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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 21h

I will be participating in a No Kings Event on 10/18. I never met George Soros, have never broken the law and will not be paid to be there. I am going because I am a patriot and will not stand for Trump’s fascism.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 2d

New decisions regarding pediatric COVID vaccines are creating obstacles for parents across the county seeking vaccinations for their children. The @nytimes.com shares stories from parents struggling to access these vaccines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 5d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 7d

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its’ children.
-Nelson Mandela

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Deirdre O’Reilly @drdeird.bsky.social · 9d

On service now and have found some success referring to Beyfortus as “RSV protection.”

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 9d

"The US is one of the most dangerous developed countries for giving birth"
In Mississippi nearly 10 babies die for every 1,000 live births. For Black babies, it was even higher at 15.2.
All of this will get worse with the cuts to Medicaid.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

What Mississippi's infant mortality crisis says about the risks of Medicaid cuts

Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency because its infant mortality rate has surged. And with Medicaid cuts coming, experts fear the crisis may worsen in other states.

www.npr.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10d

The director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute: "Their words should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the civilian leadership intends to use the threat and actuality of violence to infringe on Americans’ constitutional rights."

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d

Kori Schake: “Yesterday morning, Trump and Hegseth behaved reprehensibly. Their speeches…were tantamount to incitement—a genuinely dangerous effort to suborn the military’s oath and condition them for using violence against their fellow Americans.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

Trump’s Speech to Generals Was Incitement to Violence Against Americans

Military leaders’ quiet professionalism offers hope amid a maelstrom.

foreignpolicy.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

These people are absolute trash.

Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 10d

Vance: I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries righ now, if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

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Ron Chusid @rchusid.bsky.social · 11d

Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

COVID vaccines may have averted thousands of hospital stays in infants, pregnant women over 18 months

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 11d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 12d

Please, please, please submit a comment.

Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 13d

DHS is proposing a rule that would end "duration of status" for J, F and other visa holders. This would decimate the international graduate student and postdoc population, which are a crucial part of the United States biomedical workforce. There's still time for you to comment on the proposed rule.

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13d

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that benefits families. Just a couple of weeks ago Congressional Republicans voted to make ICE richer than most of world’s militaries.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13d

The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

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Deirdre O’Reilly @drdeird.bsky.social · 14d

My accessory for the conference 💥

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 15d

Californians — don’t take medical advice from President Bleach.

Trust your doctor.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 16d

The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.

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Deirdre O’Reilly @drdeird.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you for highlighting how these initiatives will affect infants. We pediatrician and neonatologists need people to understand how dire this is!

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16d

This is #infant #mortality in the United States. My piece in @thenation.com on how Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are making things much, much worse. Read it here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Emily Hahn, MD @ehahnmd.bsky.social · 18d

This is what vaccines do.

Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 18d

Advances Drive ‘Stunning’ Drop in Infant RSV Hospitalizations
2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

A Turning Point in Infant Health—How 2023 Changed the Fight Against RSV

The year 2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU

www.scientificamerican.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18d

“.. The President even said his recommendations were ‘based on what I feel.’ It was reckless guidance from a man with no medical training, delivered from the nation’s most powerful podium.”

@craigspencer.bsky.social
time.com/7319680/crai...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 19d

Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠.
Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death.
None of this is pro-life.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 19d

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:

“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 19d

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

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