Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.  #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

@nationalacademies.org has issued a report that examines the sources, spread, & consequences of science #misinformation & presents evidence-based strategies to help mitigate its harms. Right now, this seems more important than ever. Register for free for in-person or virtual symposium attendance:

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

We must continue to follow the science, despite the administration sharing misinformation. Acetaminophen is safe during pregnancy. #defendscience #StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence #EvidenceBasedPractice

Kagan: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. Still more, it should not be used, as it has been, to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation's separation of powers."

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

The president's recommendations could put children in harm's way. Even if clinical guidance does not change, pregnant people risk hurting themselves and their children when they run fevers and do not treat them. This is a completely avoidable & self-inflicted public health crisis in the making.

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

The ABC10 news station in Sacramento was shot at today, with at least three rounds making it through the front window and into the lobby. No one injured, no clear motive; still, chilling:

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health. www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

Colleges and universities save lives, build futures, and power our economy. Our campaign with @AAUP.org is to strengthen higher education for everyone, regardless of ideology, because #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone. spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...

I don’t understand why this is not getting more attention. The Trump administration is killing people with no legal basis.

Breaking: A CDC advisory panel filled with RFK Jr.'s handpicked vaccine skeptics just unanimously recommended limiting the COVID shot to people 65 and older or those with underlying health conditions, based on a decision individually or with their doctor.

From the letter's demands: 1-Defend healthcare, science, safety, & public health 2-Stop the lawless impoundment of congressionally appropriated funds 3-Protect the federal workforce needed to carry out our agency missions from unlawful purges, retaliation, & reorganizations 4-Protect civil liberties

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

@wkamaubell.bsky.social warns that folks who fall between celebrities being targeted & immigrants being illegally detained are encouraged to tell ourselves "it will be fine" When anyone is silenced, we can all be silenced When anyone doesn't get due process, we can all be detained w/o due process

As Dr. Monarez made clear from her testimony, these votes were essentially pre-determined by RFK Jr and his careful selection of like-minded supporters to staff ACIP. He asked her to guarantee in advance she would approve the votes, no matter the science.

@timmiller.bsky.social: “This is the federal government pressuring media companies to silence critics of the president. I mean, this is a straight out of the authoritarian playbook. It is an attempt to silence speech directly from the government.”

Pentagon lawyers tell Hegseth that the killing of fishermen in the Caribbean is an unlawful extrajudicial execution which is a violation of US and international law. Hegseth makes clear he could care less what the laws says because he's about "lethality, not legality." WSJ reports.

11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

NEW: Senate Dems ask FCC chairman to turn over any communications w/ ABC re: Jimmy Kimmel “..unacceptable for the FCC Chairman to threaten a media organization because he does not like the content of its programming—it violates the 1st Amendment that you claim to champion”

I was grateful to get an email today (I have KP coverage) indicating the vaccine will be available 9/15. This will allow many people to be protected. But the vaccine should be available nationwide to anyone who wants it w/o a prescription or having to pay out of pocket. #ImpeachRFKJr #publichealth

I also recommend #owls #sunrise #nature and @weratedogs.com

“The complete lack of information about the shooter’s identity and motive did not stop some figures from stoking outrage, particularly against “the left,” whom—despite lacking any evidence as to the shooter’s identity—they blamed for the killing…Elon Musk posted …’The Left is the party of murder.’”

Our hearts are with the families and communities devastated by today’s senseless shootings in Denver and Utah. Once again, lives have been shattered by something that could have been prevented. (1/2)

More good news! At least for now, South Carolina cannot enforce a state law that "would impose a 25 percent cut on state funding for public K-12 schools if they permit trans students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity rather than their biological sex."

In a seemingly unending stream of bad news, this is genuinely good news. mRNA research will save lives. Thank you to every member of the House Appropriations Committee who voted to support this essential research. #StandUpForScience #DefendResearch www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/m...

Political violence is evil. I don't care how angry you are at your opponents. We have a ballot box. We have courts. We have free speech. I'm sick with grief for Charlie and his family. I'm sick with concern for this country.

Research is stronger when we apply a systems-level lens to understanding outcomes consider how our experiences differ in ways impacted by our identities have diverse teams of scientists #StandUpForScience #DefendResearch #DefendScience 1/

Thanks to @firedbutfighting.bsky.social for sharing this gem. This is so much better than the Imperial March that has been playing in our heads for months.

The Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act is good policy Research shows that teens are more reward sensitive, more impulsive, more influenced by peers, less able to regulate their emotions & are capable of change Please vote no on the repeal #NoChildBornBad @thecfsy.bsky.social @pelosi.house.gov

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #publichealth @thelancet.com These studies demonstrate the substantial global health and economic benefits generated by #COVID19vaccination programmes during their first year. They show a robust return on investment (ROI),

mRNA vaccines have the potential to save so many lives in the future. The cancellation of funds for this research is a travesty and leaves all of us vulnerable. #DefendScience #ImpeachRFK #StandUpForScience #DefendResearch

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

"In some cases, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies." Like saying anyone who wants a Covid vaccine can get it (when this is no longer true in all states b/c of his agency's actions) and claiming ignorance regarding how many Americans died due to Covid (the figure is >1 mil). #ImpeachRFK

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Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/

Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city's homeless — plus it's illegal, experts say.

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NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?