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Great read on the centrality of fighting the commercial determinants of health to the #PublicHealth endeavor. With a bonus deep-dive on metaphors for language nerds 🤓

I nominate A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet. Short but it sure does pack a punch.

Public health colleagues: discuss. This goes against my instincts but it’s true that being nice isn’t working.

One of the most grotesque war crimes in modern history And then they bombed the school a second time—killing survivors & rescue workers

WHO hub in the Middle East has frozen emergency assistance due to bombings. They've stalled shipments of medical supplies, eg $6m in medicines for Gaza & polio supplies to Afghanistan & Pakistan. WHO says >100,000 people displaced from Tehran & >60K from Lebanon. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

Short thread putting things back in order when discussing the Dubai airport closure:

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

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This world ….

It’s just so dark 😣

ICYMI, this one's for the kids. 80+ kids have returned to Gaza from occupation prisons, where they experienced unimaginable psychological violence. We're trying to deliver 6 days of mental health workshops to support them. All boldness welcome! chuffed.org/project/hmg

At least 40 people were killed in a strike on a girls' school in southern Iran, Iranian state media has reported. A provincial official said Israeli strikes hit the school, according to state media jrnl.ie/6970531

In a hurry to throw trans kids under the bus (time.com/7296246/tran...)

He is succeeding in what he’s trying to do though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s hard to believe this is real, but it is. All people of conscience must speak and act against this before things get even worse.

Look at the picture.

Devastating.

"Over one billion people have experienced childhood sexual assault, and 600 million women and girls have experienced physical or sexual violence. No other issue affecting a billion people receives less attention in health priorities and agendas."

Good on multiple levels

Fascinating study and thread. The interventions that brought down #stunting rates globally were systemic and extended well outside the boundaries of the health system.

Oh my God I saw this headline on here without seeing the publication and assumed it was the Onion (ht @tom.medsky.social) www.fiercebiotech.com/research/blo...

Notice that no one ever asks the child what they want.

Grateful to pediatricians for speaking up and for standing up for the rights of children www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Happening now in the USA’s concentration camps:

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Gaza this Ramadan, 2026

theconversation.com/financer-la-... by S Tchiombiano (in the Conversation). More or less: "Tu quoque, France"?

Great thread on positive discipline for children, in a world where far too many children experience violence at the hands of their parents and guardians 🧵

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky 🛟 🫁 @ameracadpeds.bsky.social leaders in @usatoday.com "All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered."

My god, my god, my god

Since Trump took office, 76 Americans have sought asylum in the Netherlands. Many of them are trans people. I spoke to some of them about why they left the US, and the difficulty of proving to Europeans that the "land of the free" is no longer safe for them. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

"Ultimately, though, what horrifies is not adjusted mortality rates or indices of disease spread. What horrifies is the unthinkable reality that living human beings just like us, with consciousness, with feelings, with souls, are being subjected to such brutal and dehumanizing experiences."

abby gets at part of why i'm so tired of people framing everything as a public health issue as though that changes something

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"Violence appears repeatedly in WHO resolutions, strategies, and technical documents. Firearm-related harms do not. This absence shows up across WHA resolutions, flagship prevention frameworks, and the national policies that rely on them. It is a governance blind spot with practical consequences."

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

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There’s a whole thread of these — letters from detained children who are scared and suffering. It is a matter of moral urgency to abolish ICE.

it should probably spark some reflection within public health that this specific political demand is absent from the responses of most of our institutions, organizations, and leaders

Let Black history month serve to remind us that the living legacy of slavery is the carceral state- policing, prison, immigration detention, and border enforcement. Abolition now.

Children in All Policies … the idea is catching on!

This is a really useful guide if you're marking student submitted work that you suspect is at least partly AI generated - those ones that feel wrong but you can't put your finger on anything specific:

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social #geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...