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Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź

Wish all the Democrats would speak out this way. Thank you @jayapal.house.gov

Thousands of the best experts at FDA, NIH, and all across HHS are being terminated right now. These are the people who make sure the medications you and your children take are safe. These are the people who perform and oversee research on cancer, infant health, and so so so much more.

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Do not succumb to this assault, stand up and protect academic freedom

Consistent with the heartless new #foreignaid policy of this administration #MomSky

I think a lot about catastrophe. My research focuses on averting pandemic disaster, as it is for so many other virologists. We now face many catastrophic risks. Scientists can’t address long term existential threats to their fields when they face an acute existential threat to their own livelihoods

Trump is literally banning the term "SAFE DRINKING WATER"

In 2024, 5480 people became unwell with tuberculosis in England—up 13% from 2023, the largest increase recorded since 1970. Multipronged action is needed to reverse rising rates www.bmj.com/content/388/...

See national impact of federal health research cuts scienceimpacts.org. Huge losses in MA and NY.

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Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.

Trump’s Most Dangerous Enabler Is Not Who You Think It Is newrepublic.com/article/1930... via @newrepublic.com

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@neal.house.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @resultsorg.bsky.social

At least 95% measles vaccine coverage is needed in all communities to prevent #measles and stop outbreaks. The only way to prevent measles? Two doses of measles vaccine. Let’s close the gap and keep measles away!

time.com/7272078/trum... every $1 spent returns $54

USAID will be shut down, staff laid off, and parts of the agency — mostly humanitarian assistance, food security, and global health programs — will be run by the State Department.

A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees : Goats and Soda www.npr.org/sections/goa... Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, according to two senior USAID officials, who requested anonymity Staff were ordered to leave "the front office" by 1 p.m. on Friday

www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t... not a positive move

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h... @resultsorg.bsky.social @shotatlife.bsky.social

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While reducing/eliminating ACA’s federal Medicaid and subsidy funds while disproportionately impact USians with low and middle incomes, " it will destabilize the health care system so much that the health care of all Americans will deteriorate." thehill.com/opinion/5209...

www.youtube.com/live/DDL2pdl.... On this World TB Day, please bear witness

❌ Myth: Tuberculosis is an ancient disease. 🚩 Fact: It should be, but it isn't. Join us for #WorldTBDay: pihcanada.org/world-tb-day... @partnersinhealth.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social @tbppm.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

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Funding cuts mean essential and lifesaving healthcare services and vaccinations, among other critical health issues, have shut down, leaving thousands without treatment worldwide. This isn’t just a policy change - it’s a death sentence. www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...

AOC, @aoc.bsky.social, making the case for free speech alongside universal healthcare is so KEY for the left, because it's time progressives reclaimed the mantle of fighting for free speech from the faux free speech warriors of the right.

Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

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Share widely

See you tomorrow morning!

Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

Murphy: "The president is continuing to act unconstitutionally. He shut down some of our most important programs that protect us abroad, like Radio Free Europe, that were funded & authorized in that spending bill. So it doesn't seem like we have restrained any of the president's lawlessness."

@resultsorg.bsky.social @voice4humanneed.bsky.social Same thing happening in MA

Heads up.