The Final Confirmation Vote Is Expected Next Week. Don’t Be Silent.

Feb 4, 2025

Y'all we are down to the wire on "I hate vaccines and flouride, I love bird flu" RFK Jr's final appointment to Health and Human Services. 😬 I don’t want to panic anyone, so please quietly, calmly,

Contact your senators today so that someone sane will run HHS.

(Especially if you live in Alaska, Maine, Kentucky, or Louisiana!)

The Science and Families Engaging (SAFE) Communities Coalition has an easy call script and email template. Don’t worry abt what to say, it's not so much WHAT you say, it's HOW MANY of us say it.

Phone: Call the federal switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your state’s senators.

Email form via SAFE: Click here.

We can oppose this appointment but it's going to take a LOT of us. Trump, Kennedy, and their organized masses are pressuring the Senators who have doubts. Those doubtful Senators just need a quick call from us to give them some backbone -- Let's remind them we exist!

WaPo:

The Senate finance panel vote Tuesday morning fell along party lines, with the panel’s 14 Republicans voting to confirm Kennedy and its 13 Democrats opposed. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), a physician who had been openly wrestling with whether to support one of the nation’s most prominent vaccine skeptics, opted to vote for Kennedy in a decision that could foreshadow the upcoming vote in front of the Senate.

NBC:

Previously, groups including Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy founded, and the National Vaccine Information Center had organized supporters to flood Cassidy's office with calls and emails urging his support for the nomination.

At the one of Kennedy's confirmation hearings last week, Cassidy acknowledged that his phone was being “blown up” by Kennedy’s “tremendous following”

WaPo again:

[RFK Jr's] nomination now will advance to a vote before the full Senate, which has not yet been announced but is expected to be scheduled for next week. If Democrats unite in opposing Kennedy, he can afford only three GOP defections. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) are viewed as pivotal swing votes, as is Sen. Mitch McConnell (Kentucky).

The final confirmation vote is expected next week. Don’t be silent.

Please folks, if you have even 3 minutes, do this thing. 🥹 For a healthier you, for the health of your friends and grandparents, for a regular boring everyday normal medical system where vaccines are just good practice.

Make the call to (202) 224-3121, or send the email. It's super easy.

And tell a friend to do the same.

Thank you so much for reading.

I’ll say it again, please just grit your teeth and vote for Biden…

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hedgeiii

3 months ago

I know there needs be a through line. And racing is fine but not my favorite. I stand by my original ask, though, and I want racing / theme quieter and the worlds to be louder.

Thanks for agreeing, @portisleft !

Good afternoon! I agree with the asker who preferred the “three worlds” to “racing”. I’d love more travelogue sets with a heavier emphasis on the worlds (kind of like how alara was five worlds all together)

If the focus is on the three worlds, there has to be a thematic (and mechanical) through line.

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hedgeiii

11 months ago

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hedgeiii

1 year ago

To be fair, @thirteensfavoritetoy , the crown/ royal family is still one of the three houses of British parliament. The "Punxsutawneys" are not enshrined in a Government charter.

Perhaps an oversight we should correct.