Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

NEW — The Handbasket presents FASCIST VACATION by Chrisitian Dawson www.thehandbasket.co/p/sean-duffy...

Nurses must continue to speak truth to power, & push back against harmful health policy coming out of DC. Thank you @pabloreports.bsky.social, @meiselasb.bsky.social,& @meidastouch.com for lifting up the stories of frontline nurses by covering the Nurses Shift Change rally in DC during Nurses Week.

This is bonkers.

I feel like we are living in the “Thiel and Andreessen Show”, and too many people have no idea. 1/

Steve Taylor's song "Cash Cow" never fails to come to mind when I see things like this, even though I'm pretty sure it was inspired by the Robert Tilton scandal. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6L...

Timeline cleanse. Get it babies!

The findings from the Vaccine Integrity Project's comprehensive review of evidence reinforce decades of research: HPV vaccination significantly reduces the risk of cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases. Report: ow.ly/qTtE50YV1sU Data tool: ow.ly/gaXp50YVykb @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

Theme: Fashion is Public Health

I (the person who runs our socials) got the HPV vaccine basically as soon as it was available for boys. I often interview men who got cancer from the virus and am so thankful I am protected from it.

Well done.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

you bet

puffin timeline cleanse.

Was re-watching Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. What do we think are the odds Hegseth's next Pentagon sermon comes from the Book of Armaments 2:9-21? youtu.be/xOrgLj9lOwk?...

For May Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3QS...

News folks! I'm psyched to share a new project to help indie journalists combine our power. It's called NewsNews (@nwsnws.com). The idea is to give readers an easy way to find a wide variety of high quality news and journalists a low-effort revenue stream. Journalists, sign up here to learn more:

🔥 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Cultural Lives and Afterlives of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Data. I'm co-editing a Special Issue of Sexuality & Culture with Amin Ghaziani. 📝 Full details: link.springer.com/collections/hcbbadjbha #CfP #callforpapers #sexuality #gender #data

I was telling a friend I'm watching a French show called "Munch" not because I find it a particularly good show, but just because, and realized as soon as I mentioned the name in my US accent it was a nod to Detective Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street. All roads lead to Baltimore.

Me, digging in my guarden: "Ok, seriously, who is giving the squirrels all these peanuts?"

Today in things i thought everyone in public health agreed on but was maybe just a delineation I made up at some point in the past 20 years?

A periodic reminder to journalists covering the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center that our union released a statement about this that you can find here.

@armandalegshow.bsky.social May I suggest an episode with @mirandayaver.bsky.social on her book? bookshop.org/p/books/cove...

Really interested in reading this book by Kira Ganga Keefer, who I just heard speak on the @straightwhitejc.bsky.social podcast. Others who work in vaccination, public health, or clinical care may also be interested. Heidi Larson & Peter Hotez wrote recs. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Stand Up for Science Foundation (a nonpartisan 501c3) is launching a new Institute to craft and implement policy that will address the damage to federal agencies and institutions, recenter evidence-based decision making, and reestablish the United States as a global leader in science. 2/7

Ohio’s senate and governor races are getting all the attention, but Dems are on a dramatic losing streak in Supreme Court races there — and they really want to stop it here.

Many trans Kansans whose licenses were cancelled by a recent state law now face a kind of poll tax: To vote, they’ll have to pay $16 for a replacement license with a gender marker that doesn’t match their identity.

When power is built on disinformation, data become a threat.

If you’re like, “Wait, everyone is shackled on ICE flights?! Wait, there are 50 ICE flights a day?! Wait, they’re sending people to countries they’ve never been to?!” I am begging you to please read my ICE Air FAQ. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

Here is my third-country removal tracker. I was the first to report the DRC removal, seven minutes after it landed: gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

For real, Baltimore has the best libraries.

what the what!?

A particularly evil week for ICE flights in Africa. Since Tuesday, ICE has deported people to Algeria, Ethiopia and Kenya, plus two possible third-country removal trips to Ghana, and one confirmed third-country removal trip of 15 Latin American nationals to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Me. Every tax season. "That's all my sock paired." Now to turn my receipts into a smart evening jacket. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILys...

You all should really be following @jennycohn.bsky.social This entire thread is worth a read.

I greatly appreciate Zeteo.com following up on the Gestapo ICE / CBP invasion here in Minnesota. They’re a bit quieter (sneakier) now but they haven’t stopped! Abolish these thug agencies and prosecute their illegal activities to the fullest. No mercy. (and thanks Zeteo)

The best place for research on the views of different segments of religious Americans is @prri.org . Per their most recent Trump's favorability is about 53% among White Catholics. prri.org/spotlight/tr...

Isn't Magyar the Hungarian word for Hungary? So he'll be Peter Hungary, President of Hungary?

Flying low, loud and . . . A LOT: tinyurl.com/mrx72jp9 The increase in low-flying tourist and police helicopters over Baltimore is endangering public safety. The FAA needs to act. [OP-ED] @mayorbmscott.bsky.social

Important read by @victorerikray.bsky.social about the anti-intellectualism centers popping up at universities across the US. Also critical to point out universities are hypocritically & simultaneously shutting down departments born from ‘movements for broader inclusion in mainstream American life.’

Maine. Seriously. Andreaformaine.com. Sign up for one of my virtual town halls. I’m more than happy to prove why I’m the best person to take on Susan Collins.

not only are wire services the core of an enormous amount of reporting, AP plays a very specific and authoritative role in election calling

My comrades at BAJI are inviting us to join them next week to to STOP Hilton from powering the ICE Machine. Included in the email are details and a call script. mailchi.mp/blackallianc...

In a kind of dark news week this story is a ray of hope. Anyone know any organizations working to help these Pennsylvanians with their parole hearings and provide them support upon release?

Looking forward to reading this!

This is not good. apnews.com/article/news...

Most people use "Christian nationalism" as a catch-all, as if there was one united movement aiming for Christian power. But there are actually 3 distinct movements competing for power in Trump's America — with different theologies, different strategies, and real tensions between them. My latest.