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Clare Evans @clarerevans.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks for sharing!

Clare Evans @clarerevans.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve assigned this reading in my Medical Sociology class this term.

Lots of pre-med students and students thinking about careers in medicine/public health.

It’s so important for us to be talking about this. Thank you for tackling this hard subject!

#AcademicChatter #MedSoc

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 15h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 12h

RFK,Jr. just laid off 1,000 employees of HSS. A deliberate act to further decimate the nation's CDC, which serves to investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses, and collect data.

Expect sickness & deaths.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher @repfletcher.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump administration is using the government shutdown to dismantle our public health infrastructure.

The people laid off from the CDC are our first line of response for disease outbreaks. This will cost lives.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 3d

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 3d

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 4d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4d

Laughter is medicine. G’night all

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 4d

#LeaveTheLeaves 🍁

National Wildlife Federation @nationalwildlife.bsky.social · 4d

So, who’s in those yard waste bags? 👀

🐛 Moths
🦋 Butterflies
💡 Fireflies
🦎 Salamanders
🐝 Native Bees

A new study shows that when you dispose of your leaves, you’re also throwing away about 45% of your spring butterfly and moth populations. 📉

Learn more 📲: https://ow.ly/w6bu50X7Yc3

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 5d

File state charges. This is a crime.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s video of the incident

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 5d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Clare Evans @clarerevans.bsky.social · 5d

Menswear Guy out here doing God’s work. Bravo 👏

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 5d

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 6d

Discovery and cultivation of methane-eating microbes is such a neat story because it encompasses such simple instincts of discovery science and the will to make things better. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...

The Very Hungry Microbes That Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Ah yes, white collar employers are desperate to hire 50 something people who have spent their work lives in manual labor.

Conservatives have long argued that since
Americans are living longer and fewer have jobs that require manual labor, many physically disabled workers could adapt to desk work, broadening their work options and resulting in fewer people being granted disability benefits.
Social Security officials prepared to issue a similar rule at the end of the first Trump administration but ran out of time.

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 7d

IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

kffhealthnews.org

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 6d

Another case of warping research findings to suit political aims: This time on so-called conversion therapy.

“This is the most upsetting use of my scholarship that has ever happened in my career,” said law professor Clifford Rosky.

By @samlevin.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 7d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

wizard frog is insane

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

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