americans watching as the rest of the world uses our fascist as a lesson to vote out their fascists

we survived janice raymond and that was before we had reams of evidence backing the necessity of gender-affirming care. we will survive this ridiculous news cycle, too. don’t lose your head over it.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

The program currently receives over two thousand calls per day

President Trump and his administration are coming after Minnesota, threatening to cut off our federal funding unless we turn our backs on trans kids. This is bullying, plain and simple. And today, April 22, I filed a lawsuit to stop them. Learn more: bit.ly/mn-v-trump-lawsuit

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

Happy spring?

Why doom scroll when you can escape read? 5 Books to Help You Ignore the Fact That the Country’s On Fire ⬇️

Sure would be terrible to flood this portal with bogus reports

As someone who experienced threats and harassment from armed extremists for over a decade, I have empathy for anyone who feels afraid of retaliation for free speech. But at the end of the day, we all must make a choice: back down or double down.

The entire CDC lead program has been eliminated. Lead exposure can lead to many issues including anemia & irreversible brain damage in young children. It was <10 years ago we learned that 99,000 people in Flint Michigan had been exposed. If only eliminating programs eliminated the risk.

Misinformation about #trans kids is spreading like wildfire I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now: allstora.com/products/fre...

I wonder if economists feel like we did during the pandemic…or actually still do? #medsky #publichealth #econsky

You probably saw pictures (or live) of the huge numbers of protestors across the country yesterday. Over a million! Which coincidentally is about the annual death toll from tuberculosis, a curable bacterial infection. Seems like a much bigger deal when you can visualize the impact like that.

If you need a reminder of why the tariffs are a public health issue as well: ▶️About *80%* of our active pharmaceutical ingredients are produced abroad. ▶️About *50%* of our generic drugs are manufactured overseas This means increased costs in an inevitably strained generic drug supply. Not good

That’s our guy!

As former center director at AHRQ, it is devastating to watch it be dismantled. With amazing staff, AHRQ catalyzed improvement in safety, quality, equity, etc. The US Preventive Services Task Force must be preserved. Thanks to @kffhealthnews.org for this excellent write-up. #StandwithAHRQ

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP - the legit one) has started a web page to fact check some claims relevant to pediatric health, meant for pediatricians, parents and media seeking the best information. #PedSky #PedsID www.aap.org/en/news-room...

My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.

👇👇👇(& find a march near you THIS weekend: www.fiftyfifty.one)

definitely not the ideal time for this approach

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

You know what's cool about all of this is climate change. We're still cooking the planet but giving it zero attention

Said it before, gonna keep saying it: the atmosphere doesn’t give a fuck about politics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

i swear to god if my libby access is interrupted i am going to war

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

“There’s a leek in the sink” is the highest level April fools joke I can handle right now.

Cory Booker is STILL going. This is what resisting fascism looks like. I don’t care if it’s not a “real” filibuster. Booker is taking drastic action to show his constituents that they are not alone. More of this, please.

You might have missed this news because Senate Republicans did their best to keep it under the radar: last week, they voted to let big banks charge higher overdraft fees. It’s part of their agenda: bigger profits for big corporations, higher costs for working people.

This is senseless violence. It is terrifying, and will produce only fear and anguish. All of which is the point in our current moment, under this administration. Our students deserve to live, study, and, yes, protest, without fear of abduction. Stay safe, keep fighting.

Would love to hear the AAP speak out about this www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...

Protest at UMN… will include protest of student detainment by ICE

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for nearly untraceable ghost gun kits.

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School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Happy match day!

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

Trump has more rape charges than Penn has trans athletes. This isn’t about anything but pure, relentless hatred. The scapegoating is sickening.

Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

¡Somos Riverview!

“Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?”

The U leadership does not seem well equipped for this political moment

such wonderful news. Welcome to the team, @davidformn40b.bsky.social

So Mike Johnson appreciates free speech, as long as you’re saying something that he agrees with and likes.

BREAKING: No flights into Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, & Orlando, as Space launch debris is raining down over Florida… Seems appropriate, right?! 😂 And guess who’s ‘toxic space junk’ is coming down, daily? JUST Guess?!