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“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

submitted 14 hours ago • 869 comments

A good read, with helpful Q&A, and action items. 💉

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Sheer abuse of science by RFK Jr, ordering a show trial when decades of research on millions of children shows zero link between vaccines & autism. People will die for Kennedy & Trump's mendacity. You may as well have made a flat-earther head of NASA.. eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

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“Blockchain technology has been around for 15 years. No one wants to use it. And so now we have an attempt to force the government to use it,” she said, with “the most vulnerable people” serving “as guinea pigs.”

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No child (or adult) should be dying of any vaccine preventable diseases in 2025 🩺 🛟

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I shared this note with the owner of the Washington Post this morning.

submitted 11 days ago • 1161 comments

Some sound advice:

submitted 11 days ago • 761 comments

Maybe hating on dick bosses is the great unifier, the thing that brings all Americans together.

submitted 14 days ago • 313 comments

Hi Bill, you could have actually done something to reduce the exponential growth in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in the US in recent years. Instead you confirmed RFK Jr. Just to spell it out: that will have the literal opposite effect. Was selling your soul worth it?

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 22 days ago • 41 comments

I’d really like Pete to be in charge of something all the time.

submitted 22 days ago • 129 comments

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 22 days ago • 543 comments

I’m just saying it feels like this level of sustained anxiety should be burning more calories than this

submitted 26 days ago • 92 comments

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

submitted 25 days ago • 671 comments

This change will accomplish one thing - kill medical research in US academic institutions. That's not hyperbole and the best way I can explain this to the lay public. Slashing indirect costs to 15% is a move to destroy the academic enterprise. Pass it on. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

Gift link. You should read this. It is wrong on so, SO many different levels. It violates basic principles of research ethics in so many different ways. Leaving devices IN PEOPLE'S BODIES. Stopping treatments halfway through, with no one to contact if they get sick. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Snap out of it, America. The warning lights are flashing red. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...

submitted 33 days ago • 251 comments

Cassidy—a doctor—has violated his Oath and is a yes on Kennedy. Kennedy is now almost certain to be confirmed. People will die because of this; Kennedy at DHHS will cause deaths, full stop. The crazy thing is, no one even doubts it. But also no one cares, so here we are.

submitted 33 days ago • 548 comments

Thank you @meiselasb.bsky.social & @meidastouch.com for lifting up nursing voices! RFK Jr. is a threat to public health & unfit to serve as HHS secretary. Tell your senators to OPPOSE his nomination! @nursesforamerica.bsky.social @protectourcare.org www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-hel...

submitted 34 days ago • 78 comments

Here is a gift link to this excellent article that paints a realistic picture of what a less vaccinated America will look like. There are ongoing measles outbreaks in Houston and Atlanta to large cities. CDC can't update on these. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 39 days ago • 230 comments

Buying books on Bookshop.org benefits indie bookstores. And now you can buy ebooks too. Read in your browser or or get their iPhone or Android app for more functionality. bookshop.org/ebooks

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

open.substack.com/pub/immunolo... 🎯

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WIC. They are pausing WIC. That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings in the same fiscal year. For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.

submitted 40 days ago • 148 comments

NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case this term that could mark the beginning of the first nationwide rollback on contraception rights in the Trump era, argues @susanrinkunas.com.

submitted 41 days ago • 58 comments

"A ruling for the plaintiffs could mean employers and insurers reimposing copays and deductibles, or denying birth control coverage entirely, with patients on the hook for the full price." -- @susanrinkunas.com www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 41 days ago • 144 comments

Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines: "The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."

submitted 41 days ago • 60 comments

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

submitted 42 days ago • 48 comments

mood #dogs #dogsky #dogsofbluesky

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