Texas AG Paxton opens investigations into pediatricians who vaccinate children
A federal judge on Monday denied a request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and four Harris County judges to vacate a landmark settlement that allows most people facing misdemeanor charges to be released from jail prior to trial without having to pay cash bail.
maryv409.bsky.social8The for-profit prisons want cashless bail because it fills prison beds and brings in a ton of $ for them. I don't know how congress agreed to private prisons. It is time to abolish the crooked private prison system!
AC Jenkins8Bail is punishment without conviction, designed for the poor.
Thegrumpybluedot6Guarantee these assholes have investments in prison contractors who supply food etc to prisoners.
Aaron3Republicans like to create and torture poor people for fun!
ihavenoname616.bsky.social2Follow the money… get out and vote !
Sergio Perez12Such good news - cash bail destroys lives. If you can’t make bail, then you often can’t keep your job and the commitments you have to your loved ones. It is punishment for folks who haven’t been convicted of a crime, and those who depend on them.
Glenn D Stockard2Bail is being used to prevent poor people from being free as they await trial. Crooked Ken Paxton loses again.
Today's Kinzinger Report is out and we cover: - Republicans are endorsing Democrats - Ken Paxton caught on tape again - Trump doxxes a GOP senator over daylight savings time - Patel's FBI is sidelining national security to chase Trump's 2020 obsession open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
AmusedMuse Fellina 🦋 🖇️3Not the hijack the thread, but this dropped today. Corruption from the Trump regime and horrible effects for Ukraine and for our democracy in America 
Beth Baraka3Nicely done, stand-in host. Nice to see a Dem having something to say. Adam, I hope you'll get a no-party-preference person too, just to get the full gamut as best as possible.
David Walker2so much money wasted on chasing Trumps ridiculous delusions. Great time to be a white collar criminal though!!
Josh2November can't come fast enough to save this country
A very strange political tactic trying to make villains of pediatricians— a group generally respected by most everyone and depended upon and still very trusted by most parents. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
Brandy Zadrozny103I have interviewed many pediatricians over the years on this beat and these people are fierce when it comes to the health of children. I just don’t see this fight ending well for the politicians hoping to win points with the anti-vaccine crowd or the fringe GOP that have aligned with them.
editR6Brought to you by the same party that cut funding for pediatric cancer research
mybumper.bsky.social4Ken Paxton alleges a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy? Did he look in the mirror?
Dan Meeps3Way to continue the crusade even after two Texas kids contracted measles and died last year. Pairs nicely with his investigation into Kenvue after the Trump-Kennedy press conference purporting to link autism to Tylenol. He's a sick man promoting stochastic child sacrifice.
brendanamartin.bsky.social2They’ve demonized schoolteachers for at least a generation.
swillymountain56.bsky.social1They pick the strangest hills to attack
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy16I’m sorry. You’re wasting time and money investigating doctors for giving vaccinations? ⚕️🩺
My Password is Louvre6Seems like Paxton just gifted Texas Dems an attack ad
ocelot thot3This fucker had better not even THINK about going near my kids' pediatrician.
andrear9md.bsky.social2The only conclusion one can come up with is that republicans are hell bent on forcing women to give birth and then killing their children. I am not wrong here.
NEW: Ken Paxton's office is investigating pediatricians for vaccinating children. He alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
evo1963.bsky.social14This is horrific. So they want children to die from preventable diseases?
Thomas [DARK MODE], DO13Fantastic article and thank you for covering this.
LymeScience5Contrast with Pam Bondi ending an open-and-shut federal case against fraudster and germ theory denier Michael Kirk Moore, MD, who sold fraudulent vaccine cards and injected kids with saline to trick them. Moore still has his license. Utah's regulator has not publicly acted against him.
Shanon Taylor4Bet this will REALLY help his polls, b/c if Texas parents want anything, it’s the government telling them how to care for their kids! 🙄
darkglade.bsky.social3Truly the stupidest timeline *sigh*
manitoban1Meanwhile, measles outbreaks all over. America has lost their minds electing this administration.
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH40Essential, brilliant reporting by @by-cjewett.bsky.social It's TERRIFYING: MAHA folks are INVESTIGATING pediatricians, who are some of the lowest paid docs in the professions, for vaccinating kids It's part of a 20-year anti-vaxx campaign by RFK Jr "that some of his political allies have joined"
Jonathan Howard33Truly upside down world thanks to these guys and the forces they enabled
Thomas [DARK MODE], DO32Whom do you trust to give medical advice regarding vaccines and your kids?* *engagement bait
miss andry14TX is going to be completely out of physicians between the universities caving to Trump, abortion restrictions, and now this shit. Why would anyone want to practice there??
The Old Magoo12This article made my blood boil, and it will make yours boil too. RF*cK, Paxton, and all antivaxxers are murderers.
Pierce11*points to this article & the recently-resigned Deputy FBI guy who argued in court that abortion pills should be banned because teen pregnancy helps the economy as direct ways it can always be worse with his appointments, because imagine this shit at the DOJ despite Blanche being there*
Stacy Kess: the revolution will be accessible.7In case you needed another reason to hate Ken Paxton — yes, that Ken Paxton, the one running for Senate: he's going after pediatricians for doing their jobs.
Kevin Reuning6>she has begun to reconsider amid the stress and legal costs of defending herself in a statewide investigation by Ken Paxton, the AG of Texas and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, who has accused doctors, drug companies and insurers of conspiring to push parents into vaccinating children.
Ambassador Greg Delawie4Republicans like RFK Jr and Paxton are trying to kill American children. How disgusting!
Scare-ah 👻🎃3I wouldn't be sad if Ken Paxton got polio.
A Texas pediatrician has already paid $15k in legal fees to counter requests from Ken Paxton's office about her vaccine policy. She spoke to the NYT on background after prosecutors threatened this: "You are requested NOT to inform other entities of this request" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
Bill Grueskin110That anyone in a position of authority could be influenced for something as cheap as a plate of cookies offends Ken Paxton to the depths of his very soul. You should ask for much, much more.
BlondeJustice🚫👑4I’m just a divorce lawyer, but I’m pretty sure they can’t enforce a prohibition against HER talking about an investigation into HERSELF.
chronoscope.bsky.social1"I'm colluding with pharmaceutical companies and a shadowy network of pediatricians because in the long run, children who don't die of preventable disease produce more profits for the medical industry."
Penncat2This is so utterly maddening and very worrying. I would have died as a kid were it not for the pertussis vaccine - I still got whooping cough, quite badly, but the boost to my immune system from having been vaccinated prevented my death. Oddly I feel strongly about childhood vaccinations!
Carrie Brown2I haven’t even read this yet and the amount of rage that is already flowing through me…I can’t before bed
Ken Paxton, of the generation to have benefitted greatly from childhood vaccines, is willing to risk your child’s life and health to score political points with a small portion of the population. Shameful and disgusting! He is a danger to all our children! #Sheshed www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
Wendy the Woke22Vote Talarico to protect all our children and grandchildren. #Sheshed
Miaganga2He knows vaccines save lives.
Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸2Thank God people are waking the eff up. Paxton is one of the worst. 🤬
angelisi.bsky.social1I call justice jujment karma i declere all they have somthing to do with it will be exposed I profecy justice jujment carma and so should it be amen
carolnikolaisen.bsky.social1Ken Paxton pardons child rapists.
Robin4What a pos he is!!!!
This is the same woman who filed for divorce from Ken Paxton after he was impeached for using the attorney general's office to help a donor with his legal troubles in exchange for a job for Paxton's mistress.
Dona Flaca8It’s women like her, who prevent ALL women from thriving. If only they would stop voting for Republican BS, women would be 1000 times better off in this nation. But we are so backwards that they rather protect their race and the patriarchy at the expense of all women. It’s beyond destructive.
nhphoto.bsky.social3She's got to run up the family net worth prior to finalizing her divorce. Bigger pie to divide.
Kavi Kat 🌬️2My God stop treating democracy like a fucking sport 🙄
TheSooZ1I wonder how much she got for this ad.
Deb1She wouldn't dare vote for the "ethical human being",not on a bet!
SailingRey1Truly depraved people these MAGA.
Getting the sense that Ken Paxton knows the jig is up and is looking for a scapegoat. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Paxton is threatening Texas pediatricians who are just trying to do their jobs and keep kids healthy, accusing them of “misleading or deceptive acts regarding incentives associated with the administration of childhood vaccines”
Evan Urquhart204Who could have imagined that the exact same sort of trumped up anti-science attacks on gender affirming care could be used against doctors and parents for vaccinating kids? Oh right, me.
Sarah O27I'm married to a pediatrician. I have never seen a dime from "big pharma" to bribe him into encouraging parents to vaccinate kids, because THAT'S NOT A THING.
spirit airlines presents: airplane fall12does he not want to, like, lay low on this shit for a month?
Ben3they're investigating doctors for providing childhood vaccines, I am not a crank bsky.app/profile/nico...
Cynthia Rose3This is always the trajectory. When they start out with screeching lies about their freedoms being taken away they're signaling what freedoms they want to take from YOU.
