“Community isn’t a sentiment; it’s a deliberately built social environment. It needs institutions–public health and social care, housing, childcare, schools, debt relief, neighborhood jobs–that give people time, stability, and proximity to be able to care for one another.”

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

A large proportion of Americans support MAHA. It‘s killing them. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!

LOL someone at NYP wasted a lot of energy on this tortured pun salad

"Canada told the fossil fuel industry greenwashing was illegal, and its response was that having to be honest and transparent would make it too hard to do business. Apparently the threat worked," says Phil Newell of @caadcoalition.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

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The level of unabashed racism on display from mainstream Democrats in response to Zohran Mamdani's popular success is sobering. Racism still unites the political elites across the aisle in America.

That image says it all Symbols of the left & labor marginalized to side doors while 2A, GOP, and natalism are front & center Keep up pretense that moving right = winning, no matter how many times that loses Neoliberals are paid to waste time, energy & resources, to wear down meaningful opposition

Ezra Klein argues that the best way for Democrats to win is to build a party without principles or purpose other than its own power. He seems to forget that we already have a party that offers that.

🔴 Breaking: Israeli Army Launches Criminal Investigation Into Whistleblowers Who Exposed Detainee Rape at Sde Teiman The Israeli army has opened a criminal probe into the leak of footage from the Sde Teiman detention camp showing a Palestinian detainee – blindfolded, handcuffed, and restrained...

New Whopper of the Week from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social: RFK Jr. Makes Up Spooky Stories about Old Men Being More Virile than Teens www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

It worked. Stem cells (mesenchymal) given to patients with a large heart attack reduced major adverse events in a randomized trial vs standard care www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Great interview with @gregggonsalves.bsky.social about #DefendPublicHealth Researchers, Healthcare Workers Group Organizes Opposition to Trump-RFK Jr.’s Destruction of U.S. Public Health System on @betweenthelines.bsky.social go.shr.lc/47qIJYt via @Shareaholic

ICE continues to make false reports to the CPD to harass people, including elected officials. This is a crime. Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker need to set up clear instructions to demand clear information by 911 dispatchers and cops, and then prosecute criminal acts by ICE.

Ah I see we are in “the Nazis are hunting down dissidents in Oxnard and gassing the community” phase

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is right on target (once again). The working belief of too many politicians and pundits is that: "Democrats have to accept a little racism to win the working class." Little secret for Dems: this is not true. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

This is the end of an institution. I’m sorry to say. The rest of the people at CBS News should resign in protest. Send the signal: Ellison and Bari Weiss can buy the name, but not the credibility of the people who make up the newsroom.

CBS News is dead. A right-wing content mill is about to take its place. Paramount deserves to hemorrhage money over this. Cancel Paramount+. Boycott their movies in theaters. The political Right is waging a war on journalism and truth. Kick them in the profits.

This week’s GW guest is Eric King, an expert on anti-fascist action — and what it means to be a political prisoner Eric served 10 years in a 6x9 cell in federal prison for throwing a Molotov at an *empty* Congressional building. LIVE on WEDS, Oct. 29 Q&A drops THURSDAY youtube.com/@thisisawkword

RFK Jr. has united more than a dozen groups from healthcare, science, and public health communities to create the Coalition for a Healthy America. All agree that protecting the health of Americans begins with an essential first step. RFK has got to go. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

The Science Accountability Institute is a nonprofit organization set up "to support scientific integrity and combat misinformation and disinformation related to public policy". @scienceai.bsky.social scienceaccountability.org

Why is Trump systematically destroying the tools we use to measure public health, poverty, hunger, homelessness, employment, economic changes, education, etc? To destroy faith in the possibility of either truth or accountability. My piece today for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Seriously, the entire function of the editorial board seems to be deflating progressive momentum and normalizing right-wing, billionaire-backed positions to a liberal audience.

The editorial board of Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post has been a regressive nightmare for years, virtually indistinguishable from the Wall Street Journal. A thread. Let’s start with the last few weeks.

This is a five-alarm fire for American press freedom. I do not expect the Medill School of Journalism, other J Schools, the NYT or the US mainstream media to respond any more urgently than they did to 270 Palestinian journalists being killed. But they should. Bc dissident US journalists are next up.

Legacy media snapped up these people to placate bad faith accusations from the right of political bias. But it’s just tarnished their brands. Because all they do, consistently, is churn out shit takes. Has Douthat ever had a good take? Did Bari Weiss?

Welcome to the new Dark Ages. In one self inflicted blow the US is giving up on knowledge generation, technical innovation and medical advances for a generation or more. This is Trump and Vought. This is their doing.

“You have strength. It doesn’t come from your government. It doesn’t come from your media. It comes from you.” @dlj.bsky.social, Founder and ED, @onepeoplesproject.bsky.social GLOBAL WARNING, Ep 1 On US anti-fascism, from the 80s through 2025, and beyond — and what YOU can do to make a difference

Detection of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Mucosal Immunoglobulin A in Clinical Saliva Samples After a Dose of Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine

Same. #AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

My chapter examines the profound socio-economic impacts of Long COVID, particularly in education and employment, from the perspective of systemic inequities and social determinants of health, and exposes the harms of pandemic non-interventionism.

Watching How the Victorians Built England on Pluto--very interesting episode on #cholera and #sanitation. Would recommend. Have you see this, @epiren.bsky.social? I'm sure you knew it all, but I found the sewage lines quite interesting.

In a cohort of over 13,500 women with mean age ~72 years, >4,000 steps per day, at least 1-2 days per week, was associated with reduction in all-cause mortality and lower risk of cardiovascular disease bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Excitingly successful #solar project on a landfill!: www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/21/t...

From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Jay Bhattacharya is a crank and a right-wing political operative working on behalf of big money interests. He has presided over the destruction of our NIH, the crown jewel of American public health.

On Sept 17th, 2025, @aaas.org and @researchamerica.bsky.social hosted Jay Bhattacharya—NIH Director—as the keynote for the National Health Research Forum. Less than two weeks later, he spoke at the MAHA Action hour alongside Oz, Russel Brand, Tony Lyons, and Callie Means. I have a call to action:

Children’s Health Defense is holding an event called “Moment of Truth” featuring Robert Kennedy’s wife, actress Cheryl Hines, and Steve Bannon.

Just feel like sharing one of many studies showing militarization does not reduce crime or enhance officer safety, but it does erode public support for police. "Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation" www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. “We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.” That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

These articles often came from apologists at the @NYTimes and elsewhere who are mesmerized by the right's claims that liberals aren't liberal enough: they must move the bounds of acceptability to embrace the far-right. The Ezra Klein-Charlie Kirk bromance is one such example.

Far-right demands for tolerance, acceptance, and—my personal favorite—“viewpoint diversity” are one-way propositions that shall never be reciprocated.

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Because the way a fascist wins an argument is by kicking you in the teeth.

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

When It Comes to the Shingles Vaccine, More Is Better www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

“Thiel’s talks read as expansive and meandering, melding religious screeds with anti-regulatory ideology, all the while weaving in petty interpersonal feuds and fixations.” Article explains Thiel thinks religious extremism is the only way to get people to take his BS seriously