"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

While the Democratic Party continues to demonstrate allegiance to private insurers and Big Pharma by blocking the advancement of single-payer reform, it remains the best response to fascism's attack on public health. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The term "rent-seeking" refers to activities performed by an economic actor or group of economic actors that aim to increase its wealth without creating new wealth or value.

In a partnership with the Coalition for Health Resilience, Defend Public Health has a new blog post up about how vaccines are tested.

In a report last week, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council concluded the war has become an attempt by Israel to destroy the Palestinian population in Gaza and constitutes genocide.

Science doesn’t care about your gut beliefs or if you own a company that sells supplements. Science is a powerful tool 'cuz it requires peer-reviewed, double-blind testing & statistical validity. Otherwise, it’s easy to be fooled with wishful thinking, a recipe for disaster.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

The Sick Times: 'Violet Affleck advocates for children with Long COVID, masks, and clean indoor air at United Nations event' "She also advocated for children with Long COVID, citing a recent JAMA resource...." “It is neglect of the highest order..." thesicktimes.org/2025/09/23/v...

www.thesun.ie/health/15874... New bird flu outbreak warning as virus that ‘can survive in area for WEEKS’ detected at popular Irish walking spot

The US doesn’t have a healthcare system. We have a system that exploits people in need of care in order to transfer wealth away from the working class to generate profits. When the success of a healthcare system is measured by profits, it’s not a healthcare system.

Jim Alwine, an internationally-recognized virologist, shares his experience with getting the brand new polio vaccine in the 1950’s, and his fears for a country whose leaders have turned away from the greatest prevention strategy ever implemented. @jimalwine.bsky.social

There is an easy solution: Eliminate private corporate monopolistic greed from public healthcare. #SinglePayerReformNOW #MedicareForAll www.archyde.com/escaping-the...

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong

Opportunist opportunists posing as “socialists” and “single payer advocates” aligned with Zionists and neoliberal private health insurance interests. They work to make sure billionaires continue using publicly-funded healthcare as a profit extraction enterprise. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/07/t...

NM Board of Pharmacy expected to release new protocol for COVID-19 vaccines this week sourcenm.com/briefs/nm-bo...

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings

The U.S. CDC is ending one of its longest-running public health efforts. The Tips From Former Smokers campaign, launched in 2012 to expose the dangers of smoking through personal testimonials, will officially end this September 2025 after 13 years.

COVID killed at least 1.1 million people in the US (likely an undercount). COVID vaccines saved at least 3.2 million lives in the US in the first two years alone. Completely unacceptable RFK Jr is restricting vaccine access when he clearly has no idea how COVID or vaccines work.

Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.

That they won't move to remove mass murderers from power is everything wrong with Democrats, who are ultimately complicit with consolidating fascism. We must carve another path forward, independent from the billionaire duopoly parties. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

It's not that RFK Jr. cannot do basic math, but that his agenda is mass murder by any means necessary, and he will spread misinformation in pathological fashion to accomplish his goal.

Article out by the incredible @drjudystone.bsky.social which covers many aspects of tomorrow’s Senate hearing with RFK Jr., and includes a bit about Defend Public Health’s evidence-based report on risk factors for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Have a read when you can:

#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

Don't expect any help from RFK and the anti-science HHS and CDC: www.latimes.com/science/stor...

I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

They said it was about personal choice. It was really about making sure you can't get vaccines.

🌻as a healthcare worker overseas looking in on what’s happening to your health care system especially with regards to the CDC is horrifying.RFK jnr’s trying to kill you with his ludicrous claims & beliefs -funny how so many who grew up with the protection of vaccines now think they know better🤨

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

CDC Director Dr. Monarez was allegedly ordered to accept ACIP’s forthcoming recommendations for COVID19 vaccines regardless of what the evidence from scientific data shows.

Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

Crain's Chicago Business: 'Rush scopes out long COVID's financial toll on workers, employers' "The impact on these patients is massive," - Dr. Michael Gottlieb, an emergency medicine physician and vice chair of research at Rush University Medical Center www.chicagobusiness.com/health-pulse...

In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)