Another reminder that people around the world risk their lives for liberties that many Americans seem ready to surrender without a fight or even a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Rest in peace, Dr. Rennie. Thank you for responding so generously, kindly, & wisely when I was an over-eager, ECR who cold emailed you a tome expressing frustration at some aspects of scientific publishing. Your open, collaborative, encouraging response & our exchanges left such a warm impression.

Listening to ACIP meeting which is a catastrophe, as predicted. I’d like emphasize in all this that the CDC subject matter experts and leads have been tremendous and continue to represent good science on our behalf. I am very grateful for their dedication, despite internal and external pressure.

Astounding. LaQuan McDonald Mike Brown Eric Garner John Crawford III Walter Scott Philando Castile All were shot on video. They looped the videos on social media. We saw their bodies on camera. What about the emotional toll on Black folks repeatedly seeing us killed? No concerns?

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

The Trump admin is determined to destroy nearly $10M in contraceptives. We join 77 orgs calling on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to stop this harmful plan. The IUDs, pills, injectables & implants could help more than 1.5M women & couples. The US must reverse this order immediately. gu.tt/46kjPJK

Incompetence leads to chaos and confusion. Let's hope these life-saving contraceptive supplies have not been incinerated.

Deeply cruel and enormously wasteful. About 1.5 million women & couples could have used these supplies to avoid unintended pregnancy. Instead, at taxpayer expense, the Trump administration incinerated nearly $10M worth of contraceptive supplies, despite offers from multiple orgs to distribute.

This is the guy the Supreme Court continues to grant an ever-expanding set of powers to. Just today that included: Firing an FTC commissioner in violation of federal law (preemptively overruling Humphrey's Executor) & racial profiling in immigration raids. (Before there was immunity & more....)

For our scientists. By @ellecordova.bsky.social

Everyone has their own sense of when things went completely off the rails, but my mind returns again and again to the founding of Fox News in the late 90s. Naked RW propaganda plopped itself down alongside legitimate journalism and everyone just accepted it. Everything else has followed from that.

I finally own a JB shirt but can’t do laundry quickly enough to enable wearing it every single day, so must obtain at least six more.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Hello. The MEP is hiring an intern (a paid one, not an 'ooh ooh think of the experience' one) retractionwatch.com/job-opportun... Feel free to direct this to anyone interested. I think it will fill quickly so pitter patter.

Yesterday RFK Jr. cited a report authored by anti-choice advocates to claim that mifepristone is not safe. Last week, @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social & @ansirh.bsky.social submitted a letter to FDA on behalf of 263 repro researchers outlining why its flawed & not grounded in gold standard science.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

He's exploiting what sociologists call the availability heuristic: the more people hear about something, the more common they assume it to be. If he can spew vaccine skepticism all over the airwaves, then he can create the perception that such skepticism is more widespread than it is. 1/

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I am lucky enough to know Dr. Marrazzo, and she embodies integrity, kindness, and scientific rigor. She has worked so hard to help protect YOUR health. She is a hero for blowing the whistle on this reckless, dishonest, anti-science administration.

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

COVID VACCINE INFO: List of states requiring a prescription for a COVID vaccine at CVS or Walgreens t.co/ZqCZwxwa57 COVID vaccine availability at CVS buff.ly/JHG5vml 💉COVID vaccines are no longer available at CVS in Massachusetts, Nevada or New Mexico. Vaccines.gov is still down. #medsky 🛟😷🧪

Good for Illinois. Strong anti-SLAPPs laws are what gives the First Amendment its teeth. What good is the right of free speech if it takes years of litigation and hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a defendant out of a case?

Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - who collectively served under both Republican & Democratic administrations - came together to write this piece raising alarm about how RFK Jr. is endangering public health in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.

This was slated to be the first UN review of the US human rights record since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. The US refusal to participate in the review is one more step in the Trump admin’s intent to undermine human rights structures & silence those who are fighting to protect them.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

Proud to have signed on to this letter, along with many other colleagues in the field (including @guttmacher.org researchers @cbpolis.bsky.social , @megankavanaugh.bsky.social, Kathryn Kost, Rachel Jones, Ann Moore and Beth Sully)

Today we submitted a letter with @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social to the FDA signed by over 200 scientists. The short version? Medication abortion is safe. Time to drop the junk science and move on. law.ucla.edu/reproductive...

These are perilous times for scientists & the scientific endeavor. We're at #ESA2025 all week to provide free, confidential legal consultations to anyone with questions related to your career, research, 1st Amendment, or academic freedom rights. Schedule a 1:1 with us: calendly.com/cmarchesano/...

In January 2018, we had documented 91 anti-science attacks over the entire first year of the first Trump administration. This time around, he has already passed that number - and shows no sign of slowing down. newrepublic.com/article/1466...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

Gov. Pritzker: “This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals…There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention.”

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Tyrants govern through fear. Dictators take their power from the acquiescence of the good people who don't speak out. It is our obligation as citizens to set aside fear and take a step forward not a step back.

@theipcinfo.bsky.social has just confirmed #famine in #Gaza governorate. This man-made, widespread malnutrition means that even common & usually mild diseases like diarrhoea are becoming fatal, especially for children. Gaza must be urgently supplied with food and medicines. Aid blockages must end!

Like many others, I have lived through terrible times. My youth was spent watching my friends die from a deadly new disease, while my government watched it all happen. 1/

You want to stan someone as a potential presidential candidate? Here you go.

The Supreme Court just greenlit Donald Trump gutting nearly $800 MILLION for medical treatments and cures. Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives. This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.

American Academy of Pediatrics has released our annual update to our immunization recommendations to best help children and adolescents build immunity and stay healthy. Read our full policy statement to learn about AAP's updated immunization schedule. www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Class action by USAID staff over agency shutdown now certified.

Demolishing USAID is a humanitarian disaster — and will damage America's reputation forever.