags in your post your post won't show up under any search or any tag. The only way to see that post is to either follow you and see it on the dashboard or be on your blog and see it there directly.

Nothing warrants this censorship. People are not using these tags to condone violence.

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