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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Jul 23

The 2009 swine flu pandemic showed me how devastating and deadly #influenza can be. I still tell those stories today when I discuss arming our immune systems with updated flu shots.
#vaccinessavelives

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · Jul 11

2. #CDC reports that of the kids who died who were eligible for vaccine (ie 6 months & older) & for from vaccination status is know, 89% hadn't been vaxed for the 2024-25 season.
There was vaccine available. In 2009, during the pandemic, vaccine became available as the major wave subsided.
Tragic

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Jun 17

UPDATED TODAY: If you're looking to get in touch with us about a specific issue related to the Trump administration, we've got a list of the federal agencies/topics our reporters are covering + their secure contact information 👇

What ProPublica’s Reporters Are Covering During Donald Trump’s Second Presidency — and How to Contact Them

From Trump’s relationships with billionaires to immigration, here are some of the issues and topics our reporters are watching during his second presidency.

www.propublica.org

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · May 26

I want to know the story behind a restaurant that serves both pho and Yugoslavian food.

Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Apr 23

On my way!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Apr 23

NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

The Trump Administration’s War on Children

The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

www.propublica.org

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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Apr 15

By defying the Supreme Court’s order to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, Trump is laying the groundwork to do the same to U.S. citizens.

Now is the time to speak out — before there is no one left to speak.

We are on a path towards dictatorship.

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Apr 11

It will be my first time, and the program is overwhelming! Any tips for first-timers?

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Apr 10

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 7

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is beautiful - as scientists are fired or lost their federal funding, Silenced Stories generates awareness and advocacy. #CantFireScience

If you have a story, share it here: forms.gle/XnC9kyp9uTaZ...

silencedsciencestories.com/the-scientists

@silencedscience.bsky.social

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · Apr 3

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

docs.google.com

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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · Apr 3

The lesson of today is: Never let impostor syndrome hold you back. There's almost no way you're actually less competent than some of the people in charge.

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Apr 3

California has a population of 40 million, and is the 5th largest economy in the world, and we have 2 senators. I have been complaining about this for a long time, because it’s not just about the Senate, it’s also the Judiciary.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 22

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Mar 18

Mission Accomplished

The U.S. has the highest rate of firearm deaths, nearly five times that of the second-highest country, France.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Mar 8

Stand Up for Science
Burlington, Vermont

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Mar 9

I think about this all the time. Projects at home and at work, the advocacy issues I was looking ahead to in 2016 and again in 2024, only to be back to fighting to preserve basics like health care coverage, public health institutions, scientific funding, etc. So much time and energy spent.

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Mar 3

I don't know if there is an official one! But I felt the need to tweet, so finally posted my first bsky. Is there a verb form of bsky???

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Mar 3

100% of the future, but 0% of current voters - why we need to #speakupforkids!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Mar 3

Medicaid covers...

-40% of births nationwide
-50% of kids with special needs
-72 million people in total

Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans.

"Party of family values."

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · Mar 2

You have “good insurance” through your job?
Well your pediatrician’s office could fold and the [oncologist, neonatologist, critical care, pediatric surgeon, pulmonologist, infectious diseases, nephrologist, etc] that your child needs may not be there anymore when half their payment base collapses.

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Mar 2

Advocacy tip via AAP President Sue Kressly

#AAPAdvocacy #AAPAdCon

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · Mar 2

Kids are 22% of the US population but 100% of the future.
- AAP President Sue Kressly

#speakupforkids #AAPAdvocacy #AAPAdCon

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