I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.

Someone is not allowed up there. Someone does not care.

*deep breath*

Presented without comment:

Did they really make the CDC put time into making a presentation about a twenty year old observational study using a different vaccine? #ACIP

*deep breath* Debate me bro is now the operating philosophy of the CDC apparently. Which ACIP was- only requiring actual evidence.

*stares at ACIP agenda*

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

I support these 100%- and still hope for some local flavor involving either a pierogi race gone awry or injury at the furry convention.

Working with so many friends and strangers to build a durable sense of what is happening across—so far—eight zones of American life bc of the administration’s demolition of democratic governance at @unbreaking.org. unbreaking.org

In a bit of good news, a judge has blocked the funding ban on Planned Parenthood nationwide. The ban would have cut off millions of people from low-cost prenatal care, birth control, vaccinations, STI screenings, and fertility treatments. Medicaid payments will continue while the suit proceeds.

What if, instead of knowledge-shaped products… knowledge?

The Republican megabill has many parts and was never framed for the public as a health care bill. But, it is the biggest cutback in federal support for health coverage ever.

Good morning!

Just refreshing FMAP amendment every 42 seconds like a deranged cat walking across a keyboard. How’s your Monday night going?

Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s

Oh really

Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push. It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

Hi! We just released three new pages. First up, we break down the devastating defunding of medical research in the US, including grant terminations and delays representing nearly $5B in funding losses, cuts to future funding, and attacks on training programs: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

Side quest available upon request.

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

No.

*slowly walks into the sea*

The average American has three friends… Flora, Fauna & Merryweather

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Mid-week movie time:

we're doing the thing unbreaking.org

He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication Egregious. www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. —Adrienne Rich

In which I will continue to read, write , and think what I want- now just angrier.

Infuriating. @cmu.edu should ensure he has an opportunity to finish his degree. Cover his last semester at a campus abroad.

All five feet of me: taking the subway like a normal person Them:

Wow.

Today in institutions choosing not to resist Trump Administration pressures, UPMC canceled the gender-affirming surgery of an 18 year-old. Old enough to vote. Not old enough to make life-saving medical decisions. www.pghcitypaper.com/news/under-p...

The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected 👇

New academic rider goal.

🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇 Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍 1 / 🧵 #HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth

This is incredibly bad— a CDC website clone but w fake and misleading health advice (especially about vaccines), brought to you by the NGO formerly run by the current HHS secretary.

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Me to the entirety of the Senate Democratic leadership at this point:

My union @swcolumbia.bsky.social has created a resource to support international students who are experiencing increasingly higher risk of immigration enforcement. We have done this on our own time while the University has remained silent and complicit. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

#StandUpForScience En direct de la grotte Chauvet. Sous-terre mais debout ! Live from the Chauvet Cave, standing up for science even below ground ! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Incredibly disappointed to see this as a @carnegiemellon.bsky.social alumni

ATTN #EndTB advocates! Have you seen this new resource assessing the impact associated with the funding freeze & discontinuation on the #TB response? Check it out & make use of it in your awareness raising & #FundTBNow calls to action! Thank you @brookeenichols.bsky.social et al tb.impactcounter.com

I miss when I could make social media fun. In other eras I was delightful I swear.