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Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

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DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

Oh FFS! www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

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One of the most profound experiences of my life was meeting agent orange victims in Vietnam, many of whom were born blind or with other serious disabilities. I am heartbroken that my country has turned our back on them www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

submitted 9 days ago • 305 comments

The excellent Chrissy Stroop’s latest Bugbear Dispatch writing

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Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 12 days ago • 138 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 12 days ago • 545 comments

Millions of people died. That’s why (see ref to original post/ WSJ).

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This fight will not be easy. What we're dealing with now is one of the worst stress tests our nation has ever endured. But I believe that we will survive. Do not descend into despair.

submitted 14 days ago • 201 comments

From budget hawks at the Peterson Foundation: GOP budget adds "trillions more in new deficits and debt. It allows for $4.5 trillion in revenue reductions, with only $1.2 trillion in offsets. All told, this plan would add more than $25 trillion to the debt over the next decade."

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 15 days ago • 1392 comments

"Citizenship by birth is an unequivocal Constitutional right. It is one of the precious principles that makes the United States the great nation that it is. The President cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via an executive order." Full ruling here buff.ly/42Qibzr

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

If you oppose DEI you should have to use the full phrase, “I oppose diversity, equity and inclusion.” Bonus points if you add your points, “I oppose disabled veterans equal access to employment.” “I oppose mothers having jobs.” Making it an acronym turns it into a thought-terminating cliche.

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:

submitted 22 days ago • 99 comments

Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

submitted 24 days ago • 306 comments

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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This is an existential crisis to global health and will quickly cause awful human suffering if it goes ahead. Hopefully they can step back from the abyss or EU/China can step in.

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For 20 years, I have served WHO in various advisory groups Because @who.int is made up of nations and, thus, all of us. Today, I showed my solidarity by contributing to this 1 Dollar, 1 World campaign to raise 1B in these uncertain times Join me! whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

A really important thing to remember in academia rn is that while protecting trans students is hugely important, there are also trans faculty and staff, and so protecting us also needs to be part of your allyship! Good advice here:

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I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

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Don't miss our #TIETalks interview with Yale's Kalindi Vora about applying #feminist practices to science and #technology studies, the value of interdisciplinary research, & academic #mentorship ow.ly/AeLn50ULObp @kalindivora.bsky.social

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China’s Population Declines for 3rd Straight Year www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...

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The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

submitted 35 days ago • 189 comments

It's been 52 years since Roe v. Wade—and 3 anniversaries since millions were stripped of their right to abortion care. Today we're unyielding in our resolve & we won’t rest until we safeguard reproductive freedom future for all. My statement with @degette.house.gov & @reprocaucus.bsky.social.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

To be clear, this is how we obtain up to date information about outbreaks, new guidelines, new research opportunities and findings, new drug approvals. Without these we are moving in the dark and hindering progress #IDSky

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

I have a feeling someone may need this today. This is a time that will try all our souls. We must let our friends & family know we see them, we value them & we will stand up to protect everyone’s right to be themselves.

submitted 36 days ago • 102 comments

Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...

submitted 38 days ago • 23 comments

Don't let go of reality, no matter what the Trumpers say billmckibben.substack.com/p/for-reality

submitted 38 days ago • 22 comments

Remember to keep your eyes on the prize: the future world you want to build Don’t drown thinking only of the things you are against Remember to dream of and work to create what you’re for

submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments

Listen up.

submitted 39 days ago • 738 comments

More people will have shown up to the People’s March against Donald Trump than his inauguration. 🤣

submitted 39 days ago • 341 comments

Robert Reich has it right.

submitted 40 days ago • 111 comments

“Arthur L. Caplan, a bioethicist at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine, who was infected when he was 5, recalls the children he befriended on the polio ward, some of whom went “down to the iron lung area, which was separate, and I never saw them again.” It is one reason he went into bioethics.”

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Please don’t call them public health efforts. This is anti-vaxx grifting. The guy is a crook.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

It turns out that public health is not that different from democracy. Both become less visible in times of peace, both suffer from their own success, both need constant tending. You may forget all of that, but not for very long. My review of @cmyeaton.bsky.social's book for @newrepublic.com:

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@defendpublichealth.bsky.social, a new national coalition of more than 1500 public health experts, has led an effort to send >3500 letters to US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.’s nomination to HHS. Concerns include his unfounded beliefs about vaccines, raw milk and HIV. 1/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

ISR is accepting applications for the next cohort of Junior Professional Researchers! This is a great opportunity for recent college grads to get experience working in social science research at ISR. Please reach out with any questions! #statsky #episky #econsky #publichealth #academicsky #polisky

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JAMA: CDC Recommends Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose for Older Adults jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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PLEASE REPOST Dec 31, 2024 BREAKING NEWS: Treasury says election interferences from China, Russia & Iran This connects the dots with the Global interferences too. (More In coming weeks!) #1. Russia & Iran www.reuters.com/world/us-iss... #2. Video (China) youtu.be/VjA7TNkH4A4?...

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“Shocking!” said no one, ever. *** State abortion bans are killing women prismreports.org/2025/01/06/a...

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New Starter Pack alert! Connect with our Stone Center community and alum through our Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/JyYKm9n

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As usual for this time of year, we’re in the midst of a winter COVID-19 surge. Infections are increasing across the U.S. Flu and RSV continue to spread too. Yesterday, the Louisiana state health department also reported the U.S.’s first death from the bird flu H5N1. bit.ly/3BUs4kt

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Can we please put this on street video boards all over and air it as a commercial on every channel?? #AIRBORNE #COVID

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Interested in how science, #tech, politics, and policy intersect? Apply for #4S2025 panel #16, Analyzing and Influencing Public Policy: #STS Intersections with Governance (I'm organizing w/Jason Delborne and Gwen Ottinger). Apply by January 31! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... #scipolicy #techpolicy

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