Gutting the corporate alternative minimum tax, designed to make sure wildly profitable corporations pay *something*, while cutting food, health, and heating assistance.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

“A federal judge on Thursday excoriated the Trump administration’s blitz of hardball tactics against elite universities, warning that the government’s threats and investigations were undermining academic freedom at the University of California.”

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative wanted to “focus on something that wasn’t going to be undone every few years” . . . said the man whose changing whims are ending billions in funding for education, housing, and health. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Happy to announce the release of our legal epi dataset on conversion therapy laws.

"The staff supporting ... (ACIP) were let go earlier this month in a sweeping round of layoffs that gutted entire departments of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

THIS is the inconvenient truth

NEW: The Trump administration is using a new metric for assessing HHS employees in their annual performance reviews: whether they are sufficiently loyal to Trump’s policy agenda www.huffpost.com/entry/hhs-em...

In the past 2 weeks several European countries have reported locally acquired cases of #mpox clade Ib. This is new. There had been patients before but those infections likely happened elsewhere. Now it looks like mpox Ib is spreading here in the sexual networks of men who have sex with men. #IDsky

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

For its 80th anniversary, the U.N. asserts we are "better together." Since its founding, the U.N.'s survival has depended on how it positions itself in situations of injustice. The story of the U.N. is the story of Congo. Read my latest in @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/123129/unite...

Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Definitely worth a read! www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... 1/2

We knew this was going to happen, but… oh my god.

If Shohei Ohtani can hit three home runs while pitching six shutout innings, you can spend a couple of hours marching for democracy.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Wow - California's public insulin will be on the market in Jan! Big milestone for public pharma efforts. Could help millions of diabetics, esp if they can build a more public supply chain too. We describe why public pharma is important in this paper ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.” It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

A new memo signed by President Trump, known as NSPM-7, aims to add nonprofits and activists to an ever-growing list of what he calls the “enemy within.” It’s important to remember that the president cannot rewrite the constitution by memo. Here's what the directive actually does and doesn't do.

Breaking with the CDC, ACOG reaffirms support for #COVID19 vaccination in pregnant people. Here’s what to know. ja.ma/3VYFRwQ

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who helped to keep pandemics at bay. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

"Half of the world’s disease burden was preventable, researchers calculated, driven by risks that could be reduced, such as high blood pressure, air pollution, smoking and obesity." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

“We can continue accelerating toward an AI-powered future that amplifies existing inequities, or we can deliberately steer toward one that increases prospects for shared global prosperity,” writes Chinasa T. Okolo in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/46JkNka

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

With deep sadness, we remember Catarina de Albuquerque, a pioneering human rights advocate who advanced water and sanitation as fundamental rights. Her legacy shapes global policy and lives worldwide. May her memory guide us in the pursuit of justice, dignity, and equality for all

GSL is proud to announce its new Global Health Law program, with Dr. @roojinhabibi.org as inaugural Research Director. This program will build capacity through law research, teaching & practice, examining the unique role of law in addressing global health challenges. 🔎Learn more: bit.ly/436vgnl

More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk. As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue: "He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans." 🎁 wapo.st/3VTALll

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

Not surprisingly, "work requirements" poll well with lawmakers and the public because there's a naïve assumption that the system is fair. There is also a lack of awareness -- and concern -- about the vulnerable people who slip through the bureaucratic cracks.

“Measles virus can remain infectious in the air in a confined area for up to two hours after the sick person has left the area.” www.wrdw.com/2025/10/03/s...

I missed this earlier this week, but the Directors of NIAID, NICHD, NIMHD, & NINR were all fired. The NIAID Director, Mazzaro, was likely fired in retaliation for speaking out against the anti-vaccine moves made by the administration.

For some added context on why people in marketplace plans will face higher premiums, here’s my @msnbc.com analysis: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc... From a policy perspective, this is very bad, and people will suffer. From a political perspective, Dems need to let voters see how harmful R policies are

The dismantling of US science continues. RFKJr fired the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, basically for believing in the germ theory of disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Now we have the Trump Administration's "nice university ya' got there, shame if anything should happen to it" campaign centered around a mafia-style protection racket they call "The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Did we help make it happen? 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

Trump’s university “compact” is extortion. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Don’t you dare teach students about empirical reality… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

UPDATE: 25 states plus DC have taken actions to protect COVID-19 vaccine access. Two regional public health alliances have formed: The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and the West Coast Health Alliance. There are several midwest and mountain states who have collaboration potential.

Say goodbye to the separation of powers. Top line: The Supreme Court grabs power from Congress, which decides what to do with money that belongs to all of us, and hands it to Donald Trump. Forever. (This money will never reach its intended recipients.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

My thanks and congratulations to world leaders for showing their strong support for #UNGA political declaration on noncommunicable diseases and mental health: bit.ly/4mH6S2L

It’s one thing to withdraw from global health It’s another thing to block other nations from global initiatives and goals NO ONE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE SO MUCH POWER!!! healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...

13.5% of the population in the richest country in the world experiences food insecurity. This will grow following devastating cuts to food stamps - but as part of the regime’s war on information and transparency, We are going to stop counting. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

I'm probably late to the party here but has anyone else noticed that the US vaccine-finder website vaccines.gov is now broken?

"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hero-dav...

"The U.N. is streamlining as it copes with the fallout from U.S. foreign aid cuts under President Donald Trump that have gutted humanitarian agencies." This abandonment of U.S. leadership in global health will undermine global governance & cause unnecessary death. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“What we’re seeing is what happens when individuals who have don’t have a basic understanding about how vaccines are delivered are making these crucial policy decisions for the American public. They don’t know what they’re doing” -Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of AAP’s Committee on Infectious Diseases