Anne Isenhower
anneisenhower.bsky.social
Anne Isenhower
@anneisenhower.bsky.social
National media relations consultant for nonprofits. Once had to set up an interview with a dog, and he barked answers. Community organizer, voting rights, public health
Really enjoyed being interviewed by Melissa Vela-Williamson for this Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) "Strategies & Tactics" article on "How to Adjust Your Media Relations Approach"!

www.prsa.org/article/how-to-adjust-your-media-relations-approach-OCT25
How to Adjust Your Media Relations Approach
Media relations is still PR’s most visible — and toughest — discipline. Pros must adapt with tailored pitches, nontraditional outlets, and smarter use of placements. Longtime media consultant Anne Is...
www.prsa.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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James Comer Sends Epstein Subpoenas To Bill And Hillary And Comey And Mueller And Nana And Big Bird And Jesus
www.wonkette.com/p/james-come...

By Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com
James Comer Sends Epstein Subpoenas To Bill And Hillary And Comey And Mueller And Nana And Big Bird And Jesus
But not Alex Acosta, the former Trump official who gave Jeffrey Epstein that sweetheart deal. Huh!
www.wonkette.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Patrick Sullivan, PhD, recently published an editorial piece in the Annals of Epidemiology that outlines the consequences of halting public health research projects. The countless projects that have been put on hold in 2025 have resulted in ethical violations, data loss, and weakened public trust.
Editorial: Science, interrupted
www.sciencedirect.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The WH wanted to cut the CDC by over 50%. Today we passed a bipartisan bill through committee REJECTING the President’s attempt to destroy the CDC.

I’ll never stop fighting for the CDC, its amazing people, and its vital public health mission.
July 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Sen. Ossoff: “There is no voting bloc in Georgia that's crying out for more expensive health care so that the rich can pay lower taxes.”
July 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Again, vaccine refusal is not a Darwin situation. It does not only harm the person refusing a vaccine, which is not something to gloat about regardless.

It harms all of us, by undermining herd immunity and increasing mutations in the pathogen that may allow it to evade vaccines we already have.
July 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you know anyone who didn't vote for Kamala, please do feel free to share this with them.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Funding cuts to USAID by the Trump administration could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths globally over the next five years, according to a new study.
USAID cuts may cause 14 million more deaths in next five years, study says
The analysis, published in the Lancet, estimates the agency’s programs saved 91 million lives worldwide over two decades, playing a vital role in global health.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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LISTEN: Sen. Ossoff on the threat to Georgians' health care coverage, rural hospitals, & economic development posed by the GOP's budget bill
July 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Mark Warner: "It will move us as a nation aback to the same percentage of uninsured we had before Obamacare. It's not like these people are not gonna get sick. They're gonna show up at the emergency room. Rural hospitals are gonna shut down ... it's cruel"
June 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. RFK Jr. has the power to kill more Americans than any other individual Cabinet member.

There are zero checks on his power. Zero.
June 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We all love @ossoff.bsky.social, and he is NOT putting up with Russell Vought’s nonsense
WATCH: Sen. Ossoff presses President Trump’s Budget Director on their plans to gut the CDC’s budget by over 50 percent.
June 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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"As a person of color living in New York City under the age of 30—with all my dreams of being able to afford to live here—his winning makes me feel like that’s actually possible."

@serenaalin.bsky.social reports from inside Zohran Mamdani's jubilant watch party in Queens.
Zohran Mamdani’s Supporters Celebrate an Astonishing Victory
"New York can lead the way in showing how a new future is possible."
www.motherjones.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Health groups are mobilizing behind the scenes to preserve access for vaccines as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to upend the nation’s decades-old vaccine system, according to public health experts.
The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite RFK Jr.
The extraordinary effort to create a parallel system of recommending and perhaps even providing vaccines faces major challenges.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Compelling Democratic candidates must adopt strategies & tactics outside of the liberal vs. conservative, left vs. right binary: Be interesting. Run against the political establishment and the wealthy. Find compelling candidates. Focus on occasional voters.
Opinion | Drop the 1990s tactics. Here’s how Democrats can win today.
Compelling candidates who run against the political establishment can save the Democratic Party from Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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“I feel like I’m dying”
“I feel like I’ve been lied to”

The words of an anti-vax chiropractor who become seriously ill with measles and spread it to his kids, who then also became seriously ill. All four kids were hospitalized.

You *were* lied to. And you wanted to believe that lie.
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Kennedy’s Purge Is a ‘Code Red’ for Vaccines in America www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
Opinion | Kennedy’s Purge Is a ‘Code Red’ for Vaccines in America
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Know who are most at risk of pathogens burgeoning in warm water and collecting in shellfish?
People who live on warm-water coasts.

Know what warm-water coasts in the US happen to share?
State-level red politics and distrust of organized public health.

Someone should think this through.
The value of public health: IDing "...contaminated seafood is difficult...Treating pts...is primarily supportive bc there are no antidotes...Adaptive strategies include enhanced disease surveillance, coastal water monitoring, improved wastewater controls, & public educ. to reduce exposure risks." 🛟😷
Climate Change, Marine Pathogens, and Human Health
This JAMA Insights explores the spread of harmful algal blooms due to climate change and how exposure to toxic algae can negatively affect human health.
jamanetwork.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview.

Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All.

International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews
More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.
www.forbes.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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🧵My latest:

HIV testing & outreach falters in the South because of Trump’s funding cuts and DEI restrictions.

“I don’t understand how someone, with the stroke of a pen, could just haphazardly write off the health off millions.”

@kffhealthnews.org / @cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...
Trump once promised to end HIV in America. His deep funding cuts are rolling back progress in the South.
A disruption in federal funds has jeopardized HIV testing and outreach in Mississippi, and researchers warn of a resurgence of the epidemic in the South.
www.cbsnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM