genuine plea: please include alt text in your posts so that people with vision disabilities can know what’s in your pics/videos. if public health is going to claim to care about disabled people, we need to be making our stuff accessible, especially during events like this one.

This is incredibly helpful because I myself enjoyed the essay that is dissected and shown here to be AI slop.

A brief story: This morning a child went missing on the way to school in my neighborhood. Law enforcement and search and rescue were called, and also the networks we built for ICE Rapid Response. 1/2

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The Weight of the Work Not Yet Done open.substack.com/pub/johnmaje...

The bathrobe ICE news photo from Saint Paul reminds me of the Visby Window at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, depicting the Battle of Visby, Sweden in the year 1361

Engagement-maximizing algorithms shape our online experiences and are often linked to a range of harms + negative impacts on user wellbeing. But some platform designers are charting a different course, moving away from short-term attention maximization to feeds that prioritize long-term user value 🧵

I live in Minnesota and I care about mental health. Here's what's happening now because of ICE: - Lots of people who never struggled with depression and anxiety disorders are now. - People already dealing with severe mental illness are at much higher risk of suicide or disappearing from care.

"No one in their right mind is a snow sculptor, but even we know it is not worth it to spend 14 hours a day in the elements for days on end making meaningless art for free." www.facebook.com/share/r/1DWr...

The birthplace of Minnesota takes down ASL snow sculpture because some of the hands spelled ICE OUT…this is only 25 miles from Minneapolis…kudos to the artists…shame on the Chamber of Commerce and World Snow Sculpting Championships… #iceout

I'm a resident of the Twin Cities. A small team and I spent 3 days sculpting this for a competition/festival in extremely cold temperatures. We were disqualified for political messaging and one of the organizers defaced it. I have no regrets and I have never been more proud to be Minnesotan. (cont)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I finally found Waldo, he was at an anti-ice protest today.

Today, we've seen a wave of articles reflecting on RFK Jr.'s devastating run as HHS Secretary. We have a solution. Articles of impeachment are in the house, and we're pressuring our representatives to take action. In 2026, join us in the fight to #ImpeachRFKJr standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.

Watching RFK Jr destroy U.S. health policy — while patients (including his own family) fight for their lives in hospital beds, relying on the research he attacks — is the heartbreak of our era. This isn’t leadership. It’s a betrayal of science and the people it protects. RFK Jr has to go!

The level of privilege it takes to think that it's easy to dream when you're sick, hungry, or unhoused.

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company. Utterly despicable.

On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org

Excellent reporting on anti-science bills sweeping the states: @mrsmithap.bsky.social and @lauraungar.bsky.social reporting for AP have a trio of articles today worth checking out. 1: apnews.com/article/vacc... 2: apnews.com/article/maha... 3: apnews.com/article/vacc...

Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push? AP found that powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law.

It's not often you hear a room cheer for the return of chicken pox, let alone measles. Welcome to Freedom Summit 2025.

Mayo Clinic received funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop AI-driven biosensors and filtration systems that monitor and improve indoor air quality in hospital emergency departments across its Minnesota, Florida, and Arizona campuses. krocnews.com/mayo-clinic-...

Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.

He helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him: Among other things, Mark Blaxill tried to deter parents in Minnesota from getting MMR in the middle of a measles outbreak. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r... via @msnbc.com @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

Rochester, Minnesota has the greatest amount of NIH funding per capita in the nation, according to the Brookings Institute. Like other cities whose economies rely on their research hospitals and universities, Rochester could lose jobs if the #NIH budget is significantly cut. Read more ⬇️

I love this guy. youtube.com/shorts/lSQMj...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor urged a greater emphasis on civic involvement and education, questioning whether some Americans had been clearly taught the difference between a president and a king: https://cnn.it/3InS0Im

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me too. and yes silence. I wrote about it but got no traction. and BTW www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

"Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back. You are dealing with highly trained people and projects which, when stopped for a short time, are ruined." Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

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I wanted to remind everyone about the "Save AIDS Research" livestream that will go live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/16) at 11:00am EDT. We have an amazing program of 70+ speakers who will be sharing their latest research. Get all the details at www.saveaidsresearch.org.

🚨Terrific review of all RFK Jr's BS from yesterday... Sum: He was wrong, wrong, wrong about almost everything. How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s... by @fullerlab.bsky.social 🙏

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

YouTube should reverse this. Seems strange it wouldn’t count as fair use. Seems time for a lot of medical influencers to repost as reaction content on Instagram.

A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).

If you care about the discourse over vaccines and you care about censorship please read my latest about how a major critic of the Trump administration’s public health officials had his YouTube channel deleted www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

U.S. health science is crumbling. If Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz, et al — all once associated with academic biomedicine — had a thimble of courage and integrity they’d speak up. But silence. They must know their legacy is now darkness. #ScienceMatters

When the Nazis have no complaints America is a failed state. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/p...

Cancelling NIH grants harms all Americans, including those waiting for treatments for themselves or their loved ones. The AAMC is urging the Supreme Court to ensure grants are reinstated throughout the litigation that seeks to restore them. www.aamc.org/news/press-r...

Judge Frank Caprio #RIP "Sometimes, life gets in the way of rules, and we need to adjust our perspective." Frank Caprio time.com/7311326/fran...

Привет, товарищи! It’s another glorious day in which Trump’s America is increasingly indistinguishable from Stalinist Russia, so I thought an armchair comparative analysis was in order. Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Happy flagship Media Bias Chart day! Twice a year we put out an updated version showing a combination of web, TV/Video, and podcast/audio media sources. If you don’t see a specific news source on there it’s because we’ve rated over 4,000 of them and they don’t all fit in one image.

“The hatred RFK and his allies have spent their lives stoking puts a target on the backs of anyone in public health” — senior CDC official