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Epidemiologist/physician/award winning writer. University of Washington Environmental Health Sciences Misinformation researcher https://drbobmorris.substack.com

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · Aug 26

The SAB of the Accountability Journalism Institute in collaboration with Defend Public Health is launching this petition demanding RFK resign for his irresponsible and dangerous disregard for science.

Join 6 Nobelists and 27 NASEM members. Sign and share.

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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Demand RFK Jr. Resign: Petition for a Healthy America

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 20h

Mike Johnson is lying. Swear-in Rep elect Adelita Grijalva. Release the Epstein files.

Congresswoman-elect calls out Mike Johnson for REFUSING to swear her in

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 2d

Arrest Stephen Miller

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

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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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 3d

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Modeling suggests if the U.S. sustained a 1/3 reduction in foreign STEM graduates, it could see a loss of $22-43.9 billion per year off the U.S. GDP growth in the first year alone.

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Adrian Egli @adrian7745.bsky.social · 3d

Credit to @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

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Zongo-the-Zischer @gattllc.com · 3d

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure he already has. Where do you think they recruit ICE agents?

Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Wasn't the whole point of the second amendment so that states could maintain a militia to defend themselves from this bullshit.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 4d

And how do you propose expressing uncertainty related to sample size and underlying variability in the data?

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 5d

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
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Stand with Dan.

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country."
My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five.
He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor.
"Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk."
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.
Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city.
That was last week.
This week changed everything.
This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia.
He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities.
Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight.
The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.

Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..."
As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government.
The president who would be king.
Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York.
A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish.
Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man.
You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong.
Nothing excuses this. Nothing.
Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front.
The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet.
We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart.
Here, ready to rumble.
Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble.
Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us.
Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice.
What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis.
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.

One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us.
You're right, Dad. I know.
I'm a Memphian, soon under siege.
(Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

😂 “Master negotiator” Donald Trump owns the modern government shutdown

Via @317_2_202 on IG

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 6d

✔️ It's important for the floridians to know where Florida physicians stand.
✔️ It's important for FL legislators to know where Florida physicians stand.
✔️ It's important for the FL Surgeon General to understand that his short-term political gain will not be judged well by history in the long term.

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 6d

Over 1000 Florida doctors have signed a letter challenging their state’s surgeon general, anti-vaxxer Joe Ladapo, and his decision to end school vaccine mandates.

www.importantcontext.news/p/1000-docto...

1,000 Doctors Challenge Florida’s Anti-Vax Surgeon General

Joe Ladapo ended vaccine requirements but not everyone is quietly accepting the dangerous policy change.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4d

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5d

Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed.

Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 5d

I knew you’d come around. Just be sure to take another dose any time rationality threatens to return.

Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 5d

Love this cartoon. Captures the insanity perfectly. Kudos.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 5d

The inside story of the guy who pretended to devote his entire career to protecting us from pandemics just so he could unleash a failed bioweapon. The conspiracy so deep even he didn’t know about it.

Nicolas c Grey @nicolascgrey.bsky.social · 5d

link to interview below... #peterdaszak @peterdaszak.bsky.social

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Nicolas c Grey @nicolascgrey.bsky.social · 5d

link to interview below... #peterdaszak @peterdaszak.bsky.social

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 5d

Remember the silly old times when creating a law required an act of Congress?
How quaint,

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

This is fascism.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 5d

An FBI agent is “relieved of duty” (fired?) for refusing to facilitate an unnecessary humiliation of a defendant.

Reminder that as a defendant, Trump was afforded *every* possible courtesy (like allowing him to turn himself in). www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say

An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.

www.reuters.com

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 5d

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 5d

If you are here illegally, going to a government agency is pretty much the last thing you are going to do. That includes voting, trying to get welfare payments and trying to get government subsidized healthcare.
This is gaslighting of the highest order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

REPORTER: US law already prohibits giving healthcare to illegal immigrants

LEAVITT: Are you denying that Medicaid money has never gone to illegal aliens?