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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 23h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 1d

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the urgent need to defend public health for the October issue of @antigravitymag.bsky.social : antigravitymagazine.com/feature/defe... As our public health systems continue to be attacked and dismantled, we cannot sit by idly. Our very lives depend on it.

Defend Public Health - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

Over the past few months, I’ve thought a lot about the late, great astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World...

antigravitymagazine.com

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 1d

New Orleans: Today is Election Day, you still have a few hours to vote! If you are still undecided, the @antigravitymag.bsky.social Voter Education Guide has you covered.

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 2d

Here is your Voter Education Guide for the Oct. 11 municipal election. You'll be voting on candidates for mayor, City Council, sheriff, assessor, and criminal district court clerk, as well as a City Charter amendment and, in some areas, a tax proposition. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...

VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY…

antigravitymagazine.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

The non-fascist states need to immediately band together and build a new CDC, hiring all those RFK Jr has fired and try to quickly reassemble the infrastructure he’s destroyed. I assure you we don’t want to live in a world without proper infectious disease tracking and prevention.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 16d

The thing about health disinformation is that when it comes from the highest office, people believe it. Parents & pregnant women want to do the right thing but are now making health decisions based on fear.
This is causing real harm.
It's also making our jobs as healthcare professionals harder.

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marisa @marginalmarisa.bsky.social · 16d

TONIGHT! I’m tabling at the first and then popping over to the second one! You can go to one, both, or neither, but you deserve the RIGHT to CHOOSE 😤

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16d

UPDATE: 25 states plus DC have taken actions to protect COVID-19 vaccine access.

Two regional public health alliances have formed: The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and the West Coast Health Alliance.

There are several midwest and mountain states who have collaboration potential.

Map: 25 States Plus DC Have Taken Actions To Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Access

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 18d

Yes, 100%. Still really wild and unsettling. You are definitely under their skin, buddy!

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 18d

Yes. Extremely. Did they write something about you?!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 19d

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 19d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 19d

The normalization of the fascist anti-science, eugenicist platform is nauseating and devastating. And also, because I absolutely refuse to let this reality destroy my sense of humor, all this talk about the "cause of autism" makes me think of this classic KITH sketch: youtu.be/qN7be1ADhKI?...

Kids in the Hall: Cause of Cancer

YouTube video by Clips in the Hall

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 20d

Also, it is a really fun time to be working in public health

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 20d

My team and I were ranting about this at work this afternoon!

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21d

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 22d

I wonder if Marlene would be more into Love and Rockets.

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 22d

THE Bauhaus

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 23d

Happy Musicophilia Friday! Tune in tonight from 10PM-12M CST as my buddy Spencer from local band Burnt Sugar joins me for an in-studio performance, interview, AND guest DJ set. Listen to some sweet poppy sounds as well as we discuss such topics as musical influences and performative masculinity. 🖤

A classic image of Euterpe, the Greek Muse of Delight/Music, in shades of turquoise and hot pink, is set against a black background. Above the image, in hot pink script is the word "Musicophilia", with the hot pink sub-heading "With DJ MB" below. Toward the bottom of the image, in turquoise text, are the words "2nd and 3rd Fridays, 10 PM - 12M CST, WTUL 91.5 FM, wtulneworleans.com."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24d

i think the reason i find relatively well-heeled american people’s doomerism hard to bear is that it’s no less self important than evangelicals’ assertions that these just happen to be the end of days. and compared to people in e.g. the global south most of us ARE relatively well-heeled

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 24d

My colleague @deecherrywriter.bsky.social has been reporting on this for @antigravitymag.bsky.social (with a more Louisiana focus).

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24d

I worry very much about what will happen as we descend into economic depression and frightening totalitarianism, surrounded by a toxic and contaminated drug supply.

People lean on drugs to ease pain and survive. If you’ve needed a cold beer after a bad shift, you get it.

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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 26d

YES! Congratulations! 🖤

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 28d

Grocery store radio stations that still play The Wallflowers are keeping us all alive

Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 28d

Just walked into the grocery store and "One Headlight" was blasting over the speakers. @nikostratis.com is right, it is the perfect grocery store song (check out "The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman").

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