@rebeccameowtin.bsky.social
Cat lady and public health professional
I wish we could know for sure that cats understand how much we love them. Even when they’re upset, I wish we could just give them all the love to help them feel better.
July 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I wish we could know for sure that cats understand how much we love them. Even when they’re upset, I wish we could just give them all the love to help them feel better.
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🪱 🧠 needs to be held personally responsible for every death or illness that were vaccine preventable going forward.
AAP Statement on Changes to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | AAP
“The American Academy of Pediatrics is deeply troubled and alarmed by Secretary Kennedy’s mass firing of all 17 experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. This unprecedented action, ...
www.aap.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
🪱 🧠 needs to be held personally responsible for every death or illness that were vaccine preventable going forward.
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UPDATE thread:
This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week.
Get ready, US scientists.
Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings.
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This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week.
Get ready, US scientists.
Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings.
🧪 1/3
Today's shadow docket decision allowing DOGE immediate access to individual Social Security data is a flaming turd substantively and procedurally. Justice Jackson, dissenting, joined by Justice Sotomayor; Justice Kagan also would've denied the stay. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
UPDATE thread:
This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week.
Get ready, US scientists.
Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings.
🧪 1/3
This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week.
Get ready, US scientists.
Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings.
🧪 1/3
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Gift link to a must-read from my colleagues.
"I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."
"I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Gift link to a must-read from my colleagues.
"I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."
"I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."
Musk is crying that the Big Bullshit Bill is an abomination because it doesn’t fix the deficit. If he really cared about reducing the deficit he’d pay taxes.
June 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Musk is crying that the Big Bullshit Bill is an abomination because it doesn’t fix the deficit. If he really cared about reducing the deficit he’d pay taxes.
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Natalie Phelps, a mother of two with stage 4 cancer, can’t start life-saving treatment because of NIH staff cuts orchestrated by Russell Vought and the Trump admin. She was supposed to get a cutting-edge immunotherapy trial that uses her own cells to fight cancer—but now she’s facing deadly delays.
Woman’s life-saving treatment delayed by Trump cuts to NIH: ‘Cancer shouldn’t be political’
Natalie Phelps, who has stage 4 colorectal cancer, has raised the alarm over how patients in the agency’s clinical trials are facing setbacks in treatment
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Natalie Phelps, a mother of two with stage 4 cancer, can’t start life-saving treatment because of NIH staff cuts orchestrated by Russell Vought and the Trump admin. She was supposed to get a cutting-edge immunotherapy trial that uses her own cells to fight cancer—but now she’s facing deadly delays.
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Um. 🤔Who could have known these citations were fake…🤷♀️
Kennedy R. Brain worms: Unlocking creativity and spontaneous bad ideas. Inst Fake Neurol 2024;42(3):123-124.
Prasad M. COVID-19: Panic shopping and other pandemic benefits. Pandemics J. 2023;15(2):45-46.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Kennedy R. Brain worms: Unlocking creativity and spontaneous bad ideas. Inst Fake Neurol 2024;42(3):123-124.
Prasad M. COVID-19: Panic shopping and other pandemic benefits. Pandemics J. 2023;15(2):45-46.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cites Research Studies That Don't Exist
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA Report featured several seemingly fake studies and incorrect attributions.
www.rollingstone.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Um. 🤔Who could have known these citations were fake…🤷♀️
Kennedy R. Brain worms: Unlocking creativity and spontaneous bad ideas. Inst Fake Neurol 2024;42(3):123-124.
Prasad M. COVID-19: Panic shopping and other pandemic benefits. Pandemics J. 2023;15(2):45-46.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Kennedy R. Brain worms: Unlocking creativity and spontaneous bad ideas. Inst Fake Neurol 2024;42(3):123-124.
Prasad M. COVID-19: Panic shopping and other pandemic benefits. Pandemics J. 2023;15(2):45-46.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Think Medicaid cuts won’t affect you because you don’t need it? That assumption is wrong. Medicaid payments are incredibly important for hospital and outpatient clinic revenue. Medicaid cuts mean hospitals and clinics will have to cut staff. Many will close. That affects access to care for ALL OF US
Why did Congressional Republicans jam through an unpopular budget with the largest Medicaid cuts in history?
It could be because nearly 70% of them would financially benefit from the bill's extension of Trump's tax cuts for the rich.
Reverse Robin Hood.
It could be because nearly 70% of them would financially benefit from the bill's extension of Trump's tax cuts for the rich.
Reverse Robin Hood.
May 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Think Medicaid cuts won’t affect you because you don’t need it? That assumption is wrong. Medicaid payments are incredibly important for hospital and outpatient clinic revenue. Medicaid cuts mean hospitals and clinics will have to cut staff. Many will close. That affects access to care for ALL OF US
Baby talk to my newborn nephew included the statement, “You don’t know about germ theory!”
And then I realized he is qualified to run HHS.
And then I realized he is qualified to run HHS.
May 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Baby talk to my newborn nephew included the statement, “You don’t know about germ theory!”
And then I realized he is qualified to run HHS.
And then I realized he is qualified to run HHS.
“Those carnal impulses that put Froot Loops at the top of the food pyramid”
-RFK Jr., on May 14, 2025 during the Budget Hearing with the U.S. House of Representatives
-RFK Jr., on May 14, 2025 during the Budget Hearing with the U.S. House of Representatives
May 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“Those carnal impulses that put Froot Loops at the top of the food pyramid”
-RFK Jr., on May 14, 2025 during the Budget Hearing with the U.S. House of Representatives
-RFK Jr., on May 14, 2025 during the Budget Hearing with the U.S. House of Representatives
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He’s such a fucking idiot
Someone needs to cut Bobby’s mic.
The best treatment for measles is prevention.
That means vaccination, plain and simple.
It’s safe. It works. It saves lives.
Measles can be deadly, and there’s no cure once contracted.
The best treatment for measles is prevention.
That means vaccination, plain and simple.
It’s safe. It works. It saves lives.
Measles can be deadly, and there’s no cure once contracted.
RFK Jr. calls for CDC plan for alternative measles treatments
Kennedy has downplayed the threat from the highly contagious disease and repeated misleading claims about measles vaccines.
www.axios.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
He’s such a fucking idiot
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If HR was RIF’d across HHS agencies, does that mean employees can’t get in trouble/fired if they bring their pets to work?
April 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If HR was RIF’d across HHS agencies, does that mean employees can’t get in trouble/fired if they bring their pets to work?
Read this entire thread. I have nothing to add. Absolute perfection. You should absolutely be concerns about comms workers getting axed from HHS.
The comms workers who were laid off also include the people who did the following, extremely non-exhaustive list of things:
- publicized food and drug recalls
- communicated with hospitals to make sure they knew/were looking out for the symptoms of poisoning from a specific contaminant... 4/x
- publicized food and drug recalls
- communicated with hospitals to make sure they knew/were looking out for the symptoms of poisoning from a specific contaminant... 4/x
Kennedy Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public (Gift Article)
The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Read this entire thread. I have nothing to add. Absolute perfection. You should absolutely be concerns about comms workers getting axed from HHS.
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An important point getting overlooked:
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
April 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An important point getting overlooked:
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
I just want Big Balls to know that if he insists on talking about his balls, everyone will just think he’s overcompensating. Let’s get Puny Peen trending.
April 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I just want Big Balls to know that if he insists on talking about his balls, everyone will just think he’s overcompensating. Let’s get Puny Peen trending.
The app that shall not be named keeps pushing stuff from the Cheeto-in-Chief, his puppeteer fElon to my feed. So finally, here I am.
April 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The app that shall not be named keeps pushing stuff from the Cheeto-in-Chief, his puppeteer fElon to my feed. So finally, here I am.