Janis Gonzales MD MPH FAAP
@jgonzalesmd.bsky.social
Pediatrician, public health physician, mom of three, pet lover, author of Lessons from a Gentle Life. #MedSky #WomenInMedicine #PublicHealth
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People of character
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November 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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excerpt: ^^^ After what Goodarzi called “the abduction,” everyone “was crying, terrified, huddled together.”
“To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.
“To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
excerpt: ^^^ After what Goodarzi called “the abduction,” everyone “was crying, terrified, huddled together.”
“To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.
“To do it in a place where children are, with complete disregard for what children see, there’s no low these people won’t stoop to,” Goodarzi said.
If only this had been predictable when you voted to put Kennedy in charge
“Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday that Louisiana is undergoing its worst whooping cough outbreak since 1990 and called on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to promote vaccinations.” This outbreak has already killed two babies. @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Cassidy asks Kennedy to promote vaccines targeting whooping cough
BATON ROUGE, La. — Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday that Louisiana is undergoing its worst whooping cough outbreak since 1990 and called on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
www.ktbs.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If only this had been predictable when you voted to put Kennedy in charge
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Share Jimenez Rosa's harrowing story and remember her name. The cruelty of this administration is astounding.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
People have to know what’s happening: your citizenship, your status, the color of your skin will not keep you safe.
September 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Share Jimenez Rosa's harrowing story and remember her name. The cruelty of this administration is astounding.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
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This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions
www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
www.foreignaffairs.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions
www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
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Thank you, Trump voters.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Thank you, Trump voters.
Historians will need to explain how we went from Congress being an honorable profession to electing a slew of selfish, greedy grifters
GOP congressman cashed out hospital investments before voting for biggest Medicaid cut in history
www.alternet.org
GOP congressman cashed out hospital investments before voting for biggest Medicaid cut in history
twp.ai
August 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Historians will need to explain how we went from Congress being an honorable profession to electing a slew of selfish, greedy grifters
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NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
www.statnews.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
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We cannot allow them to silence our voices!
Submit to the cause...
NEVER to them!
Fuck their blueprint!
We design the path to our destiny!
We will not go back!!!!!
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#BlueSkyVets
#Voices4Victory
Submit to the cause...
NEVER to them!
Fuck their blueprint!
We design the path to our destiny!
We will not go back!!!!!
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#BlueSkyVets
#Voices4Victory
August 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We cannot allow them to silence our voices!
Submit to the cause...
NEVER to them!
Fuck their blueprint!
We design the path to our destiny!
We will not go back!!!!!
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#BlueSkyVets
#Voices4Victory
Submit to the cause...
NEVER to them!
Fuck their blueprint!
We design the path to our destiny!
We will not go back!!!!!
#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#BlueSkyVets
#Voices4Victory
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"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
August 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
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He called the CDC a cesspool of corruption that lied about the COVID vaccines. Now someone has committed violence because of the same misinformation.
August 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
He called the CDC a cesspool of corruption that lied about the COVID vaccines. Now someone has committed violence because of the same misinformation.
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An innocent President would simply release the Epstein Files and demand a full FBI investigation into every Epstein client.
That’s it.
That’s the whole ballgame summed up.
That’s it.
That’s the whole ballgame summed up.
August 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
An innocent President would simply release the Epstein Files and demand a full FBI investigation into every Epstein client.
That’s it.
That’s the whole ballgame summed up.
That’s it.
That’s the whole ballgame summed up.
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contrarian.substack.com/p/the-courts... @rickhasen.bsky.social is brilliant here- and this should scare you … we are on verge of voting rights meltdown
The courts are chipping away at the Voting Rights Act: Expert Richard Hasen explains
"This is nothing less than a major wrecking ball through the entire premise of voting rights."
contrarian.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-courts... @rickhasen.bsky.social is brilliant here- and this should scare you … we are on verge of voting rights meltdown
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The astonishing thing about Watergate, in contrast to today, is how the President was actually shamed into leaving office.
Imagine that: shame.
Imagine that: shame.
August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The astonishing thing about Watergate, in contrast to today, is how the President was actually shamed into leaving office.
Imagine that: shame.
Imagine that: shame.
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Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes.
I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
August 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes.
I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
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DEMOCRATIC. LEADERSHIP. YOU. ARE. NOT. DOING. ENOUGH.
August 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
DEMOCRATIC. LEADERSHIP. YOU. ARE. NOT. DOING. ENOUGH.
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“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations.”
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
apnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations.”
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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This about covers it.
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This about covers it.
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Life on a Monday in August may seem normal enough. And yet the reality is "We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country." I so appreicate @maddow.msnbc.com describing the simple reality clearly. It does us no good to pretend it's not real. The only question is what we do about it.
August 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Life on a Monday in August may seem normal enough. And yet the reality is "We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country." I so appreicate @maddow.msnbc.com describing the simple reality clearly. It does us no good to pretend it's not real. The only question is what we do about it.