Holly Taylor
@hollytaylorhltheco.bsky.social
I don’t have the appropriate words to describe how vile this is. What has this country become?
Please support @propublica.org so they can continue to shine a light on the truth. Their reporting is unparalleled.
Please support @propublica.org so they can continue to shine a light on the truth. Their reporting is unparalleled.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I don’t have the appropriate words to describe how vile this is. What has this country become?
Please support @propublica.org so they can continue to shine a light on the truth. Their reporting is unparalleled.
Please support @propublica.org so they can continue to shine a light on the truth. Their reporting is unparalleled.
Reposted by Holly Taylor
I friggin dare you to watch this to the end.
Watch & tell me it doesn't move you.
This is a 16 year old American boy explaining how Trump's reign of terror & #ICELawlessness has impacted him & his family.
If it affects you, please share it. I beg you to hit the link in the next post & save it.
Watch & tell me it doesn't move you.
This is a 16 year old American boy explaining how Trump's reign of terror & #ICELawlessness has impacted him & his family.
If it affects you, please share it. I beg you to hit the link in the next post & save it.
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I friggin dare you to watch this to the end.
Watch & tell me it doesn't move you.
This is a 16 year old American boy explaining how Trump's reign of terror & #ICELawlessness has impacted him & his family.
If it affects you, please share it. I beg you to hit the link in the next post & save it.
Watch & tell me it doesn't move you.
This is a 16 year old American boy explaining how Trump's reign of terror & #ICELawlessness has impacted him & his family.
If it affects you, please share it. I beg you to hit the link in the next post & save it.
Reposted by Holly Taylor
Agents snatching up a young protester off the floe today. Resist! Flippers up!
October 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Agents snatching up a young protester off the floe today. Resist! Flippers up!
We needed this. Well researched investigative journalism by our friends at ProPublica. I am so grateful for their work.
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We needed this. Well researched investigative journalism by our friends at ProPublica. I am so grateful for their work.
I am beside myself over this decision. This decision, in a state with the highest population of vulnerable elderly patients, is going to kill untold numbers of people over time.
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social summarizes the impact accurately.
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social summarizes the impact accurately.
What happens when vaccine coverage collapses in Florida because they are ending vaccine requirements for school entry?
1. Disease outbreaks that end up hospitalizing and killing infants too young to be vaccinated by responsible parents, the elderly whose immunity wanes, and the immunocompromised.
1. Disease outbreaks that end up hospitalizing and killing infants too young to be vaccinated by responsible parents, the elderly whose immunity wanes, and the immunocompromised.
September 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I am beside myself over this decision. This decision, in a state with the highest population of vulnerable elderly patients, is going to kill untold numbers of people over time.
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social summarizes the impact accurately.
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social summarizes the impact accurately.
Great summary on COVID-19 vaccines by @vinguptamd.bsky.social , a practicing critical care pulmonologist and much needed advocate for evidence based medicine.
Thankfully, our medical community is stepping up and providing the guidance the public needs. Please listen. And share!
Thankfully, our medical community is stepping up and providing the guidance the public needs. Please listen. And share!
The FDA has approved new COVID-19 booster shots for this fall, but with certain limitations. MSNBC medical contributor @vinguptamd.bsky.social breaks down what the approval means and offers guidance for those considering or in need of the vaccine.
August 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Great summary on COVID-19 vaccines by @vinguptamd.bsky.social , a practicing critical care pulmonologist and much needed advocate for evidence based medicine.
Thankfully, our medical community is stepping up and providing the guidance the public needs. Please listen. And share!
Thankfully, our medical community is stepping up and providing the guidance the public needs. Please listen. And share!
Reposted by Holly Taylor
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
August 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
“researchers were surprised to find that the loss of water on the continents has grown so dramatically that it has become one of the largest causes of global sea level rise.”
Mind boggling.
Mind boggling.
Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a new study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.
By @abrahm.bsky.social, w/ graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social
By @abrahm.bsky.social, w/ graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
www.propublica.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“researchers were surprised to find that the loss of water on the continents has grown so dramatically that it has become one of the largest causes of global sea level rise.”
Mind boggling.
Mind boggling.
This is absolutely tragic. I have no words for this.
July 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is absolutely tragic. I have no words for this.
Yes!
I’m tired of hearing from some peers how we “need to hear out” the MAGA/MAHA point-of-view on health — in their effort to be the “adult” in the room.
Engaging in false equivalences and normalizing nonsense as serious debate will not move us towards some greater enlightenment.
Engaging in false equivalences and normalizing nonsense as serious debate will not move us towards some greater enlightenment.
July 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Yes!
Incredibly discouraging.
Federal kindergarten vaccination data shows national rates for four major vaccines, which had held steady before the COVID-19 pandemic, have fallen significantly since.
In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/40KnM8n
In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023.
➡️ Read more: propub.li/40KnM8n
July 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Incredibly discouraging.
Important series
In the first Perspective of a new series, Erin C. Fuse Brown, JD, MPH, writes that “corporatization” of health care now refers to the general trend throughout the industry toward higher levels of integrated control by consolidated profit-seeking enterprises. Learn more: nej.md/40rEOYH
July 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Important series
Yes!
The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid
June 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Yes!
Important thread.
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Important thread.
Carl Sagan was my hero growing up. Contact, his only work of fiction, challenged the way I thought about our world.
I like to watch the opening scene from the movie occasionally to remind me how precious each of us are, in spite of the enormity of our universe.
Enjoy.
youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA?...
I like to watch the opening scene from the movie occasionally to remind me how precious each of us are, in spite of the enormity of our universe.
Enjoy.
youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA?...
Contact - Opening Scene (HD)
YouTube video by 21Milosz21
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June 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Carl Sagan was my hero growing up. Contact, his only work of fiction, challenged the way I thought about our world.
I like to watch the opening scene from the movie occasionally to remind me how precious each of us are, in spite of the enormity of our universe.
Enjoy.
youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA?...
I like to watch the opening scene from the movie occasionally to remind me how precious each of us are, in spite of the enormity of our universe.
Enjoy.
youtu.be/EWwhQB3TKXA?...
Reposted by Holly Taylor
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Via Sam Stein on twitter
Via Sam Stein on twitter
June 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Via Sam Stein on twitter
Via Sam Stein on twitter
I promise.
I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
June 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I promise.
This.
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
June 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This.
Prof Galloway is absolutely on fire. Bravo!!!!!
Does spectacular wealth excuse depravity? Some thoughts on Elon Musk and moral character.
June 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Prof Galloway is absolutely on fire. Bravo!!!!!
Actualy, charlatans are exactly why unproven treatments should be blocked! The most vulnerable people in our society will become victims in this scenario. I am outraged. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...
Kennedy Says ‘Charlatans’ Are No Reason to Block Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Actualy, charlatans are exactly why unproven treatments should be blocked! The most vulnerable people in our society will become victims in this scenario. I am outraged. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...
Reposted by Holly Taylor
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Yes.
If the way we care for elderly people is distinct because their bodies and risks are distinct, perhaps the care of an elderly president should be, too, Louise Aronson writes: https://theatln.tc/9f0xPZCc
May 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Yes.
This.
The net effect of banning NIH scientists from publishing in top journals will be that scientists from other countries will have a better chance of their work being published there.
It won’t kill science.
It won’t kill ideas.
It will severely damage US science and ideas.
It won’t kill science.
It won’t kill ideas.
It will severely damage US science and ideas.
May 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This.
Extraordinary reporting.
North Carolina doesn’t require specific training for its county emergency managers, who are tasked with enormous life-and-death decisions.
Jeff Howell, Yancey County’s emergency management director, had no experience with emergency management. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social @cgaribay.bsky.social
Jeff Howell, Yancey County’s emergency management director, had no experience with emergency management. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social @cgaribay.bsky.social
Helene’s Unheard Warnings
As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few ...
www.propublica.org
May 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Extraordinary reporting.
Always loved this.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Always loved this.