Deadline for comments is tomorrow. As an epidemiologist, I told FCC that their proposal to put warning labels on TV shows with LGBTQ+ characters may increase suicidal attempts and deaths among LGBTQ+ youth. Please consider writing a brief comment to FCC (see glaad.org/fcc/). #FCC #LGBTQ

Tick bites resulting in ED visits are 3 times more common this year. 1. Use DEET or picaridin on skin. 2. Wear permethrin-treated clothes. 3. Tuck pants into socks. 4. Check for ticks & remove them right away with tweezers. 5. Shower shortly after hikes. Source: CDC, Katelyn Jetelina

This is an incredibly dangerous and radical policy decision reflects the Trump Administration’s allegiance with gun sellers rather than to the safety of the public. If not reversed, it will facilitate illegal gun trafficking that will be more guns in the hands of dangerous individuals.

Research shows enhanced firearm buyer licensing laws and removal of firearms from violence-prone individuals reduce murders and suicides. Safe storage of firearms also works. The public wants sensible gun laws. publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

Applauding the Uganda Law Society and East Law Society and all the other Ugandans protesting the lawlessness and inhumanity of the Trump deportations to Uganda. Photo is of their letter announcing a lawsuit against those in Uganda allowing this.

This is a shocking lack of empathy. Messages about patriotism sure would have been helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved if Trump and other GOP politicians had said: “Let’s be patriots and wear masks and gather outdoors and get vaccinated.”

We need improved flu vaccines that can adapt to variants more nimbly, but due to RFK Jr.’s unscientific animus toward mRNA vaccines, FDA refused to review Moderna’s new mRNA flu vaccine, altho FDA previously approved the trial design. Shame on Drs. Makary and Prasad, who claim to be pro-science.

Save the Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime.

I just cancelled my Amazon Prime Membership to protest the mass layoffs at Wash. Post. This is easy: Open Amazon App, select person silhouette, select Account, scroll down to Memberships, select Cancel subscription. When asked why, select Other. Enter: Wash. Post. #SavethePost #CancelAmazonPrime

The Washington Post has done excellent reporting for decades about public health and immigration and the current regime. #SavethePost

The reporting at the Washington Post is outstanding. Their journalists have done a superb job of reporting on the inhumane treatment of immigrants and refugees. I continue to subscribe for that reason.

Opposite of science: Vinay #Prasad, FDA's Chief Scientific Officer, sent an email to #FDA staff saying differences of opinion had to be kept private. “Some staff may not agree with these core principles and operating principles. Please submit your resignation letters.” wapo.st/486smly

I mainly post about Public Health, but wanted to point out that killing and dismembering journalists should not be dismissed as “Things happen.” #JamalKhashoggi #WashingtonPost #FreeSpeech

Time to fire RFK Jr. POTUS had the foresight to spend billions developing vaccines against COVID-19 at warp speed. The ignorant and arrogant Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr., is endangering all of us with his anti-vaccine & anti-science quackery. #FireRFKJr @POTUS @HouseGOP @SenateGOP

I worked at the U.S. Dept. of Labor, so saw first-hand the pride that BLS staff took in their work. BLS used consistent objective methods so we could see trends over time. Now we’ll have to worry about the new BLS leader distorting jobs reports to please Trump. www.bls.gov/osmr/researc...

RFK Jr. is endangering public health in the USA by removing top infectious disease scientists from the CDC vaccine advisory committee. Senators and Reps. must demand that RFK Jr. either reverse this decision or be ousted. @senategop.govpeeps.us @democrats.senate.gov

Enemies of USA are gleeful that the GOP Administration is: 1. Deporting immigrants; 2. Slashing funds for scientific & medical research; 3. Removing international students; 4. Spreading vaccine disinformation; 5. Slashing aid abroad; 6. Attacking judges and courts that protect us from tyranny.

Egregious behavior by the Supreme Court conservative ideologues. An unbiased court would have let the appeals work their way through the lower courts rather than allowing the GOP Administration to deport > 500,000 people with permission to be here.

Last night, two young people were murdered at an event for young Jews. The very online killer said he was doing it for Palestine, even though his actions will only harm real Palestinians. The tankies and trolls who celebrate violence online should feel ashamed. www.vox.com/politics/414...

How is removing public health leaders, including the head scientist of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, Making America Healthy Again? Shame on RFK Jr. No paywall. #Epidemiology wapo.st/3EaLQZW

Call Congress (202-224-3121) and email them to protect #SocialSecurity! Making seniors apply in person while closing offices and laying off staff is a backdoor way to deny benefits. action.aarp.org/secure/tell-...

Unconscionable: #KristiNoem posing in front of helpless prisoners is a shocking display of cruelty and lawlessness. These prisoners never had due process and Judge Boasberg forbade deporting them on the basis of a 1798 law, yet the Trump Admin. unconstitutionally defied the judge.

@democrats.senate.gov Do not pass the Continuing Resolution to fund the government without these conditions: 1. Allow Wash., DC to spend its own tax funds to run the city at 2025 budget levels. 2. Trump must comply with court rulings. 3. Trump must spend funds as Congress has appropriated.

Elizabeth Oyer is a hero for refusing to recommend restoring gun rights to a celebrity, Mel Gibson, convicted of battering his partner. Almost half of murdered U.S. women are killed by a current or former partner. Abusers use the presence of a firearm to intimidate and injure intimate partners.

If you lost your federal job due to the Musk mass dismissals, please go ahead and appeal the firing to the Merit Systems Protection Board. This Board just halted six firings pending an investigation of their legality. e-appeal.mspb.gov/etk-mspb-app...

A day that will live in infamy: the U.S.A. voted against a resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Will GOP politicians condemn this vote or will they stay silent out of cowardice? Or perhaps GOP politicians support Russian tyranny?

@senategop By getting access to Treasury Department databases, Elon Musk and his private employees have obtained all our private financial information. This is not a partisan issue. Nobody wants to have all this personal data in the hands of an unaccountable man. It’s too risky. Act now!

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

#Epidemiology Washington Post reported that Texas maternal deaths occurring in 2022/2023 wouldn’t be reviewed by the Texas Maternal Mortality Committee. This is shocking: Medical professionals are obligated to figure out what went wrong and how to prevent these needless deaths. wapo.st/4fNDTYk