Representatives speaking outside HHS: Herb Conaway, Maxine Dexter, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sen. Chris Van Hollen

U.S. House Rep. Andy Harris, R-Maryland, told voters worried about rising health-care costs that costs are “just going back to what it was like before COVID."

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. www.911forhealthandscience.org

Let’s start figuring out who we want. Praying that we can make it there.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Every small victory should be felt in a big way. This woman's story should be shared nationally. It was a crime to detain her after being victimized for so long. www.thebanner.com/western-mary...

“… just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists”

Before the hearing begins, a reminder…

We Ran the CDC: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health. | The authors previously led in the CDC, either as directors or acting directors under Republican and Democratic administrations. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

People ask why I'm so bearish on the whole "Ai is changing everything" rhetoric. Part of that is my conviction that much of what's out there is poorly calibrated for real world tasks. Here is a delightful article on one such practice that causes problems in translation. doi.org/10.1093/jami...

Moral Injury and Brain Drain Are Destroying Our Public Health Workforce — How much more do we have to endure? by Katie Suleta, DHSc, MPH, MS www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

With the @nws.noaa.gov issuing a Flood Watch for much of our state, I’m asking Marylanders to prepare for potential flash flooding, heavy rains, and damaging winds. Please watch for any emergency alerts. Visit mdready.maryland.gov for more information or to sign-up for emergency text alerts.

BREAKING: More than 750,000 people across the country have now joined us in demanding our Members of Congress do their job and impeach + remove Trump from public office for his multiple abuses of power. Help us reach one million and beyond. Add your name today at ImpeachTrumpAgain.org.

Woman sees a video on Instagram extolling the virtues of an herbal supplement, turmeric. She begins taking the supplement and is ultimately hospitalized for a week because it caused liver damage. Dietary and herbal supplements are largely unregulated but RFK Jr. doesn’t care about that.

Return of the Jedi is the perfect July 4th movie. I think we can all appreciate the end of a tyrant being celebrated with fireworks and ewoks

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Make use of this if you're documenting kidnappings. Everyone should be keeping an eye on activity in their neighborhoods and sharing that info. thedemlabs.org/2025/01/31/p...

@govwesmoore.bsky.social your constituents are demanding this for Maryland. Bring these kidnappers and bigots to justice immediately. Maryland must uphold rule of law bsky.app/profile/greg...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

Why a Vaccine Expert Left the C.D.C.: ‘Americans Are Going to Die’ - Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

We obtained records showing how an ex-DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill. “I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says,” he said. Read more: propub.li/4emGV69

Some incredibly helpful info from @contrariannews.org

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

Interesting stuff. ICE is indeed ramping up arrests for detainers but some of those resources are clearly drawn from CBP. So much for trying to stop drugs at the border. 43.7% of detainees had ANY criminal record. Only 1.32% at court had deportation orders for crimes tracreports.org/immigration/...

Student Success | Which Universities Spend the Most on Student Supports An analysis of IPEDS data finds that the median four-year institution spends over $4,800 per student on support services and nearly $3,000 on academic support. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3ZQu2Lm

Know where your loved ones will be if picked up be ICE. For better or worse, Maryland has no ICE detention facilities. www.ice.gov/detention-fa...

ICE targeted a Maryland mother over a decades-old crime. Her town is fighting back.

Glad to see Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland supporting Harvard as it resists Trump’s lawlessness and bullying. This is what leadership looks like. Shame on those caving to Trump’s abuses of power and assault on our Constitution.

Happy Pride Month, Delaware! This month—and every month—we celebrate the LGBTQ community and stand together for dignity, for equality, and for a world where every person is free to thrive.

Good doggo. The goodest boy. #dogs #dogsky #trump #ishedeadyet

Don't care for diversity, equity or inclusion? How do you feel about liberty, equality and fraternity? History rhymes and liberals today have the same ideals as in the 18th century. We're just living up to them more sincerely.

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

There is a motto in public health: Saving lives a million at a time. You don’t need to do the math to know what happens when RFK Jr. is committing #PublicHealthMalpractice. We’ll be losing lives a million at a time. Defend Public Health. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

University of Maryland, Baltimore will lay off employees, reduce salaries amid budget crisis

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

I am 1000% behind raising the SALT cap. Let me explain: many of us in wealthy states feel like we're subsidizing bad tax policy in rural or Republican leaning areas. Our tax dollars reward public disinvestment, nationally. This gets us closer to those states dealing with the issue wapo.st/42PG9KA

Ed Martin, the acting US attorney for DC, has harassed medical journals with letters accusing them of acting as “partisans” in scientific debates. Those letters may have been inspired—even directed—by RFK Jr. @dfriedman.bsky.social reports:

Why does this keep happening?! Dumping multi-million dollar weapons systems into the sea seems pretty fucking wasteful. Lots of kids could get health insurance for that money! wapo.st/3GGko7n

I'm so sick of punditry from the cabinet. Every journalism worth their ink should start every interview with this administration this way: "how are you qualified to advise the president?"

June 14 is Trump’s birthday and his military parade in DC — but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. Join our nationwide day of defiance to show that organized people power is stronger than Trump’s authoritarian aspirations: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...