It's very concerning that the ACIP may vote to delay hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines for children, as reported by @reuters.com Here's why. 🧵 www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

5 years ago I started a team competition on Twitter to raise $ to fight hunger. @tmprowell.bsky.social gave us a hashtag & much needed organization Our team of teen volunteers work wonders in the background & we’ve raised >$3.1 million! Competition starts tomorrow, join us? HCWvsHunger.org

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

When I read headlines like this, I always think of Paul Farmer who said “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world”

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

Boston. Wow.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Chicago - no kings

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

A couple of protest signs: “eggs are expensive because of all the chickens in Congress”

Kudos to Sally Kornbluth/MIT for rejecting the government’s attempt at corrupting higher ed. Others should quickly follow suit. Even the folks at Cato agree—this isn’t a tough call!

A few PSAs from your friendly neighborhood pediatric shematologist 🩸vitamin k in newborns is lifesaving 🩸vaccines save lives 🩸no kid should drink more than 20 ounces of milk a day 🩸babies don’t need chiropractors 🩸home births can go south super quickly even in the very best of circumstances

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor. “He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said. Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Things pediatricians are scared of: Grapes Hot dogs Lawn mowers Unmounted TVs Babies on laps in cars Riders without helmets Ungated pools Crib bumpers Trampolines Hot tubs Guns Things pediatricians are not scared of: Any/all the vaccines

These are the top 5 questions/concerns I’ve gotten about the press conference on autism: -the “Harvard” study tho -what about “trusting the science”? -shouldn’t we warn people even if it’s just a correlation? -but Tylenol said don’t take it! -Hep B vaccine for newborns Asked and answered 👇

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵 IG msviciousdesign

“What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so” @michaelemann.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

My essay on crying in @accpchest.bsky.social today! #medsky #meded #hapc "But the lesson didn’t have to be that tears were a source of shame. Our humanity was part of what drew us to train to be healers in the first place" ❤️‍🩹 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

Full speaker line-up for the Stanford Big Ideas in Medicine Conference. September 5-6, 2025. All are welcome! www.stanfordbigideas.org

18 year old me would never have imagined I would be raising my kids in a world in which our country would disappear people into concentration camps, actively assist in genocide, and be led by a man bending over backwards to protect child sex traffickers.

Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women’s health initiatives www.statnews.com/2025/08/04/b...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.

“I grew up soft on episodes of “Murphy Brown” and “The West Wing.” I believed that the arc of history bent toward Barack Obama, and technology solving the world’s problems, not causing them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

I know RFK Jr. has assembled a quack crew to concoct a study showing otherwise but here is an new important large cohort study of over 1.2 million children in Denmark showing no association Aluminum adsorbed vaccines and chronic dz in childhood including autism. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!

6% of the NIH budget in 2024 was spent on women’s health. Good thing they’re cutting the little that was there, right? Who needs women’s health research anyway? Only half the country, I guess…

20-year-old U.S. citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez was swarmed by ICE in Pico Rivera while defending someone. He never hit back—just struggled—before being slammed into a CBP van. No records. No lawyer. His mom can’t find him. This is abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.

This is perfect

I remember watching Ananda on MTV. She died at 52 from a preventable & treatable form of cancer bc she worried mammogram radiation would give her cancer. She then declined treatment when diagnosed, which she regretted when it was too late. The “wellness” industry is literally scaring people to death

This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

Best image of the day:

Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US. Our national @JAMAPediatrics study is live. Findings (2011-2023): •7,400 more deaths in most permissive and permissive firearm law states. •No increase in the stricter law states. •Decreases in 4 strict law states. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Please join us in congratulating the 2025 recipients and honorees of the ELAM 30th Anniversary Awards! See the full list of honorees and award descriptions at the link: tinyurl.com/mppy7233

ELUM Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD, has joined @mskcancercenter.bsky.social as the inaugural chief medical officer (CMO). Congratulations! Read more: tinyurl.com/57tcwxkz

New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02...

It’s been five years since the murder of George Floyd, and police killings have increased while continuing to disproportionately target Indigenous, Black, and Hispanic people. But the real problem is we went overboard with “woke,” right? Figures from NYT, last slide from WaPo

The Lancet’s response to Tr*mp threatening medical journals is scathing: “one of the intents of authoritarian governments is to destroy independent science at government institutions and to silence academia...Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches.”

The report with the underlying data for the Washington Post story about firings of disproportionate numbers of women and underrepresented minorities from NIH Boards of Scientific Counselors. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.