“The unusual move could violate a law prohibiting federal agencies from spending money in excess of congressional appropriations or from accepting voluntary services.” Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Ala Marie Antoinette?

Excellent investigative work - follow the money! MMY, my parents guru, targeted the wealthy. Cults seduce through luring others by association. While a new concept to me, an Epstein or Russia tie to TM is not really that far fetched. #cult #transcendentalmeditation

I saw this blocklist of all the new government accounts if anyone is interested bsky.app/profile/did:...

And they're revoking visas of people who post things they don't like. This is just the beginning 😩

And NoCal Nurse-Midwives, Nurse Anesthetists, PAs, Acupuncturists, Physical Therapists, and so Cal RNs, surgical techs, and more in Hawaii.

Shoutout to @thewhn.bsky.social for putting together an excellent, science-based Q&A on why many of us are still masking😷 "Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered." whn.global/yes-we-conti...

Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Two Black Mom’s. Two Texas moms were forced to wait for urgent care after pregnancy loss. They died - The Dallas Morning News apple.news/Ar4R4ruBOT8K...

This is big news. #NIH is not going to post NOFOs on Guide anymore.

A friend of mine, who had been raised in a polygamist Mormon spinoff sect, and I once commiserated about the popularity of MLMs in both the cults of our respective upbringings.

This is devastating… and, sadly, so not surprising

Definitely read the gutting @rollingstone.com article by @swin24.bsky.social, which is linked in this article www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Sad, but true. Not only the USA will suffer with the losses at NIH & CDC. Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

After the Paramount-Skydance merger, CBS will now officially become state media for the Trump regime. Brendan Carr, Chairman of the FCC, said the government is placing “an ombudsman in place for two years,” which he described as “basically a bias monitor that will report directly to the President.”

Health workers, & concerned citizens : Please inundate California Dept of Public Health for removal of ethnicity questions on newborn screening test. In current fraught climate, such questions provoke anxiety. Submit a complaint to CDPH : (916) 558-1784. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social www.cdph.ca.gov

Why is there such a Bible Study group for upper echelons of our government?

Important thread about how important it is to listen to women - and the high price women pay when we are not listened to!

oh my god

A JAMA study found that at current state-level vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again; increasing vaccine coverage would prevent this. Read the full Original Investigation covered by the @washingtonpost.com. @nathanlo.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm not a catholic, but I thought that Pope Francis was one of the beacons of light and hope in this world.

One can hope . . . 🙏🏼

Thank you, @corybooker.com for your dedication to truth, freedom, liberty, our constitutional separation of powers, and ever working for the greater good for all of us❣️🙌🏼🤩🙏🏼💖😍

HHS Long Covid Office closing www.scientificamerican.com/article/hhss...

The Modi government’s playbook in India — including using government agencies to punish news media while platforming influencers over journalists — offers an early warning of how democratic erosion can unfold in stages, says Anisha Dutta. www.techpolicy.press/technology-d...

Here is why dismantling 9 CDC advisory committees would be a bad idea. drrubin.substack.com/p/white-hous...

Some countries started poaching US scientists. Hopefully, more will follow www.rawstory.com/fired-scient...

Also, historical note: When President Lincoln *actually suspended* habeas corpus under the Suspension Act of 1863, he was required to provide lists of all people detained who were not POWs to the circuit court. He complied. While prosecuting an *actual war*. (This is Milligan)

Other health care workers are also functioning on fumes, not only physicians. Profound burnout is state of the art. #modernmedicine

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Military slices out web pages about WWII Native American code talkers to comply with Trump order to eradicate DEI www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Meanwhile Musk has been dismantling FAA that was investigating his SpaceX business. And how many billions of our tax player dollars subsided his businesses??

We spent nearly 8 minutes this morning trying to set the record straight on a number of health matters. I’d expect the Surgeon General or NIH Director to do this, but since they’re not, here it is in 4 clips. #medsky

So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).

🧪 Volunteers launched RestoredCDC.org, emulating the CDC site as it was pre-Trump to restore public health data. They aim to fix broken links and add tools to track changes over time. 🩺 🛟

The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

NEW: Before reporting on Amber Thurman and Candi Miller's deaths, ProPublica received the names of maternal mortality committee members from the Georgia Department of Public Health. Now the department says that releasing names would violate state law. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

"Parents should understand that their children's persistent symptoms after COVID-19 may have a measurable physiological basis, even when standard medical tests appear normal.” medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02...

Truth to power. Well done, @martinmckee.bsky.social academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...

Congressional Committee office - House Committee offices and Senate Committee Chairs. From today’s Congressional websites.

For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.