As of March 30, there are approximately 529 measles cases across 20 states. Experts project that the Southwest outbreak, which has spread from West Texas to New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas, could last up to a year as cases continue to rise.

Read this full thread for what to know. ⬇️ 1/11 🧵

I just had a family decline/delay vaccines explicitly because of “controversy in the news.” As a pediatrician, I am terrified.

#USA: the decision to end support for Gavi puts millions of children’s lives at risk.

It's estimated that more than 1.2 million children may die as a result of this political decision.

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White supremacy is a death march, and fascism is the drumbeat pushing it forward.

We have a choice: resist or be dragged down with it.

"Beyond a laundry list of moral positions or communities we care about, we should be tying ourselves together with a coherent vision for the direction we want our society to go — and a worldview about how it should work " - @asha-rrs.bsky.social

Doctors and nurses, this is for you. When ICE is trying to raid your hospital, or when your hospital executives are telling you to end programs addressing racial and gender health inequalities or telling you to stop providing trans or abortion care—please, please disobey.
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California employers are legally required to provide N95 respirators to workers when the AQI reaches unhealthy levels. Yet, it was labor unions and community organizers that supplied more than 20k respirators to farmworkers in Ventura County last month. @npr.org
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"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk"

To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky

Everyone can organize.

Everyone can contribute to social movements.

Everyone can do something, from somewhere.

None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.

Everyone can organize and has something to offer.

Comrade card for 1/30/2025. Evergreen from @prisonculture.bsky.social.

trying to find hope through my little plants. native sages, lilac, yarrow, poppy, and goldenrod 🌱🌾🪻planting toward the future.

#gardening #nativeplantgarden #socalgardening

I say this as much to myself as anyone else: this is their goal. To pelt us with every vile declaration & action, to make us feel battered, powerless & defeated at every turn.

I just keep reminding myself to feel my feet on the Earth, breathe, get in my lane, reach out across lanes & fight.

hiii. glad to be here.