Newborn lives are on the line. The hepatitis B birth dose is safe, effective, and lifesaving yet it’s under attack at ACIP this week. Weakening this policy would be a grave mistake. Read why we must defend it. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

It’s incredibly telling that in the Senate HELP hearing that is going on right now, Dr. Monarez is repeatedly saying that ACIP needs to show their data. Yet with less than 24 hours to go before they meet, RFK Jr.’s fake ACIP still hasn’t posted their data.

Defend Public Health just released our report countering Marty Makary’s false claims last week that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children. You can read it here:

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.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by cruel & illegal moves of an anti-science, anti-queer, racist totalitarian administration & by lawmakers ceding their power to appropriate? You're not alone. Join your people--Sept 16: saveaidsresearch.org, you will leave feeling better than you came ⤵️ ⤵️

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Karen Attiah got fired for quoting Charlie Kirk? This is madness

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

happy Monday! Viewpoint discrimination from Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post targeting @karenattiah.bsky.social:

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Meanwhile in Korean media there is clarity that Trump directed this raid out of spite following his Oval Office meeting with the ROK President, who pushed back aggressively on Trump's praise for the North Korean dictator. They're right. US media have no clue of what's going on.

‘Confusing’? It seems pretty explicable when read as one of the incessant waves of up is down, night is day propaganda exploiting a high profile assassination for political ends. Kirk’s racism, bigotry >>

A Venezuelan man from The Bronx told THE CITY that he has begun a hunger strike to protest that immigration authorities have jailed him for more than seven months, despite multiple court rulings ordering his release.

This has been the Supreme Court in a nutshell: where clear and immediate harm has been done by Trump to others, they delay and prevaricate, siding with Trump. Even if later deemed to be illegal, the damage is already done and Trump gets his way.

“But I will not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life’s mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn an oath to protect, and who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic.” Don’t comply. Resist.

Yes!

In Columbia Heights D.C., memorial signs are going up for residents abducted by the state. (📸 Igor Bobic)

Is anyone investigating how much money countries are getting for evil partnerships on detention & rendition? Eswatini, Uganda, South Sudan, Ghana, all put up virtually no public pressure 2 preserve life saving HIV px, food assistance ++ But happy to partner with Trump on torture

Trump policies are roundly unpopular. This is the most outrageous proposition by @moveon.org and Dems. Why on earth give authoritarians everything for less than nothing in return? Instead of an opposition party we have enablers of authoritarianism.

@sallyjenx.bsky.social Turning Point USA mounted campaigns of harassment against many many educators and researchers. The violence this week was inexcusable but whitewashing TPUSA is wrong. www.professorwatchlist.org/searchbyschool

Yes absolutely 💯

How is this happening in the year 2025??? Louisiana is undergoing its worst whooping cough outbreak since 1990 www.wbrz.com/news/cassidy...

In the face of more senseless suffering and death, here from a major whooping cough outbreak in Louisiana, we need to act. A doctor strike, until RFK resigns, is a powerful call to action by Dr Richard Kravitz, UC Davis. Read here: www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/r...

“The right wing, including sitting members of Congress, has been making false claims blaming trans people for gun violence for years.” read —> www.theverge.com/politics/777...

any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played

The damage to the U.S. vaccination program that is about to be caused by RFK Jr. and his fellow fraudsters misusing data to falsely claim that the COVID19 vaccine caused the deaths of 25 children will be incalculable. These people are committing scientific misconduct of the most grievous kind.

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.” If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

Important call for massive, tangible escalation: doctors strike unless RFK resigns: www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/r... Yes absolutely

Intense cruelty at play when Trump’s henchmen even refuse acts of Good Samaritans who want to obstruct the burning of lifesaving commodities at no cost to the US Pure evil

And that birth control would have prevented 362,000 more unintended pregnancies, 110,000 more unsafe abortions, and 718 preventable maternal deaths.

Unless we #FireRFKJr these senseless, preventable deaths and more are very much our future: www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... #RFKMustGo >>

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Flores took action against evil outside the courts of law—I wonder if the lawyers who secured Judge Boasberg’s court order, deliberately ignored by Trump and Miller, which barred shipping innocent people to CECOT torture camps, regret not doing what Flores did for her clients.

As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by. Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.

Finally! thanks to the leadership of Rwandan research team and the all clinical trial participants. #GoodNews

no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.

Today! Join this protest if you can, it is extremely important to confront justices with the grevious harms from their decision to light the Fourth Amendment on fire. They are sanctioning racism and fascism, and somehow, this cannot stand.

President Trump is attempting to get away with the biggest, most illegal budgetary ploy in U.S. history. CAP's @bbkogan.bsky.social explains in @MSNBC.com:

Justice Kavanaugh was the only Republican appointee to write anything on Monday. His opinion concurring with the order granting the stay, coming in at 10 pages, was at varying points racist, ignorant, privileged, lawless, or some combination of the four.

recap thread: the reason in the Washington Post I called the State Department announcement on lenacapavir today "anemic & performative" is because 1) volumes (2m over 3 years) are ABSURDLY unambitious compared w/PrEP need & capacity for rapid scale up www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... >>

thread: State Dept announced 2day an initiative on long acting lenacapavir. If you're thinking, that's weird coming from the very same regime that has effectively dismantled PEPFAR's PrEP programs serving ~3.5m people you'd be right >> (📸: Alexandra Charitan, www.instagram.com/alexandracha...) >>

#NOW: Here with @agawande.bsky.social, @housingworksnyc.bsky.social and comrades, at the doorstep of Russ Vought because he is stealing billions in life saving funding already appropriated by Congress for PEPFAR, the global AIDS program >>

Every accusation is a confession with these people

Tomorrow! 11 am, join us in protest—hold the line against Vought’s illegal power grab and disgusting obstruction of life saving, appropriated HIV funding. See: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h... We will unlock these funds. Let’s show Congress what fighting back looks like —> bit.ly/SAVEPEPFAR

Local officials: ICE will never stop until they are repulsed. They are violating every fundamental right we have. Arrest and charge ICE. Arrest and charge ICE. Arrest and charge ICE.

🎉 Art All Night is BACK at the Library! Two nights of art, music, performances & late-night library magic 📅 Sept 12–13 👉 Details coming soon: dclibrary.org

Public pharma has many benefits, including fending off totalitarians’ moves to dismantle public health and make us sick—check out Chris Morten’s upcoming extremely relevant event on public pharma in New York: www.eventbrite.com/e/fixing-a-b...

This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...