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Janet Golden
@jgolden08.bsky.social
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Retired, mom, historian, political activist, perpetual piano student

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 10h
apnews.com/article/nih-...? NIH cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts.
apnews.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 15h
apnews.com/article/abor...? South Carolina’s war on women: the most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits.
South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits
A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation.
apnews.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 1d
Every single person who failed to report the criminal activity that they knew about should be prosecuted for aiding his crimes. And the man who participated in these crimes should be punished even more. Everyone around him had a duty to report him and stop him.
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 6d
I had to put the word out to people who were here for a conference this weekend and although immunized and/or had measles, are now immune compromised. Not something I ever expected to do. #GetVaccinated
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 6d
The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/... African-American soldiers removed from exhibit at US cemetery in the Netherlands.
The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
Earlier this year, visitors to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg, noticed something missing. Two panels honoring Black American soldiers who fought and served in World War ...
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 10d
I want to live in a country whose leaders and jurists don’t agree to deny food to the hungry, and a lot of other things. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 11d
Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 12d
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Wants to Remove Aluminum from Vaccines and Endanger Americans' Health | Defend Public Health
Aluminum, found naturally in many foods, is sometimes added as a salt in tiny quantities to vaccines as an immune booster. For years, Robert F. Kennedy has said that aluminum-containing vaccines cause...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 13d
@swingleft.bsky.social @swingleftphl.bsky.social A heartfelt thank you to everyone who knocked doors, called, donated, wrote letters, week after week, this was your reward. And now we have to do it again, and again, and again!
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 13d
Truly Orwellian www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content analysis of the website womenshealth.gov between Janu...
www.thelancet.com

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 18d
Why ALL HCWs should be vaccinated against Covid--by @drjudystone.bsky.social and Dr. Judith Feinberg. www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c...
Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid
The vaccination status of health care workers under 65 has profound implications for millions of Americans.
www.statnews.com

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 18d
We are urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a “health influencer” without discernible qualifications to be Surgeon General & who seems to make most of her living peddling unproven products
Senate Must Reject Casey Means as Surgeon General, Defend Public Health Says | Defend Public Health
With her confirmation hearing scheduled for this morning, Defend Public Health is urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a “health influencer” with...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 20d
Our scary public health environment gets scarier every single day. We have to keep fighting the lies. abcnews.go.com/US/video/tex...
Video Texas attorney general sues makers of Tylenol over alleged autism claims
Last month, President Trump claimed that Tylenol use during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of autism, despite limited evidence to suggest an association.
abcnews.go.com

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AFT @aft.org · 21d
It's time for Trump & Republicans in Congress to fix healthcare, fund the government, and put working families first.

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Students for Science @studentsforsci.bsky.social · 22d
Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in science advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!

Reposted by Devon Greyson, Janet Golden

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 26d
Whopper of the week!

RFK Jr.’s Claims of “Immune Overload” is Nonsense and Ignores How the Immune System Works
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr.’s Claims of “Immune Overload” is Nonsense and Ignores How the Immune System Works | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr does not want the CDC to recommend newborns be vaccinated against the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV infection early in life, especially as a baby, puts a person at a high risk of developing a ch...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 26d
The People’s House, Undermined
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The People’s House, Undermined
Through past transformations, the White House has remained more than an executive residence. Each renovation was not merely architectural but historical, reflecting the evolving relationship between t...
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 27d
Time write to your state elected officials
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27d
“More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.“
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
apnews.com

Reposted by Mark D. White, Smith, Janet Golden

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27d
“More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.“
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
apnews.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 18
#SwingLeft #NoKings
Listening to Jaime Raskin after arriving at Independence Park
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 18
#SwingLeftPHL #SwingLeft #NoKings.
It’s a bring your own Liberty Bell kind of day here with tens of thousands at Independence National Park (closed by Republican government Shutdown)
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 18
#NoKings
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 17
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News
The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...
kffhealthnews.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 16
Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians will be unable to purchase health care when the premiums rise---unless the Republicans end the shutdown and subsidize ACA premiums. whyy.org/articles/pen...
Pa. approves higher ACA health insurance premiums for 2026, with some ‘shocking’ price hikes
Insurance regulators say Pennie customers will see premiums rise by 21% on average, which factors in the potential loss of federal premium tax credits, or health subsidies.
whyy.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 16
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Frightens Parents with False Claims about COVID Vaccine Dangers | Defend Public Health
COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children. But Secretary Kennedy has repeatedly claimed that the vaccines are deadly and should not be given to kids because of their “profound risks”. Kennedy wildly exa...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 14
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025....
Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests
Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent
www.theguardian.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 12
Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/.... GONNA FINISH THIS HEADLINE—BECAUSE THEY MIGHT SEE WHAT CONDITIONS ARE LIKE INSIDE
Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility
Hundreds of people joined a delegation of Catholic priests and nuns marching to the Broadview detention site to hold communion, but they were turned away with no reason given. A total of 15 protesters...
chicago.suntimes.com

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T. Neil Ku, MD, FSHEA, FIDSA @kutneil.bsky.social · Oct 11
So, this is the new strategy? If it isn't broken, then just break it.
#vaccination #IDSky #IPSky #publichealth
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC advisers create new work group to review childhood vaccines
www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Oct 11
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Oct 10
The new scientific method. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social