EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

There is no foolproof protection for anyone, Americans included, from ICE’s rabid tactics.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result: demagoguery and corruption. Say it with me: Tax the rich.

Verbal and physical abuse and exploitation of a group of people essential to human survival is not the right move

Lyme is also a super predatory grifting space so you should be extremely skeptical of who is talking about it

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Museums should be free for anyone under 18

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

ProPublica Managing Editor @gingerthompson.bsky.social set out to write a David-vs.-Goliath narrative about Albany, Georgia’s response to COVID-19. But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024)

Veronica Escobar didn’t get to celebrate her son’s 8th birthday. Victor Madrid missed picking up his children at school for the first time. Patricia Quishpe was forced to spend her first night ever away from her youngest child. https://cnn.it/3MRvXf3

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

When your party controls the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the Presidency, you don't get to blame anyone but yourself for your failures.

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

My bio mom is in the hospital right now for a COPD flare up and one of my spicy medical takes is that we have a lot research about how sleep deprivation is horrible for health and recovery but somehow this is totally ignored in clinical situations and waking you up every two hours is fine

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

This is nuts. Trump's HHS says reducing sudden infant deaths, improving teen and young adult health, preventing birth defects "no longer align with the Department’s mission or priorities.”

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

It has been 13 years since the lives of 20 children and six educators were taken in minutes by a gunman armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high-capacity magazines at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two other people were wounded. 🧵

We don’t have to live like this. It’s a choice. Every day we do nothing to restrict guns. Every day we claim it’s mental illness and not access. Every day we let them change the subject. We don’t have to live like this.

Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."

My trust is not being restored www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The NRA is a terrorist and money-laundering organization.

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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

If the unredacted Epstein Files exonerated Donald J. Trump, we wouldn't still be waiting for them.

Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a... by @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social via @statnews.com #HHS #FDA #CDC #publichealth #vaccines #science #MedSky

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

Makary is making *very serious* allegations that the FDA previously hid COVID vaccine deaths in children. Why hasn't he just released the evidence? Because he excels at theater. It's priming the audience. A preview of coming attractions.

A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.” Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.

Government officials do know they are replaceable, right?

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

#GVerse 🚨 #BreakingNews: ICE/Border Patrol just illegally pepper-sprayed a sitting member of congress in Tucson, Arizona.

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📽️ WATCH: As her health declined during a high-risk pregnancy, Tierra Walker asked doctors for an abortion. They assured her she didn’t need to worry. Then she died of preeclampsia. Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

Read these words. This is your country doing this: “Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.” Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Making America Healthy with objectively toxic chemicals that persist in the environment for thousands of years

We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled. He’s going to kill people for oil.

A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart. Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE. ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

Just this week alone.

Something that must change in Democratic politics is the belief that democracy is “drama.” Primaries and challenging leadership aren’t “drama,” it’s democracy. Hesitation to participate in democracy only leads to an erosion of it.

If RFK Jr.’s CDC now promoting the lie that vaccines cause autism while he personally profits off said lie isn’t a conflict of interest, I don’t know what is. Our health agencies are now full-blown propaganda machines. Today is a dark day in the USA.

If Evangelicals want to know why people are leaving organized religion, it's because you excuse and elevate the objectively worst people as "God's chosen," while ridiculing the poor, marginalized, and downtrodden as sinners and lepers. And I'm talking to Evangelicals of all faiths.

Trump calls to hang Democrats who oppose him US Coast guard no longer considers swastika a hate symbol 97.4% of (mostly) Latinos ICE arrested have 0 criminal record This is what systemic white supremacy looks like. Trump is building a Nationalist Christian (Nat-C) state to violently stifle dissent.