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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · 3h

At the Governor’s Council on Behavioral Health meeting this morning, starting with an update on our state suicide prevention efforts (9-8-8 is an important hotline for ppl who want to talk or connect to mental health services).

Picture of ppl in a room around a horseshoe shaped table.

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · 5h

Glad Rhode Island is doing good and collaborative public health! ❤️

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · 18h

Proud of my alma mater. Thank you, Pres. Paxson.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 21h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · 6d

Ugh so frustrating! I too have used my time waiting for a missed bus to text people. I’m so so sorry.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8d

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..

But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.

600+ students this fall.

We move! ✊🏾

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · 12d

Spotted in a doorway. Love businesses standing up for immigrants.

Sign says "We Defend Immigrants Here!" This business is a defense zone: we pledge to protect and support those targeted by ICE or other enforcement actions. If you see Ice call 401-675-1414

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · 12d

I visited the Troll in East Providence today!!! I ride by on my bike all the time but just figured out it's there! So fun!!!

Large wooden troll holding a boat over the head on a rock next to the water with people standing near it.

Rep. Kislak selfie in sunglasses in front of large wooden troll holding a boat over the head on a rock next to the water with people standing near it.

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · 24d

And we’re heading into a city council special election that would benefit from ranked choice voting, too.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 11

A school-age child in Los Angeles has died of a rare complication from measles, years after being infected with the virus.

Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery

The health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

nbcnews.to

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Sep 11

Remembering the lives lost on 9/11, the lives that changed, the aftermath of fear and racial profiling and the love and community of neighbors that came together.

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Sep 11

24 years ago at about this time I was sent out of the federal building in Harrisburg where I worked and told I couldn’t go home (to a large apartment building on the river) nor to a mall. I went to friends’ house and held their baby and then the last plane came down and I eventually went home.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Stand up to the bully. Do not surrender in advance:
Judge rules Trump administration cannot withhold funding from Harvard www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Judge rules Trump administration cannot withhold funding from Harvard

The Trump administration illegally withheld federal funding for alleged antisemitism violations, a federal judge in Boston ruled.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 3

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is a choice. That will provide information to the rest of the country about what happens when there are no required vaccinations. How long before kids end up really sick or dead? How long until parents demand an end to the inevitable school disruptions?

The Independent @the-independent.com · Sep 3

BREAKING | DeSantis to make Florida first state to end all vaccine mandates for schools

DeSantis to make Florida first state to end all vaccine mandates for schools

www.independent.co.uk

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Sep 1

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Aug 29

As we should.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 29

Good.

Health officials from Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania met this week to consider coordinating their own vaccine recommendations, separate from the federal government.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · Aug 29

1. An 18-year-old boy was kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside LA just days before he was to begin his senior year in high school. He was walking his dog when they came for him.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents' knowledge

Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz, detained by immigration agents while walking his dog, was moved across state lines without his parents' knowledge. A congresswoman says ICE should be required to notify family ...

www.latimes.com

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Aug 27

I have been noticing that the administration is saying things already happened that they want to do, but they are not done. We should not trust when they say something from their wish list has already happened and we should fight every single bad thing.

Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · Aug 27

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · Aug 26

Pack the RIPTA Board Room this Thursday 8/28 at 1:30 pm!! 269 Melrose St. in Providence - reachable by RIPTA Route 20

bsky.app/profile/pvds...

Providence Streets Coalition @pvdstreets.bsky.social · Aug 26

NEW TIME: Thursday’s meeting has been updated with a time change: back to the standard 1:30pm

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Aug 26

Unsurprisingly, @zachwahls.bsky.social has the best chances against Joni Ernst for that senate seat in Iowa. Don't sleep on Zach Wahls. I think many folks in the political world are gonna be surprised next year when he takes that seat from the GOP, but they shouldn't have been. He's the real deal.

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm grateful for the work of @timmonsroberts.bsky.social. Now is a time we need more, not less, information about the world we live in.

Timmons Roberts (@timmonsroberts.bsky.social)

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered…

buff.ly

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yes that makes sense.

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Aug 21

I think there are so many interesting and different ways to ensure representation!

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Rebecca Kislak @rebeccakislak.bsky.social · Aug 21

I was treated to a very complicated explanation of NH districts this week. And also know that Washington state has multi member districts uniform in size (two reps and one Senator, I think). Which sounds more simple. But then your map is so elegant and makes so much sense!

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