Write your comment to the OMB rule before July 13th! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

@yale.edu bows down to fascism. President MacInnis and the trustees show what it means to obey in advance. A sad day for my alma mater. What cowards. #VichyYale www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

For those who are planning to write comments about the OMB rule that will take all federal funding decisions out of the hands of experts and put them into the hands of political appointees, check out our handy guide and visit our website (link in next post) for more information!

@jimalwine.bsky.social and @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social lay out the OMB rules' impact in Arizona: "For the citizens of Arizona, nothing good can come from the politicization of grant funding — only the loss of services, infrastructure and jobs, and reduction in the economy."

@gregggonsalves.bsky.social on the OMB funding rules: "It is a massive power play to bring all of us to heel on the road to authoritarianism."

In every state, proposed new #OMB rules for #federal funds would cause havoc. Here's an example from Arizona, written by 2 of my colleagues in @defendpublichealth.bsky.social#federal#ombttps://tucson.com/opinion/column/article_9ba48b8d-8287-4582-a2d2-a5a1f8af5379.html

It’s Wednesday & Whopper time: Kennedy's claim that Moms.gov supports healthy pregnancies collapses on inspection: the site funnels women to unregulated, anti-abortion services rather than provide truthful information women actually need.

“I urge those in the global public health and medical communities who share concerns about the new proposed rule to submit comments individually (either with your affiliation or anonymously) or as organisations, by July 13, 2026.” Dr. Nancy Krieger @thelancet.com

New: How The OMB Rule Will Hurt You And Your Town via @forbes www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... #OMB #FederalGrants #Medicaid #Rural #DEI #disparities #race #DrugAbuse #MentalHealth @DefendPublicHealh

Public Health Is About to Get Sicker open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Good! Every scientific organization should do the same!

Here is @defendpublichealth.bsky.social’s statement on the new OMB rule that takes scientific funding decisions away from experts and hands them to political appointees. Please have a look to learn more about how you can help.

Defend Public Health has launched an all-out, multipronged campaign to block proposed new OMB rule for federal grants, which threaten to politicize all federal funding, from medical research to grants for bridge repairs and disaster relief. Learn more 👇

Proposed new rules would politicize all federal grants, from scientific research to funds for highways and bridges. Defend Public Health has launched an urgent campaign to stop it. Please join us! www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/opp...

Need a road fixed or a bridge built in your town? How about funding for a rural hospital? Then you need to know that one man, Russell Vought, is about to have complete control over who gets federal funding and who doesn’t. To learn more and to write your elected representatives, hit this link.

The OMB proposed rule putting political appointees in charge of healthcare-funding decisions threatens the patients we serve by @nurseteria.bsky.social & @donnagaffney.bsky.social

This week's #Whopper is about comments made by RFK jr to the Tribal Self-Governance Conference about cutting out ultra processed foods as a "cure" for high rates of diabetes. Nonsense upon nonsense www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

@nejm.org addresses the OMB rule and its devastation to the US scientific enterprise. Go comment on the rule! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

@nejm.org addresses the OMB rule that can/will ruin the US scientific enterprise. Write your comments on the rule! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

The rarely-discussed AHRQ is the only agency doing the critical work of health systems research, funding, and training needed to better understand what works and what saves or wastes money in healthcare. We can’t let this agency be erased!

Morning It's GREAT to see organized resistance to MAHA & MAGA! Thx to @standupforscience.net & @defendpublichealth.bsky.social for leading the way The AMA was, until now, collaborationist, but the AMA president-elect, Dr Fryhofer, is an anti-RFK Jr activist 1/2 www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Whopper of the Week from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is about the deafening silence from RFK Jr as the Trump admin cuts student loans for health grad degrees, making US healthcare worker shortages worse. Contact your reps to stop the loan cuts. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

It’s Whopper Wednesday! The Trump Administration made drastic changes to the definition of professional degrees which impacts federal loan programs for many graduate health programs. RFK has remained silent despite the impact on our healthcare workforce & education programs in the health sciences

Good job editors for being clear this is happening under Censorship Jay.

“You can’t sustain a health system w/o primary care docs. In the US, it's tertiary care that's king. This came home to me when I was diagnosed with a new chronic condition, spent a week in the hospital & then was faced with navigating a broken health care system” by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Wednesday's Whopper: No, RFK Jr, immigrants don't cause infectious disease outbreaks!

DPH and @gregggonsalves.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com regarding the scary OMB rule that turns over review of grants to political appointees www.washingtonpost.com/wp-intellige...

Defend Public Health demand that Congress block Russ Vought's proposed changes to US grants which gut peer review and isolate US science and give control over science to political appointees. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...

We must block the new federal grants rule! Defend public health’s statement:

We at Defend Public Health want to wish everyone a Happy Pride Month, while also recognizing the horrifying times we are in for the entire community. We will always stand together with the LGBTQIA2S+ community as members and allies.

Our own @gregggonsalves.bsky.social shares his experiences with the ones who do the lions share of care in healthcare, nurses.

It’s Whopper Wednesday! www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

“On virtually every front, this administration has crippled our abilities to track emerging disease outbreaks and respond quickly so that they don’t get out of hand. Even the ability of U.S. scientists to study pandemic pathogens and make vaccines has been severely damaged,” @jimalwine.bsky.social

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

This week's #Whopper is about RFK Jrs claims that Medicaid is not being cut. He's argued the cuts were not "real" but were cuts to fraudulent users of the system & Medicaid funding was rising, despite CBO saying cuts to Medicaid would total over $900B & would remove 7.5 million people from Medicaid

As we at @defendpublichealth.bsky.social wrote in our report on COVID19 vaccines and pediatric deaths, the *essential* question is whether mortality rates are higher, lower, or the same in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated kids. The report from Prasad et al. did not address this question.

By the formidable @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

It’s whooper Wednesday! www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

For Mother's Day, @drjudystone.bsky.social looked at RFK Jr's record on caring for moms--Hint, it's not good. #mothersday #MAHA #Tylenol #pregnancy #disparities #contraception #abortion #vaccines

This week's Whopper from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is about Mother's Day and what we should do to provide them with a supportive health system that makes their health decisions and lives easier! www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

“Think about what “do your own research” really means. If your car starts making odd noises and won’t go over 25 miles per hour, would you “do your own research,” or would you take it to a trained mechanic with the knowledge and equipment needed to diagnose and fix the problem?”

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social is proposing a new future for healthcare in the US with the People's Health Platform. I would like to thank @andrealaflamme.bsky.social (Maine) for being one of the first candidates to endorse the platform. actionnetwork.org/forms/endors...

I’m honored to endorse the People’s Health Platform. Thank you to @tom.medsky.social and everyone at @defendpublichealth.bsky.social for the incredible work that they’re doing to support public health and health equity for Americans across the country.

Saphier is going to be harder to fight than Means, but @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is leading the charge regardless. Please sign to oppose her nomination-- clicking through to the letter details many reasons why she's unqualified. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

From @drjudystone.bsky.social "It did this despite more than 80,000 comments, mostly negative, posted in the Federal Register. More than 150 members of Congress also sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter decrying the effect of the reclassification on nursing education, in particular."

His 3rd nominee can be stopped too.

From @gregggonsalves.bsky.social ! “Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.”