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Janis Gonzales MD MPH FAAP @jgonzalesmd.bsky.social · 25d

If only this had been predictable when you voted to put Kennedy in charge

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25d

“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.

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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · Sep 2

Share Jimenez Rosa's harrowing story and remember her name. The cruelty of this administration is astounding.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Crooked Media @crooked.com · Aug 27

People have to know what’s happening: your citizenship, your status, the color of your skin will not keep you safe.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Aug 30

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...

Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you, Trump voters.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 29

“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

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Janis Gonzales MD MPH FAAP @jgonzalesmd.bsky.social · Aug 18

Historians will need to explain how we went from Congress being an honorable profession to electing a slew of selfish, greedy grifters

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Aug 9

"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

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · Aug 9

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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Daniel Harder 🇺🇦 @danielharder.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · Aug 8

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."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · Aug 8

The astonishing thing about Watergate, in contrast to today, is how the President was actually shamed into leaving office.

Imagine that: shame.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · Aug 7

DEMOCRATIC. LEADERSHIP. YOU. ARE. NOT. DOING. ENOUGH.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 6

“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

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 5

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

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Ron Hacker @ronhacker.bsky.social · Aug 4

This about covers it.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is what is happening right now.

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Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jul 28

Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt. A reminder, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid

Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

www.motherjones.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jul 23

A classic coordination failure: everyone makes excuses for why they go along with authoritarianism rather than resisting. And democracy and the rule of law crumble. We thought our institutions and culture were stronger, but we are following Hungary's path.

Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · Jul 23

Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · Jul 23

"The great irony of vaccines is that populations become complacent about a disease and the need for immunisation largely because a successful vaccine made it feel as though the threat was consigned to the past" excellent stuff by Francis Ryan on the rise of measles across the globe

Look at the rise of measles in England and ask yourself: have we learned a single thing from Covid? | Frances Ryan

People grow complacent about vaccines precisely because they are so effective. What happened to collective responsibility, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · Jul 20

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