The FDA bypassed its typical process and overstated the science behind menopause hormone therapy, experts told me – with troubling implications for future drug decisions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds: “These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.” s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...

With news of more pertussis / whooping cough deaths it’s necessary to highlight how much antiscience anti-vax content Substack promotes (and profits from). 1/2

This is an inherently ableist and ageist scheme. Folks who have chronic conditions will need plans with higher premiums, and folks after 40 begin to see their premiums rise too. Giving everyone the same pittance of cash and then wishing them luck negotiating their own plans will be a disaster.

“The only thing you need to know about Olivia Nuzzi is that she used her position of power, as a journalist, to advise and elevate the world’s most prominent anti-vaccine activist to the most influential health position in the United States.”

A reminder from our neighbors to the north that the far-reaching consequences of the destruction RFK Jr. has caused extend far beyond the U.S. borders. On top of weaponizing the reputation of the CDC to promote anti-vax language and firing ACIP, he’s “slashed the agency budget by roughly a third..”

There’s just so many layers of bad faith. Trying to pass off Kennedy as ineffective or focused on other things than vaccines! Meanwhile: bsky.app/profile/marg...

- He stopped the policy of encouraging flu immunization in Louisiana - Delayed reporting on a pertussis outbreak that killed two children in Louisiana. -Promoted false information on covid vaccine harms. He is now number 2 at CDC. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Baristas at 95 Starbucks stores in 65 cities are currently on OPEN-ENDED STRIKE over unfair labor practices. It's day 13 of the strike. This is the longest ULP strike in the company's history. Workers are asking customers everywhere to show solidarity by boycotting Starbucks.

"She said that lenacapavir has become a kind of diplomatic carrot — and stick. Friendly, compliant governments, like Eswatini, have received early shipments, whereas South Africa or Nigeria — countries that have fallen out of favor with Trump — seem to have received the short end of the stick."

With U.S. maternal outcomes woefully behind similar counties, it’s led parents to try to improve outcomes. But “free birthing” is fundamentally based in the ableist notion that health is solely based on decision-making — when in reality childbirth is complex and sometimes things just go south.

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

“The analysis deemed 109 hospitals most exposed to the coming Medicaid cuts, because they share three risk factors: They serve vulnerable communities, their finances are already fragile, and more than a quarter of their patients rely on Medicaid. Of those hospitals, 85% were in urban areas.”

Is it pretentiousness or a desire to legitimize conflict to fuel more articles and more clicks that drives NYT to use phrases like “challenge scientific orthodoxy” instead of just reporting it straight-up as “ignoring decades of data”?

Submit comments today. Deadline tomorrow. relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/11/23/t...

i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead

1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs. And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's deployment of the D.C. National Guard and Guardsmen from other states to fight crime in D.C. is unlawful. The ruling is a win for D.C., but the judge stayed it for 21 days to allow the Trump administration to appeal. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

Two shootings over the span of a month highlight how federal agents patrolling in D.C. don’t follow the same protocols that MPD officers do, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports.

“If there’s ever a year to get a flu vaccine, this is the year,” said Scott Hensley, a microbiologist &influenza vaccine scientist… studies in previous seasons with vaccine mismatches have shown that people who receive a flu shot were often less likely to become sick enough to require hospital care”

Just need to re-punctuate: "Anti-ICE protests rock, Charlotte!"

That this is coming from the party of “ThE wAr oN cHriStMaS” would be laughable if it wasn’t so incredibly cruel.

it's enormously telling that Karen Attiah, Mehdi Hassan, Joy Reid are not currently employed in mainstream media, but Olivia Nuzzi is treated like an irreplaceable asset by multiple outlets.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...

Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.

The legend Alice Wong is gone — just a week after learning her column was gone with the shuttering of Teen Vogue. Rest in Power @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.

One study estimated that “334 thousand COVID-19 infections are attributable to meatpacking plants in the U.S. with associated mortality and morbidity costs totaling more than $11.2 billion” (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) I hope we do a better job protecting workers in the next pandemic

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

More examples from this week! You are getting a lot of "free check might be on the way" stories on local news and the free check is not on the way.

every little swing the Trumpists take against science and public health infrastructure is a willful decision to make more people sicker. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

ICE does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person’s identity and their immigration status. Any face photos taken by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, including those of U.S. citizens.

The gaslighting by @mayorbowser.dc.gov has been unreal — folks are regularly seeing HSI agents riding in the backseat of MPD, and yet she denies active cooperation. 🚮

Remember when several high-ranking #CDC officials resigned after #RFKJr refused to follow scientific evidence & federal procedures in #vaccines & #publichealth policy? Here's a chance to hear from three of them on Nov 19 w @healthjournalism.org Register here! healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...

Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.

During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals. Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists

Many are calling for Chuck Schumer's resignation. What hasn't been reported until now is that any Senate Democrat can offer a motion to challenge his leadership position, and it would have to get a vote within 7 days. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: prospect.org/2025/11/11/o...

Flu season is already beginning. Pediatricians are worried after one of the deadliest flu seasons on record last year -- and the CDC ended a vaccination campaign in the middle of it. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sounds like it was Mobile Commons — not sure how widely this affected their clients. I only got a follow-up from one organization warning folks to ignore the last text.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Here is my latest for @msnbc.com, on Trump's ill-advised concept of a plan for health care, which entails repealing the ACA, and redistributing private insurers' tax breaks to the people for what would essentially amount to an HSA, which is unhelpful if not wealthy. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Is EveryAction or some SMS shortcode vendor having a security breach? My spouse and I noticed we’ve been getting phishing texts from trusted shortcodes like @careinaction.bsky.social and @fightforaunion.bsky.social 😬

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale