I like to purchase merch from artists to support them. I tried to do that today for an artist in the UK. They said, "Quick heads up: Because of new US import rules, we can’t ship T-shirts or clothing to the States right now". Are we winning yet? #supporttheartsifyoucan

This is fascism

Fascism 101. Yes, this will be on the test www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Infectious Disease physicians welcome you all. We have been in this state perpetually since 2020!

“Twelve percent of cases have required hospitalization, with 29% of those hospitalized aged 19 years or younger. There have been 3 confirmed measles deaths this year.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cdc-...

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This is what fascism looks like folks. Like Hitler, Putin, and Orban, this is that. Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Go get some great new music from @maxluthert.bsky.social on @bandcamp.com #Supporttheartsifyoucan maxluthert.bandcamp.com/album/throug...

Well this is as bad as expected. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

they usually put these warnings on packs of cigarettes, so that should tell you something about how deadly serious this is

Colleagues and I have reviewed 1,704 vaccine RCTs that have been published. These have included 10.5M participants. 661 of these used inert (eg, saline) placebo controls. ALL VACCINES that are recommended have been studied in placebo-controlled trials. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Joseph "miasma" Ladapo is insane. What is going on????? He equated vaccine mandates to slavery. Whaaaat??? www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

What a magnificent thread The vaccine prevented an estimated 20 million deaths in the first year alone 👏

So, kudos to both #Democrats & #Republicans in the House for their draft mark-up for next year's #budget, which maintains funding for #NIH (just like the Senate). This is rare, true #bipartisanship and should be praised. But #RussellVought will not be stopped by an appropriations bill. Why? 1/

“Trump Rolls Back Rules Protecting Mental Health Coverage” Remember this every time someone says there’s a mental health crisis in America Remember this every time someone says violent crime is driven by mental health problems and not ready access to weapons www.propublica.org/article/ment...

This is never going away, is it?

Tell your own Senators and Representatives to stand up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

For us ID doctors, the CDC has been a rock. Data, guidelines, surveillance, travel advice -- all there, vetted by experts, referenced, reliable. Perfect? No. But watching its dismantling now breaks my heart. Some thoughts: blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

As the trump administration dials back surveillance for and prevention of infectious diseases guess what the biggest threat to our health systems is right now? That's right, infectious diseases.

AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

1/Our client was notified tonight by White House staff in the personnel office that she was fired. As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her.

What is happening at the CDC will translate into preventable deaths. This federal administration i needs to go.

“It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science" New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

Take 5 minutes and watch this. Destroying biomedical research is dangerous, quite literally. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Search For Self Called Off After 38 Years theonion.com/search-...

The NIH director just said (below) it makes sense to invest in mRNA vaccine technology. But he and rfk jr just eliminated funding for it. 😡😡😡😡

This is such a bad idea. We did this experiment already. Pasteurization keeps people safe from dangerous infectious diseases. See recent E. coli disaster in Florida, etc. Lord. www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

The "data" package Secretary Kennedy used to bolster his argument for discontinuing #BARDA funding for #mRNA research doesn't support his argument. @jakescottmd.bsky.social lays it out in a must read for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r...

This is how trump gets ICE agents to "monitor" elections. Take federal control of Democratic strongholds. Fascism.

Yup 👇

RFK Jr must resign and I believe those of us who work in healthcare, public health, health research, or any related field should demand his resignation

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

True.

Things are terrible. So I am wearing ridiculous footwear & socks to lift my spirits. It’s working!

RFK Jr knows science almost as well as a bag of fingernail clippings knows science.

This is such bullshit. Just pure composted dung.

Not great that people like Micah Beckwith are in positions of power but don’t understand how our constitution works, and are arrogant in their ignorance.

The worst of what was once the fringe is now in charge of government. So many people are going to suffer needlessly.

Good that these issues about cancelling mRNA vaccine research in US are being discussed in public on a large platform like BBC. Good explanation article here - balanced but overriding conclusion is clearly that this is not a smart move at all! #COVID19 #vaccines #RFKJr

Yes he is

“We do it BECAUSE it’s hard” The glory of being a musician is the fleeting moment triumph and satisfaction after failing repeatedly Process is 90% of the point of it all AI is for novel meds and climate-saving materials, not making music #hoosiersky #medsky #loveyourneighbor

Really interesting read written by a pal, John Strohm. Would love artists who follow me to comment. (Attn: @petefrasermusic.bsky.social) Sloppers Gonna Slop open.substack.com/pub/johnpstr... #supporttheartsifyoucan

Super honored that my lab played a small role in this study of an emerging threat to reproductive health. "From prototype to outbreak: conserved pathogenesis of Oropouche virus in a novel murine pregnancy model highlights its public health implications" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My brother from another mother @dmaronoff.bsky.social put me onto this Everything Is Recorded album, released in Feb 2025—Richard Russell is a genius & this is sublime, one of the finest albums of the year youtube.com/playlist?lis...

What in the world? www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...

Trump admits to being in the Epstein files, experts believe he’s been actively scrubbing his name, evidenced by his request for the FBI to flag and isolate every mention of him in the case documents.: “They’ve been running these files, and so much of the things that we found were fake with me.”

#TeachId #idsky #idmeded #meded #stewardship #antibiotics #idfellows #idfellowship Antibiotic Myths: one of my fav episode: great for new ID learners/faculty podcasts.apple.com/gr/podcast/w... @erinmccreary.bsky.social @jgpharmd.bsky.social